Everton Summer transfers 2021

[orly]

Longstaff on a ‘wish list ‘
Hahahahahahahahhaha

He's on a long list

 

[Toff33Blues99]

Did you get a bonk on the head this morning?

Nope

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Square pegs round holes back to the koeman days of just sticking people anywhere. We dont need Mcneill our left sides fines we need rightsided players to play on our rightside for about 3 years now.

Well if the club want McNeil mate Richarlison will move to the Right regardless of what us forum experts think about it - he played on the left most of last season and was utter dog turd!

He's played on the right under Silva and for Brazil and done alright.

 

[Toff33Blues99]

What proof do you have that he is anywhere near the best striker at the club?

If we play to his strengths, dcl wouldn't score, if we play to dcl strengths, Kean doesn't score. Very different players. But dcl outscored Kean in the premier league being assisted by iwobi and Davies. Kean was being assisted by Neymar and mbappe in a 2nd rate league and still didn't score as many.

By watching both. Kean can stretch a defense , DcL cannot. Kean needs through balls (see his Florida cup goal) , but we constantly lump the ball up to him like he DCL

 

[Eggs]

…a lot of these clips look like they’re from Walton Hall Park.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

Did you get a bonk on the head this morning?

From reading his posts, I get the impression he's never has a bonk in his life

 

[blue61]

Longstaff on a ‘wish list ‘
Hahahahahahahahhaha

Is there a wishy washy list?

 

[Nymzee]

By watching both. Kean can stretch a defense , DcL cannot. Kean needs through balls (see his Florida cup goal) , but we constantly lump the ball up to him like he DCL

What, Kean needs a through ball to hit it at a keeper that can’t hold onto the ball? Awesome player.

 

[Toff33Blues99]

What, Kean needs a through ball to hit it at a keeper that can’t hold onto the ball? Awesome player.

Every striker 'misses', it was the run and movement that is the thing you should focus on

 

[BlueToff]

As reliable as you're going to get from the Athletic today, btw...

Working on a shoestring budget, Benitez has turned in part to what he knows best: Townsend, a favourite from his time at Newcastle; Demarai Gray a long-time target. Sean Longstaff, another who played under the Spaniard at St James’ Park, remains on the wish list. The pair have kept in touch, with initial talks held over a move. Benitez favourite Salomon Rondon, currently at Dalian Professional in China, has also been on Everton’s radar, but a move earlier in the window was thwarted by complications over how the deal would be structured.

 

[OzyToffee]

For those of you with access to these things what is Zakaria's injury history noted some comments elsewhere about that. If there's a history you would think he would have issues with the PL pace. Might be nothing just saw it mentioned more than once.

 

[MartSlinger]

By watching both. Kean can stretch a defense , DcL cannot. Kean needs through balls (see his Florida cup goal) , but we constantly lump the ball up to him like he DCL

Forgot that DCL was as slow as the come and couldnt run in behind......

 

[BlueToff]

We are, and I cannot stress this enough, a total mess.

We aren't going to push the boundaries on P&S/FFP, but we're then actively looking to add a 31-year-old (32 next month) who has been in China for the last two years to the sqaud, move out our only really high calibre player, and bring in Longstaff who offers nothing that we actually need in midfield

And for people who say 'what about the Zakaria rumours' etc, I'm sure we are interested, but it's abundantly clear we do not have the money (whether that's not being able to spend it or just not having it is really irrelevant).

Genuinely think that the main objective this season is just going to be to avoid getting dragged into a relegation scrap

 

[ToffeeTim]

As reliable as you're going to get from the Athletic today, btw...

Working on a shoestring budget, Benitez has turned in part to what he knows best: Townsend, a favourite from his time at Newcastle; Demarai Gray a long-time target. Sean Longstaff, another who played under the Spaniard at St James’ Park, remains on the wish list. The pair have kept in touch, with initial talks held over a move. Benitez favourite Salomon Rondon, currently at Dalian Professional in China, has also been on Everton’s radar, but a move earlier in the window was thwarted by complications over how the deal would be structured.

Adding all these average players on the cheap just makes signing a quality player even harder. All these players won't be playing for free so why are we adding them and making it even harder to do the business we need.

1 quality player is better than 3 average players. We've always gone for quantity over quality ever since that summer of stupidity under Koeman, and it needs to stop.

The blame lies with Walsh and Brands who have overseen our abysmal recruitment since around 2016. Brands is the man currently in position so it is his responsibility to find solutions. As always we are entering a new season with enormous gaps in the squad and that is how it has always been under Brands. Early business has always escaped us, and forward planning doesn't seem to be considered important at this club.

 

[BlueToff]

Yes, they really cost €0m…

I know they didn't, obviously, but the point is it's not really about fees paid when you come to assessing how successful a window is.

We spent about £110-115m in the 2019 window. If you just look at the fees then it'd be 'ooooh, that one was good', but it wasn't cause we spent it pretty much all on dross or players who haven't worked out yet (and the only hope for any of the players that we've signed that window when it comes to having a future at Everton is Gbamin, who's made 3 competitive apps in two years).