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Interesting to see several clubs like Newcastle and Stoke looking at Davie Selke, surprised we aren't looking at him as well. 6' 3", decently quick, prolific at German youth international levels and only 23. Goal record is not amazing but still 1 in 3 overall.

Tend to agree but others on here seem to think he's a our best striker and is very good. But he still had an average goal return. To be honest if this guy does what gabbi did when he arrives then that will keep us up anyway.

Well I disagree entirely. VVDs casual play has cost him multiple times and is probably his biggest flaw, that and his lapses in concentration. He flatters to deceive IMO. I'd take JWP on the ball all day every day, he reminds me Lampard at times in the way he moves the ball around, receives it etc. He just doesn't have that guys ability to read the game or be in the right position, but then Lampard didn't really start hitting his stride until he was 25-26, people thought he only got in the West Ham team cos his uncle was manager. What let's him down is his physicality and his confidence, he looks like a lad without much ego and at times looks like he doesn't think he's good enough, but being shoved around positions and in and out of the team doesn't help. VVD is an arrogant so and so, so he plays like that on the pitch, plus he's quick and huge, so most of the time when he mucked up, he can quickly rectify the mistake because he could go chase the man down or bully them off the ball as it's rare he's not one of the biggest on the pitch. So his mistakes are less noticeable and then he'll stride around with the ball, win some header, play some hollywood ball, everyone claps and the fans forget he just mucked up. Not to mention he is a centre-back so people see any centre-back that can play a bit and think he is amazing, I've seen comments about him playing in midfield, but I am willing to bet he'd be crap at it. He's not as good on the ball as people think he is, he'd need way more time on the ball then he'd get. He's just good compared to most centre-backs (not to mention many British football fans still think a ball playing centre-back is a bit of an alien concept) and the game is a lot easier when the majority of it is in front of you and no one closes you down that much (because most teams don't play a high press). I'm midfielder and I've played centre-back a few times for my team and that side of it is much easier than playing centre-mid, having everything in front of you, usually getting way more time on the ball, etc. The actual defending bit, marking, tackling etc. that bit is hard, but any person that has played a lot of games in midfield at any level, who then plays a bit at centre-back will know that the on the ball bit feels super easy to a midfielder. JWP doesn't have that, he works his socks off, but he's not quick and he's not big and strong, so when he makes a mistake it's more noticeable cos he struggles to rectify it and people slate it for him. Plus in midfield he will be under a lot more pressure on the ball, against quick opposition midfielders, the league is full of fast and strong defensive mids. People are just expecting a 23 year old to be playing like a 27-29 year old cos he's been around the team for so long, midfielders generally don't peak and fully master the game until that age. I tend to got with the fact that the guy is picked and rated by multiple managers, picked for the England team and is highly rated by pretty much every pundit. I tend to think those people know more about it than any of us. I agree with others above, I think if we went down he'd be wanted by several clubs. BTW Oakley was very good, but looked good in a generally poor team, I'd also reckon the standard of league then was worse and the game was probably less quick.

Hopefully he can go on and get double figures again this season, and we get him into the squad next year. A 6' 4" striker with pace (according to that article) is a rare commodity, seems more like it's the mental side of his game that needs more work (positioning, putting himself about etc.)

Just to note, Gabbiadini, who most people here think is good, has a bang average goal record mainly because he came off the bench a lot. When we were looking at him, there were articles pointing out that his goals per minutes ratio was actually very good and he was an efficient finisher. So those pointing out this guy has an average goal record but it looks better if you look at goals per minutes have a fair point, plus Pelle had a bang average goals record in his entire career aside two good seasons in a league that is **** easy to score in, especially if you play for the better teams. I mean 35 year old Dirk Kuyt managed to bang in 1 in 2 for Feyenoord over two seasons, in a league where the average wage is HALF that of the average Championship player and 10% of the average premier league wage. So Eredivisie goals are not much cop, so Pelle's goal record was poor overall against decent opposition, yet he turned out all right so maybe we should give this guy a chance. Sometimes some strikers are also more about how it helps the team rather than how many they score directly, if this guy can help open up chances for others and put away some chances that come his way then he could be a very good signing.

I get that we can't recall him but why loan him out in the first place and where does this leave him for next season? ITK?

Kind of weird we have not given Gallagher a go, I mean granted he's not exactly banging in the goals, but then neither is this fella. Plus Gallagher is bigger (if we are after this big lump up front) and younger, so more likely to improve, plus free, not £20 million.

That takes Everton's total spending this year to around £190 million, plus whatever huge wage and signing on fee Rooney probably got as well. For 9th, 5 points above the relegation zone. Hardly stellar results recently either, last 5 league games they have drawn with WBA twice, lost the Bournemouth, got thumped by Spurs and beaten by Man Utd.

What's worrying is there is barely a rumour about any signings either.

There is a chance he wouldn't, but he took the Hull job and they were far worse off. I mean there are 6 points between bottom and 10th, half the Premier league currently counts as 'struggling' at the moment. If he wants a new Premier League job we are probably the best option he will have a for a while. Plus it's an easy win for him, either he gets our underperforming squad to perform better and steers us to saftey or we go down and people will just say well they were 18th and in bad form when he took over.

As in the most technical player, a good executer of skills, and no that doesn't mean fancy flicks. Just watch him, how he strikes a ball, body shape, various types of passing etc. he is pretty much textbook.

Pellegrino clearly wasn't our first choice, I'd hazard a guess that Silva was higher on the list but didn't want to wait around. We have been handed an opportunity, hopefully we will take it. Plus it would wind up the Everton fans. Richer than them and nab their top manager target after they poached Koeman of us. It would hardly be harsh on Pellegrino either, he has had a chance, longer than what 6 or 7 other managers have had this season, some of whom who have done better than him with less. Get Silva in, get him on a 3 year contract, get some signings in and build from there. He's likely to have been burnt a little bit from what happened at Watford with Everton and needs to re-build his reputation and stay somewhere for a few years anyway.

