The Everton Forum • Re: The Rebuild
And this is the salient point we have to be conscious of. We’re so keen to replace the players we have in the squad that we know do some things poorly,… but there are few on here that actually advocate for a specific replacement and provide sound reasoning as to why they’d improve us.Of course we'd be far better off - as we would be if we swapped him for Mbappé or Isak. But it's pie in the sky, isn't it? Quality strikers are hard to come by these days and there are more teams (and probably better teams) than Everton looking in that market.
And I don't think it does say everything about the situation. You can want to keep a player without them having to be a nailed-on starter every week. We're losing half our squad in the summer - we need players!
We'd be incredibly fortunate to sign a striker and have them play 90 mins, 38 times a season - plus cup matches - and never needing to substitute them or switch things around.
Beto has proven that he can be useful at this level. It depends who else we were to bring in, but I wouldn't be averse to him starting matches next season and/or coming on if we need something different.
It’s often proposed we need a ‘generic young 30m rated ball playing midfielder’, yet there are rarely any names put forward. It’s a vapid argument. There is no solution. We need to be able to answer: Who would improve us, and why? Not some unidentified player that might not even exist, let alone at a price we could afford.
Name names.
Statistics: Posted by Cods — Sat May 10, 2025 11:12 pm