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Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
Did pretty well last night, I still like him.
It was a bit of a mystery at first as to why he was in the holding role, for what seemed like a few minutes, in the first half though. For a moment I assumed he'd swopped bodies with Gareth Barry.
Maybe he had.
It was a bit of a mystery at first as to why he was in the holding role, for what seemed like a few minutes, in the first half though. For a moment I assumed he'd swopped bodies with Gareth Barry.
Maybe he had.
meagher94
Player Valuation: £35m
Because we've been winning without them perhaps?
I've never seen Mirallas as particularly creative - or not in the traditional sense anyway.
He's a player who is very effective in the final third, whether that is scoring the goals or assisting, but rarely does he create those chances if you get me. As in last night, he was the player who got on the end of Barkley's initial creative drive/pass, to square it to Lennon.
It's creative I suppose, but not in the sense of a true 'playmaker'.
TrixyStevens
Player Valuation: £35m
To cut a long story short, he's not consistent enough.
Why do people keep repeating that line? It's simply false.
Since joining us in August 2012 Kevin Mirallas has recorded:
More assists (26) than anyone in the squad apart from Baines (27);
More goals (32) than anyone in the squad apart from Lukaku (58);
Minutes played by each of those players since Mirallas arrived in August 2012:
Baines: 11,236
Lukaku: 9506
Mirallas: 7656 (roughly 20 full games fewer than Rom, and 40 full games fewer than Baines)
Since August 2012, Barkley (for comparison) has scored 21, made 15 assists and played 8434 minutes in all competitions.
Mirallas is STATISTICALLY ahead of Baines in terms of ratio of assists to minutes spent on the pitch. He's also ahead of Lukaku and Barkley in that regard, over the last four seasons. Lukaku is way ahead in terms of scoring ratio, but Mirallas is second in that measure and comfortably ahead of everyone else in the squad.
"Inconsistent" is not an accusation that any rational person can throw at Mirallas.
Kiwi
Say NO to Ginger Managers
On a game to game basis Kev has been quite inconsistent, at least in my eyes anyway. He's hit a patch or two of good form but otherwise would go from being brilliant one game to completely anonymous the next.
Maybe something to do with being denied a run of games?
Even if your accusation is accurate, he's STILL producing the goods in terms of goals and assists. I'll take a chap who averages 8 goals and six assists from roughly 21 games a season. In fact, I'd give a chap like that more game time. Imagine if he was allowed to play 10 more games a season... stats suggest he'd be good for 12 goals and 9 assists every year.
eternal_defiance
Player Valuation: £8m
I think Mirallas has suffered from being played and tried in different positions. He would be best up front in and out and out 2 but we don't play like that so he is only in the team for long if he keeps playing extremely, extremely well.
Westend Blue
Player Valuation: £15m
Cut back to Lennon was inch perfect
Kev's last league assist prior to yesterdays game was Hull, Dec 2014.
He'd only had two other assists in all other comps - Norwich in October and West Ham Jan 2015 when he had a simply superb game overall despite having an ankle injury. Can't really be explained by lack of game time either - he had 7 goals in the same timeframe.
During Martinez's first season Kev had an excellent link up with Rom, his 11 assists (9 in the league), along with his 8 goals, played a large part in our success that year. Perhaps the apparent fall out with Martinez after the penalty incident made him selfish in his more restricted game time or it is just a quirk of the stats but in the last year he didn't appear to be adding as much to the team as he did that first season other than his goals - although those shouldn't be discounted as his record for a winger is very good.
Kev is a superbly talented footballer in the prime of his life capable of being excellent in all facets of his position - scoring/ assisting/setpieces/tracking back and when on form manages to do all of that whilst looking incredibly sexy to boot. With his talents he should be the first choice for both his club and his country and the fact he isn't I doubt is due entirely to the managers.
Personally I find him one of the most frustrating players to have ever played for us - I don't know whether to serenade him with his song or kick him up the arse, perhaps both at the same time.
One of the encouraging things about his display vs Villa was not only his willingness to press and track back, which he can be a touch erratic at, but that he was clearly looking to assist others as well as score himself - as WestEnd blue mentioned that cutback to Lennon was great and hard to do at speed.
Over rates Mirallas CHECK.
Calls players by cringey nicknames CHECK.
Wants Martinez out CHECK.
I reckon you either have or aspire a sleeve tattoo, are under 30 years old and post selfies all the time.
You bad cock knocker. You repulse me.
Some people just dont understand soccer as well as you mate
TrixyStevens
Player Valuation: £35m
I was just abbreviating what I thought BlueToff wanted to say in his post.
I love Mirallas, he's one of our best attacking outlets and in 1 v 1s, there isn't much better than him at Everton.
Would love to see him on the left and Deulofeu on the right just once this season.
Completely agree.
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