Everton January transfer window 2021

[matty1878]

What has it come to when we are signing players like Allan, James alongside Digne, Richarlison and fan's are desperate to back them up with players like King.

I understand sometimes signing a relegated teams best player, but going after a relegated teams 3rd or 4th best player, (wilson, Fraser, Brooks) we are never going to win anything.

and not signing someone we are?

 

[TheBigIguana]

Snore.

King is a clear upgrade on Tosun, and a better choice off the bench than Gordon or Bernard. If you can't accept that, then I can only conclude you have an agenda.

Would I prefer we got King on a loan than a permanent? Sure. But either way, he's an upgrade.

If "I don't think Josh King is very good" is an agenda then yes I am an agenda haver.

 

[Marius57]

All of you advocating for the nothing option better not moan in a match thread when we have nothing to bring on from the bench.

We havent had anything to bring on from the bench all season. It should have been sorted in the summer instead of buying someone who we will want to be replacing in 6 months time.

 

[TheBlueBlitzer]

Let's watch all the poor Everton fans clamouring to get king in (me included) just so we can have something to be happy about..
Yes bolasie gone,tosun gone for now. I know ALOT of people happy with that. But one injury to DCL can't even say atleast we have Simms as back up but now I can't even think of an academy product as back up

 

[Toast]

More options upfront than us.

Deeney and Charlie Austin both on the scoresheet tonight.

Imagine those two up top for us !

Koff Brands.

 

[Neiler]

I’d say we offered a two year deal with the option of a third, Fulham 4-5 years.

 

[MrGrumpy]

What is even going on, surely brands is on a wind up, world class manager doesn’t even know what a Josh King is ffs. I would honestly have kept Tosun than sign Josh King ffs

Would you Really?
Tosun come in in the PL what 6 times this season and has touched the ball about 4 times in total. I am sure King would of had far more impact

 

[Egil Olsen]

All of you advocating for the nothing option better not moan in a match thread when we have nothing to bring on from the bench.

What if we bought Origi, Minamino, or Shaqiri?

 

[BrendanGOT]

He's got 14 assists in 161 prem games mate.

His goals and assists is one in 3

 

[NewRadical]

Nugent and James Vaughan up front for Tranmere..

What could have been eh..

We could sign them both and the headline of the Echo would be 'Ferry 'Cross The Mersey' then we can guess who and what the rest of the article would be about.

 

[banno]

All of you advocating for the nothing option better not moan in a match thread when we have nothing to bring on from the bench.

TBH with Richarlison and DCL at the moment it equates to nothing. So nothing wrong with adding something to nothing hoping it shakes things up. Gamble? Not at all......it is much needed and King will be not a long term fix but just a short term fix.

 

[Marius57]

and not signing someone we are?

This isn't a new thing though. This forums been clamouring for King in the summer as well.

If he comes, I hope he does well, but come the summer, we will be stuck with another player we want to upgrade.

You think King is going to win us something?

 

[trueblue84]

I’d say we offered a two year deal with the option of a third, Fulham 4-5 years.

We aren't getting relegated. Fulham might be. Not that I want him, but surely there's no contest for a player looking to play in the prem?

 

[matty1878]

This isn't a new thing though. This forums been clamouring for King in the summer as well.

If he comes, I hope he does well, but come the summer, we will be stuck with another player we want to upgrade.

You think King is going to win us something?

we will obviously add in summer. He’s better than nothing

 

[Efcjake]

The problem is we're thinking extremely short here. Could he score a goal that matter for us this season? Sure. Is he ever going to be a consistent part of the XI that pushes us closer to the CL? Nah.

And that's my problem with it. In the summer when we're taking stock of the squad we are going to still need players in attack that take us up a level whether we sign King or not but now we will have King taking up a spot in the squad and minutes on the pitch, not to mention money, that we could be using to get actually good players in with.

He's not coming here to do that. He's coming here to be a squad player and scoring a goal that matters for us this season will help with our long-term goals of improving the standing of this club.

We're clearly planning on getting rid of Bernard this summer and Carlo seems happy to see Gordon out on loan to develop and might do again for next season.

We can't afford to sign a starting XI player today but King signing today could help us move further up the table and help us afford them in the summer.

Which good players can we get in today with the money we're planning to spend on King? Clearly there's no alternative at this point so we either go through with it or we don't now. I'd rather have him in this squad than not as we clearly need some attacking options with Tosun and Gordon out of the squad.