As I said to Big Oil in another thread, we have 4 "right-backs" in the squad, if 1 leaves, we still have 3, we need to see some Outs!
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TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Who spent money on Bernard?
Iwobi's been a flop, what I dispute is that it is because he's lazy or doesn't care or anything attitude related and honestly that it is entirely down to him being terrible, although he's not the greatest player ever obviously, when we've never really given him anything to help him succeed. I mean he comes in having played as a LW or #10 and we move him to the right after never really giving him a run in either of those positions and on top of that we've never been a team that does well with players who thrive in passing well linked together teams. James is similar and he's struggling here at times just as an illustration.
Like Kean I think Iwobi is to an extent a victim of circumstance as much as just not being good. The price is questionable on both though as you can't spend big on someone who is a questionable fit.
This is my issue. I don't see why Kenny couldn't have been sold. Why's it constant loans.
In this example, Kenny really isn't that bad. He's just not really cut out for how we want our full-backs to play, but that's been clear for a long while.
It's one example, but it's one that's costing us.
Brands wants 2 players for every position. Well, we've not actually got that at right-back right now. Godfrey and Holgate aren't going to be seen as right-backs, they can just do a job, so neither one of them needs to leave for us to go and get a right-back. The player that does is Kenny - I feel that the decision on him really should have been made over the course of the loan at Schalke. They've had long enough.
Anyway, overall happy he's staying, but if he'd left, I wouldn't have been arsed either. Kind of sums up where I am with him.
Kenny is on loan cos nobody wanted to spend money on him.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Much like Lookman there are still things I've seen that suggest to me he could be good if used differently. So until then, or he's 32 and still hasn't gotten that chance, I'm going to believe he could do it still.
I mean it has worked with Lookman, I told Nymz I wouldn't say it in the match thread and I didn't, but Ademola was better than any of our attackers last week and it wasn't even one of his better games. I love Everton, but it is totally fair to say we don't always get the most out of players.
Lookman has far from "made it" yet.
His talent was never an issue, lets see if his very suspect attitude gets him through the next few years and he finds himself performing somewhere decent.
I thought he was utter garbo against us.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
This doesn't make what I said untrue.
And I'm not even saying he's made it, but the people swearing we got it right with him are imo being stubborn at this point because our attack is pretty hideous and could use both depth and variety. We signed Josh King FFS.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He's stabilised us in midtable.
Michael Dunfiord would have done that for us for about £80k per annum...and he wouldn't have worn skinny leg kecks with his knees hanging out of them either.
Well, Burnley did. They just couldn't go to what we wanted. Which is fair enough. But then, not sure if we're gonna get any more for the lad in 5 months' time when he only has a year left on his deal.
I dunno, I still feel we made the right decision selling him, especially for a profit.
6 Managers have punted him from not just the first 11, but squads.
I dont see us holding out for more money.
If they offered us cash, we would have taken it.
Burnley were in for him. Don't know exact numbers. We just couldn't agree a price.
I don't know if that's us holding out for too much or them being skint, though.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
The fact that we're going back to the same arguments after having seen him play at a solid PL level is sort of exactly my point.
The Iwobi is garbo folks won't change just as the Lookman is garbo folks won't just as the Kean is garbo folks won't just as the Davies ones won't. Even people are saying DCL is bad still.
I'm guilty of it to an extent but I can also admit for example that there was a point where I was actively mad that we weren't using Kean and DCL was getting all the minutes, which was wrong.
Iwobi still has value, as does Bernard who was a free transfer. The other lot were literally un sellable.(Bolasie, Besic, Niasse, Schniderlin, Tosun, Walcott).
He also has made some great purchases, Digne, Richarlison, Godfrey Alan, Rodrigues, and made the decision to stick with DCL and Holgate and Davies.
We are also stopping giving youngsters crazy contracts.
An£ have been more ruthless in moving them on.
Branthwaite and Nkounkou look promising, as do Gordon, Simms.
The number of players is gradually reducing and in my view the squad is improving, but with some obvious areas to strengthen.
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