Idrissa Gueye - now gone

[in exile]

Rumbling on a bit innit?

David Gold has tweeted along the lines of "couple of signings getting close, hope to have some news soon" so hopefully Gueye may be one of them

[mr underhill]

A very happy G pictured in his Everton shirt just on social media

[Mister E]

Whoever takes him off the wage bill is welcome to him. The interest in him smacks of Reilly style moneyball stat buying, but the old adage about Lies,  dam lies and statistics holds true with Gana.

I don't care what the stats show he is not a very competent player at Premier League level, and if Everton or West Ham expect a player like Cante they are in for a disappointment.

Our biggest problem, for years, has been a lack of movement off the ball, so players have to hit hopeful passes, hold on to the ball for too long or turn and go backwards/sideways.  Gana was a victim of that as much as anything else.  His passing was nothing like as bad as some would have us believe, but when he tried to get us moving forward quickly he gave it away because he had no simple passes on...

Yes, I'd agree with that.
We still need players in MF who can thread passes through, but the real question is who is going to be on the end of them / in the space and moving onto the ball? Gestede is a complete non-starter in that respect and I'm hoping that Green, Davis and H-M perhaps offer much more.

[tomd2103]

Whoever takes him off the wage bill is welcome to him. The interest in him smacks of Reilly style moneyball stat buying, but the old adage about Lies,  dam lies and statistics holds true with Gana.

I don't care what the stats show he is not a very competent player at Premier League level, and if Everton or West Ham expect a player like Cante they are in for a disappointment.

Our biggest problem, for years, has been a lack of movement off the ball, so players have to hit hopeful passes, hold on to the ball for too long or turn and go backwards/sideways.  Gana was a victim of that as much as anything else.  His passing was nothing like as bad as some would have us believe, but when he tried to get us moving forward quickly he gave it away because he had no simple passes on.  I don't know if he will be great for Everton/west ham but I wouldn't be surprised if he looks like a much better player.

Totally agree Paul.  When you sit behind the goal at games, you can see that the movement is virtually non-existent.  The last player we had with any decent movement was Robbie Keane.

[Hookeysmith]

A very happy G pictured in his Everton shirt just on social media

can we see?

[mr underhill]

on VT

[Ads]

I remember when we used to sell good players. Now we seem to be selling really meh to shit ones.

Oh how far we've fallen.

[Duncan Shaw]

On Twatter
https://twitter.com/search?q=idrissa%20gana&src=tyah&lang=en-gb

[David_Nab]

Remember when Everton couldn't compete with us as we had a rich owner ....fun times ...

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Remember when Everton couldn't compete with us as we had a rich owner ....fun times ...

I don't, as they'd always finish above us anyway.

[mr underhill]

like Clark, should he leave, I think the G will look ok in a side where his shortcomings won't be as ruthlessly exposed as they were with us

[cdward]

The cold reality when you realise that clubs are doing what we used to do, moving in for players from relegated/lower league clubs who won't be good enough for CL but will move to a "big" PL club as another stepping stone (Young, Delph, Benteke, Downing, Milner)

[mr underhill]

I wonder if the PL forward RDM's holding out for is the Beast?

[mr underhill]

just read that Hull have made a bid to take him on loan. FFS!!

[Tuscans]

Signed for Everton.