This does not make any sense.
If Tarkowski is a better Centre Back than the current incumbants then the defence is obviously improved.
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If Tarkowski is a better Centre Back than the current incumbants then the defence is obviously improved.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
There's no probably about it, we can't afford him.
He's overpriced for me anyway and, although I think we do need another forward, it isn't the first position I would prioritise.
If you look at the Arsenal game last Saturday I think the first team was more or less evenly divided between the two halves.
I think probably three of our starting back four played in the second half(Tarkowski, Keane and Mykolenko), as well as Gordon and Iwobi.
In the first half we had Doucoure,DCL... possibly Patterson and possible one of the centre back and maybe Gray or Dele.
It was used more as a training and fitness exercise by us than it was by Arsenal..... who do have a very talented squad anyway.
For me....WE have to find an attacking wide player to replace Richarlison and I assume it will be Cornet and/or MGW.
But, more importantly we need bodies in for centre midfield. We need a midfielder who can defend but also use the ball well to set up attacks and really as well we need a creative no. 10 which ironically we don't really have any of now.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
We won't be going after a 10. That's where they are hoping Gordon will nail down.
We need a DM as priority and then a CM and RW.
Noisy noise annoys
Player Valuation: £70m
It’s full of posters crying about it
Lobster Johnson
Player Valuation: £35m
He was referencing hysteria, not signings.
Noisy noise annoys
Player Valuation: £70m
Spot on. I do worry about dele being able to step up
The last few pages seem to be more about social media than about us actually signing him.
It's what Jesse would have wanted
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £60m
How about a bid for Tielemans from Leicester? Entering the year of his contract and seemingly unwilling to sign a new one.
Arsenal were rumoured to be interested but they've since strengthened in his position, and nobody else appears to be linked with him.
Went off the boil last season did Tielemans, as did Leicester in general to be fair, but he's proven himself as a quality player prior to that.
Change of scenery needed?
They're unlikely to be able to demand £30m for him with just a year left, and it's a position we're absolutely desperate in.
Now whether he thinks he can do better than Everton is up for debate, but I think he could be an astute sticking signing for around £15m.
Arsenal were rumoured to be interested but they've since strengthened in his position, and nobody else appears to be linked with him.
Went off the boil last season did Tielemans, as did Leicester in general to be fair, but he's proven himself as a quality player prior to that.
Change of scenery needed?
They're unlikely to be able to demand £30m for him with just a year left, and it's a position we're absolutely desperate in.
Now whether he thinks he can do better than Everton is up for debate, but I think he could be an astute sticking signing for around £15m.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
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I mean how far back do people want to go to prove that our scouts can’t look beyond the PL for players?
Of course we regularly look to the PL for players, or players with PL experience. The majority of clubs outside the top 6 are looking in the domestic market first and foremost, just as their counterparts in Europe do too which is why mid table Spanish Italian German and French teams tend to be full of players from those respective countries.
It’s such a lazy criticism. I’d be utterly amazed if Everton do not have scouting networks all over the footballing world.
I mean how far back do people want to go to prove that our scouts can’t look beyond the PL for players?
Of course we regularly look to the PL for players, or players with PL experience. The majority of clubs outside the top 6 are looking in the domestic market first and foremost, just as their counterparts in Europe do too which is why mid table Spanish Italian German and French teams tend to be full of players from those respective countries.
It’s such a lazy criticism. I’d be utterly amazed if Everton do not have scouting networks all over the footballing world.
Van Der Beek and Kenny gone, Gray will probably be a starter this season and we allowed 5 subs on the pitch. With Lampard as manager and taking into account the poor depth of our squad, I am sure the likes of Dobbin, Warrington and Mills will get game time this season. Let's talk about this in May and we'll see who was right, it's pointless trying to debate it now, as only time will tell who is right.
We haven't signed enough of the best players in the championship. That's my biggest complaint. It's almost like we got money and didn't need to look there anymore, even though it's what we did best.
Of course it makes sense? Firstly because of the 'if' that you put and the 'theoretically' that I did. It's not like we've signed prime Maldini, Tarkowski will hopefully be an improvement on what we had last year but let's not make out like it's an obviously huge upgrade. He's a freshly relegated, freebie centre half who has spent all his PL career playing in a conservative set up with virtually the same team around him and has less England caps than Michael Keane. I'm happy with the signing and feel like he'll do well, but it's far from a given.
Secondly, adding in a player who is individually better on paper does not necessarily mean you get better as a unit. There was a pretty common consensus that Pickford and Keane would make us better defensively when we signed them but we conceded 14 more goals in their first season than we did the season before. Basically Tarkowski could individually have a really good season, without us actually getting any better defensively.
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