neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
Emergency loan lol we aren't Bolton! We should deffo sign that free centre back me and @MarcelsGoat extensively scouted... Wake up brands!!!
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buededw1
Player Valuation: £15m
ooo really, well lets hope this info is wrong!!!
Zezti
Player Valuation: £70m
The burden will fall on Moise Kean to sharpen what has been, for rather too long, a blunt Everton attack and there is now responsibility on Yerry Mina to stay fit and provide leadership at centre half.
André Gomes has to step up, Jean-Philippe Gbamin and Alex Iwobi must make an impact, Richarlison needs more consistency and Lucas Digne to maintain the standards set last season.
Yet arguably the spotlight shines brightest on the manager, Marco Silva.
As Everton prepare to begin their season away to Crystal Palace tomorrow, where the welcome will be frostier than normal given their forlorn pursuit of Wilfried Zaha this week, the challenge of upsetting the natural order and breaking into the Premier League’s top six resumes.
This will be the fourth season in which Silva has been in English football, starting with his arrival at Hull City in January 2017, and two and a half years on a definitive opinion on the Portuguese manager is still to be formed.
A strong finish to last season when he motivated a team with nothing to play for — an aggressive approach in and out of possession was evident — was an impressive response to the dismal stretch between December and the end of February, which brought only four Premier League wins. Two of those were against relegated Huddersfield Town and Cardiff City.
Silva coached like the manager of Everton should and how they ended is the template for how they must now begin: the man in the dugout showing his skills, with an uncluttered calendar offering time on the training pitch to smooth down the rough edges in his blueprint and bed in new faces.
Between now and the December 4 visit to Anfield for the fixture which sparked their mid-term collapse last season, Everton have 14 league games in which they will face only three of the teams who finished above them in eighth last season — Wolverhampton Wanderers, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur.
There is a real chance to muster momentum. So much depends on Silva.
At his press conference this morning, Silva referred to the mess spawned by the flawed thinking of his predecessors, Ronald Koeman and Sam Allardyce, and the errors of the former director of football, Steve Walsh, when summarising the summer as “18 players have left, we signed seven and, if you look at the money coming in and the money out, we spent £28 million”.
Everton’s strategy had been to try to balance the books after the expensive splurges of 2017 and 2018, but it is difficult to get a true sense of whether that overview has remained intact by accident or design. Probably a mix of both.
The owner Farhad Moshiri’s ambition is such that Everton were willing to spend £60 million on Zaha (£25 million more than they paid for Arsenal’s Iwobi) but balked at Palace’s £80-100 million price tag for a winger who will turn 27 in November and who scored ten goals in his most productive season.
Richarlison, centre, is one of a number of attacking options available to Silva but he is short on centre halvesSHAUN BOTTERILL/GETTY IMAGES
They would have signed Kurt Zouma permanently had Chelsea offered any encouragement after the success of the defender’s loan spell. He would have cost a minimum of £40 million.
Under different circumstances — the search for a winger and a centre back continued after £50 million had been laid down for Kean and Gbamin — Everton’s net spend may not have been trumpeted quite so loudly. Where the £36.7 million failed bid for Watford’s Abdoulaye Doucouré fits in with everything . . . answers on a postcard, please.
There remains a lopsided look to Everton’s squad with offensive players outweighing those of a defensive mindset (midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin will not be allowed to leave as a consequence), and the failure to bring in another centre half left Silva acknowledging it is “not the best scenario for me as a coach”.
To be fair to Silva, he did not proceed to rant about this and will know his discomfort is more palatable than the club panicking and lavishing millions for Manchester United’s Marcos Rojo, a player they did not really want.
Silva is ensconced at Everton because the spend, spend, spend mentality which preceded him did not work out and management cannot be solely about dumping the old and ushering in the new every 12 months.
It is about overseeing the development of players, too, and there is no member of Everton’s squad who cannot improve; whether that is contributing more assists and goals or to the overall team structure to ensure this is a team that is uncomfortable, unnerving to play against.
“You have to manage the situation in the best way,” Silva said of having just Michael Keane, Mina and Mason Holgate as his centre-back options.
“We have never had doubts about Yerry Mina [signed from Barcelona for £27 million last summer but who started only ten league games]. When he was fit he was fantastic, he is adapted now and in better shape.
“It is a fantastic chance for him to show the quality that he has. If you ask me whether I would like more competition then yes, but I am here to manage the players I have.”
The loss of Zouma and Idrissa Gueye to Paris Saint-Germain strips Everton of arguably their two most influential performers in the second half of 2018-19, although Silva said he thought, overall, the squad was “deeper than last season”.
The transformation in Everton’s squad is far from complete but it is in a better place. Now Silva must coax and nurture and guide them into a better position. Top six is the target.
Glasshalffull
Player Valuation: £10m
Further to something I said earlier about when the transfer window opens again, I'm sure that most people are as angry as me about the way football authorities are destroying the game. It's just outrageous the way they keep allowing the transfer window to be interrupted by something apparently called 'the season'. This involves a bunch of sweaty snarling blokes dressed in gambling adverts chasing a ball round a field. If that weren't bad enough, they're surrounded a bunch of rowdy yelling rif-raf who wouldn't even get into a Runcorn pub.
It's time football's true entertainment value was given centre stage and transfers extended to over 10 months of the year. Obviously we can't check on transfers for the whole year because you need time to stock up on booze and check if your wife has left you. I suggest a break in the window for say 4 weeks in November, when the sweaty ball kicking activities can take place, but then get the transfer window back open well before Christmas. I just can't believe the authorities can't see something so blindingly obvious!
It's time football's true entertainment value was given centre stage and transfers extended to over 10 months of the year. Obviously we can't check on transfers for the whole year because you need time to stock up on booze and check if your wife has left you. I suggest a break in the window for say 4 weeks in November, when the sweaty ball kicking activities can take place, but then get the transfer window back open well before Christmas. I just can't believe the authorities can't see something so blindingly obvious!
Breaking news the liverpool power outage has resulted in Yerry Mina tripping over the fax machine in marcel brands office , he's rumoured to be out for upto 6 months with a Colombian head cold.
YAWN
Oh don't be like that young Matty me lad.
Thank you super blue just trying the allow some light into the mixed window we currently gaze out of.Ha ha ok pal
Mate don’t get me goin lol least the footys back tho
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Yes but that [Poor language removed] are on and I'm slightly more pissed off now lol
lol least we’ve bought players tho
Yes buck teeth has spoken more about Everton this summer than his own shower. Must be jealous.
Has he? About signings?
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