Everton Banter Archive July 03 2011

03 Jul 2011 22:51:59
I think we may be looking at a change of formation, 5 at the back baines and coleman pushing forward with jags distan heitinga/Heinz, midfield of arteta felli rodders/heitinga and cahil playing off a main striker hopefully not Saha, I can't see where heinz would fit in unless we play this way, cos I also think we won't b getting anyone new just to sit on the bench {Ed025's Note - it would be nice to watch....with sturridge up front

Sturridge would be great, he would fit in with our style of play and get loads of goals for us. {Ed025's Note - he would be top of my wish list.....but we,ll have to see..

03 Jul 2011 18:08:08
David Moyes is in talks with Gabriel Heinze over a one year contract

Would be a good addition, even if I think the defense is already ok

HOPEFULLY ITS A BACKUP

A quality experienced player, would improve our squad {Ed024's Note - Agreed but can we pay his wages?

It depends if we can offload yaks and yobos wages and whoever else we sell, this should release a transfer and wage budget to bring in a couple of players {Ed024's Note - Just heard that this Heinze deal is a real possibility!

Never in a million years would a player like him sit on the bench as cover. If he came to Everton it'd be with starting position in mind, and I'd guess it'd mean someone is leaving to accomodate him. {Ed025's Note - he is a quality player...who would be a good addition to the squad,..if he was in the first eleven,it would be on merit,david moyes knows what hes doing

Hope we only sign hi if baines goes, i would not pay the wages otherwise

I think it's pretty obvious we need to sell to buy and if it meant sacrificing Heitinga to sign Nzogbia using Heinze as cover at centre half as well as LB i think it would be a pretty smart move myself

03 Jul 2011 17:24:50
we shouldn't sell rodwell, fellani, baines, cahill or jagielka
we should be building a team around these players {Ed025's Note - in an ideal world mate...id agree with you.

03 Jul 2011 14:55:08
we should look at Sebastian Coates (age 20) of Nacional
he is a central defender and could be a very good signing. he is valued at around £4 million. i've watched a few videos of him and he looks like a very safe defender
if you want to look at a scout report go to sky sports transfer centre and click on scout {Ed025's Note - i have heared about this lad,and he does look good...but i think we all agree...a centre forward, is our main priority.

Me again (i posted the banter i'm replying to)
i agree we should get a centre foward and that it is our main priority but i also think we could do with cover at the back, we have jagielka, distin, duffy, heitinga, phil neville, yobo (tell me if i've missed anyone)
yobo is being sold, heitinga could be sold, phil neville could be playing CDM or right back
that would leave us with only duffy to cover for injurys {Ed025's Note - dont forget hibbo...but i see your piont.

And Coleman...

And Baines... {Ed025's Note - so it looks like were ok for defenders

I was talking about central defenders

I don't understand. You made a list of SIX central defenders, why would you buy another one then? It'd be surplus I think...

Oh and there is also Rodwell who can play CB... {Ed025's Note - good shout

What i meant was that if we sell yobo and heitinga we would have only three central defenders left(Jagielka, Distin & Duffy)
Baines is playing left-back
Hibbert, Neville or Coleman will be playing right-back
Coleman could be played right-midfield
that gives us cover at right back(Hibbert & Neville) only 1 to cover at centre back (Duffy) and no cover at left back(only Baines)
it would do us no harm to bring in a new centre back to cover for injurys
(not sure if i explained that well) {Ed025's Note - i know what you meant...but nev & hibbo can both play centre back

02 Jul 2011 23:29:03
While I'm as anxious as the next blue to get the first signing made, it's just as quiet elsewhere with the exception of Man Utd & Sunderland. It could be worse... we could be Brum supporters, having watched our rubbish team get relegated on the last day (always funny), all our best players getting sold and our crooked owner getting banged up for money laundering... now there's a thought

We still have plenty of time to sign players before the friendlies, moyes is concentrating on getting rid of yak and yobo before signing anyone

It will take one of the big money clubs to start everything off, once that happens the same money starts getting spead around as teams without the big investors react to an influx of cash they weren't expecting. Now that pre-season training is around the corner I expect things to start moving quicker. Moyes said he wanted to do business early so maybe one or two frees or low fees to start us off. Obviously There is the peinaar and vaughan money plus whatever the board have made available so there may yet be a surprise bigger purchase. I think we need a presence up front for Beckford/Saha to feed off. There was a suggestion we were looking at Huntelaar again on the rumours page a week or so ago quoting Sky Sports News as reporting it but I couldn't find anything on their transfer centre. Opinions please Ed and was there any strength to that link? {Ed024's Note - I can only find the original story from Jan 2010, He didn't wanna come then and would want euro football plus wages outwith our range to come now, unless Moysey works some magic!

I THINK HUNTELAAR WOULD BE AMAZING??? but it wont happen :(