The biggest thing with JWP is he needs to nail a position in the side and show some consistency, he is clearly talented, probably the most technically adept player we have at the club and the mental side of his game is developing well. But he needs to show what he did on Sunday and other games more often. Physically he is never going to be great, at best he can make himself as strong as he can and as fit as he can but he's never going to be fast or dominant physically, he just doesn't have that in him, but it doesn't mean he can't be a very good player for us. He also needs to start scoring a few more goals, he shows glimpses of it but again not consistently. Though I do think he is becoming smarter around the box with his movement, if he could pick up that knack of arriving late onto stuff and anticipating stuff like Lampard or Shcoles used to do that would be a huge boost for him and the team.

Kind of weird to be honest, it's mainly Premier League money though.

Very doubtful on this, I'd reckon he'd want to wait on a different club and get higher wages. I mean I can understand that probably England is a nicer Prospect than Russia, plus the better league and I'd suspect he gets a few nasty chants directed at him based on what we have heard about the Russian league. But still, pay cut and joining a relegation team when he might get a go at Liverpool or Arsenal, seems unlikely to me.

Meh, should have and could have won it, would probably have taken a point against a Spurs side in good form, but we need a win and they were average. We really lack any pace on the counter attack, our fastest player is our left back, everyone else looks pedestrian.

I'd get him him, people were talking about him for the Arsenal job a few months ago and Everton were obviously desperate to have him. He has had an impact at both Premier League clubs he has gone into, both with worse squads than ours and seems to get the players working harder, covering more ground and he is not negative either. I'm sure as well that Richarlson was his signing so I'd reckon he'd probably have a decent say in transfers as well. Sure they are not a great run but obviously he lost focus a bit after the Everton approach and that impacted the team as well.

To be honest, considering Chelsea seem to be looking at Crouch and Carroll, as well as an aging Dzeko (who'd be a decent signing) maybe this guy does not sound so bad. Seems to be a dearth of decent Target men around, look at the amount of clubs that seem to be interested in Giroud and I'm not really sure he's that effective in the air. Also is Slimani any better than this guy? Been pretty average at Leiecester, is 3 years older and really has only had one really good season in his career and that is the Portuguese league, and Van Wolfswinkel was a 1 in 2 man in that league for Sporting. I kind of feel goals in Portugal, are like goals in Holland, and scoring in Championship regularly is probably a lot harder.,

The issue about the players still here, not the sold ones or the new ones is the most correct one. The guys who have been here a while are not in form and have been out of form or lacking near their best for a long time. Romeu, Betrand, JWP, Davis, Forster, Tadic, Redmond, etc. have all been average to bad for a long period, the best performances we have seen this year have come from newer players - Lemina, Hoedt etc. or players not always in the team and pushing for a place like Boufal or the youngsters. The rest IMO have been coasting and the manager seems clueless how to shake that up and doesn't seem to trust the other players to come in. And the bit about sitting back on leads. If we'd closed out games and killed off teams when we were playing better, we'd be top half easily.

43 assists as well so that is directly involved in 103 goals, in 170 starts, doesn't look so bad.

Wages nothing more, no way he is desperate to go play for a team that not registered a shot on target this year and who's manager has just said they need to be 'more boring'. Emre, who played under Allardyce at Newcastle has already warned his fellow Turk Tosun about playing under him cos he'll get no goals and service.

I think he would be a good signing but not at £20 million plus and £100k a week. A 28 year old not wanted by his club (effectively), with a crap injury record and only 18 months on his deal? Nah there are better players out there who will represent better value. Valencia just got Vietto on loan and he's already banged in a hat trick, is only 24 and I'd reckon we'd get him off Atletico for less than £20 million.

Sessegnon is interesting, at a guess we might have already agreed to let Bertrand go at the end of the season. And as they say are hoping that the offer of first team league football is enough to convince him to come to us over the bigger clubs where he is likely to sit on the bench. Personally I'd prefer Shaw as I think he is a better player right now and is more likely to stay long term as he has 'done' the big club thing and if we rehabilitate him back to near his best then we could have another Bertrand. Same article says we already have a deal close to done in France. Again not sure we need another centre-back, spending £25 million on someone like Mawson seems the wrong use of resources to me. Looks unlikely the manager is getting sacked anytime soon. Sturridge on loan with a view to buy is a good deal, as is Walcott returning. Think we should also be looking at the Ox in the summer, he is not getting in that Liverpool team anytime soon. A forward line of Boufal, the Ox, Walcott behind Sturridge/Austin looks pretty exciting.

What utter nonsense, anyone who thinks they wouldn't is completely deluded. Like Silva didn't want to leave Watford for Everton? Who were way higher up the table, oh wait he very much did and almost fell out with his own board. Of course they'd move, Burnley are pretty much at the max they can be, same with Huddersifled, moving to use would be a step up, this is a team and club that has been op 6-8 for the last 3-4 years. Half a season of consolidation and then the ability to kick on next season with much better players and more finances.

Disagree, not sure why people make Burnley out to be some sort of long ball merchants, look at the players he signs when he has some cash, the likes of Defour and Cork for example are not hoof it players. He is not Pulis Mk 2 IMO. Burnley play some good stuff at times, look at their goals against Chelsea but they are also pragmatic and have to work with what they have got. Hardly like we didn't go long when we had Pele here either, don't remember the fans complaining about that because it won games and got goals scored. We also need to consolidate and get the best out of our squad, seems the best man for the job to me.