Amadou Onana

[eye digress]

The reviews from Everton fans are consistently underwhelming, so we’d be wise to keep expectations in check.  Over time Emery will hopefully work his magic on what is clearly a beast of an athlete, but the initial period might be a disappointing.

My Everton mates are adamant we’ve got a great player, who needed to be in a more possession based team to shine (which is a sort of disguised criticism, I suppose, when you think about it).

[Ian.]

The reviews from Everton fans are consistently underwhelming, so we’d be wise to keep expectations in check.  Over time Emery will hopefully work his magic on what is clearly a beast of an athlete, but the initial period might be a disappointing.

By the sounds of it Everton play like England and do not play out from the back and the midfield is a void. I’m sure he was pretty wasted there in that system. Hopefully he’ll settle in quickly and our style will suit him. Without Kamara we sure need him too.

[villadelph]

The reviews from Everton fans are consistently underwhelming, so we’d be wise to keep expectations in check.  Over time Emery will hopefully work his magic on what is clearly a beast of an athlete, but the initial period might be a disappointing.

Go watch the Belgium v Romania match and take a deep breath. He'll be good for us, no doubt.

[Percy McCarthy]

The reviews from Everton fans are consistently underwhelming, so we’d be wise to keep expectations in check.  Over time Emery will hopefully work his magic on what is clearly a beast of an athlete, but the initial period might be a disappointing.

Not the ones I’ve heard, but anyway, for balance, he’ll mostly be doing this sort of thing, but better and more often I reckon:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pK0fy9UnAH0&pp=ygUSZXZlcnRvbiBvbmFuYSBzb25n

[Dante Lavelli]

I hope so. The term “rough diamond” seems very apt from everything i have read. 
I’m just grateful that we have a manger that has a proven pedigree at smoothing edges of players (and some!)

[Dave]

Most of the Everton fans that I've read seem mainly annoyed that they're not getting the £80m from Arsenal or Bayern that they'd talked themselves into thinking they were getting.

[PeterWithesShin]

Most Everton fans can only be heard dogs so bolloks to them. Whiney twats.

[Brazilian Villain]

A lot of Boro fans couldn't understand why Unai wanted Rogers either.

[Brazilian Villain]

Emery and Monchi are COOKING! Still think there will be a few more exits, and wouldn't be surprised to see at least one other forward come in.

Please don't, this is H&V not X.

This goes for quoting emoticons such as 🚨🔴⚪️ in Twitter posts too. WTF?

💯

[Smithy]

A lot of Boro fans couldn't understand why Unai wanted Rogers either.

This is the important thing here, I think.  Monchi and Unai aren't buying players solely due to highlight reels, but are clearly seeing something in a player that they know they can mould and develop into a real asset for the team.  I like that.

And as much as I'd like us to sign Nico Williams, everyone and his dog now knows what a great player he is, so I'm always more interested in finding out what they've seen in the lesser-known players we sign (like Enzo and Iling-jnr).  It used to be we'd be linked to a lesser known player, and I'd think "why are we interested in THEM?!", but these days I think "I wonder what Unai and Monchi have seen that everyone else has missed?"

[Risso]

If we'd sold Luiz, McGinn, Bailey or Watkins at the end of Gerrard's tenure, there wouldn't have many positive reviews from Villa fans for them either.

[Dave]

And another example of a player not being used to the best of his ability at Everton, I remember pretty much universal derision on here when Newcastle spent £40m on Gordon, now he'd cost double that after a season and a half.

[Risso]

Alex Iwobi seemed to improve immeasurably at Fulham as well.

[kippaxvilla2]

Reports of Amadou doing an Unsworth are wide of the mark. 

[itbrvilla]

It'll be nice to have some size and strength in the middle of the pitch for a change.