We will get another keeper, just a question on whether it is going to be 1st 2nd or 3rd choice as Koeman has stated he likes to work with three senior keepers. Need at least one new centre half and I would say really we need two. I like what I have seen from Tilemens and although we look overloaded in midfield if we could get him for the right price I would be happy with that. If Sunderland go down I think Defoe would be great to partner/interchange with Lukaku as a season long stop gap. I also wouldnt mind us going back in for Lucas Perez as whenever I have seen him play for Arsenal think he has looked useful. We have missed the boat with Dembele and think he is going to move to a Chelsea type of club and probably waste 2 seasons of his career as 2nd or 3rd choice before moving on again. With McGeady and Lennon surely going to be leaving in the summer and Bolasie goosed we will need another winger. Would love to see us go out and get a Perisic.
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larrygobfiend
Player Valuation: £40m
He's 29 mate. He's got his best years ahead of him and bags of experience. They should go all out to get him.
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Why does everyone rate Hart so highly? Is it because he's English?
Seems to be some fantasy surrounding Hart after the odd quality performance against Barca etc. but he's been wildly inconsistent for a few years and he's been very average in Serie A this season. There are better and cheaper out there.
Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
I always used to rate him myself, but after the last 3 or 4 seasons i dont seem to rate him as much, wether that is because he still hasent ironed out flaws in his game he had when he was slightly younger or maybe now that there are better keepers around
Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
Is that not big Morgan?
whiteshadow
Player Valuation: £25m
We've got the 4th best defence in the league, despite playing players like Mori often and a young CB who is still learning and yet some people want us to spend loads of money on a keeper when Robles has been playing great, making saves all over the shop and commanding his area.
Robles has been amazing this season. If he carries on playing at the same level or anything close to it we don't need to replace him. I'd put money on it if we'd bought Robles from a team where he was first choice and had a good reputation people wouldn't be wanting him replaced like some do at the moment. Because many have preconceived ideas on his level of ability they don't seem to judge him on how he's actually playing, instead just looking to back up their original perception of him.
Why would we spend loads of money on a new keeper when our defence has been really strong this season. It doesn't make any sense when we could use it in attacking areas which is where we lack the quality to score enough to break the top 4.
Robles has been amazing this season. If he carries on playing at the same level or anything close to it we don't need to replace him. I'd put money on it if we'd bought Robles from a team where he was first choice and had a good reputation people wouldn't be wanting him replaced like some do at the moment. Because many have preconceived ideas on his level of ability they don't seem to judge him on how he's actually playing, instead just looking to back up their original perception of him.
Why would we spend loads of money on a new keeper when our defence has been really strong this season. It doesn't make any sense when we could use it in attacking areas which is where we lack the quality to score enough to break the top 4.
Ashtonian
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This is what i meant about settling at 30. Goalkeepers tend to do it, not all of them but a lot of them have their style and ability and just settle and see out their years from this point on following the same style. If they are still fantastic at it then they stay at the top level, but if the style is limited then they drop down and find a new level.
MasonLeeEFC
Player Valuation: £8m
You do realise Koeman plays a 3 at the back system when it suits? In the early part of the season he was experimenting due to the options he had at his disposal and then went with those systems vs the likes of Chelsea to match them up but with no joy and against City for similar reasons and to be more solid at the back but we played that well that day he felt he had to stick with those players and that system but a lately he's referred back to his favoured 4-3-3 formation which we will no doubt use more often than not.
But even so, we still need a striker. We need someone to come in and push Lukaku, keep him on his toes, help to improve him, to give competition and to also partner him sometimes. But cos Koeman wants to play 4-3-3, we need a wide right option, a wide forward. Atm were playing Barkley there but where he isn't a natural wide player or striker, he wants to drift inside and into the centre of the park to get on the ball which in turn leaves Lukaku isolated at times so we need someone out on the right to give us the width, the quality and to link up with Lukaku and to help make us function better in an attacking sense in the final third.
MasonLeeEFC
Player Valuation: £8m
Like your thinking here. We definitely need a CB for the first team and I agree, we could do with another to really push the 2 starting CB's. If a GK that's much better than Joel is available come the summer and getable, then I think we should go for it. And like you say, we do seem overloaded in CM but imo we do lack a CM that's more inclined to attack, get goals and create and Tielemans seems to be flourishing into that kind of midfielder these days yet he can put himself about and is a great passer of the ball. Now he'd be a great option and a reasonable price I'd imagine, more so than Sigurdsson probably who I'd really like us to go for!
Not sure I'd go for Defoe though?! Will get goals but will be 35-36 come next season! But we do need a CF to come in to give competition and push Rom, but also be able to come in and do a job. I agree that Lucas Perez could be worth looking at again. Not got the game time he's wanted at Arsenal but when he has played he seems to do well and get goals and in Koeman's preferred 4-3-3 formation he would be a great fit on the right as a wide forward cutting in, linking with Lukaku and chipping in with goals! He was brilliant playing from there for Deportivo which led to Steve Walsh recommending to Koeman in the first place. Think at this point though, Perisic is a bit ambitious! Maybe that Cafu we've been scouting of late could be an alternative out wide at a decent price?
MasonLeeEFC
Player Valuation: £8m
The lad is pure class. Unfortunately at this point we would have no chance trying to sign him....
Bullet
Player Valuation: £10m
Being linked with Oxlade-Chamberlain.
"Everton are ready to rival Manchester City’s interest in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain this summer.
Ronald Koeman is among the 23-year-old’s admirers. The former Southampton star will have just a year remaining on his Arsenal contract in the summer.
City are already leading the chase for Oxlade-Chamberlain’s services. Pep Guardiola was impressed by the playmaker’s display in the Champions League against his Bayern Munich team two-and-a-half years ago.
But Koeman will have a war chest with which to continue his bid to overhaul of the Everton squad during the close season.
In October Oxlade-Chamberlain, who is a not a regular starter under Arsene Wenger, revealed he is set to consider his options at the end of the current campaign."
"Everton are ready to rival Manchester City’s interest in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain this summer.
Ronald Koeman is among the 23-year-old’s admirers. The former Southampton star will have just a year remaining on his Arsenal contract in the summer.
City are already leading the chase for Oxlade-Chamberlain’s services. Pep Guardiola was impressed by the playmaker’s display in the Champions League against his Bayern Munich team two-and-a-half years ago.
But Koeman will have a war chest with which to continue his bid to overhaul of the Everton squad during the close season.
In October Oxlade-Chamberlain, who is a not a regular starter under Arsene Wenger, revealed he is set to consider his options at the end of the current campaign."
CahillsCornerFlag
Player Valuation: £70m
Definitely take the Ox.
I'd also take the boy Robertson from Hull, Keane from Burnley, and the Icelandic vision imp from Swansea.
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