Evann Guessand

[ChicagoLion]

Replacing Mcginn with him was a very poor decision.
League 1 level at best.

You could feel the collective groans when he started getting prepared. I’ve heard that we’ve refused to include him in the Tammy negotiations.

This window does feel like a pivotal moment for us.

Why would we refuse to include him, I can an imagine them refusing to have him as a makeweight.

[Rigadon]

He basically let Grealish run past him at one point in the first half.  It looks to me like he knows he's not good enough for this league.  If we can sell him, we really do need to because he is absolutely shite.

[Chip Butty 111]

We will have to give him away, can't see anyone actually paying money !! Surely whoever scouted him was watching another player, and we thought we were getting someone else...

[TheToffnar]

I'm not quite where some are yet, but I'm getting there.

He showed signs of life yesterday with a few turns out wide and his efforts on goal, but he is utterly useless out of possession and the rest of the team looked completely unwilling to see him as a passing option.

Start him up front against Fener and give Ollie a rest. If he shows nothing then fuck it, I'll join the pile on.

[TheTimVilla]

Can't we sell him to a sportswashing league?!

[Bobby Boy]

Watching Guessand lumbering about the pitch for 80 odd minutes, scarcely contributing to our link up play, scarcely contributing to our general play, was thoroughly depressing.

Knowing that he cost us £30 million quid in the summer when we are all bemoaning the evils of PSR is mind-numbing.

He is Division 1 level at best.

An absolute shocker.

[PhilVill]

Its so depressing that we'll make next to nothing off this buy, I'm starting to think that could have contributed to us freezing out Elliott as the realization that we'd just spunked £30 million up the curtains and therefore there was no way we could take the chance with him. I cannot see any way that this lad will come good - he looks lost and seems to Riverdance his way up and down the right side with no end product.

[eye digress]

I'm not quite where some are yet, but I'm getting there.

He showed signs of life yesterday with a few turns out wide and his efforts on goal, but he is utterly useless out of possession and the rest of the team looked completely unwilling to see him as a passing option.

Start him up front against Fener and give Ollie a rest. If he shows nothing then fuck it, I'll join the pile on.

Know what you mean.

There's the eye test: looks like shit, plays like shit, is shit.

Then there's the weird stuff: Unai persists with him - maybe to make him marketable? Except his national boss does too, and he has no such need - in fact for him, it's all about the here and now. Both coaches are serious pros.

Plus as you say, there were signs of life - albeit faint. It was a really good run that provoked Tielemans' pass first half (not the other way around). The headed chance was a pretty good effort. I haven't seen it back this morning, but wasn't that a no-look reverse pass to Rogers in the box? Saucy.

But yeah, looks like shit, lost, crisp packet, etc.

[Drummond]

Ridiculous to criticise Guessand but stay silent on Watkins. He did more today than Ollie did.

Whataboutery doesn't help here. Ollie was anonymous today but we know he can, and will, do better. With Guessand, I just don't see that.

On the ball he's ok. Off it, he just doesn't work hard enough. Chris Sutton called him out as lazy a couple of times

But Guessand was the better of the two today so it doesn't make sense to go for him before Watkins.

Despite Watkins being our all-time Premier LEague scorer and having done the business so many times before. He'll get some slack as a result. Even you must be able to see that.

[Drummond]

Who the fuck signed off on £30mil for this guy - I mean, that's the last £30mil we had. Imagine wasting it like that. Criminal.

Unai Emery did.

[Drummond]

To date, pound for pound, he’s one of the worst value signings we’ve made ever.

That is harder to argue with. A lot was spent on him, though Balaban, taking into consideration inflation etc......

[Gareth]

I think any winger that is slow is going to struggle in this league, he evidently has talent but just can’t see it happening at this point.  He did one or two good things yesterday the header, a few tackle backs but he was shrugged off the ball too easily and there was the one chase with mikolenko I think it was where he lost 5/6 yards over 25.

Feel sorry for him that he was the only money signing, had he been 30m in a 175m spend he could have bedded in but he sticks out.

Wouldn’t be surprised to see him shipped out this month if we have some loan / £’s wiggle room

[Drummond]

He's not a winger. I think that's the issue.

It's interesting that Wolves, Palace and Spurs all had a look and decided he was too expensive. I suspect the people we really wanted weren't gettable and we reacted desperately by taking a punt on Guessand, Sancho and Elliott. All of whom haven't shown anything of note other than in short bursts (Guessand has scored a couple, Sancho had a half of good football to prove Chelsea wrong, and Elliott in the Christmas Jumper video).

It feels like we took a very big punt on him, and hoped with the other two we'd have more surety, that they've all been of no use to us just puts more pressure on each of them. It can take a while for a player to start showing their worth under Emery (see Bailey, Maatsen, Tielemans) but Guessand has been thrown in and lacks confidence to even do the basics well.

[Proposition Joe]

Who was that Brazilian or Portuguese player that Fergie got conned into buying? Bebe? Something like that. This transfer reminds me of that. Feel very bad for Elliott, he should really be playing there instead.