Everton Summer Transfer Thread - 2022

[Nymzee]

Laugh all you want, but you’ve not had that type of player since Scholes

Could you be any more Scottish

 

[fuko~]

If we stick with a 3 CB formation most weeks, we'll lose most games.

cant agree anymore...Our squad cant play this system...

 

[bluestevon]

You said games and success were built around a match winner, but the sum of tidy ball players implementing a philosophey of tiki-taka has proven to be successful, the start of that always happens with one player. Lampard etc has spoken of defending through a pocession based model and creating triangles.

I’m not disagreeing with you in terms of match winners - but let’s just say that is a broad description, someone like Modric (tidy ball player) is a match winner to my mind and done it away from club riches in a Croatia team that wasn’t full of them.

Many ways to play the game and it doesn’t have to be dogmatic or polarised I’m terms of cants and wonts.

Alan Ball, arguably our best ever player - twoof his best attributes where tidy ball player and low center of gravity.

Yeah this lad won't ever be that good, but the idea cos yes he's small, yup not fast, again I'll say was Ball either of those?

Can imagine back then people questioning building a side around a 20yo from Blackpool (yup way more proven but still the question would us e been asked)

 

[Scot1]

Could you be any more Scottish

Nothing to do with my nationality, just saying what I see.

 

[Colonel Getafe]

...about which no-one cares at all.

I hear the over-70s walking team are close to finding a midfielder as well!

(not a new one; Burt has been there a season, he'd just wandered off and no one had seen him in a while).

 

[Nymzee]

Gilmour can't play in a midfield 2 so it's a no from me.

 

[Nymzee]

Nothing to do with my nationality, just saying what I see.

Yeh which is completely laced with national pride at a player you'll find many times over in Spain.

 

[Rich1878]

Nothing to do with my nationality, just saying what I see.

You'd struggle on catch phrase

 

[navidson]

Gilmour can't play in a midfield 2 so it's a no from me.

If we play 2 in midfield next season - Everton are a no from me

 

[Lanolin]

Agree to differ so mate!

As I just said elsewhere, it possibly just depends how you define ‘building your team around’. To me, being an important building block in a team and having the team built around you are very different things. Rodri for example plays a very important role for city, but I would never say the team was built around him. Ronaldo and messi are players who have had teams built around them, where the entire point of the system is to get the most out of them. Lukaku needs that, I think grealish does too. Charlie Adam had it at Blackpool (just to highlight that I’m not just talking about the elite). All of those were more than just an important cog in the wheel, and that’s what I took the poster to be talking about.

 

[Colonel Getafe]

Nothing to do with my nationality, just saying what I see.

what is Roy Walker up to these days, I wonder...

 

[Scot1]

Yeh which is completely laced with national pride at a player you'll find many times over in Spain.

If he was [Poor language removed], I’d tell you he was [Poor language removed]

 

[TyphooToffee]

Dunno mate, that video alone he does multiple things thsn absolutely zero of our current midfield are remotely capable if doing (like close control and actually showing a range of passing to players in the same colour)

I have to agree. Looked comfortable against good players too in that video

 

[Nymzee]

If we play 2 in midfield next season - Everton are a no from me

Sorry to disappoint you but unless we make midfield signings what you saw at the weekend is what you'll see going forwards.

 

[DanB90]

As much as we need good ball players, sticking a 5’7 kid in what is by far our weakest area of the pitch doesn’t seem like the smartest move.

If he was bought in alongside another midfielder or 2, it could be a good signing, but this lad alone won’t fix our problems.