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Branthwaite but could have been Gueye, Onana, Beto or Pickford in my opinion.

I’m glad Patterson got his assist - so much to like about him but he always seems to be involved in the big moments against - he’s hopefully going to benefit from having a proper wide-man (hopefully Harrison) in front of him eventually. Same can be said about Young too to be fair.

All the best to him - it can’t have been easy with him being away from his mother. I do hope Malik’s mother gets better soon.

Surely we noticed Hamer when scouting Gyorkes- would have been a top quality Iwobi replacement who we must have known was leaving having not signed that contract.

Oozes class but an absolute warrior too - excellent again!

GK: Pickford

Rb: Garner

Lb: Young

RCb: Tarkowski 

LCb: Branthwaite

DCm: Gueye

Cm: Onana

Cm: Doucoure

RW: Danjuma

LW: McNeil

Str: Beto

Fingers crossed that McNeil is actually fit as that is surely good enough for 3 points today.

Thelwell is supposedly trying to renegotiate the Dele deal… good luck with Levy!!!

8 minutes ago, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

Another positive from this window as long as we haven’t paid off his contract

Nope - not a penny… ignoring the £25m original fee and 4 years on £100k per week… fair play Jean-Phillipe

Our signings in the 2019-20 season are really interesting…

Iwobi - decent enough but never really hit the heights many expected - lost a few £mil but not a bad signing

Kean - massive let down on the face of it but made a decent profit when sale and loan fees are considered

Gomes - the moment Gueye left, we should have had a rethink… we didn’t and Gomes had that awful injury and the rest is history - great loan but poor signing

Delph - should have been our new Gareth Barry but couldn’t get him on the pitch - waste of time overall - could/should have been a shrewd signing

Sidibe - on-loan but to be fair, decent full-back cover

Branthwaite - hopefully the shining light on this period of mismanagement and erratic spending!!!

Pickford/Virginia/Lonergan 

Patterson/Coleman

Young/Mykolenko

Tarkowski/Branthwaite/Keane/Godfrey

Garner/Gueye/Onana/Doucoure

Dele

McNeil/Harrison/Dobbin/Danjuma

Beto/Calvert-Lewin/Chermiti (23 players)

??? - Gomes/Gray/Gbamin (26?)

Have I missed anyone? I joke but can see players like Lingard coming into the reckoning with our threadbare squad - should it look like this when all windows close!

39 minutes ago, dunlopp9987 said:

Sinisterra having medical at Bournemouth

On-loan… we can’t do a loan deal unless Harrison is made permanent- shame as think he’s quality based on the little I’ve seen.

Off to Brentford - loan to buy. Wow!

Centre midfield is certainly a position to keep an eye on. We may look well stocked now but only Onana and Garner are here ‘long-term’ as it stands:

Gueye - 1yr

Doucoure - 1yr

Dele - 1yr

Gomes - 1yr (should be gone today)

Gbamin - 1yr (should be gone today)

Hard to say whether the top 3 will still be here after this season so it’s certainly an area we’ll be addressing over the next 3 windows (maybe starting today).

Jean-Philippe Gbamin’s agent, Bernard Collignon, has said that he has had “no contact from any club”. He also says that Everton value him at £5m and that he is “hoping to find solution to end his contract”. (Source: @ShamoonHafez)

29 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

For an actual fee?!

We’re asking £5m supposedly- just seen someone else say there’s no truth in Cadiz and Gbamin wants to terminate his contract.

1 minute ago, Romey 1878 said:

It'd still work out cheaper to buy Gnonto.

Yeah but imagine the new Tik Tok followers we’d gain with J-Linz’s social media profile!

End of the nightmare (for all parties)?

https://x.com/everton_extra/status/1697543170437853563?s=46&t=hH9MW86Z7OdDqsQukrKMvA

15 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

I think the biggest problem with us trying to get Gnonto was the structure of the deal, rather than the overall fee. So if we sell Iwobi and/or Gray, that should allow us to offer better terms.

That certainly seems to be the case - just seen ‘EFC confident once Iwobi money is in’ - I hope so but this could be the ever so familiar deadline day story for us for this year! We tried and tried and tried but ended up with Jesse Lingard on a free!

8 minutes ago, Bill said:

We have enough cover for left wingers, it's a right winger we need to be chasing.

He nor Harrison are exclusively left wingers - both often play from the right (same with Sinisterra who we’re also linked to).

1 minute ago, patto said:

We need a proper playmaker in the centre of the park 

In the 4-5-1/ 4-3-3 system I agree but if we signed Phillips, we would control more games and focus more on creating from wide - a tactic Dyche teams are renowned for.

Gnonto and Phillips (loan) would be the perfect day (well throw in the next Lillian Thuram too) - don’t expect it but we can dream.

Imagine the Leeds fan’s reaction!!!

I keep seeing/hearing Luis Sinisterra’s (Leeds) name being mentioned but no firm links. Very good winger but missed a lot of last season due to injury.

https://x.com/lyngbyboldklub/status/1697251393516798368?s=46&t=hH9MW86Z7OdDqsQukrKMvA

McNeil is in with shout for this one which will be a massive positive.

I am worried about how Pickford deals with Robinson’s long throws

6 minutes ago, MikeO said:

The mind bugles .

Der, der, derrrrrrrrrrr - we have a winner!

Interesting one - good technically, which you’d expect from Brighton - was meant to go on-loan to WBA this time last year - at 25 (next week), I’m not sure there’s a future at BHA. Very versatile if memory serves and left sided (obviously central mid) so ticks a lot of boxes.