Amadou Onana

[JUAN PABLO]

Every good game he has for us (all of them so far) just seems to increase the number of Everton fans screeching "ah, he'll go to shit eventually." Bitter twats.

what leicester say about Youri.

[Demitri_C]

It seems from the athletic report - onana was our number one summer target. Also appears he rejected manure to come here. How times have changed

[Keeno]

My heart used to sink when Gregory or O'Neill signed another brick shithouse but this guy seems special (and I trust Emery with all kinds of shithouses, especially brick ones).

We have the extremely rare shithouse who is also world class with his feet at the no. 6/8. The list of these types of midfielders begins with Rodri and er... ends with Rodri? 50m is going to look cheap.

[Smithy]

Something that I think was missed in the highlights at the weekend, was Onana's role in the move for Ollie's chance in the first few minutes (from the Tielemens pass), and how it all started with Amadou winning the ball when he had no right to. It was a simple pass from the Leicester centre back into the midfielder, but Onana sticks out one of his long legs and wins the ball extremely cleanly from the blind side.

It was precisely the sort of thing we saw him do in the highlight reels from his time at Everton, the difference was, Everton often did nothing with the ball when he won it for them. This time it resulted in a good chance, because he has better players around him.

I see that happening a lot more often this season.  He's going to be brilliant for us!

[danno]

My heart used to sink when Gregory or O'Neill signed another brick shithouse but this guy seems special (and I trust Emery with all kinds of shithouses, especially brick ones).

I don’t remember Gregory signing many brick shithouses. Not in midfield anyway. Although now that I think about it George Boateng did break Gazza’s arm with just his face.

[paul_e]

Yep, his telescopic legs are a massive benefit in those tight areas. I've said it before but if you looked at our options in midfield there was a massive hole in our capabilities that Onana seems to fill completely. I think we wanted Tim to become that player but he was a year or 2 away so we used this summer to effectively swap him and some cash to get a player much closer to what we needed.

Luiz is a loss but I do think we had players in Tielemans and Barkley who can cover a lot of that whereas no one offers the same as Onana. Kamara covers the defensive parts but doesn't have the same drive up the pitch.

[Somniloquism]

Something that I think was missed in the highlights at the weekend, was Onana's role in the move for Ollie's chance in the first few minutes (from the Tielemens pass), and how it all started with Amadou winning the ball when he had no right to. It was a simple pass from the Leicester centre back into the midfielder, but Onana sticks out one of his long legs and wins the ball extremely cleanly from the blind side.

It was precisely the sort of thing we saw him do in the highlight reels from his time at Everton, the difference was, Everton often did nothing with the ball when he won it for them. This time it resulted in a good chance, because he has better players around him.

I see that happening a lot more often this season.  He's going to be brilliant for us!

Didn't he do similar in the cup game we lost to Everton for their first. Won the press (against Doug) but the difference was he then flicked it through for the attacker as well.

[eamonn]

Overall it was a decent telescopic-legs swap, Tim for Amadou.

[eye digress]

Something that I think was missed in the highlights at the weekend, was Onana's role in the move for Ollie's chance in the first few minutes (from the Tielemens pass), and how it all started with Amadou winning the ball when he had no right to. It was a simple pass from the Leicester centre back into the midfielder, but Onana sticks out one of his long legs and wins the ball extremely cleanly from the blind side.

It was precisely the sort of thing we saw him do in the highlight reels from his time at Everton, the difference was, Everton often did nothing with the ball when he won it for them. This time it resulted in a good chance, because he has better players around him.

I see that happening a lot more often this season.  He's going to be brilliant for us!

In the summer, one of my Bluescouse mates described precisely this attribute that he promised we would be getting with Onana - good spot!

[enigma]

Overall it was a decent telescopic-legs swap, Tim for Amadou.

my Everton supporting mate says Tim has been their best player so far. Not sure what that says about Tim or the rest of the team though TBH.

[Demitri_C]

My heart used to sink when Gregory or O'Neill signed another brick shithouse but this guy seems special (and I trust Emery with all kinds of shithouses, especially brick ones).

I don’t remember Gregory signing many brick shithouses. Not in midfield anyway. Although now that I think about it George Boateng did break Gazza’s arm with just his face.

I think the last brickhouse we had was jedinak. He was massive  then i can only think of boateng and nigel reo coker

[thick_mike]

Another attribute he has that I think Emery is looking for is intelligence. He’s a bright eloquent lad, similar to Mings.

[Sexual Ealing]

Another attribute he has that I think Emery is looking for is intelligence. He’s a bright eloquent lad, similar to Mings.

Yes.

[Risso]

Another attribute he has that I think Emery is looking for is intelligence. He’s a bright eloquent lad, similar to Mings.

Yes.

And good looking. I mean, I expect that that's not *that* high on Emery's list of requirements, although he has bought a few good looking lads.

[IFWaters]

Another attribute he has that I think Emery is looking for is intelligence. He’s a bright eloquent lad, similar to Mings.

Yes.

And good looking. I mean, I expect that that's not *that* high on Emery's list of requirements, although he has bought a few good looking lads.

What about a topless squad calendar for Christmas? That could raise a few quid.