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11 hours ago, Romey 1878 said:

Get him a Championship loan.

I rate him highly but I don’t think he’s ready for the PL yet.

I agree but every now and again players are thrown in raw and hit the ground running - Rashford’s the best example I can think of in recent years - he was supposedly nowhere near ready when he broke onto the scene; it’s not all been plain sailing for him but it can work.

54 minutes ago, Bailey said:

I watched a lot of videos of him (what is available anyway) and his sides games before he signed for Southampton and then a bit when he was playing for Southampton. I have seen a fair bit of Gnonto. So, yes its certainly on the premature side, but I rate Gnonto very highly and there is nothing about Sulemana that makes me think he is anywhere near that level. He looks to be a bit of a speed merchant with a lot of questions about his end product and attitude.

 

Fair enough, let’s hope whatever our scouts have seen in him shines through if we sign him then.

2 hours ago, Bailey said:

Its not a good plan B,C or D though!

Have you seen enough of him to make a statement like that? We’ve clearly been scouting him for a long time, hence the interest in January. Young lad thrown into a relegation battle in a new country… oh and the manager who signed him gets sacked days later. Not the easiest of conditions to shine in.

The purple patch…

On 18/01/2020 at 18:30, Matt said:

I expect very rich clubs to be coming in for him if he keeps this up. I mean Barca elk 

On 20/01/2020 at 18:06, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/mason-holgate-line-first-england-21321163

On 21/01/2020 at 10:49, Bill said:

Newcastle and Bournemouth reported to have made offers for him.  ffs they're cheeky bastards if they think he would leave us to go there.

On 21/01/2020 at 13:15, Wiggytop said:

We need to sort his out quickly so we keep him, I rate him a lot.

On 04/02/2020 at 14:42, Matt said:

He’ll end up at Barcelona at this rate. Brilliant season so far, player of the season along with DCL, and will only get better. VVD move over, there’s a new kid in town

The Man City links…

On 28/02/2020 at 11:54, Matt said:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-city-weigh-up-30million-21592436
 

On 28/02/2020 at 17:20, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1248844/Manchester-City-Everton-Mason-Holgate-Pep-Guardiola-Carlo-Ancelotti-verdict-transfer-news

The big mistake…

On 03/03/2020 at 18:47, duncanmckenzieismagic said:

Signed new 5 year contract

12 minutes ago, StevO said:

I like that move. After all the time he’s spent here I hope he goes somewhere and becomes a regular starter. He needs to be playing every week. 

On the other hand, how has a player who’s never been a starter amassed a wage above £70k per week (apparently)? Mental, and probably a big reason why he’s been happy to be on our bench for all of these years. 

Can’t exactly remember when but he had a purple patch and Man City were mentioned (genuinely - sure I’m not imagining this!!!) and he/his agent struck when the iron was hot! We’ve made some poor decisions in recent years!

6 minutes ago, Bailey said:

Thats a massive downgrade!

One will cost £30m and the other is a potential loan - downgrade maybe but at least there’s a plan B, C or D.

Talk of a move to Southampton seems to be intensifying

53 minutes ago, StevO said:

Happened with Fellaini. 

…and Vlasic.

3 minutes ago, milesey05 said:

Pay 20 million, and he’ll go straight into the under 23’s for a season- not quite ready.

He won’t - he’ll be a first team option… probably (hopefully) alongside a more experienced option in addition to Calvert-Lewin.

With Gbamin, Gomes, Gray and Holgate all linked with moves away and even potentially Maupay, we’ve actually got a decent shot at ‘starting again’. These are the top names I’d sell/ let go as don’t think any fit or are of any use to us. Even getting rid of 3 in this window will be a bonus and give us some desperate wiggle-room for players who can actually move us forward/ be relied on.

2 hours ago, dunlopp9987 said:

Exciting that we're going after young talent, I worry that we still won't have a proven backup for DCL when he's injured

We’d still need another - 100% but this could be an excellent signing.

Barkley is supposedly living in his north-west residence and has been spotted in the area because of this - I personally think there’s no more than this in the rumours. I can’t see us  pursuing this deal as it stands but should Gomes and Gbamin leave, maybe we’d consider him as a short term option.

