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Rooney_Tunes
Player Valuation: £40m
Absolutely agree...this squad is better.
Add that we are finally rid of Sigurdsson, Delph, Kenny, Tosun, and will hopefully sell Gomes, Davies, Rondon then that, without any further additions, gives me hope...
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
Sorry, I know where you're coming from here, but not for me
If we take where we were at the end of last season, we've lost our best player (arguably) and added a centre back - Ok, I think Tarkowski is a solid signing but I can't see how we can spin Richarlison being gone into us being in a better position now.
You're basing most of the optimism here on a squad staying fit - a squad which, in the past, has struggled to do this
I'll grant you that Patterson and Dele might end up seeming like new players, but equally as things stand that's a complete unknown - Patterson might not make the grade and Dele might be the same Dele who hasn't exactly shone for a couple of years.
It's a bit early to be getting worried about the state of the squad. Let's get to that point at the end of next month when the window shuts. For now though, if you asked Lampard how he felt about the state of the squad (and he was being honest), I doubt he'd be as optimistic as you given he said at the end of last season that we know if we don't improve the squad we could end up back where we finished last season
The only problem with that is, this being Everton we'll wait until deadline day in the hope of some cut prices, but a lot of our priority targets will have already moved to new clubs, and we'll be left panic buying our X, Y & Z targets
Anyone a bit concerned yet? Seem to be missing out on targets and not putting up much of a fight
KaiserEFC
Player Valuation: £70m
I think negotiations are going swimmingly right up until the point we’re asked to pay
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
20 mill they’ve paid apparently. Is KLP better than Gray and Gordon (combined fee 1.5 mill?)
Decent young player but we literally produced one from our academy better than him just last season so why would we get into paying those types of fees.
Mr Happy
Player Valuation: £20m
Maybe we never really wanted him ?
Grays form dipped a fair bit in the 2nd half of the season, richarlison has gone so we need another - is it 20m? Id say at his age if he was to get 5/6 goals next season his value is 30-40 next summer, so id have paid 20 personally if we rate him
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £80m
My hot take...
The priority this season isn't getting all kinds of new signings in - it's keeping the current squad of players fit & playing for most of the season.
This comes down to coaching & conditioning, more than anything. Far too often last season key players were in and out of the XI and you're always gonna run into trouble when that happens. Even the top sides would struggle without any sort of consistency in the personnel from week to week. The reds suffered from it the season before last.
As you say - if the likes of Pickford, DCL, Gordon, Dele, Gray, Mina (a bit of a stretch with him, but still), Doucs, Godfrey, Mykolenko et al can give us upwards of 35 sets of 90 minutes over the season then we'll already be better off.
Add Patterson & Tarkowski into the mix as well.
MarkHollis
Player Valuation: £8m
There's no way that includes all of them. He sure missed more than 2 games, and was often subbed off with knocksHis recent injury history doesn’t look too bad…
21/22 Knee Problems Apr 22, 2022 May 5, 2022 13 days 2 19/20 Sprained ankle Feb 29, 2020 Mar 4, 2020 4 days 2 19/20 Heel pain Feb 9, 2020 Feb 9, 2020 0 days 1 19/20 Bruised Hip Dec 5, 2019 Dec 10, 2019 5 days 2 19/20 Muscle bruise Oct 2, 2019 Oct 6, 2019 4 days 2 18/19 Muscular problems Mar 3, 2019 Mar 3, 2019 0 days 1 18/19 Heel pain Mar 1, 2019 Mar 5, 2019 4 days 1 18/19 Leg Injury Dec 5, 2018 Dec 22, 2018 17 days 5 18/19 Knee Problems Dec 5, 2018 Dec 22, 2018 17 days 5 18/19 Allergic Reaction Oct 27, 2018 Oct 27, 2018 0 days 1 18/19 Heel pain Sep 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018 0 days 1 18/19 Arch pain Aug 20, 2018 Aug 27, 2018 7 days 1
That ban on getting youth players in for a few years really set us back.
We used to do ok in competitions up to then.
Saying that with city in the area offering all sorts to kids that join them it'd a struggle to attract the best talent locally anyway.
You've gone and jinxed it now Mikey.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Teams just absolutely taking the piss as soon as they hear of any Everton interest. We need to seriously start looking outside of the Premier League and we need to start soon.
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