Amadou Onana

[FatSam]

I’m always nervous when we pay big money for players. There’s talk about needing to spend big to get the players who will help us make the step up, but I’m really not convinced it works like that. The idea is that you pay big money for a player that is guaranteed to do well, but there just aren’t any guarantees when signing players. It always feels too high a risk to me to lump it all on one player. We spent £85m in the summer on a player who can’t stay fit, and a player we didn’t need. Onana had a similar relationship with fitness at Everton as I understand it, and we clearly didn’t need Maatsen, as he couldn’t get into the team until Digne needed a rest.

[VillaTim]

The summer window looks disastrous. Maatsen Onana best part of £90m , sweet baby Jesus . Look forward to the post mortem

[kippaxvilla2]

Where is onana ? He's not only missed the battle , he's missed the war.
Frustrating.

In the tunnel, dressed like a clownshoe, doing exuberant high fives after we fluke past Chelsea, for the social media team, largely.

I’m telling you it’s Albert Popwell in magnum force. ‘Yes sir officer this is my car.’

[Dante Lavelli]

I don’t think you’ll pick up a player in their early 20s, that’s just made the CL team of the year, for much less than £35m.

But he’s not been good enough.  The revolving CB situation hasn’t helped, plus I don’t think Emery has trusted him enough which will naturally impact his confidence.

In theory, he should be great on the left when we have Konsa / CB / CB / Maatsen.  We just haven’t been able to play that formation enough.   

[Demitri_C]

Id happily cash in on him in the summer  as his fitness is the biggest issue. He is the opposite in terms of fitness of dougie. Say what you want about dougie but he played a majority of the season when with us. Unfortunately  cant see anyone coming close to payong 50m for him so he will just have to pray his fitness issues improve

This guy will sneeze and get injured  🤧

[Nii Lamptey]

£50m for a glorified cheerleader made of glass.

That fist bumps thing he does.... you have to earn that kind of interaction with the fans. A player that has been injured for pretty much half of our matches, and failed to show up in half of the others when he has been 'fit' , does not get to do that kind of stuff.

The tunnel footage after Chelsea was cringeworthy. You're not fit, so get out of the fucking tunnel and stop stealing the limelight from the players on the pitch that were actually earning their wage. I think the Everton fans are right on this one - Monchi has pulled a stinker.

[cdbearsfan]

What a load of nonsense.

[Nii Lamptey]

What a load of nonsense.

'Nonsense' - Where's the evidence that proves otherwise? He cost more than pretty much our entire midfield. What have we got to show for it?

[Olneythelonely]

So when we do win we fluke it?

The Chelsea keeper threw one in in the last minute. That's pretty flukey. And I'm referring to one match, not 'when we do win' in general.

We had our best xG of the season against Chelsea, so I wouldn’t call it a fluke. Having said that, I enjoyed your post anyway.

[Clampy]

What a load of nonsense.

'Nonsense' - Where's the evidence that proves otherwise? He cost more than pretty much our entire midfield. What have we got to show for it?

He's maybe referring to the 'stealing the limelight' nonsense which is just that, nonsense.

[cdbearsfan]

What a load of nonsense.

'Nonsense' - Where's the evidence that proves otherwise? He cost more than pretty much our entire midfield. What have we got to show for it?

The nonsense was your utterly ridiculous assertions that players shouldn't be able to interact with fans unless they have passed an arbitrary number of appearances decided by you, and that injured players should never smile or look happy when we win.

Just drivel.

[Drummond]

Id happily cash in on him in the summer  as his fitness is the biggest issue. He is the opposite in terms of fitness of dougie. Say what you want about dougie but he played a majority of the season when with us. Unfortunately  cant see anyone coming close to payong 50m for him so he will just have to pray his fitness issues improve

This guy will sneeze and get injured  🤧

Cash in? Then you say people won't pay, so which is it?

[Nii Lamptey]

What a load of nonsense.

'Nonsense' - Where's the evidence that proves otherwise? He cost more than pretty much our entire midfield. What have we got to show for it?

The nonsense was your utterly ridiculous assertions that players shouldn't be able to interact with fans unless they have passed an arbitrary number of appearances decided by you, and that injured players should never smile or look happy when we win.

Just drivel.

Fuck sake - Always on the offensive when someone has a different view to you.  🤷🏼‍♂️

I don't have a problem with players interacting with the fans or absolutely not looking happy when we win, but it sticks in my throat that he's come in as a big money signing (*when money is extremely tight), lauding it up as a fan favourite, but what have we actually seen from him on the pitch? I'll tell you - The square root of fuck all. I'd rather he entertained us there personally.

If he comes back from injury and drags us back into contention for the European spots, I'll stand corrected. But the jury is very much still out on this fella.

[Clampy]

What a load of nonsense.

'Nonsense' - Where's the evidence that proves otherwise? He cost more than pretty much our entire midfield. What have we got to show for it?

The nonsense was your utterly ridiculous assertions that players shouldn't be able to interact with fans unless they have passed an arbitrary number of appearances decided by you, and that injured players should never smile or look happy when we win.

Just drivel.

Fuck sake - Always on the offensive when someone has a different view to you.  🤷🏼‍♂️

I don't have a problem with players interacting with the fans or absolutely not looking happy when we win, but it sticks in my throat that he's come in as a big money signing (*when money is extremely tight), lauding it up as a fan favourite, but what have we actually seen from him on the pitch? I'll tell you - The square root of fuck all. I'd rather he entertained us there personally.

If he comes back from injury and drags us back into contention for the European spots, I'll stand corrected. But the jury is very much still out on this fella.

Yes, he's not  pulled up any trees on the pitch as yet but coming out with 'stealing the limelight in the tunnel' and he needs to 'earn the right to fistbump fans' is just so ridiculous.

[cdbearsfan]

Exactly, worry about his (lack of) matches if you like, that's fair enough, but getting angry about the other things is just weird projection.