Summer Transfer Window 2017

[bluestevon]

It's required, because all bad feeling toward Baines left aside it is a GLARINGLY weak position.

No argument at all from me that we need one mate, and one who has the ability to play right now and the potential to be as good as Baines was at his peak.

If we do end up with 55-60 games this season, no chance on earth Baines can play that amount, and if he did - he'd either break down or his form would go to pot

 

[davek]

Klassen is a player who would be at his best with a target man to play off mate, obvious really looking at the way he plays, gets in the box etc and his interplay is very good, Sandro does have pace, also seems a very good link up player also

Where does this theory come from? I cant recall it happening at Ajax.

 

[davek]

Wouldn't matter. Koeman would only sign them if he knew how to utilise them.

We're building a squad.

Big egos, big problems.

 

[BlueToff]

you have to be on the wind up

Not at all.

You can play with pace without having four players as quick as Sane or Sterling or Mane.

It's about a balance.

We have had loads of quick players in the last four seasons, but they don't - or haven't consistently enough - played with pace (i.e. moved the ball around quickly enough).

Now, I want 'quick' players in as much as the next person, and I still think we'll pull some surprises out of the hat (it's only July), but it's more important that the players we do have know how to move the ball quickly and efficiently, rather than just being speed merchants.

 

[davek]

i agree mate; you know your football, no doubt about that. But, I think you are investing too much currency in cheap rumour and heresay.
I appreciate you (and most GOTers) are excited, but let's just hold our horses eh...

I think at least two will be correct. Unfortunately one will be Rooney...which would have been great a season or so ago but now looks like a panic Kenwright signing.

 

[BlueToff]

I get what you mean, but that's not really true.

You can move the ball as quickly as you want, but if you don't have quick players to get ahead of the ball you end up going nowhere. I think Dave's reservations are valid, I would have no problem with any of those players coming in individually, but the three of them together would look a rather lethargic unit in my opinion. If we were able to keep Lukaku, or bring in a Batshuayi/Dembele type player to replace him and have those three then we would have the sort of attacking options that should be able to cause any defence problems.

Oh, I'm not completely discounting Dave's theory.

I'm just saying, we've had quick players for the last few seasons but our main issue is they hardly ever played with pace.

We may well aim to bring in a 'Lukaku type'. I'm not fully convinced on the Giroud links myself (I'd like him here, but not sure we'll get him).

 

[MrGrumpy]

True, and perfectly adequate for a lower mid-table team.

However hoping for good delivery from a set piece up to the big man up front is not really a strategy for a top 6 team.

Worked for Utd last year

 

[davek]

No argument at all from me that we need one mate, and one who has the ability to play right now and the potential to be as good as Baines was at his peak.

If we do end up with 55-60 games this season, no chance on earth Baines can play that amount, and if he did - he'd either break down or his form would go to pot

I would go for Robertson. I have reservations about his defending, but he's got good forward instincts and in a team like this one being put together we need pace on the flanks.

 

[BlueToff]

Big egos, big problems.

I'm not fully sold on Giroud being nailed on mate.

Nobody I fully trust with Everton info has said it's anything more than interest at this stage.

But on your point, it depends.

I think we've got a manager who knows how to handle those big egos, personally. If he wasn't confident he could, I don't think he'd bring them in.

 

[mightymoyes]

I would go for Robertson. I have reservations about his defending, but he's got good forward instincts and in a team like this one being put together we need pace on the flanks.

honestly Tierney is vastly superior to robertson but nearly every club in the PL would probably go for him if he was available.

 

[a bell maul]

I think at least two will be correct. Unfortunately one will be Rooney...which would have been great a season or so ago but now looks like a panic Kenwright signing.

You might be right mate; all I'm advocating is that we all hold our analytic fire until we're apprised of fact (as opposed to conjecture)

 

[Niapper]

No willian jose...?

 

[Thomasc]

I'm not fully sold on Giroud being nailed on mate.

Nobody I fully trust with Everton info has said it's anything more than interest at this stage.

But on your point, it depends.

I think we've got a manager who knows how to handle those big egos, personally. If he wasn't confident he could, I don't think he'd bring them in.

Totally agree.

The manager has a bigger ego than any of them, rightly so as he has done far more in the game than any of them put together!

Doesn't worry me in the slightest this, the players at Everton know who the boss is.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Not at all.

You can play with pace without having four players as quick as Sane or Sterling or Mane.

It's about a balance.

We have had loads of quick players in the last four seasons, but they don't - or haven't consistently enough - played with pace (i.e. moved the ball around quickly enough).

Now, I want 'quick' players in as much as the next person, and I still think we'll pull some surprises out of the hat (it's only July), but it's more important that the players we do have know how to move the ball quickly and efficiently, rather than just being speed merchants.

True and having fast players is irrelevant when we have 70% of the ball and stoke/Swansea/Newcastle all put 15 men behind the ball for the whole game at Goodison.

Away from home against the big boys we will need pace. Hoping to the lesser teams we act like it's Goodison and control the ball

 

[Dirty Dutch]

Where does this theory come from? I cant recall it happening at Ajax.

Haha then you've never seen him play apart from that EL final.