Fosse Captain

That’s a belter isn’t it. 
No mention of injury / surgery just that only played 45 mins of football.

Top class journo that

1 hour ago, Zoo 2.0 said:

Upsets me that we are so shite that I'd take Dendoncker. Although the silver lining is that his surname sounds fantastic.

Agree with both points

47 minutes ago, Billwelshblue said:

Can we afford either is the question

No, we can’t. 

whatever the price we’ll put some bullshit offer in which will get rejected out of hand. 
 

Massive ‘confidence player’

Seems ok at times, but any little mistake and then it’s car crash defending. 

Hope the club ship him out, but Mina has to go first 

27 minutes ago, Matt said:

Irrelevant though. We could have all the money in the world but if we've just had the shitshow of last season vs Arsenal... 

not necessarily. 
January transfer window, then absolutely. 
 

Summer window, every team starts afresh. 
Early days of old Lego-hair they were calling for him to be sacked and now look at them
 

Possibly a moot point, but if you have people in the club who can sell the project to a player, then anything is possible. 
And money always talks too. 
 

Just an opinion tho 
 

37 minutes ago, Matt said:

This was never going to happen whether the rumours were true or not

Imagine if this was a couple of years ago when we were cash rich and could’ve afforded him tho.
What a signing he’d be.

Instead we’re left with the legacy of Klaasen et al

2 hours ago, RuffRob said:

Don't agree with that at all.

Everything else being equal, I would take a taller player over a smaller player every day of the week. There are always exceptions to every rule that can be sighted, but if I have limited funds and want to bring in a number six - a taller , well built physically (or at least average height and build) dominant players who can win the headers and can out muscle the opposition would be high on my list of attributes. To go for a below average build player means he would really need to have outstanding attributes in other departments to more than make up for that. Gilmour is not in that category for me.

 

Depends what you want your ‘6’ to be. 
Midfield enforcer or ball player.

Personally I prefer a ball player in there. 

But it’s game of opinions

5 hours ago, Romey 1878 said:

Far too rich for our blood then.

Yep. 
Loan deal seems to our best offer for ……… well anyone really. 
 

Far too much, not sure he’s worth it. 
 

31 minutes ago, Palfy said:

At least that’s another crossed off the rumours list only a few hundred left to get through

True story

42 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

I really hope that isn't true or we're even more fucked than we thought.

Got a feeling we’re fucked. 

I know lots of lazy journalism out there  but everybody has been making signings and we’ve made 1, with 3 weeks to go, knowing our squad is shite and we’re seemingly unable to do anything about it 
 

I do, yes 

Just don’t think he would offer anything.

We’ve made this mistake before, on more than one occasion 

He’s fast 
Can’t think of anything else he does 

Avoid, and the spend the cash elsewhere 

Sell our best player and bring in a 36 year old as a replacement.

Would be peak Everton that 

4 hours ago, Wall Writer said:

Is 'tip tip' one level better than 'tip top'?

 

I believe it’s the same as when pundits describe players.

there’s ‘top’ players 

and then 

‘top top’ players 

2 minutes ago, patto said:

40m he’ll be gone

That’s what worries me. 
It’s not exactly crazy money is it. 
Decent young player with the ‘English’ premium added on. 
Still very affordable.

I have a terrible feeling we’ll sell him. 
The financial clusterfuck we find ourselves in means someone will agree to it.

I have zero confidence in our board 

10 minutes ago, MikeO said:

Howard Kendall did OK I seem to recall

Ha!! 
yeah he wasn’t bad I suppose

I’m a bit Gutted.
Stupid really.
He was never coming was he.

makes it worse we’ll be getting winks and Lingard instead

I quite like ex-players being involved.

However that’s probably naive on part. And quite possibly where we’ve been going wrong all these years. It’s not like our ex-players were serial winners themselves was it. 
 

Wish him good luck for the future and will always be a blue

This is the kind of signing that has put us in the situation we are in. 
 

Approaching 30 after a comfortable existence at a bigger club. Massive wages. And huge question marks about ability / desire / attitude. 
The Everton retirement home still open. Come and get your last big contract here. 

Would never have got England caps if didn’t play for Man Utd 

17 hours ago, Matt said:

Yeah, because even when he did play he was hot and cold. He was just as likely to fall over someone and give away a stupid foul as make a great tackle.

100% this. 

Football is about opinions.

Mine is I can’t stand Mina (he probably doesn’t like me very much either )
He’s a car crash of a defender to watch. 

Don’t agree with others about him being our best defender, but hey-ho

Hope that’s true. Not a player I’d be happy seeing here. 
I wonder if it was more a case of Spurs ‘suggesting’ we sign him, rather than us ‘asking’
 

Erikssen however

This can’t happen.

I know we’re shit, but got to keep him. 

He gave everything and was crucial to us staying up. Played with passion and desire (carrying an injury too) 

Disappointed to see him go, but can’t really say a bad word about him 

£60 million is a good price if true 

Only thing that dampens it for me is that we’re probably bringing Winks in off the back of it