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Everton Summer transfers 2021

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Tree13 said:
This may be an emotional reaction in the immediate aftermath of watching Palace out-work us all over the park, but I remain firmly convinced that we need two new CMs this summer. Both need to be pacy, comfortable on the ball, in the 23 - 26 age brackets and one of them needs to be an elite-level performer who is undeniably our best CM. This would leave us with a midfield made up of:

Allan
Davies
Doucoure
Gbamin (but I can easily see a scenario where he goes out on loan to Germany or France next season)
2 x new faces

Sell Delph and Bernard as urgent priorities, £5m each would be fine because they will both have one year left on their contracts. I'd try to loan Gomes out to Italy, Spain or Portugal if we can find a club to cover his wages, but obviously sell him if someone shows interest. I'd also listen to all offers for Tosun and Kenny (both will have one year left on their contracts in June 2021) and try to cash in on Kean.

We're obviously going to bring in a RB. The extent to which we continue to clear out dead wood and wage thieves will determine how many other areas of need we can address: in an ideal world we bring in a new LM/LW and a new RM/RW but if we HAVE to get a starting RB and a starting CM as an absolute bare minimum.
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I agree. I think that having Allan and Doucoure as automatic selections again next year would be a rough place to be.
 
Del-boy said:
The team on a whole has improved from 5 years ago in every department. We are creating chances that a top striker would score and win us the points.
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With the exception of:
GK
RB
LM
CM
and RM.

I'd also take 2015/2016 John Stones over current Mina and current Keane, and I think 2015/2016 Baines is at least as good as current Lucas Digne.

You give Ancelotti the squad Martinez had in his first year, Ancelotti challenges for the title. No question.
 
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TheBigIguana said:
I agree. I think that having Allan and Doucoure as automatic selections again next year would be a rough place to be.
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I actually think Allan and Doucoure, when they have played, have been fine. If Allan didn't get that injury (against the RS?) I suspect he'd be our player of the season - he was excellent in our opening run of games.

If Allan and Doucoure are the second and third best players in our starting three-man midfield, we're fine. We just need to sign an absolute baller to be the #1 guy, and then see who rises to the challenge of edging Allan out of the starting three over the following 18 months - Davies and Gbamin are still young, so get a third young, pacy player in and create real competition for places.
 
Tree13 said:
I actually think Allan and Doucoure, when they have played, have been fine. If Allan didn't get that injury (against the RS?) I suspect he'd be our player of the season - he was excellent in our opening run of games.

If Allan and Doucoure are the second and third best players in our starting three-man midfield, we're fine. We just need to sign an absolute baller to be the #1 guy, and then see who rises to the challenge of edging Allan out of the starting three over the following 18 months - Davies and Gbamin are still young, so get a third young, pacy player in and create real competition for places.
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My preference is to find a real #6, a real ball progressr and then decide which of Allan and Doucoure is the better fit for spot #3.
 

TheBigIguana said:
My preference is to find a real #6, a real ball progressr and then decide which of Allan and Doucoure is the better fit for spot #3.
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Yes, I agree. The problem with that is the likely fees: you'd be looking to bring in two players in their prime (23 to 26 years old, starting eleven Premier league standard) and we already need to shift several wage thieves to create payroll space.

Factor in the situation at RB (we have to bring in a starting RB) and we'd need to find buyers for Delph, Bernard, Gomes and possibly Gylfi too. And that presumes we sell Kean for a decent chunk in the first place.
 
Tree13 said:
Yes, I agree. The problem with that is the likely fees: you'd be looking to bring in two players in their prime (23 to 26 years old, starting eleven Premier league standard) and we already need to shift several wage thieves to create payroll space.

Factor in the situation at RB (we have to bring in a starting RB) and we'd need to find buyers for Delph, Bernard, Gomes and possibly Gylfi too. And that presumes we sell Kean for a decent chunk in the first place.
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Well for me we could drop that down to 20 to 26 with one being a bit younger and hopefully costing a bit less. But I appreciate most don't have the patience I do.
 

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