ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
did he? did he do it before he/we realised he was woeful?
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hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
To be honest, as soon as you saw the lad anywhere near a football you could tell he was awful. Like that Traore fella.
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
I think you ned to take a look at the Niasse thread, he said that Niasse had proven Koeman wrong the other day.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
Fair enough
Nymzee
Player Valuation: £150m
Traore played one game. Scored a back heel. Got inured. Never played for us again.
Strange comparison. Had a far more successful career than Niasse.
Bolasie can play football better than most people on this planet we're on. He can play with both feet, dribble, has skill in abundance and has an intelligent football brain. It might be cool, to agree with others online, and suggest he has no brain for football, but that in itself is pathetic. He is a brilliant footballer and team player despite his individual traits which is why Koeman was willing to pay £20m+ for him. We got £28M for Fellaini ffs.
Fellaini is, and always will be a pathetic footballer. Bolasie is 10 times the player he was and ever will be. Shame he got injured and shame he's 28/29 but I hope he comes back and improves an ever-improving Everton when he does.
Fellaini can probably manage 20 keepie uppies yet was a fans favourite yet Bolasie was written off intentionally online by most.
Fellaini is, and always will be a pathetic footballer. Bolasie is 10 times the player he was and ever will be. Shame he got injured and shame he's 28/29 but I hope he comes back and improves an ever-improving Everton when he does.
Fellaini can probably manage 20 keepie uppies yet was a fans favourite yet Bolasie was written off intentionally online by most.
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Nymzee
Player Valuation: £150m
Might be inconsistent like most wingers but what I admired best when he played was just how quickly he took us back-to-front. From opposition corners and free kicks we were back near the box like lightning.
Would like to see a full season of him if he recovers properly. He's tall, quick, powerful, unpredictable and crossed about 1,000x quicker than anyone else in the team.
I do agree his fee was rather large but that's not his fault and that's just football. Villa spent £15m on a crappy striker from Brentford. £25m doesn't go as far as it used to when buying through the English leagues.
Would like to see a full season of him if he recovers properly. He's tall, quick, powerful, unpredictable and crossed about 1,000x quicker than anyone else in the team.
I do agree his fee was rather large but that's not his fault and that's just football. Villa spent £15m on a crappy striker from Brentford. £25m doesn't go as far as it used to when buying through the English leagues.
messymascot
Player Valuation: £35m
He was playing in a team learning a new system hopefully when he returns the team will be pretty settled and he will fit back in. He offers pace which keeps teams back so will alleviate some pressure against teams throwing kitchen sink at us.
d34noj
Player Valuation: £40m
And Niasse has had a far more successful career than Bolasie. Let that sink in.
Scored more goals in a third of the games played, and almost a 1 in 2 goalscorer for Hull ( not that I'm advocating we should keep him)
Nymzee
Player Valuation: £150m
Comparing a striker to a winger hmm...
Heard Crouch has scored more goals than David Silva so he must have had a more successful career.
fabricsince1985
Player Valuation: £950k
Fellaini was and isn't a pathetic footballer. Successive managers at Man Utd pick him quite regularly, and he is an important player for Belgium. He had a good career for us in midfield too.
Bolasie, on the other hand, can dribble, is skillful and very fast. He is very good on the counter attack, which would have been perfect at old trafford the other night. But he does have limitations and I don't think it's pathetic to have noticed his decision making isn't good. For what we paid, i'd have hoped for better as it's your decision making that allows you to make the most of his other attributes.
d34noj
Player Valuation: £40m
Ok. In Turkey he scored 15 goals and had 7 assists, in Russia he scored 13 with 10 assists. That's more goals and the same amount of assists(which is what he's there for) as Bolasie has had in his Premier League career. That's not even counting his assists and goals at Hull, Senegal or his early career.
If Crouch had of assisted the same amount of goals as Silva in as many games, i'd question what Silva is doing on the pitch - a bit like why we are questioning what Bolasie is there for. He is on the pitch to assist the forwards (and also score goals, being an attacking player) and he does a less than average job - which is highlighted massively in the statistics of his career.
https://www.premierleague.com/players/4763/Yannick-Bolasie/stats?se=54
Just take a look at him. You REEEEAAAALLLY think that's good enough for EFC? I certainly don't. And to top it off, his shooting accuracy for us has dropped to 22% - if his shooting skills are as poor as this, why do people think his crosses are pinpoint and 'on a plate'???. Wayward, rushed, panicked. Rush of blood to the head and loses his composure, resulting in overhit, out of play, doesn't pick his head up blind hit and hope crosses or runs himself into a dead end.
I am amazed some people dont think Bolaise is a an excellent player, he made our front 6 so more dangerous, made up serious yards and penetration was key to starting every break, transitioned the play and breakaway and scored and assisted, we were were becoming very reliant on him. His head also never dropped.
Some really bizarre stuff gets posted about him negatively.
Some really bizarre stuff gets posted about him negatively.
Chimpy Glassman
Player Valuation: £30m
Some people have confirmation bias and short memories. It's associated with the money we paid for him, which is just odd.
d34noj
Player Valuation: £40m
For me it's not really about the money - sure if we'd paid £6/8m and he was a squad filler i'd be easier on the bloke, but we didn't.
He's just not a good footballer, @Neiler mentioned above that he 'made up serious yards and penetration was key to starting every break, transitioned the play and breakaway and scored and assisted, we were were becoming very reliant on him.' - he was also the reason a lot of attacks broke down. No Premier League footballer, NOT ONE should be as wayward and technically poor as to have a 22% shot accuracy ( I know it sounds very FIFA 17) but it's a statistic, a cold hard fact. He was key to starting every break because we were playing everything through him - and look how that turned out.
The first 6 games aside, we won 1 out of 10 (including 6 draws) with Bolasie as focal point of starting attacks. He gets injured at United and we all of a sudden start to play better? if we were 'becoming very reliant on him' then he wasn't doing a very good job at delivering was he.
In 4 years he had 17 assists. 133 games. That's 4.25 assists A SEASON, 1 assist every 7.82 games. In that time he scored 10 goals as an out and out attacking player, so that's 1 goal every 13 games or every 1170 minutes. I don't care that it was for Palace, if they are 'on a plate' then any forward would score them.
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