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Everton January transfer window 2021

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catcherintherye said:
It's fair enough mate, people have different views and thats what makes discussion worthwhile!

Our issue, is that particularly without fans, at Goodison we just can't put teams away. I don't think we will resolve that this season. We are well set up to play the better teams and will take points from them I think.

I'd say we need to get our best back 4 playing most weeks, and work to the premise of trying to get a 0-0 and see what falls for us. My wider point is though, outside of City, none of the teams have been massively consistent. Maybe Liverpool kick into gear now, and maybe United stabilise. We look erratic too, but so do lots of teams.

If we can repeat our 1st half of the season performance, we will finish (most likely) 4/5th. We don't need to do any better just maintain performance. I think there is a chance we can do that.
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With this lot I’d seriously consider 4-4-2 until Allan is back with Digne on the left of MF in front of Godfrey, Iwobi in front of Holgate, Dacoure sitting in and letting Rodriguez pull the strings for DCL and Richy up front.

Don’t think we have the personnel to play anything more expansive than that with options available.
 

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catcherintherye said:
I am going 2 ways on hom mate. His transfermakt value is 2m which is generally a good indicator. His wider performances and numbers suggest an average (at best) championship defender. In theory they can move him on, but given his age (nearly 26) and in 18 months he will be (no sh1t sherlock) 27 I'm not sure people will be cuing up to buy him. The key will probably be what wages they offer him. If they are low enough, they can probably sell back to the championship for a moderate profit.

I'll be honest, Mustafi made a lot more sense for them to me. He's been terrible for Arsenal, but at one point someone paid 35m for him, and he has in the past delivered in La Liga and the CL. For 6 months, he'd have given them cover and they could have moved on.

The wider point with Davies though, is people panic and go a long way down their list- and that recruitment by numbers is also not an exact science.

If it's not a panic buy, I would ask, why is it being done on the last day of the window, when they made clear they didn't want to sign anybody?
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I'm not here to defend Liverpool's transfer dealings but i've just explained that? I think a panic buy would be the going out and buying someone just for the sake of it because they desperately feel like they need anyone just to plug a gap. That may then lead to them being stuck with an unwanted player on big wages that they can't shift. I would imagine that with this deal they aren't doing that, but instead have identified a way to potentially plug the gap and also turn over a profit. He's likely to not even want a massive pay increase simply because it's pretty much a once in a lifetime opportunity, and worst case scenario they should be able to get back their massive £1.5m investment in 12/18 months time. It might not work out that way, like anything, but I would guess that the opportunity has presented itself and they've decided it makes pretty sound business sense. Making out that ANY late deal is a panic buy is just daft, there's a difference between taking a punt and panicking. I'd look at the likes of Stacqualursi and Darron Gibson coming to us as punts, not panic buys. They're not your first choice by any means, but you think that the risk/reward balance is tipped in their favour. I'd say that deal would be along the same lines.
 

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