Everton Summer 2024 Transfer Thread

[Thomasc]

club foot?

The bollox chatted in here, its foot and mouth.

 

[Rita_Poon]

The bollox chatted in here, its foot and mouth.

one or the other or it's the sack...

 

[Nymzee]

Generating power through a ball is all about timing.

Scholes was the same. Minimal backlift, hitting it off the meat of the foot.

You can have the lightest or heaviest foot in the world, but if you hit a ball correctly it'll fly off the foot like crap off a shovel.

Are you honestly reading my post and thinking I’m talking about the actual weight of peoples feet. Eff my life.

 

[davek]

Are you honestly reading my post and thinking I’m talking about the actual weight of peoples feet. Eff my life.

No, I'm reading something that simply ignores the well known reason as to why a ball is struck cleanly and true - which we all know is about timing.

The introduction of extraneous terms is the issue here.

 

[Librarian]

Anyway, after Legstrom I think we will go after Willy Gnometoe and Tanner Clubfoot

 

[den]

Are you honestly reading my post and thinking I’m talking about the actual weight of peoples feet. Eff my life.

I suspect the "heavy" foot might have something to do with strength in and around the ankle, i.e., being able to hold the position of the foot and not losing power from the leg through any give as they make the strike.

 

[Zatara]

Montpellier is a long way from Nice and even further from Vienna

3.5 hours

Thought Nice and Montpellier were much closer.

 

[bluestevon]

club foot?

 

[FellisElbow]

I can’t really describe it any other way than that. It’s the way certain players connect with a football. Generate power where they shouldn’t really be able to. A bit like Tom Huddlestone or Szoboszlai at them lot. Think @Eggs knows what I mean.

AKA He’s got a foot like a traction engine!

 

[Double Negative]

AKA He’s got a foot like a traction engine!

That. Was a goal…

 

[blueblue]

He’s a unit, full blooded and keen, made of the right stuff, kicked on in the last couple of years. Waggy type.

I have only seen him play for Ireland, not at club level.

I think he has everything needed to be a top player based on what I have seen.

 

[jazzy]

3.5 hours

Thought Nice and Montpellier were much closer.

Took me longer than that when I drove it but yeah not a little hop. Besides which Montpellier ( which is a lovely city , my cousin lives there) , has it's own airport)

 

[Eggs]

I can’t really describe it any other way than that. It’s the way certain players connect with a football. Generate power where they shouldn’t really be able to. A bit like Tom Huddlestone or Szoboszlai at them lot. Think @Eggs knows what I mean.

….yep, i have always described it as ‘hitting a heavy shot/ball’. They can catch goalkeepers out with the power they strike a football, I’d put Harry Kane in that bracket, short backlift, he can strike a ball from distance that goalkeepers struggle to get in position for.

I was at Liverpool and played and trained with Jimmy Case, he was the best striker of a football I’ve ever seen. He generated amazing velocity but when you look at his body shape when he strikes his whole body is virtually over the ball. It’s all natural.

Surprisingly, some professionals are actually poor strikers of a football and we’ve had a few at Everton recently. I’d put Onana and Gueye in that category.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

59 goals for Wolfsburg in 118 games in the Bundesliga.

Dont play him like a big lump of lard English CF and you get the benfits.

He's is a 30+ Big lump of lard centre forward who's not mobile enough to press the ball, and play on the counter like Dom does.

He proved the demands of the EPL were to much for him.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Wasn't there reports he was a dressing room leak?

Wout Leakhorst