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January 2018 transfer window thread.

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We need to pay our great young kids before wee go out and spunk good money buying players who aten’t Any better for their positions

Lookman, Davies, Holgate should be playing every week
 

nsnojosh said:
First priority should be a ball-playing CB. Sick of seeing us just hoofing it forward because our current CBs are so awful on the ball.

Then a young, attacking LB, a composed CM who can dictate play, a pacy, goalscoring winger (Onyekuru) and a striker.
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People can't remember how many times the ball was passed between the center backs and Barry last season for seemingly no progress, before a long ball was used to exploit space. If you are pressed 3-on-2 or 2-on-2 every single game as a central defender you will hoof the ball up at the earliest opportunity.

Just play Gylfi in front of the defense and kill many birds in one stone.0

Tree13 said:
LOL at the state of this. Does "Nil Satis Nisi Optimum" mean anything to you?

The ONLY good thing about Cleverley was that he came on a free - it meant that when he failed and was shipped out, we'd make a profit. Lo and behold, exactly that happened.

Mori, when he was fit, was maligned by all and sundry for being an accident waiting to happen. Granted he'd probably be selected ahead of Jags and Williams if he was fit at the moment, but being better than rubbish doesn't make you great. It seems that with a portion of our fanbase, the longer the player is absent from the squad the better they become.

Lennon and everyone else who played in Martinez's two latter seasons helped us avoid relegation in as much as they appeared on the pitch and we didn't get relegated.... but make no mistake: Lukaku kept us up for two seasons straight. Without him, we would have gone. Lennon made no more or less contribution than Cleverley, Del or Aiden wage-thief McGeady. Naismith was better than all of them.

Macca, along with Barry, was very good in Martinez's first season. So was Coleman, so was Baines, so was Distin, so was Barkley and Lukaku... spotted the pattern yet? And that was one season, four seasons ago. One good season in five years isn't what I'd call a good transfer - it's marginally better than Darron Gibson.

Barry I will give you. But then again, I don't think anyone has questioned Barry, have they?

Holgate has promise, but has not yet fulfilled it. Del had moments of greatness the first time around but was anonymous the second time.

Lukaku, as pointed out by other posters, was by far and away the best signing of that manager's tenure. The majority of the rest were mediocre to appalling and I'm sorry but Alcaraz and McGeady would make an all-time worst Everton XI with ease.
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Optimum means not too much nor not little. Given the resources we had, most of Martinez's buys fit the bill - Even Alcaraz provided valuable cover for 2 central-defender-thin years, and without him we might need to play Barry at central defense. McGeady was not as bad as people said - he might be a bit one dimensional, but if you demand a proper winger (that are fielded with stronger foot outside and don't cut in on every run) that is how one dimensional they are in today's game. And its a travesty to call McCarthy a flop as it overlooks the defensive work he does. he only real deadwood he brought in was Kone, and arguably Niasse for being massively overpriced.
 
Michael Tsui said:
People can't remember how many times the ball was passed between the center backs and Barry last season for seemingly no progress, before a long ball was used to exploit space. If you are pressed 3-on-2 or 2-on-2 every single game as a central defender you will hoof the ball up at the earliest opportunity.

Just play Gylfi in front of the defense and kill many birds in one stone.0



Optimum means not too much nor not little. Given the resources we had, most of Martinez's buys fit the bill - Even Alcaraz provided valuable cover for 2 central-defender-thin years, and without him we might need to play Barry at central defense. McGeady was not as bad as people said - he might be a bit one dimensional, but if you demand a proper winger (that are fielded with stronger foot outside and don't cut in on every run) that is how one dimensional they are in today's game. And its a travesty to call McCarthy a flop as it overlooks the defensive work he does. he only real deadwood he brought in was Kone, and arguably Niasse for being massively overpriced.
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Not in the motto - it means the "best" in latin
 

Michael Tsui said:
Optimum means not too much nor not little.
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Oh you scallywag. Try again, but with less WUMming. Big clue: the motto is in Latin, and requires translation in full.

Michael Tsui said:
Given the resources we had, most of Martinez's buys fit the bill -
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This should be an interesting peek into mild craziness. Continue, Michael.

Michael Tsui said:
Even Alcaraz provided valuable cover for 2 central-defender-thin years, and without him we might need to play Barry at central defense.
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And in retrospect, we would have been better to play Barry in central defence in every single game that Alcaraz got onto the pitch, because Alcaraz absolutely sucked immense hairy spheres. Name three games where he wasn't abysmally substandard. I'll wait.

Michael Tsui said:
McGeady was not as bad as people said - he might be a bit one dimensional, but if you demand a proper winger (that are fielded with stronger foot outside and don't cut in on every run) that is how one dimensional they are in today's game.
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So you confirm that wage-thief McGeady was one-dimensional, but somehow this is a good thing? His record with us proves that regardless of how many dimensions he had to his game, he was grossly unproductive. He was every bit as bad as people said - including the people in the championship, to where he was loaned out when his Everton career flickered into nothingness and was mercifully culled.

Michael Tsui said:
And its a travesty to call McCarthy a flop as it overlooks the defensive work he does. The only real deadwood he brought in was Kone, and arguably Niasse for being massively overpriced.
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I didn't call McCarthy a flop. I said that overall, given the extraordinary amount of games he's missed due to injury weighed against his one good season of consistent, effective play, I would regard him as a mediocre transfer. To compare to the two players you mention, McCarthy was a far better transfer than Kone and is CURRENTLY a better transfer than Niasse... but Niasse is starting to show a glimmer of usefulness and Macca is done here.

Being better than Kone does not make you great. It just means you aren't an absolute fraud masquerading as a footballer, stealing a wage whilst commuting between the physio room and camel riding lessons.

But we are off-topic and you, Michael, appear to be smoking obscene amounts of crack.
 

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