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Everton January transfer window 2021

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Bullens Rd said:
For the first time in a long, long time, I don't think we need to sign a centre back any time soon.

Michael Keane is vastly improved, Mina is generally a lot better than 12/18 months ago, and Holgate and Godfrey have already proven that they are capable and full of promise for the future.

Branthwaite didn't look out of place when he played and he's got a chance to improve while at Blackburn.

We're well and truly covered at left back with Digne and Nkounkou, we just need a long-term right back option. I'm sure Carlo knows this and will plug that particular gap in the summer.

Even Pickford is looking decent, at least he hasn't messed up in a good while. It's only going to help him playing behind a settled defence.

We're safe in central midfield with Gomes looking fine off the bench and Doucouré and Allan looking great when starting. I can't see Davies being sold so I don't think Carlo will add another CM in the summer. Can't see any takers for Sigurdsson so he's the 5th option at CM.

Iwobi is getting better, and DCL and James are both great. Richarlison needs to improve and I'm sure he will. At least if he's sold we'll get good money to replace him with two players - ideally a wide left player and a striker. I think we'd get 40-60m for Richarlison.

Prioritise signing a starting right back and a young but promising striker / experienced, proven striker happy to rotate, then try to find a wide player who can play on either wing.

Sell/release Delph, Lössl, Sigurdsson, Tosun, Kenny, Bernard, Kean (estimating around 50-60m for the lot). Desperately try to offload Baningame who, by some miracle, has until 2022 on his contract.

Bolasie, Besic, Pennington, Walcott all out of contract and are leaving anyway.

That's 12 players out who offer us absolutely nothing at all.

Bring in 2 new players, 3 if we include Olsen, and, providing Gbamin returns one day, that gives us a squad of about 25 players for hopefully a European campaign next year.
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Pepe cost 72. Palace won’t similar for zaha.
wolves wanted 80 for traore.
40 to 60 for Richarlison what planet are you on
 
Zatara said:
Three things I think will be interesting now/summer:

A: Will we see a 'defined' style of play? Ancelotti seems to enjoy tinkering a little to get 3pts which is great but it will be interesting to see if he moulds us into having a main playing style which we use in most games.

B: What kind of right back and central midfielder we sign -- this will change the dynamic of the team

C: The age profile of the players signed.


*also in bold, theres no way we would sell Richarlison for £40-60mil. He's not having the best season but i think hes probably around 1 in 2 or 3 for assists/goals? Also his workrate is intense to watch.

I do think we may see the side evolve to make him more of a threat.









Gravenberch: I mentioned yesterday that we need a 6 enabling Doucoure and Allan to play as box to box players. Either a world class playmaker, more of an all rounder with good passing range (an anchor) or a young player we can coach into playing the role in the premier league.

The dutch are straight talkers and Gravenberch has talked up a move in the past to Barca which Brands seems to be alluding to.

I think theres no harm positioning ourselves to be a club he (and others) u21 join before taking the leap to Barca/Madrid or whoever else. By that time we may be in the champions league consistently and/or we would make money on the fee if the players do have world class potential.

Weve got Virginia (GK), Branthwaite (CB), Nkounkou (LB) and Kean (CF) as well as Jagne (CM) who have been brought into the club u21.

Were seeing under a top manager that (on the most part) Brands' transfer business isnt the failure its been made out to be overall...there have been some mistakes but we cant be sure how much Moshiri or Silva impacted certain deals. Under Ancelotti it seems to be looking up.

However, other than our signing of Nathangelo Markelo (under koeman i think) weve not brought in any Dutch players. Brands is supposed to have a lot of pull in Holland and should have a very good network of contacts there.

It seems strange to me that weve not signed any Dutch youth players, nor any south american u21s when he was touted as having an enormous amount of contacts.

