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John Osters Love Child
Player Valuation: £6m
just can't get excited about this transfer. I remember watching clips of Jo in the Russian league thinking he was the next great Brazilian striker and we all remember how he turned out. happy to be proved wrong though
By god I'm blue
Banned at own request
You would have to hope he would be fit enough to be ready for a subs bench appearance Wednesday? or f actually fit enough we might see 2 up top...how jolly exciting!
Get Omar on FFS!
Bluekahunaburgers
Player Valuation: £2.5m
http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/so...verton-bound-forward-oumar-niasse-718445.html
Everton were on the verge of signing Senegal forward Oumar Niasse for a reported fee of £13.5 million as he arrived on Merseyside for a medical on transfer deadline day.
It’s quite a turnaround for a player who was judged not good enough to play in Norway a few years ago. But who exactly is he? We take a look…
Who is he and what’s his story?
Niasse is a 25-year-old Senegalese forward who’s spent the last couple of seasons at Lokomotiv Moscow. He can play anywhere across the front line and has really stepped his game up a level this year.
For a player brought up in the warmth of Senegal, he seems comfortable in cold weather – he’s played in Norway, albeit briefly, and Russia, so Merseyside shouldn’t hold any fears. Before moving to Europe – initially on loan with Brann in 2012 – he spent four years playing in Senegal. Despite being a relatively late starter, he was a title-winner at his hometown club Ouakam, but he played just a handful of games in Norway (of which more later), and a trial at St Etienne a year later proved unsuccessful. He found a European home at Akhisar Belediyespor in Turkey and from there earned himself a move to Russia.
What style of player is he?
He’s got the pace and skills and he’s a neat finisher, but his biggest asset is his work rate. He’s tenacious on the pitch, is excellent off the ball and is willing to chase down a lost cause. In fact, he’s got exactly the sort of mentality that should go down brilliantly with English football fans.
What’s his form like?
Excellent. He was voted Lokomotiv’s player of the month both in September and December, and his goalscoring record this season is impressive – he’s bagged 12 in 21 games. Everton are certainly getting a player on an upward trajectory – though whether or not that will translate to the Premier League has to be the big question.
Has he always been this good?
He really hasn’t – during a six-month spell with Brann, he struggled to get into the second team, never mind the first. The former sporting director there, Rolf-Magne Walstad, was asked by www.ba.no whether he regretted letting him go and he said: “With hindsight obviously I do, but that wasn’t the situation when we decided to terminate the loan contract…What he delivered at Brann was far from what he showed in Turkey.”
Anything else?
He is, apparently, a fan of referring to himself in the third person – and there aren’t enough players who do that in the Premier League. The more the better, we say.
Everton were on the verge of signing Senegal forward Oumar Niasse for a reported fee of £13.5 million as he arrived on Merseyside for a medical on transfer deadline day.
It’s quite a turnaround for a player who was judged not good enough to play in Norway a few years ago. But who exactly is he? We take a look…
Who is he and what’s his story?
Niasse is a 25-year-old Senegalese forward who’s spent the last couple of seasons at Lokomotiv Moscow. He can play anywhere across the front line and has really stepped his game up a level this year.
For a player brought up in the warmth of Senegal, he seems comfortable in cold weather – he’s played in Norway, albeit briefly, and Russia, so Merseyside shouldn’t hold any fears. Before moving to Europe – initially on loan with Brann in 2012 – he spent four years playing in Senegal. Despite being a relatively late starter, he was a title-winner at his hometown club Ouakam, but he played just a handful of games in Norway (of which more later), and a trial at St Etienne a year later proved unsuccessful. He found a European home at Akhisar Belediyespor in Turkey and from there earned himself a move to Russia.
What style of player is he?
He’s got the pace and skills and he’s a neat finisher, but his biggest asset is his work rate. He’s tenacious on the pitch, is excellent off the ball and is willing to chase down a lost cause. In fact, he’s got exactly the sort of mentality that should go down brilliantly with English football fans.
What’s his form like?
Excellent. He was voted Lokomotiv’s player of the month both in September and December, and his goalscoring record this season is impressive – he’s bagged 12 in 21 games. Everton are certainly getting a player on an upward trajectory – though whether or not that will translate to the Premier League has to be the big question.
Has he always been this good?
He really hasn’t – during a six-month spell with Brann, he struggled to get into the second team, never mind the first. The former sporting director there, Rolf-Magne Walstad, was asked by www.ba.no whether he regretted letting him go and he said: “With hindsight obviously I do, but that wasn’t the situation when we decided to terminate the loan contract…What he delivered at Brann was far from what he showed in Turkey.”
Anything else?
He is, apparently, a fan of referring to himself in the third person – and there aren’t enough players who do that in the Premier League. The more the better, we say.
Ashtonian
Banned on request
Round 4, the mind body and spirit
LAToffee
Player Valuation: £20m
One of the greatest signings in our club's history? Oh wait....
Everyone doubted Funes Mori's transfer and he's turned out wicked so we can only hope this one will be the same. Going from Yarmalenko to a 50-year old Senegalese winger/striker/Kone is a let down but I think we needed a new signing just to freshen the squad up and give the current players a kick up the a**e. Too many of the first XI seem to take their position for granted.
Deggo
Player Valuation: £20m
This concerns me alot
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
And they way the rouble has gone since then the past 2 years mate that 13.5m is worth double the roubles it would have been, they will be making an absolutely massive profit on this bloke, for a Russian club right now is a good time to sell abroad the way the domestic currency is compared against the Euro/Pound
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Has he signed yet?
Can't be Niassed wading through this whole thread!
Can't be Niassed wading through this whole thread!
Medical would have been done ages ago, wonder if his agent has thrown a spanner in the works and asked for a bigger signing on fee?? Ideal time to do it with just a few hours left in the window.
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