Everton Summer transfers 2021

[Toffeelover]

Doubt it, he has been injured since Christmas.

Coutinho without the injury methinks he would fail here just as much as he has done at Barca, no confidence in him at all.

 

[Simon Buttle]

If it ends up being one out, one in at centre-back, I've been very impressed with Andersen at Fulham.

No chance mate, he has been linked with Utd and City and some of the Euro clubs.

 

[Zatara]

Pape Matar Sarr hype is going into overdrive today...

 

[Simon Buttle]

Coutinho without the injury methinks he would fail here just as much as he has done at Barca, no confidence in him at all.

Agreed, i kinda want us to stay away from the big club rejects tbh.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

Would we have gotten more points this season with Coutinho in the side?

We would have (at very least) had a striker up front when DCL was out injured.

 

[Toffeelover]

Villa do not want to keep Barkley it appears and I do not want him back here in case any one has ideas, Chelsea reject.

 

[riddick]

Scenes when we have James Rodriguez and Coutinho in the side but still play utter dirge football lol

That would be because one of them is crap and the other is James Rodriguez.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I do not want Coutinho

 

[Nymzee]

Villa do not want to keep Barkley it appears and I do not want him back here in case any one has ideas, Chelsea reject.

Why post this then? lol

 

[Toffeelover]

Why post this then? lol

Why not, a bit of news about an EX. Could also ask why respond just put me on ignore.

 

[UptheTofees]

Coutinho?

He has flopped so hard after leaving Bayern. Also, we have Siggy, Gomes, and James. He'd be redundant though more talented than 2 of those guys

 

[TheSecondComing]

Pape Matar Sarr hype is going into overdrive today...

Not seen anything new?

Never seen him play bar a YouTube video but he seems to be everything we don’t have much of and he passes with speed.

 

[TheSecondComing]

Coutinho?

He has flopped so hard after leaving Bayern. Also, we have Siggy, Gomes, and James. He'd be redundant though more talented than 2 of those guys

My only thinking here is he is known to be a top level performer in this league and wouldn’t need to adapt.

It won’t happen and it shouldn’t because of his age but that’s the only reason I see it happening.

 

[mahermi1]

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.

The thing is, others may differ, I did not and do not rate him very highly, he scores two or three great goals a season but is not a great goalscorer. To me he is definitely on the way down, we need on the way up.

 

[catcherintherye]

I agree that you need a balance, which is why I’d be swerving the likes of bissouma. We have got a lot of players who we paid the top end of the market rate for (or more, in some cases) and not a lot of players who cost less than that and would likely improve significantly in value. I don’t dislike the likes of Aarons and bissouma at all, but the idea of paying £70-75m for them just screams of continuing with the same strategy that’s been failing for the past however long. For the purposes of balance I’d really like us to pick up a few players who turn out to be worth considerably more than we paid, instead of maxing out on players who are a slight improvement on what we have but not so good that they push us more further on.

All very fair points. My gut feeling on Bissouma is he can just kick onto another level and be a leading midfielder in the league but of course its all about the fee. Re Aarons, Id be a lot firmer on the fee and certainly wouldnt be paying 30m+ for him.

Id be happy to pay 35-40m for Bissouma myself, but I do understand peoples aversion to doing so.