….Vernon on 94%, Royle 73% (I think he missed against Monchengladbach) but some very decent records in there;
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….Vernon on 94%, Royle 73% (I think he missed against Monchengladbach) but some very decent records in there;
Preki
Player Valuation: £15m
Wow Lawton 8/8.
The thing with Lookman, is that in the four years since he left us, he’s been at Red Bull, Fulham and Leicester and none of them wanted him either, so it wasn’t just us.
Red Bull are famed for developing young players and even they couldn’t get a tune out of him.
Maybe he’s finally matured, maybe he’s finally feels settled at a club, regardless, we made a nice profit on him and he wanted to go too.
Lookman isn’t a player that I look back on with rose tinted glasses.
JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £70m
Aye there’s plenty players we have messed about but he’s not one of them. Was wanting away almost immediately after arriving.
I watched Stephen Duke-McKenna playing for Harrogate on ITV X yesterday. He never made it out of the u18s with us , but did appear on the bench at that dead -rubber European game against Limassol many years ago . He's 24 now, hasn’t changed much, small , buzzes about a bit, not really that effective but seems to have found his level and is getting paid for playing football so not too bad.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
I liked Marco Silva generally but could never fathom why he never gave Lookman more minutes in the season he got sacked. Walcott was a guaranteed starter in that season but was consistently playing like that Ali Dia fella who played that game for Southampton. Lookman would get 5-10 minute cameos off the bench and look miles better than him. But like others have said maybe his behaviour wasn't right. I think Silva mentioned once that he didn't train very well. I can't help but think though that if the club wasn't run like a circus we might have been able to manage Lookman better and get more out of him.
JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £70m
Seem to remember the games he ended up starting he was a let down. No one was particularly upset when he left.
I liked Silva and thought he was unlucky with transfers and pickfords errors etc, however, I thought he was poor with both Lookman and Vlasic in his handling. Would have liked both to stay and developed, no guarantees they would have done of course. If you look at young players over the last few years most have played their best football away from Everton
Blast_of_Cannock
Player Valuation: £10m
Was he making crank phone-calls to Vlasic? Koeman signed him after he played against us one of the few times we got in Europe.
JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £70m
I dunno, it’s hard to know how people are behind the scenes and in training. Never got the impression either particularly wanted to be here tbh.
Lookman was clearly a talent but was the wrong place and time for all parties. Only now is he reaching his potential after several years and clubs in between.
We bought Vlasic when we had about 4/5 players in the same position. Was a signing when they saw a talented player but had no plan to integrate them into the team. Don’t think Silva can be blamed for that.
Absolutely, we have no clue what goes on in the training ground or in the changies. As an outsider looking in it didn't look like he got it right, but obviously there could be mitigation there. As said I liked Silva and thought he had some rotten luck at the club, I think if Zaha comes in it could have been transformational.
Was it not Silva who let Vlasic go? I could be wrong on that, but remember thinking at the time he was hesitant with young talent.
Blast_of_Cannock
Player Valuation: £10m
You might be right, I can't be arsed to Google it
