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2018/19 Idrissa Gueye

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Ive heard Gana is the only player in world football who knows how to close down.
I'm sure someone else will run around loads without being able to trap a bag of sand, it's a unique skill set which loss will lead us to conceding 5 more a game apparently but we will just have to cope with being relegation certs without verattis new drinks holder
 
I'm sure someone else will run around loads without being able to trap a bag of sand, it's a unique skill set which loss will lead us to conceding 5 more a game apparently but we will just have to cope with being relegation certs without verattis new drinks holder

As you said, Delph is by far a better player and will prove it on a weekly basis.
 
An issue for me is we will have sold as many key players in 3 years under Moshiri than we did in about 15 years under Kenwrong:

Rooney
Lescott
Arteta
Felliani

Vs

Lukaku
Stones
Barkley
Gana?

At some point we cant keep selling our best players- by all means if a club comes in and offers daft Maguire or Coutinho money then assess the situation - but £30-35 million for one of imo Europe's best defensive midfielders is nothing in this current market regardless of him turning 30 soon.

Absolutely criminal if we sell him.
We're a selling club and always will be until we cement ourselves consistently in the European bracket, Why yes that is contradiction "Well how can we get Europe if we sell our best players?" We "usually" sell our best players to the absolute elite clubs who can offer titles and European football where Everton have no leverage.
 

The attitude to him leaving is the same as when Rom left just instead of spreading the goals around the team we are going to spread the tackles and interceptions around. It doesn't always work like that as I think we know.
 
We're a selling club and always will be until we cement ourselves consistently in the European bracket, Why yes that is contradiction "Well how can we get Europe if we sell our best players?" We "usually" sell our best players to the absolute elite clubs who can offer titles and European football where Everton have no leverage.

But its the rate in which we do it thats a concern since Moshiri came in - maybe Moyes played a part in a reluctance to sell however the fact remains we'll have sold atleast one of our better starting 11 players in each season under Moshiri's ownership.

As I said I dont have a problem selling if its going to benefit the squad i.e getting massive money to reinvest in 3-4 other positions however the move for Gana isnt going to allow us to do that likewise there are not many like for like replacements out there who we could attract/afford.

Ndidi is as close as we could get imo and Leicester aint selling him to us.
 
But its the rate in which we do it thats a concern since Moshiri came in - maybe Moyes played a part in a reluctance to sell however the fact remains we'll have sold atleast one of our better starting 11 players in each season under Moshiri's ownership.

As I said I dont have a problem selling if its going to benefit the squad i.e getting massive money to reinvest in 3-4 other positions however the move for Gana isnt going to allow us to do that likewise there are not many like for like replacements out there who we could attract/afford.

Ndidi is as close as we could get imo and Leicester aint selling him to us.
This is the problem, You're panicking because you can't think of a replacement when there is hundreds out there you've never heard of and you're only thinking of the ones we can't afford.
I'm not saying Gueye's replacement would be an exact replica because he won't but he might offer something different to Gueye while also being a ball winning midfielder that pushes us forward.
Because we sign good players and elite teams want our players, It doesn't matter if Moshiri is at the club or Bill Gates is if we can't offer good players titles/european football.
 

I think we are going to have to accept churn as a feature of our business model. Gueye this season, probably Richarlison next.

The only issues are if the proceeds are not reinvested, or are spent badly.

With competent people on board, and let's hope that Brands proves himself in this regard, we can actually emerge the stronger for it both short and long term.

Folk will rightly worry if Gueye leaves and we are waiting on a move from the club, but we can only properly assess the window in its entirety and thats when it shuts.
 
The attitude to him leaving is the same as when Rom left just instead of spreading the goals around the team we are going to spread the tackles and interceptions around. It doesn't always work like that as I think we know.

Or we just buy another defensive midfielder who is actually good on the ball, keep possession better meaning we have less defending to do, actually have a settled defence, and have a settled forward line who know how to press like Silva wants and maybe we can defend as a team rather than what we used to do which was 9 outfield players putting in zero effort and Gueye running around throwing tackles about half of which resulted from his own miscontrol or bad pass.
 

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