Everton Summer transfers 2021

[TheBigIguana]

I couldn’t agree more mate but it’s never just as easy as saying we can copy what other teams are doing. Leicester won the league playing kick and rush footy, does that mean we should give that a go?

Ancelotti had us believing that what he was doing was the start of a project. We’ll never know how that one turned out. Benitez - hate him or the signings all you want - seems to have a pretty nailed on idea of how he wants us to play; how do we know this (thus far) auspicious summer isn’t the start of the strategy that works for us in the medium-long term?

I suppose what I’m rambling towards is the point that hindsight is a wonderful thing and it’s a bit too easy to say “we should have done it like X”.

If this is the start of a longer term plan then that's good. I'll struggle to see how Townsend advances that but that's fine at least we're doing something.

 

[Nymzee]

Despite my grumpy exterior I’m actually optimistic to a fault and I think we’ll check off that list and things will look a bit rosier when the window SLAMS shut.

I'll sit on the pessemists side of the fence on this one.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Flip it around - Benitez has instantly seen the 3x major problems at the club:

Threadbare squad
Lack of any pace / wide players
Suspect mentality from a number of players

Done more than the last 4 managers instantly.

How does his latest signing fix any of those problems?

 

[Acrobat]

Flip it around - Benitez has instantly seen the 3x major problems at the club:

Threadbare squad
Lack of any pace / wide players
Suspect mentality from a number of players

Done more than the last 4 managers instantly.

Agree with this 100%

 

[Harryflashman]

Did he? Or did Brands?

Well unless it was a complete coincidence that Benitez phoned the player day one and told him to hang on move wise whilst totally simultaneously and by good luck brands wanted him then yeah it was the manager .

 

[Harryflashman]

Gotcha. Didn't read the whole thing, just curious since I thought Brands' main job is to find and sign players.

It isn’t just you thought that mate

 

[ToffeeTim]

Flip it around - Benitez has instantly seen the 3x major problems at the club:

Threadbare squad
Lack of any pace / wide players
Suspect mentality from a number of players

Done more than the last 4 managers instantly.

He's signed 1 player.
Townsend's pace has pretty much gone
How has he fixed mentality? The season is still to start lol

 

[ForeverBlue92]

He's signed 1 player.
Townsend's pace has pretty much gone
How has he fixed mentality? The season is still to start lol

Townsend top professional and a natural wide player / tactically disciplined.

Gray full of pace when he signs and another wide player.

All 3 covered.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

If this is the start of a longer term plan then that's good. I'll struggle to see how Townsend advances that but that's fine at least we're doing something.

IF it was, and of course that’s a big IF then I’d assume stage one is trimming the squad fat and outlining the general shape we want to play in.

For now that would involve getting cheap players in to fill the wide areas in which we have nobody to play at present, and spending a few bob to improve on problem areas like RW and CM. That’s where Townsend and Gray fit in, I guess.

Assuming we didn’t buy a RW for Townsend to play backup to this summer, you’d have to assume that becomes a priority for next summer.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Townsend top professional and a natural wide player / tactically disciplined.

Gray full of pace when he signs and another wide player.

All 3 covered.

You're gonna need to explain how Benitez has fixed the team's mentality having played only 2 pre season friendlies. I'm a bit lost on this point.

 

[Lob]

The prime mover is Benitez. On Benitez you have been the chief cheerleader. What happened?

Prime mover my ass. Said from the beginning that he was never my first choice and still isn't. I am just not a hateful git like you and your kin and will get behind any manager of Everton and want him to do well no matter who he is just like i did with Allardyce and i absolutely despised that man.

Give the made up bollox a rest, no need for it at all. Never had a bad word to say about you till you started trolling me for absolutely no reason other than wanting Everton to do well. Get it over it ffs.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

You're gonna need to explain how Benitez has fixed the team's mentality having played only 2 pre season friendlies. I'm a bit lost on this point.

Didnt say that mate - he knows the squad is full of suspect players mentally/commitment so will start removing them accordingly whilst replacing them with honest pros

Benard
Delph
Soggy
Slomes
Toshun
Kean
James

They'll be out on their ears in the next 12 months and rightfully so.

 

[TheBigIguana]

IF it was, and of course that’s a big IF then I’d assume stage one is trimming the squad fat and outlining the general shape we want to play in.

For now that would involve getting cheap players in to fill the wide areas in which we have nobody to play at present, and spending a few bob to improve on problem areas like RW and CM. That’s where Townsend and Gray fit in, I guess.

Assuming we didn’t buy a RW for Townsend to play backup to this summer, you’d have to assume that becomes a priority for next summer.

You don't trim squad fat by adding a crap player to the squad. That's what I can't quite wrap my head around in the whole thing. Just use Bernard or Iwobi until their contract runs out.

 

[trueblue84]

Townsend top professional and a natural wide player / tactically disciplined.

Gray full of pace when he signs and another wide player.

All 3 covered.

The idea is to sign 1 player who has all those traits, not to spread them out over 3 average players.

 

[davek]

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…..good to see @davek continues to have his finger on the pulse of the club.

Stop stalking me.