Everton Summer transfers 2021

[ForeverBlue92]

If everyone who's contract is due to expire leaves at the end of the year on a free (bar Branthwaite) we'll be saving about £500k p/w, or £26m per year. None of them featured yesterday.

And FFP changes to a salary based system just in time for it as well.

Should the PL profit and loss system also be amended to mimic/go side by side with FFP then it will allow us to spend what we want in theory providing our wage bill is not largely past 70% as they'll likely give clubs 12 months or so to get their houses in order as such you would imagine.

This is a summer of struggle next season will be much brighter can see why the club may just want 1-2 loans to cover certain areas until next summer when we can hopefully go out and spend some serious cash on major improvements.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

I think the 'Everton' style is to play quick football whether thats going direct to the forwards / wide players or quick passes forwards on the floor...

...its not slow tiki taka football.

Its obvious that you cant just knock it long to wingers to endlessly cross the ball in, and its also obvious that you cant just pass the ball quickly down the centre...

...it has to be a mix.

What you get from McNeil is primarily someone who looks to play forwards and can cross the ball (really well) and pass (really well) while also working hard defensively.

Hes more of a Limpar than a Kanchelskis. @Dwight K Schrute named Wamangituka who, for example looks to be more of a Kanchelskis than a Limpar.

What we need is 3 players out wide to rotate with different skill sets and a 4th experienced or young player as backup.

United in the early 90s had Giggs, Sharpe and Kanchelskis with Beckham emerging. Thats a variety of different types of wide player.

Im not saying McNeil is as good as those players were but he has a valuable skill set and a left foot which could be considered as 'similar' to Kevin Sheedy. Hes also got 100 games under his belt and has shown that he can play quick football.

If we are to play Richarlison as a 'support striker' / floating around DCL then we need to have better players than Gray and Townsend out wide.

For me, McNeil would be a good player to have as one of three wide players to rotate. As hes young, he should develop and improve, also he will be playing in a better side.

A season with 2 goals and 5 assists with Burnley could well become 4 goals and 10 assists at Everton.

What i would say though, is that if we signed him we would still need 2 more starting wide players to rotate with him.


£30-35mil seems reasonable to me.

Exactly what I said before. I wouldn't mind signing McNeil if we had a couple of quality wide men who are pacey and contribute goals too. But we don't. So signing him and using up all of a limited budget to do so would be a mistake.

 

[danny147]

Pace is nice but without real ability to go with it then it’s pointless. A RM/LM or winger with genuine pace and gets lots of goals and/or assists is rare and very expensive and one we definitely can’t afford.

McNeil is a good player. Young, can play LM and RM. averages a goal or assist in the prem every four games, playing with far better players he’d easily increase that. If we sign a good RB first I’d gladly take him.

 

[mikel_88]

Gray was ineffective in all bar having pace and putting in 2 ok crosses. Your bar is VERY low.

Keane made 3 errors and one was capitalised on. Two in the second half where he (again) stood still, ambled back allowing the centre forward to close him down -- before urgently rushing to get to the ball first.

He is an utter liability. Hes not in control of his legs once hes 15 metres from goal.

Youre referencing a computer game to state "continuity matters"?

If something isnt working then you stop doing it. Michael Keane does not work.

Should have been sold and yet got a new deal.

You dont rate two of our best players in Richarlison and Doucoure, yet rate Iwobi. He is the same as Keane, he doesnt work. When players fail you need to sell them, urgently before their values drop -- as we will see with Iwobi and Keane.

You cant see the major issue of having 4 centre backs all more comfortable on the right side of defence? Weve seen yesterday what happens when you play Keane on the left...the other 3 also lose something when playing there.

Additionally, we dont lose anything with Branthwaite replacing Keane as a 4th choice. Hes also played mostly as left centre back for us and on loan.

Incidentally, Keanes 2 errors 2nd half were when he was playing on the right. Dreadful.

Its actually laughable that weve not sold a centre back this summer when we need the funds to upgrade

Leicester signed Vestergaard for £15mil last week. Keane wouldnt have been on their radar.

"No real need to touch our centre backs"

Dearie me.



He did a few times and made some 'Lamptey' type runs, with obviously less pace. Turned inside 3 or 4 times and played simple balls.

Looks like another off the Chelsea conveyor belt. Like Lamptey and James they have a knack for producing right backs it seems.

very harsh saying gray was ineffective had more moments than just two crosses. Still think we need another winger but today both him and townsend showed will offer more than what we had last season. Is only one game but i thought he good, can judge him after a run of games

 

[edge]

Pace is nice but without real ability to go with it then it’s pointless. A RM/LM or winger with genuine pace and gets lots of goals and/or assists is rare and very expensive and one we definitely can’t afford.

McNeil is a good player. Young, can play LM and RM. averages a goal or assist in the prem every four games, playing with far better players he’d easily increase that. If we sign a good RB first I’d gladly take him.

give Burnley Keane and Kenny to sweeten the deal.

 

[FTY]

Livramento did well for them today,.

Where is Brands when deals like this are there for the taking?

They wouldn’t have sold him without a low release clause

 

[danny147]

give Burnley Keane and Kenny to sweeten the deal.

Good suggestion that. I don’t think Kenny is as bad as the Celtic loan showed, whole team looked just awful, worst year for them in 20 years. Keane was very good for Burnley, reckon with dyche managing him he’d be a far better defender than he is with us. Only problem would be his wages would be way more than any Burnley player is paid.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

If everyone who's contract is due to expire leaves at the end of the year on a free (bar Branthwaite) we'll be saving about £500k p/w, or £26m per year. None of them featured yesterday.

Very few of them will be missed.

 

[samsonthedog1]

Arias being linked on loan. Us, PSV and Bayer Leverkusen linked. Would think he would like to come here for a year and play in the prem with his mates wouldnt you.

 

[toffee66]

We have had two previous chances to sign Arias to replace Coleman. We have swerved it twice believing he is not a clear upgrade on even the diminished Seamus. If we did bring him in on loan I think it will indicate we are settling for a cheap squad body rather than a real RB solution this summer which is not thrilling.

 

[MisterJ]

Any actual links today?

BBC transfer gossip still thinks it's yesterday, so no updates there.

 

[danny147]

Any actual links today?

BBC transfer gossip still thinks it's yesterday, so no updates there.

Honestly mate I’d take any links you see regarding us as nonsense right now. Until one or more of kean, Keane, iwobi, delph, James, jonjo or Gomes goes I pretty much doubt anyone will come in. Would imagine once one or more of them are gone we’ll bring in players very quickly after.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

We have had two previous chances to sign Arias to replace Coleman. We have swerved it twice believing he is not a clear upgrade on even the diminished Seamus. If we did bring him in on loan I think it will indicate we are settling for a cheap squad body rather than a real RB solution this summer which is not thrilling.

Yeah he's nearly 30, if the rumours are true then we're just looking for a short term back - up to Coleman.

 

[brieverton]

Arias being linked on loan. Us, PSV and Bayer Leverkusen linked. Would think he would like to come here for a year and play in the prem with his mates wouldnt you.

Brands going down through his list of targets again. Must have about three names on it collected over the same amount of seasons.

Dumfries PSV, and now gone, Arias ex-PSV. Maybe he'll turn to AZ next.

 

[davek]

They wouldn’t have sold him without a low release clause

We'd still have a RB for the foreseeable though. He's only 18. No way Chelsea would be coming back in for him anytime soon.