Everton Transfer Thread - Summer 2020

[blueblue]

Could not care less about what makes Sigurdsson happy when it comes to football.

All players are expensive assets of the club.
We want everybody, fit, well and happy.
Players move from club to club all the time and we want them in the best condition and frame of mind to play or to earn us money in a transfer.

 

[jamieni]

He’s a SKY journo so who knows how accurate.

 

[LocalNative]

He’s a SKY journo so who knows how accurate.

Be interesting to see which position we see him in. Can play RB, CM or RW so an interesting option. A loan deal would be ideal to replace Sidibe if Arias isn't a goer.

 

[SuperKev91]

The new lad supposedly impressing in training, may not need a back up LB.

 

[Bullens Rd]

It's just banter.

That's the real quiz. I bet Lucas Digne could throw the ball further than you.

 

[Arteta10]

He’s a SKY journo so who knows how accurate.

Rome contacting us as opposed to vice versa seems a bit weird tho?

Maybe a bad translation

 

[Lelouch]

I suppose my point is more that it should be possible to identify players who you're confident will perform straight away. Obviously you can't guarantee it, but that's the same regardless of age. I was saying this yesterday; it's not asking the club to perform miracles, signing players that nobody has ever heard of for peanuts, just identifying good talent who they think are up to the task. Richarlison is an example of Brands doing it, a good young player with the potential to get much better, but who also has an impact in the short term. We've done it before with players from Lukaku to Fellaini to Cahill. Other clubs have done it better than we have over the last few years though, and it's an area I think we really need to improve on if we're going to push past that 7th/8th bracket.

For me the issue with Kean was just that right away he didn't look ready to play up front on his own in the PL. His game was quite simply not suited to what we were trying to do. It's nothing to do with coming to a new country etc (although i'm not saying that isn't an issue aswell), that was a footballing issue that we really should have been able to identify before he signed.

Yeah I mean that's fair, I think since Moyes we've looked really uncreative in our transfer purchases and gone for shiny names instead of what actually benefits the team or might provide useful for us now or in the future with no planning involved we'll just shove x y z and hope it works with regards to Kean I think Brands felt it was an opportunity too good to pass up, I know I'm being hypocritical a couple of sentences earlier but Kean had a lot of hype, Golden Boy scoring in the CL with Juve etc so Brands just really wanted him regardless of currently what we or Silva needed and he just want to land a special talent and hope it pays off for us or money wise by selling him for a larger fee than we paid.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Rome contacting us as opposed to vice versa seems a bit weird tho?

Maybe a bad translation

Brands is so good that clubs come to us in the window.

 

[Cary Hattrick]

Sean Lunt (@Sean_Lunt) Tweeted:
There's likely to be plenty of great transfer rumours this summer but nobody, absolutely nobody, is topping the suggesting that Barcelona will target Michael Keane to replace Gerard Pique.

 

[Hogwild]

Sean Lunt (@Sean_Lunt) Tweeted:
There's likely to be plenty of great transfer rumours this summer but nobody, absolutely nobody, is topping the suggesting that Barcelona will target Michael Keane to replace Gerard Pique.

I’m not sure that even Chico could have come up with this one.

Still, someone tell Koeman a smooth 50m gets it done

 

[MikeH72]

Sign.

 

[Timhowardsswearbox]

That's the real quiz. I bet Lucas Digne could throw the ball further than you.

That's where we have been going wrong all these years. After 38 PL games and we are sat mid-table, we just send Pickford out to throw a kettle over a pub and claim the real PL title!

 

[willjo]

Sign.

Didn't siggy do that in a europa league qualifier when he 1st joined? Look how that turned out.....

 

[Bainesy's Left Peg]

fingers crossed eh! I think I probably should of been more specific. My mind was set on a midfielder. Either a tricky, speed demon of a winger, a Gueye type player, or a Payet.

Magaye?

 

[mightymoyes]

Sean Lunt (@Sean_Lunt) Tweeted:
There's likely to be plenty of great transfer rumours this summer but nobody, absolutely nobody, is topping the suggesting that Barcelona will target Michael Keane to replace Gerard Pique.