Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo (AKA Monchi)

[PaulWinch again]

Nah Maatsen’s young and has all the talent, he’s already very good and he can kick on.

Onana has everything as a midfielder, if he stays fit and I’m sure he will at some point we’ll see that.

[edgysatsuma89]

He did get in the Champions League team of the year as a left back, though. He can't be no mug there.

[paul_e]

Nah Maatsen’s young and has all the talent, he’s already very good and he can kick on.

Onana has everything as a midfielder, if he stays fit and I’m sure he will at some point we’ll see that.

Yep, I agree I think those 2 will be very good players for us over the next few years.

[brontebilly]

Maatsen was an ffp fudge deal, I'd be amazed if he's here in 18 months time.

Ned, agreed one for the future.

Garcia, considering Cash is made of glass has to be a now and future, so we'll judge that in the next few weeks.

Onana... Hmmm. He's hot and cold, but cost £10m more than the guy he replaced and is technically nowhere near his level. I like Onana, but he's not either consistently fit enough, or in the game enough, to warrant the money paid. Which Everton fans all said.

Turk - has he even signed? Hopefully he'll be decent.

I don't think Onana and Maatsen took much imagination or scouting. Was that £85m well spent?

Emery clearly doesn't agree re KN. We paid quite a bit of money for him and were scouting him for some time. If he can't be an effective backup for Cash this season of all seasons then I really don't think he will ever make it with us. I think Garcia's signing confirms it.

Maatsen from playing in a CL final last season, the odd cameo aside, has been disappointing. He's further away now from displacing Digne than he was at the start of the season.

Onana was a poor signing from day 1. Injuries aside, he has nowhere near the quality of either Luiz or Kamara. That's the level that got us CL football.

[paul_e]

Maatsen was an ffp fudge deal, I'd be amazed if he's here in 18 months time.

Ned, agreed one for the future.

Garcia, considering Cash is made of glass has to be a now and future, so we'll judge that in the next few weeks.

Onana... Hmmm. He's hot and cold, but cost £10m more than the guy he replaced and is technically nowhere near his level. I like Onana, but he's not either consistently fit enough, or in the game enough, to warrant the money paid. Which Everton fans all said.

Turk - has he even signed? Hopefully he'll be decent.

I don't think Onana and Maatsen took much imagination or scouting. Was that £85m well spent?

Emery clearly doesn't agree re KN. We paid quite a bit of money for him and were scouting him for some time. If he can't be an effective backup for Cash this season of all seasons then I really don't think he will ever make it with us. I think Garcia's signing confirms it.

Maatsen from playing in a CL final last season, the odd cameo aside, has been disappointing. He's further away now from displacing Digne than he was at the start of the season.

Onana was a poor signing from day 1. Injuries aside, he has nowhere near the quality of either Luiz or Kamara. That's the level that got us CL football.

he's just turned 19, writing him off after half a season is about as ridiculous as your player ratings.

[PaulWinch again]

I’d avoid being too hasty on those. I suspect a good number of people were calling Digne out as not worth the money etc. Onana absolutely has it and Maatsen has already player a key role in a team getting to the Champions League final. They are both young, and have been at the club 6 months. They’re not bad signings because one has been unlucky with injuries and the other is playing in oa role where the incumbent has been exceptional.

Doesn’t change the fact we have left ourselves exposed going into the last couple of days of the window, and that needs addressing, but there’s some real talent that’s joined the club.

[Toronto Villa]

Diego Carlos wanted to move in the summer and wanted to move in January. We couldn’t find a deal and 7 months on a few injuries added on we found a deal for the glass giant. It was absolutely the right thing to do to sell him for decent money and remove his massive wages.

[ozzjim]

Agreed. But we knew for 7 months we needed to replace him, and we're now playing our best midfielder at centre half. That's pretty poor planning

[LeonW]

All our current issues are not new and have been there for awhile. The squad we had at the start of the season is the squad we budgeted for, presumably within PSR and that’s before accounting for the win bonuses from champions league games.

Now, I thought with Carlos, we had decided not to sell him to Fulham in the summer because we couldn’t get a replacement in place first? If this correct, then it would seem weird to do it in January and for a lot cheaper (£15m vs £8.5m??).

Edit: or was that Carlos wouldn’t go to Fulham so we were stuck with him?

[jon collett]

Whatever happens now it’s obvious we’ve been reactive not proactive this window and that’s down to Monchi. As was only signing players from English clubs in the summer with the exception of the two Juventus cast offs.

He’s been underwhelming to say the least and compares v unfavourably with Lange and Smith.

[ozzjim]

Whatever happens now it’s obvious we’ve been reactive not proactive this window and that’s down to Monchi. As was only signing players from English clubs in the summer with the exception of the two Juventus cast offs.

He’s been underwhelming to say the least and compares v unfavourably with Lange and Smith.

Lange's parting gift just made us £50m, and really could have gone for more.

[RamboandBruno]

Whatever happens now it’s obvious we’ve been reactive not proactive this window and that’s down to Monchi. As was only signing players from English clubs in the summer with the exception of the two Juventus cast offs.

He’s been underwhelming to say the least and compares v unfavourably with Lange and Smith.

Far too soon for this kind of statement. Mastsen and Onana are signings for the next few years, Barkley has been good. We dont know about Malen yet.

[Drummond]

Agreed. But we knew for 7 months we needed to replace him, and we're now playing our best midfielder at centre half. That's pretty poor planning

No, that's because our two first choice LCB are injured.

[Drummond]

And people have no idea whether the Duran sale is pro or re active. I suspect we cashed in at the right time to the right place.

[ozzjim]

Agreed. But we knew for 7 months we needed to replace him, and we're now playing our best midfielder at centre half. That's pretty poor planning

No, that's because our two first choice LCB are injured.

One who's coming back from a terrible injury, the other who was injured at the start of this window. There has been plenty of time to sort a centre half this month.