Everton may have to change the transmission plan
One of Everton’s core messages this summer was that the club would like to maintain a quality threshold through its transfer business. Another who was clear in the lengthy negotiations in which the Barry sign of Villarreal and the lengthy discussions about Tyler swing was clear is that the club does not want to be overpaid -every pound is monitored and the budget is the healthiest that it has been for years that it is the desire not to drive.
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Both ambitions are commendable, but will probably be tested in the next fourteen days. The reality is now that Everton may have to be pragmatic and compromises in some areas in order to give yourself the best chance of a good first season in the Hill Dickinson Stadium.
It would be wrong to mark the defeat at Leeds United a reality check.
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There were mitigating factors that Everton had suffered an accident with the loss of the most important players Jarrad Branthwaite and Vitalii Mykolenko on the eve of the campaign, while the occasion – the newly widespread page among the lights in front of a full house – would always present a serious test.
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But in truth, David Moyes, the hierarchy of the club and the fan base, did not learn anything that was not clear in the previous season. Some of the biggest topics have been unsolved for several years.
The boss among these is the lack of options that are available on the right. In an attacking sense, this was a topic for two years. Everton’s confidence by the loan player Jesper Lindstrom and Jack Harrison made it almost inevitable last season that the club was missing a constant winger on this page when they had returned to their parents’ associations. There was a buying clause in Lindstrom’s deal, but the Denmark international was not close to the heights that Everton tried to trigger it before he had injured the season.
The right wing has therefore been a priority for months. The search carried out in Francisco Conceicao, Johan Bakayoko, Malick Fofana and finally on the swing. There was no breakthrough and that was painfully clear in the Elland Road.
If Everton had had her way, one of her nemesis would be in her books at the Wilfied Wilfied season opener. As a player who prefers the right, he was persecuted by the blues in front of two summers and missed games in the middle of Merseyside’s interest. Leeds did not move and Everton lost the opportunity to fix a right -handed problem that continues to hold 24 months later.
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The other blatant problem is the lack of a specialist. Again, Everton tried to be proactive in this market and felt close to a contract with Kenny Tete before deciding to sign new terms with Fulham.
Jake O’Brien produced an admirable eight months on the right, the Everton strengthens and gains the Premier League experience. But he is not a natural talent and Leeds has uncovered the problems of him to play out of the position on Monday. He not only had difficulty dealing with Gnonto, but offered little quality in the future.
This is an area in which he has improved dramatically, and there is no lack of adventure from a young player who has shown his class in Royal Blue. But the balance of the side is wrong, without a specialist in both positions on the right. Both positions also affect the other. If neither of the two options are of course, they both lose the type of key support that you would otherwise expect if someone in their preferred position either plays in front of or behind them.
It has been a problem area for some time and the belief in Everton was 12 months ago that they could get confused with the players who have had them and were able to pay their attention elsewhere. At least they were able to rely on James Garner as an option, but its importance for the central midfield left little doubt, since Everton was overwhelmed by playing on the left.
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There are currently too many square foundations in round holes, and there will be the effects of creating a team that lacks balance and coherence. Everton had problems in these areas last season, but in Lindstrom, Harrison and Ashley Young they had players who could at least make the basics and made it possible for others to play in their natural positions.
That is the big difference between now and last season – the reduction of the squad players, who were able to prevent at least a situation that developed in Leeds, where the lack of Mykolenko led to a situation in which O’Brien, Garner and Alcaraz played out of position.
In order to tackle this problem in the last weeks of the transfer window, Everton may have to do one of two things. Either they accept that some Squad players for the ‘here and now’ would give the wider team a massive boost that would at least prevent one or two injuries to cause chaos throughout the XI. Or, if you maintain the quality threshold, be it at short notice or the future, the club may have to accept that it could now be the smaller evil to pay this a little more to make a deal over the line.
Everton has a positive season and panic after a disappointing night is premature in Leeds. However, the club has to help itself and in this case the current problems would be unattended than to compromise in some areas of its transfer policy.