Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg.

[Nymzee]

Not surprised Saints happy with a £25m bid for a player that leaves for free in a year.

 

[TheBigIguana]

This does feel like another case of the media picking up the bigger number because it is Everton and it actually being add on laden

 

[firefighterblue]

Not arsed about pace in that role. Gareth Barry was incredible at it and moved slower than your average slug.

He's about breaking up play and getting the ball back. That's it. Every team needs one. We've miss Gana like a hole in the head this season for that reason.

I'll be happy if he is the first midfielder and at least 2 more. 1 a creative passer with a good engine and a goal threat and the other a strong athletic box to box midfielder. Don't want much do I

 

[Pabbers]

Fee will be much lower, always is with reporting out fee’s.

 

[firefighterblue]

Very promising that we are moving so quickly. All reports so far have come from Southampton reporters though, could easily be a ploy to get Spurs back in.

Let's hope it's the start of a few new faces quickly brought in.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Not arsed about pace in that role. Gareth Barry was incredible at it and moved slower than your average slug.

He's about breaking up play and getting the ball back. That's it. Every team needs one. We've miss Gana like a hole in the head this season for that reason.

nein mein frandel. Barry was good whilst he had McCarthy and Barkley next to him, two absolute dynamos in 13/14, and he had Coleman and Baines outside of him and Stones/Jags plus Distin behind him. Basically pace and power everywhere. Even the front line of Lukaku Mirallas Deulofeu was rapid. Barry could use his experience to close the small gaps we had effectively. As the team deteriorated though and we replaced those players with slower players Barry started getting stretched, pulled out of position, ran past, and hassled off the ball.

We currently have one of the slowest teams in the league from back to front with the exception of the front two and Walcott when he plays. We can’t add another slow midfielder to the mix as we’ll struggle to get the ball back. We need legs in every position now. It wasn’t a surprise to me we played a bit better the other night as we had Richarlison and Walcott out wide and Sidibe also effectively giving us 4 quick players on the flanks rather than than the usual 1 (Digne).

 

[Tubey]

I'll be happy if he is the first midfielder and at least 2 more. 1 a creative passer with a good engine and a goal threat and the other a strong athletic box to box midfielder. Don't want much do I

Yeah you're basically saying we need to replace Sigurdsson and Davies, and we really, really do.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

I wonder if its a clever ploy by Spurs/Saints - Spurs hike up the price, Everton spend more then Saints sign Kyle Walker-Peters from Spurs who's with them currently on loan.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

I am a sucker for an Everton midfielder with a sleeve tattoo though. Hope he can follow the greats like Cahill and Besic.

Telegraph journo now, but he's making out Spurs still in it

This will drag on into the weekend,then they will stump us on Monday while we're all miserable in work.... oldest story ever told.

 

[Bluepablo]

Don’t know anything about him but he looks okay in the Welcome to Tottenham video on YouTube.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I wonder if its a clever ploy by Spurs/Saints - Spurs hike up the price, Everton spend more then Saints sign Kyle Walker-Peters from Spurs who's with them currently on loan.

That might have been but this afternoon has a lot of reasonably credible people saying it is on.

 

[DaChunk]

Southampton's fans reaction to this is giving me Iwobi vibes....

 

[Tubey]

nein mein frandel. Barry was good whilst he had McCarthy and Barkley next to him, two absolute dynamos in 13/14, and he had Coleman and Baines outside of him and Stones/Jags plus Distin behind him. Basically pace and power everywhere. Even the front line of Lukaku Mirallas Deulofeu was rapid. Barry could use his experience to close the small gaps we had effectively. As the team deteriorated though and we replaced those players with slower players Barry started getting stretched, pulled out of position, ran past, and hassled off the ball.

We currently have one of the slowest teams in the league from back to front with the exception of the front two and Walcott when he plays. We can’t add another slow midfielder to the mix as we’ll struggle to get the ball back. We need legs in every position now. It wasn’t a surprise to me we played a bit better the other night as we had Richarlison and Walcott out wide and Sidibe also effectively giving us 4 quick players on the flanks rather than than the usual 1 (Digne).

Yes but my point is Barry played the same function as Hojbjerg does for Southampton.

Barry had better players alongside him but that just means we need to sign better players to go alongside Hojbjerg. Assuming he's actually decent and, to be honest, I haven't seen anything special about him, but I said this about Gana when we signed him from Villa, so what do I know haha

 

[TheBigIguana]

Southampton's fans reaction to this is giving me Iwobi vibes....

Their captain told them to 'koff when asked to sign a new deal. Of course they are livid.

We can't act like we didn't point out every possible flaw in Rom's game when he did it to us. Barkley too.

 

[H.H.]

I wonder if its a clever ploy by Spurs/Saints - Spurs hike up the price, Everton spend more then Saints sign Kyle Walker-Peters from Spurs who's with them currently on loan.

You have a very devious mind but I like it