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Summer transfer window 2023

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Goat said:
Fair enough.

But why didnt another Premier League club snap him up?

Why is just Everton making the bad decision to sell him?

If hes so good and we are missing a trick, why is he joining a mid-table Championship team?
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I can understand why another team might not spend money to bring him in but for us he's literally already here. We need strikers. DCL is not going to play 30 games. We're rumored to be looking to toss a ton at that Toure fella who I wouldn't say is definitely better.

The first mistake, as it always is with Everton, is not trusting him before when we could have figured out what exactly we had. But to now spend more money to find a prospect to figure out if that next guy is good is just a waste to me. How about the guy we have gets a chance first? Is that so crazy?

My main thing with Simms is every single year people posted about how he wouldn't hack it at the next level only to step up and be plenty good enough. I also like how he plays! He's good at maneuvering and getting shots away in the box. He has a good feel for positioning himself. He's got just enough pace, and maybe more importantly the ability to switch gears, to trouble defenders 1v1 at times. I just find him really intriguing and hate that we're going to sell him after two starts when we have nothing else in his spot!
 
TheBigIguana said:
There's a difference between seeing every minute and never seeing him. It's nice to let the data fill in the gaps!
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Do that then... Even with limited minutes last season...his stats per 90 were 0.125 shots on target....thats 1 shot every 8 games
He scored with his only shot on target
By contrast Maupay had 1 shot on target every 2 games
TheBigIguana said:
He's improved since he was in the youth teams
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of course he has
doesn't mean anything
 
Thelwell and his scouts are the real problem here. We’re going to wait until the end of the window as usual and do more panic last minutes signings. What does this guy do all day ?? We should have had a gem uncovered by now no signings in the winter window? Lol
This man is very laughable.
 
TheBigIguana said:
I can understand why another team might not spend money to bring him in but for us he's literally already here. We need strikers. DCL is not going to play 30 games. We're rumored to be looking to toss a ton at that Toure fella who I wouldn't say is definitely better.

The first mistake, as it always is with Everton, is not trusting him before when we could have figured out what exactly we had. But to now spend more money to find a prospect to figure out if that next guy is good is just a waste to me. How about the guy we have gets a chance first? Is that so crazy?

My main thing with Simms is every single year people posted about how he wouldn't hack it at the next level only to step up and be plenty good enough. I also like how he plays! He's good at maneuvering and getting shots away in the box. He has a good feel for positioning himself. He's got just enough pace, and maybe more importantly the ability to switch gears, to trouble defenders 1v1 at times. I just find him really intriguing and hate that we're going to sell him after two starts when we have nothing else in his spot!
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For me he doesnt look like a good player, he fails the eye test.
 

Toffeepot said:
Do that then... Even with limited minutes last season...his stats per 90 were 0.125 shots on target....thats 1 shot every 8 games
He scored with his only shot on target
By contrast Maupay had 1 shot on target every 2 games

of course he has
doesn't mean anything
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This is just a personal thing but I don't find shots on target to be a particularly meaningful stat to look at. You could have 8 dribbles right at the keeper and congrats 8 shots on target.

Anyway his stats with Everton are too limited to mean anything sample size wise. Even his stats at Sunderland last year are a bit small in that regard. But if you look at his whole career the picture is actually fairly consistent.
 

Raino85 said:
Yakubu
Louis Saha
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I loved yakubu and Saha's fa cup goal and the one against Chelsea are legendary to me, but they didn't net that many goals. Outside of Lukaku and one season with DCL if a striker scores more than 10 goals for Everton then he's in rare company
 
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TheBigIguana said:
This is just a personal thing but I don't find shots on target to be a particularly meaningful stat to look at. You could have 8 dribbles right at the keeper and congrats 8 shots on target.

Anyway his stats with Everton are too limited to mean anything sample size wise. Even his stats at Sunderland last year are a bit small in that regard. But if you look at his whole career the picture is actually fairly consistent.
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Not only does SOT tell you he can make get in a good position and make space for the shot, it also says he could hit the target. Its a significant stat, especially when it is 4 times worse than a striker we all want rid of

And No. It has to be a shot, not a dribble

He won hardly any headers despite his size
Poor link up play
4 times less shots on target per 90 than Maupay(one of the worst Everton signings I've seen)
tells me he is not good enough for the PL yet and taking the money is a good call

It is a small sample size, agreed, so on what basis are you rating him? Being better than when he was 18 is so common it's not a metric

Bringing him back was the mistake, because we bottled the transfer window for a better striker
I wish him well but we need to get money while we can for players not cutting it
 

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