Ramiro Funes Mori

[AaronTheBlue]

He (vickery) keeps offering his Boseli verdict to demonstrate he knows what he's talking about. Completely different players.

he wont mention other players he's banged on about though

rafael, paulinho, lad who was cm at wigan

literally not arsed what he has to say

 

[AaronTheBlue]

actually one person whose opinion i wouldn't want more than vickerys is tony scotts from the echo, just him though.

 

[obc]

glad to see River Plate fans here. gonna be in BA again in December. I'll be the gringo in the Royal Blue at Antares. Say "ihola, vamos Everton!" and your next pint is on me.

 

[Jags..class]

Who is this Vickery, on the BBC writing him off totally.

 

[tadpole]

It's a risky signing, very risky, it started at 4m, then 6, then finished up at 9.5m.

What else would you call him while he's sat on the bench while Jags and Stones are playing week in week out.

I'd call him an exciting signing. Look, the fee should have been £6m. This was a monumental screwup by the club, an unbelievable screwup even by Everton's standards, where it seems we failed to read the small print and ended up paying an extra 50% which we hadn't reckoned on a few days ago. File that under 'Board'. Just think of him as a £6m signing, if that helps.

 

[EFCPaul]

Who is this Vickery, on the BBC writing him off totally.

BBC's South American football expert and he's often right in what he says and has no agenda. Hope he's wrong in this case though, he's saying Funes Mori and Rodriguez won't cut it in this league because the leagues they've come from are extremely crap.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Hell yes...have a feeling this fella will be loved here too like he was in river plate

 

[neil999]

also boselli was one player, look how many mistakes ferguson made with transfers...boselli is magnified cos it was wigans big signing

 

[Jags..class]

BBC's South American football expert and he's often right in what he says and has no agenda. Hope he's wrong in this case though, he's saying Funes Mori and Rodriguez won't cut it in this league because the leagues they've come from are extremely crap.

Sometimes players can make the step up, is he usually spot on? But at the end of the day it was a massive risk and I would have took the easy option and signed johnny Evans.

 

[neil999]

vickery on paulinho

Paulinho
I think he's made to measure for English football. It was always a surprise to me that English clubs didn't seem to be tracking him earlier, although Tottenham are now saying they'd been watching him for some time. He's a central midfielder, physically strong with a lovely engine. But he's got that gift of bursting into the penalty area in a way that's been part of English football ever since we invented 4-4-2, whether it is Martin Peters, Bryan Robson or David Platt.

More recently it's been Frank Lampard and the Lampard comparison is an interesting one. It's one that Juan Roman Riquelme, the great Argentine playmaker, made recently about Paulinho. He said that he's a tropical Lampard and one area in which he's perhaps even better than Lampard is in the air. He scored for Brazil in the Confederations Cup with headers and almost his first touch for Tottenham against Espanyol was a header wrongly ruled out for offside.

I think he's an excellent total package there in the midfield and should make a really good Brazilian combination with Sandro - Sandro to hold and Paulinho to bomb.

 

[GlosBlue]

If they have the drive and desire to learn and improve, I don't see why they can't make it? I think he is making these calls purely based on the fact the leagues are poor.

 

[la saeta rubia]

Vickery knows a bit about Brasilian football but nothing about Argentina. Before the World cup he was proclaiming Alvarez Balanta the best South American defender since Passarella and is obviously miffed that Marcelo Gallardo dropped him a year ago for Funes Morí.His record on South American players coming to Europe isn't good he famously raved about Brasilian defender Rafael Scheidt before he joined Celtic and Paolinho before he joined Spurs.The only worry I think about Funes Morí a proven winner is he is too much of a footballer and could get caught out early on.

 

[Jags..class]

Paulinho
I think he's made to measure for English football. It was always a surprise to me that English clubs didn't seem to be tracking him earlier, although Tottenham are now saying they'd been watching him for some time. He's a central midfielder, physically strong with a lovely engine. But he's got that gift of bursting into the penalty area in a way that's been part of English football ever since we invented 4-4-2, whether it is Martin Peters, Bryan Robson or David Platt.

More recently it's been Frank Lampard and the Lampard comparison is an interesting one. It's one that Juan Roman Riquelme, the great Argentine playmaker, made recently about Paulinho. He said that he's a tropical Lampard and one area in which he's perhaps even better than Lampard is in the air. He scored for Brazil in the Confederations Cup with headers and almost his first touch for Tottenham against Espanyol was a header wrongly ruled out for offside.

I think he's an excellent total package there in the midfield and should make a really good Brazilian combination with Sandro - Sandro to hold and Paulinho to bomb.

Is this Vickery on paulinho

 

[neil999]

Is this Vickery on paulinho

yes

 

[Librarian]

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2015/09/01/mori-could-be-like-passarella

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