1 hour ago, Btay said:

Hard to say Adams will be better than Danjuma or even Cannon as they have hardly kicked a ball for us.

I would like to hope we aiming for something a bit than Che Adams, if we are going down that path we might as well look at Weghoust or similar if we want a link up striker...

Adams holds the ball up, harries and wins flick on… different player to Danjuma and Cannon. Wieghorst may be big but he can’t hold up and bully like Adams and DCL. Adams isn’t as good but offers many qualities we miss when Dom is out.

1 minute ago, Romey 1878 said:

Agree with this other than it being Adams we bring in. I think he'd be just like Maupay tbh.

Totally different players in my opinion - I wouldn’t want both but think we’d have been miles better off had we signed Adams last summer instead of Maupay.

As it stands:

Gk - fine… maybe more experience to replace Begovic but Virginia seems a decent enough back-up.

Defence - okay for the start of the season with Patterson, Tarkowski, Keane, Branthwaite, Godfrey, Young with Coleman and Mykolenko to return - could do with more cover but okay - need to shift Holgate.

Central areas - plenty of options in Gueye, Garner, Onana, Doucoure, Iwobi and maybe Dele but need to shift Gomes and Gbamin but okay for now. Maybe bring in some quality when there’s more value in the market at the end of August.

Wingers - good starters in Iwobi and McNeil - options in Young, Gray and Danjuma - pretty short in this area but we can probably wait until the end of the window.

Strikers - the one area that needs addressing instantly - everything points to DCL here - with him, our system is fine, we’ll get the best out of other players - without him, we’ve got Maupay, Danjuma or Gray lost as lone strikers - they can’t do it in our system. We need a solution now - this is the one position that can’t wait. It doesn’t need to be the DCL replacement - that’d be great e.g Bilal Toure but someone like Che Adams could be exactly what we need in the meantime *Che Adams - he’s shite he is* - he’s not glamorous or exciting nor does he score a great deal of goals but he fits and allows us to develop a system bringing the best out of McNeil, Iwobi, Danjuma, even bringing midfield players in… look at our best performance last season vs Brighton - no goals from DCL but that link up play was incredible. Someone like Adams allows this - hopefully he’d just be a stop gap while we progress and improve and we ‘out grow’ him but he’d be a huge upgrade on Maupay, Danjuma, Gray, Cannon, Dobbin as a main striker in this system.

This one is moving quite quickly for us… by deadline day we may actually make a bid but we’ll run out of time… at least we got the info though.

1 minute ago, Bailey said:

I think its easier to name the positions we don't need. 

Both centre backs look shaky. 

Patterson doesn't defend or attack well enough to be first choice.

Midfield lacks almost any quality, its saving grace is the energy from Doucoure, Onana and Gueye(ish). Garner might patch it all together when he is match fit but its a big ask. 

Iwobi on the right wing will do a job but he is inconsistent as hell. 

We need a striker that can act as a focal point when Dom is injured.

Not too much to be concerned about.

Probably the most positive post you’ve ever posted - fair play

1 hour ago, patto said:

We haven’t got a clue we are scraping round looking for players we need to activate Jack Harrison’s release clause pay the extra couple of million for Gnonto if we go down it will cost us £100 million. 

Harrison’s injured until at least September so getting him now wouldn’t make financial sense e.g extra wages. It’s not meant to be a high risk injury so hopefully we go for him before the deadline.

Just now, Wall Writer said:

Seems to have gone a bit quiet considering when Danjuma came in, we allegedly had another one pretty much coming in at the same time and one more coming a little after that?

 

Myers confirmed Toure as the striker but that seems beyond us now and commented on the Gnonto links which may go on for a little while but confirmed contact.

https://www.goodisonnews.com/2023/07/28/everton-want-to-sign-yuri-alberto-from-corinthians-player-ready-to-move-as-high-fee-mooted/

I don’t think he set the world alight at Leicester but it’s a big ask in a new league and a relegation battle and less than half a season to settle. I won’t be judging him on that.