So far, it seems like Jagne, Nkounkou and Branthwaite are the relative unknowns hes brought in -- its disappointing that there havent been more. Especially when we seem to need forwards and midfielders to bring into the first team.
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Richarlison isn’t have a great season so far . A few factors after starting the season well, suspension, then when he came back no Digne or a natural left back support Him. Then he missed a Couple of games. And the team, due to injuries have set up a bit more defensive. DCL hasn’t scored in 6 games. That tells us everything about how Ancelotti has tinkered with the set up

but in his first 2 seasons at the club Richarlison out scored, from open play. Son, martial, Rashford, Lacazette, Jimenez, Zaha, Firmino. Is a regular for Brazil and this muppet @Bullens Rd thinks we will get between 40 and 60 mil
Never heard so much rubbish in my life
 
yakublue said:
I don't like to be negative about the club hierarchy, but I can see us all looking back at this season as a huge missed opportunity because we didn't improve in January. The league is wide open, we have one of the best managers in the world, and our squad is good but so thin.
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Missed opportunity? Win two games in hand and we are top three four points ahead of the RS. We are certainly on tareget for Carlos ambition for this season, and its pointless overpaying in January. Carlo knows exactly what he wants in the summer, and we may well have European football to offer any potential signings, as well as the drawing power of Carlo, so take it easy, everyone. Not worth the twisting of any knickers over January signings which would only be cosmetic.
 

Steve Wigan said:
Missed opportunity? Win two games in hand and we are top three four points ahead of the RS. We are certainly on tareget for Carlos ambition for this season, and its pointless overpaying in January. Carlo knows exactly what he wants in the summer, and we may well have European football to offer any potential signings, as well as the drawing power of Carlo, so take it easy, everyone. Not worth the twisting of any knickers over January signings which would only be cosmetic.
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Or we don’t sign anyone, run out of steam and fail to finish in Europe and we are back to square one.

This window is an opportunity to hammer home we mean business but I’ll be honest it won’t happen because we’ll, it’s Everton and our culture is to play things safe
 
Zatara said:
www.caughtoffside.com

Everton told to improve £26m offer for AC Milan starlet

AC Milan and reportedly told Everton they'll need to improve their offer of £26m for striker Rafael Leao if they're to stand any chance of signing the Portuguese starlet.
www.caughtoffside.com www.caughtoffside.com

Rafael Leao we were also heavily linked before he joined Milan
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I think that's often how these media stories start, when a player wants a move away, or better contract, their agents create stories linking them with clubs that were interested in them a few years ago. Irrespective of the fact that often the managers and circumstances have changed.

He seems like a decent player, still very young, but he's playing games for AC, they are top of the league why would he want to leave and why would AC sell him for what they paid for him 2 years ago?
 
TheSecondComing said:
Or we don’t sign anyone, run out of steam and fail to finish in Europe and we are back to square one.

This window is an opportunity to hammer home we mean business but I’ll be honest it won’t happen because we’ll, it’s Everton and our culture is to play things safe
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I’m okay with playing it safe if I can see the targets are being met and providing we make continuous progress with the long term goal to be winning trophies. (And I think we are seeing progress and target being met)

-I’d take that over taking risks any day.

Risks that can take years to sort if they don’t work out and stunt your growth. We are in the midst of that now from a few years ago.
 

Stephenlloyd said:
Richarlison isn’t have a great season so far . A few factors after starting the season well, suspension, then when he came back no Digne or a natural left back support Him. Then he missed a Couple of games. And the team, due to injuries have set up a bit more defensive. DCL hasn’t scored in 6 games. That tells us everything about how Ancelotti has tinkered with the set up

but in his first 2 seasons at the club Richarlison out scored, from open play. Son, martial, Rashford, Lacazette, Jimenez, Zaha, Firmino. Is a regular for Brazil and this muppet @Bullens Rd thinks we will get between 40 and 60 mil
Never heard so much rubbish in my life
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What price do you think we'd sell at? My guess is £120mil...down from £150mil :(
 
TheSecondComing said:
Or we don’t sign anyone, run out of steam and fail to finish in Europe and we are back to square one.

This window is an opportunity to hammer home we mean business but I’ll be honest it won’t happen because we’ll, it’s Everton and our culture is to play things safe
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or we sign the wrong person because the main targets are not for sale, they don’t gel as to how Ancelotti wants and we’ve affected the budget for the summer
 

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