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Everton Summer transfers 2021

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billyblue80 said:
Exactly we have nobody else who replicates what Doucoure does box to box. He also showed at Watford he can be more attacking if we had another athletic player in there.
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Yep.

He's not great on the ball but if we push him into higher positions he can be a threat.

No doubt if not for his injury he'd have finished on 4-5 goals for us this season in all comps which is what we want from our midfielders really.

If we can get a powerful, athletic midfielder who has more ability to carry the ball, then we have a really good option for mixing the midfield up whether it includes Doucoure or not.

Then you get in a winger who can stretch teams, which is why I don't agree with the Buendia shot one bit. He's a decent little player but isn't going to be running in behind which is what we need.

As @Zatara has mentioned, I still think the system that gets the best out of what we have going forward is 4-3-3. But we do need players who can make that system work fully.

A powerful midfield three that can become a two and then James ahead in certain situations, with that right winger then slotting to the forward line, would be ideal.

It's why the Gbamin injury is such a big blow. We needed this time at the end of the season to see a template of how it could work, and that might have saved us money. But we can't risk it now, not with his record and not with just a pre-season - which is going to be disrupted by the Euros, Copa America and possibly even the Olympics if Brazil send a team(?).
 
Bluewolf said:
I'll have to disagree with you there. Pace and power are exactly what we need this summer. Apart from the start of the season when we had allan a Doucoure both fit, our midfield has been dominated in pretty much every game we've played. Thats not because of technical skill thats because we're slower then a snail thats been shot in the head.

If you get bailey and arrons down the right and someone like tchouaméni in cm to rotate with Doucoure and allan. Then you'll see a completely different side next season, you'll see a fast attacking side with movement. Imagine what James can do with DCL, richarlison, digne, bailey and arrons all bombing forward.

Players like buendia are good but it would be a player that lacks pace in a side that lacks pace. This summer has to be all about pace and power especially on that right flank.
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I get what you're saying but I wouldn't say it was all about pace and power. James apart (and i'm not sure we can rely on him to be at a decent level of fitness for more than 60% of games, less if we're in Europe) we have absolutely no creativity whatsoever in the side. The level of technical ability in the side is really poor, we need to improve that massively. We do need a bit more pace and power, but it's far from everything we need.
 
Lanolin said:
I get what you're saying but I wouldn't say it was all about pace and power. James apart (and i'm not sure we can rely on him to be at a decent level of fitness for more than 60% of games, less if we're in Europe) we have absolutely no creativity whatsoever in the side. The level of technical ability in the side is really poor, we need to improve that massively. We do need a bit more pace and power, but it's far from everything we need.
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I mean we really need a creative player who also has pace.

It's not about just being lightning quick. It's about being able to carry the ball well.

Bailey probably is the ideal template of the player we truly need for that role. But it's what it'd cost that's prohibitive. Again, goes back to why the Gbamin injury is just crap.

We needed some time to assess him before next season, even being fully aware he'd be rusty, we'd have been able to see how a certain system with that type of player in it could work, and therefore where our priorities needed to be.

As it is we need both - a midfielder and a forward player.

In my mind, the less time James spends dropping into central midfield, the better. We want him in the final third, not our own half.
 
BlueToff said:
I mean we really need a creative player who also has pace.

It's not about just being lightning quick. It's about being able to carry the ball well.

Bailey probably is the ideal template of the player we truly need for that role. But it's what it'd cost that's prohibitive. Again, goes back to why the Gbamin injury is just crap.

We needed some time to assess him before next season, even being fully aware he'd be rusty, we'd have been able to see how a certain system with that type of player in it could work, and therefore where our priorities needed to be.

As it is we need both - a midfielder and a forward player.

In my mind, the less time James spends dropping into central midfield, the better. We want him in the final third, not our own half.
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Yeah I can agree with that. What I mean is, we don't need everyone to be fast. Our problem is we lack pace in a couple of key areas and it causes us a problem. We have no pace out wide to stretch teams, and the centre halves have an issue that means we sit too deep. The two together are a problem because we start off deep and struggle to break out. If we had more pace at the back we could start from higher up the pitch and suddenly the lack of pace elsewhere would be less obvious. If we had more pace out wide we could break faster and again the lack of pace elsewhere would be less obvious. Similarly, if we had people who could actually pass the ball, and be trusted to get it in tight areas then it's really not so much of an issue. We do need more pace, but people have just got a bit obsessed with it and seemingly forgotten that there are other things we need.
 

Lanolin said:
Yeah I can agree with that. What I mean is, we don't need everyone to be fast. Our problem is we lack pace in a couple of key areas and it causes us a problem. We have no pace out wide to stretch teams, and the centre halves have an issue that means we sit too deep. The two together are a problem because we start off deep and struggle to break out. If we had more pace at the back we could start from higher up the pitch and suddenly the lack of pace elsewhere would be less obvious. If we had more pace out wide we could break faster and again the lack of pace elsewhere would be less obvious. Similarly, if we had people who could actually pass the ball, and be trusted to get it in tight areas then it's really not so much of an issue. We do need more pace, but people have just got a bit obsessed with it and seemingly forgotten that there are other things we need.
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Yeah it's not FIFA here where pace is king.

It's about getting the ball forward at pace - something we significantly lack.

Albeit, I think against Spurs we showed that with a solid enough midfield block of Davies and Allan, it gave us the platform from which to build. As you said, because we pressed higher, our lack of pace was less obvious, and we had Holgate and Godfrey in the back three so the pace was there too.

We do have good creative players in James and Gylfi, especially when they link up like they did v Spurs, but they absolutely have to be in the final third. If Gylfi isn't there, he's next to useless, while James just roams too much and we end up with him getting it in the wrong places.
 
Zatara said:
Would we have gotten more points this season with Coutinho in the side?
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I doubt it he would have exploded here are Everton as in been out for 12 months.

Hypothetically yes we would have, am sure his brilliance that isn’t on show enough would have either got us a couple more points.
 

As much as I love Isco or what he used to be we’ve got our luxury player in James and he’s delightful.

We need directness and pace with a constant eye for goal.

We have been starved of it, Geri did it in glimpses, Bolasie was god awful.

Drenthe did it when he could be bothered to do a full weeks training.

Mirallas would do it one every 5 games and make you angry he didn’t do it more often.
 
mahermi1 said:
Coutinho is the past, we need the future, or at least the present.
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Agree but there is that Robinho effect to consider which James is also contributing to. Get a couple of top level household name players even towards the end of their careers (not talking Gascoigne / Ginola ages but an age where high level performances can be expected for a couple of years) and suddenly younger top players in their prime are more attracted to come play for us too.
 

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