Oumar Niasse

[Efcjake]

Pookie's still on board (though I reckon her patience is being sorely tested):

https://twitter.com/mizzyjohn

Actually reading that it sounds like he might be going through an adjustment period to becoming a father...

 

[Eggs]

Niasse will be on the bench at Wembley, even though Martinez will have no intention of giving him any game time, and the sad thing is, his place could be given to one of the young lads who is actually fit enough to play.

....I can't be having it that this bloke isn't fit, he's a full time professional training daily. Unless he's going to play in goal a sore wrist is not an issue.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Just thinking, if we won the fa cup, and Niasse was on the bench in the semi's and the final, but never played, would he get a winners medal?

 

[Efcjake]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-signings-in-the-January-transfer-window.html

I've been looking over the interviews Martinez gave regarding the January window.

Everton manager Roberto Martinez will dip into the transfer market next month to provide cover for striker Arouna Kone and midfielder Darron Gibson, both of whom are out with long-term knee injuries.

Martinez has virtually ruled out Kone's return before the end of the campaign with Gibson also seemingly likely to struggle to be back in the current season.

It leaves Martinez's squad short on numbers and he will strengthen when the transfer window opens.

"We are going to use the window in January to try to help the team because we lost two players for the long term," said the Spaniard.

"Arouna and Darron are two very important players for us so we will try to see if we can identify one or two players that can help the group.

Both of these players he mentions as possibly not being involved for the season played more minutes yesterday than Niasse has since signing.

 

[Eggs]

Just thinking, if we won the fa cup, and Niasse was on the bench in the semi's and the final, but never played, would he get a winners medal?

....anybody on the substitutes bench in the final gets a medal.

 

[TheHumbleEgg]

....anybody on the substitutes bench in the final gets a medal.

OUMAR NIASSE....FA CUP WINNER.

Blimey.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

....anybody on the substitutes bench in the final gets a medal.

So he could actually get an fa cup winners medal for literally doing nothing.

Should give his place to one of the young lads who came on yesterday.

 

[Khalekan]

Just thinking, if we won the fa cup, and Niasse was on the bench in the semi's and the final, but never played, would he get a winners medal?

Yes, I think non playing players in the final get one.

Don't think a bench appearance in the semi would count, though.

 

[Deggo]

Just thinking, if we won the fa cup, and Niasse was on the bench in the semi's and the final, but never played, would he get a winners medal?

Oh yes

 

[Goat]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-signings-in-the-January-transfer-window.html

I've been looking over the interviews Martinez gave regarding the January window.



Both of these players he mentions as possibly not being involved for the season played more minutes yesterday than Niasse has since signing.

You realise they are comments from Jan 2014, right?

 

[Efcjake]

You realise they are comments from Jan 2014, right?

Well I do now. what a dolt.

 

[Eggs]

So he could actually get an fa cup winners medal for literally doing nothing.

Should give his place to one of the young lads who came on yesterday.

....anybody on the bench gets one in any cup final. It's always been that way.

 

[EFCPaul]

Would seriously not shock me if this lad is shipped out in the summer if Martinez does get sacked, honestly. Something about this transfer really doesn't seem right.

We spend £13m on a player who turns up apparently so unfit that he can't even play half an hour in a meaningless game? There are also unsettling rumours floating about that he's absolute gash in training and those at Finch Farm want to send him to train with the U21s?! Didn't believe that personally until yesterday when I noticed that he didn't speak to anyone at all when on the pitch at half time doing his warm up. In the 2nd hall as well Barkley came up to him on the touchline and told him to go back to the bench where he stayed until FT. What is going on FFS?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

....anybody on the bench gets one in any cup final. It's always been that way.

I know, but it just wouldn't seem right for Martinez to have Niasse on the bench in an fa cup final, and the chance of winning a medal, when he is supposedly not fit/ready to even start a league game, or even play any significant part in a league game.

 

[Eggs]

I know, but it just wouldn't seem right for Martinez to have Niasse on the bench in an fa cup final, and the chance of winning a medal, when he is supposedly not fit/ready to even start a league game, or even play any significant part in a league game.

.....let's worry about that if we get the final but he might just come on and score the winner, it's the type of thing that happens in the cup.