Everton Summer transfers 2021

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Saint Domingo said:
Even if it is, why would anyone trust Walsh with any recommendations after Schneiderlin Williams Bolaise Klaassen Tosun Walcott Siggurdson Sandro Martina Keane Onyekeru Lookman Vlasic

He might argue that Koeman was behind most of them but still why did he stick around if he had no say on players coming in. Very easy to play the Wenger game of ‘I always wanted x now world class player’
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Tbh these weren’t Walsh recommendations were they? They’re either players that everyone already knew about or Koeman’s Dutch mates.
 
Zatara said:
The only two 'exciting' links ive seen are for White and Aarons...young, quick, English ball players.

Signings like Dumfries and the other links seem to be budget lower mid table moves.
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No disrespect, you can’t say for certain Aarons is better than Dumfries, that’s just your opinion. Aarons had had one season in the prem, for a relegated team, which straight away buys him credit.
not his fault he’s in a crap team, you get all them shouts.

If Aarons was so good why is he still at Norwich. And only a mid table club interested. He may go on to be world class and way better than Dumfries, but at this moment it’s pure guess work
 

catcherintherye said:
I suppose more at his Sevilla time, he's not the quickest but seemed to read the game quite well.

The Barcelona time has been a bit of a disaster. It's a difficult one of course, because Mina and Digne flopped there too and have been good here, and James fell out of favour at Madrid and did well here. But then for every one of those you might have a Gomes or an Iwobi. It's not easy at all.

All I would say though, is this was the player Brands wanted pre Mina, for the best part of 30m on his Sevilla form. Has he become a fundamentally different player/person in that 3 years? Alternatively you can flip that and say was the form at Sevilla the anomale?
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Barcelona fans have short memories as well. He was probably their best defender for two years, but has had a tough year.

Saying all that the story is 99% certain to be nonsense.
 
@catcherintherye how are you on Koulibaly for £35mil?

Its a no from me, hes only played 51 league games in the last 2 seasons. Not ideal.

Also the Lenglet links are a concern, he went from being very highly rated to being an error prone defender against pace and physical forwards -- two fundamentals needed in a premier league defender.

Pity those Araujo links disappeared...
 
zzebra said:
Yep. I think every club is pretty much linked with every up and coming player at some point.
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There's a difference between being linked and your Director of Football actively recommend that you sign a player

My Everton based world is shook - I'm having to re-evaluate the job that Walsh did here
 
Zatara said:
@catcherintherye how are you on Koulibaly for £35mil?

Its a no from me, hes only played 51 league games in the last 2 seasons. Not ideal.

Also the Lenglet links are a concern, he went from being very highly rated to being an error prone defender against pace and physical forwards -- two fundamentals needed in a premier league defender.

Pity those Araujo links disappeared...
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Did he miss games from injury? Or because of the fall out with ancelotti, him and Allan by all accounts took ancelotti’s side, which didn’t go down well with the owner.
 

Zatara said:
@catcherintherye how are you on Koulibaly for £35mil?

Its a no from me, hes only played 51 league games in the last 2 seasons. Not ideal.

Also the Lenglet links are a concern, he went from being very highly rated to being an error prone defender against pace and physical forwards -- two fundamentals needed in a premier league defender.

Pity those Araujo links disappeared...
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I think there has been a bit of a deterioration from him over the last 12-18 months, but for me it would still be a yes at that figure. I would say outside of VVD, Diaz and perhaps Maguire he would be the best CB in the league. At just turned 30, you know he is not going to be getting any better and will be declining but the question is how fast does that happen. I'd take that risk on him though at that price point.
 
neil999 said:
Steve Walsh was a good scout, but never a dof that was the problem....
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…I really don’t get why he was a good scout. I’ve seen this said a few times on here.

I saw him sitting in the stands watching Sandro, he then went and signed him. I imagine he didn’t just sign the rest of the dross we acquired without looking at them.

A DoF is responsible for football strategy throughout the club & acquiring the players who fit the strategy. Walsh was clearly not a DoF, but I’d also fear for us if we had him scouting players.
 
navidson said:
Is this true?!

"In addition to the expensive players that Everton signed, Steve Walsh also recommended Hull duo Andy Robertson and Harry Maguire for a combined £20 million and teenage Norwegian striker Erling Haaland for €4 million"
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He also signed Tosun and Walcott for God knows how much. If you are involved in scouting, you will know all the young up and coming players of note. Dead easy to defend yourself by saying: 'yeah but I wanted to sign . . .'.

Don't forget he was given money to spend on young players: Lewis Gibson and Dennis Adeniran and Josh Bowler were signed for pushing £15 million. Never mind Vlasic, Lookman etc. So he had plenty of money for those purposes. He's just covering his backside after his total disaster here.

If he is blaming the manager for vetoing, I'm sure Brands could say the same. In fact, I'm sure when Brands goes we will hear similar stories of young talent we 'could have signed'.
 
Stephenlloyd said:
No disrespect, you can’t say for certain Aarons is better than Dumfries, that’s just your opinion. Aarons had had one season in the prem, for a relegated team, which straight away buys him credit.
not his fault he’s in a crap team, you get all them shouts.

If Aarons was so good why is he still at Norwich. And only a mid table club interested. He may go on to be world class and way better than Dumfries, but at this moment it’s pure guess work
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Youve got a 25 year old right back who is physical, athletic and driven to win...all good things -- but his passing and crossing arent good enough for a top side from what ive seen...which is where i want us to be.

Newcastle, Palace and suchlike usually go for these players...he smells like a 1-2 season stopgap player rotating with Coleman.

We need a Coleman replacement, not someone to rotate with him.

We have 3 seasons till the stadium is built, Aarons is the profile of player we could slot in next to Godfrey as a foundation for the long term...

If its me, id go for Aarons and then Emerson...if we failed then id look at other players before punting £14mil on Dumfries.

The whole thing seems a stupid, pointless exercise to me and i dont see how a signing like this takes us towards top 4 or top 6.
 

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