Michael Keane

[Shogun]

He's an abysmal player but if people want to pretend 3 games without being horrific covers up 5 years of poor performances then fair play.

[UnsyisaRhino]

He's an abysmal player but if people want to pretend 3 games without being horrific covers up 5 years of poor performances then fair play.

to be fair to him, he has had some good periods at other times over those 5 years, it's not all been poor.

He's had a few false dawns during that period, and if anything says Everton fan in the modern era, it's letting yet another one give us hope.

[Cozzie]

[brap2]

I think maybe tark needs a bit of time out to fully recover?

He does for sure, but how long can you give him? He's just had 2 weeks off. I think he's going to have to just power through. Bringing him in and out isn't going to fix him, and we can't drop him for two three games surely.

Is what it is, whenever possible get Keane out the team is a number one rule. As pleased as I am for his recent renaissance.

[777Kidnappings]

We haven't really seen Keane with branthwaite yet. We've only really judged tarkowski playing with branthwaite and then given him a pass because he's playing with Keane. At this point I wouldn't be against seeing how Keane does with branthwaite rather than always instead of him

[Audrey Horne]

Keane drawings for Roxy.

[brap2]

A touch of the Ralph Steadmans!

[Audrey Horne]

A touch of the Ralph Steadmans!

Pretty big statement Brap

[NomadskiEFC]

A touch of the Ralph Steadmans!

More like Heinz Edelmann imo

[brap2]

More like Heinz Edelmann imo

Can see that for sure, psychedelic distortion

[Escalator]

Keane set for talks with Serie A clubs as Everton face free-transfer exodus
The defender is free to negotiate with foreign teams next month and is one of a raft of Everton players with deals set to expire at the end of the season

Paul Joyce, Northern Football Correspondent
Michael Keane is set to enter talks with several foreign clubs in January about a free-transfer move next summer that would end his eight-year stay at Everton.
The 31-year-old centre back expects to sign a pre-contract agreement with a new club next month and has suitors in Serie A and Major League Soccer in the United States.
Keane, who moved to Goodison Park from Burnley for £25million in 2017, also has interest from other Premier League sides but, while he can speak directly to clubs abroad from January 1, he must wait until
Keane has been at Everton since 2017, when he moved from Burnley
JAMES GILL – DANEHOUSE / GETTY

the end of the season to negotiate with one of Everton's domestic rivals.
The contracts of several Everton players are up at the end of the season, including Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Ashley Young, Seamus Cole-
man, Idrissa Gueye, Abdoulaye Doucouré and the goalkeepers Asmir Begović and João Virgínia. Loan deals for Jesper Lindstrom, Orel Mangala, Jack Harrison and Armando Broja are also due to expire, while Mason Holgate, on loan at
West Bromwich Albion, is in the final months of his deal.
The situation is a huge problem for the prospective new owners, The Friedkin Group, whose takeover from owner Farhad Moshiri is awaiting Premier League approval.
Keane, who turns 32 next month, was left out of the team recently by Sean Dyche after a run of matches in the side to make room for the fit-again Jarrad Branthwaite. He missed Sunday's 4-0 defeat away to Manchester United because of a knock to his knee that is likely to sideline him for the next ten days. Everton, who are 15th, are at home to 18th-placed Wolverhampton Wanderers on Wednesday night before a Merseyside derby against Liverpool at Goodison on Saturday lunchtime.
Dyche admitted the former England international did not deserve to lose his place, and the timing of his demotion comes with clubs looking to initiate talks about signing him for free.
James Tarkowski and Branthwaite, who were both at fault for goals against United, are Dyche's
Calvert-Lewin, right, is another player whose contract is up in the summer
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other options at centre back, as well as the summer signing Jake O'Brien. The 23-year-old arrived from Lyon in a £16.4million deal but has made only two substitute appearances in the league.

[PoD1878]

We could lose 12 players is the most startling take from that article, we don't have a huge squad as it is. A quick look and with couple of loans returning we could have a squad of 16 (4 of them goal keepers).

[Escalator]

We could lose 12 players is the most startling take from that article, we don't have a huge squad as it is. A quick look and with couple of loans returning we could have a squad of 16 (4 of them goal keepers).

Losing those 12 players would not normally be such a bad thing except for the fact that they would all be on a free and therefore no income so that our budget for replacements will be severely restricted due to PSR unless TFG have some very creative accountants.

[Cantoffee]

In theory we can replace a good chunk of those players for a similar contribution in lower wages - reality is that will be hard to do.

Keane is a good squad player but not for £75k a week. Gueye is the biggest potential loss, by far our best midfielder but at his age will be unlikely that we want to pay whatever he is currently on which I think is close to £100k a week.

I suspect we will try to re-sign him, maybe Doucoure, Virginia. Loan players will be replaced with other loan players. Maybe we trot out the corpse of Seamus Coleman and Ashley Young again.

Truth is we desperately need a starting RB, starting LB, pacy winger, striker (DCL is leaving). Probably also want a CM, if Branthwaite goes need a new starting CB.

We will have a lot more room in PSR with increased revenue but we desperately need a couple low cost transfer wins (as Brighton have done time and again) to help us build out the squad.

[MmmBlueBranthwaite]

Keane drawings for Roxy.

6/10

All the right bits in the right places. Proportionality needs more work.