AllyBlue14 wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 9:48 pm
Of course we'd be far better off - as we would be if we swapped him for Mbappé or Isak. But it's pie in the sky, isn't it? Quality strikers are hard to come by these days and there are more teams (and probably better teams) than Everton looking in that market.
And I don't think it does say everything about the situation. You can want to keep a player without them having to be a nailed-on starter every week. We're losing half our squad in the summer - we need players!
We'd be incredibly fortunate to sign a striker and have them play 90 mins, 38 times a season - plus cup matches - and never needing to substitute them or switch things around.
Beto has proven that he can be useful at this level. It depends who else we were to bring in, but I wouldn't be averse to him starting matches next season and/or coming on if we need something different.
And this is the salient point we have to be conscious of. We’re so keen to replace the players we have in the squad that we know do some things poorly,… but there are few on here that actually advocate for a specific replacement and provide sound reasoning as to why they’d improve us.
It’s often proposed we need a ‘generic young 30m rated ball playing midfielder’, yet there are rarely any names put forward. It’s a vapid argument. There is no solution. We need to be able to answer: Who would improve us, and why? Not some unidentified player that might not even exist, let alone at a price we could afford.
Nicco wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 1:02 pm
Good thing we didn't win the league this year though.
With Russia, China,India/Pakistan and Trump WWIII would have started at the las whistle...
Everton, not winning for world peace
I'd take WW3 as a trade-off! Just give me a week or so to bask in the glory before the bombs fall.
"The best you can hope for is to die in your sleep." - Kenny Rogers (plausible Evertonian)
Cereal Killer wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 8:55 pm
That’s a fuck awful centre midfield
Depends who the new one is. Too many other gaps for one window to replace both CMs in my opinion. Plus theres also Alcaraz and hopefully a new AM who can drop deeper.
He'll be 33 by the time the new season starts... It sounds a bit grim but if we lost both Young (40 when the season starts) and Coleman (37 in October) then it's probably not bad cover for RB given they'll both have left.
I'd still want a new RB but if we play JOB there and have Coufal as backup / competition it's not the end of the world.
AjaxAndy wrote: ↑Tue May 13, 2025 4:21 pm
He'll be 33 by the time the new season starts... It sounds a bit grim but if we lost both Young (40 when the season starts) and Coleman (37 in October) then it's probably not bad cover for RB given they'll both have left.
I'd still want a new RB but if we play JOB there and have Coufal as backup / competition it's not the end of the world.
Yeah this is one that makes complete sense and would wrap up one position with two capable players there, for free, so we can focus on the other positions. Send Patterson on loan or sell.
