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Easily proved hes worth the fee we paid since Howe came in

‘Who, that bloke who relegated Bournemouth?’

0 We are winning the league

Happy Wood got his goal, very clean header and what a cross from Shelvey

Really missing Joelinton I feel

Hopefully the knock to Joe isnt to bad, lets see how we play without him. Hope Bruno has a stormer.

I dont think we will tip our wage structure over 100k a week yet, it will take at least another season. I think Bruno is on 70-80k.

Raphinha I think might be possible this summer, Rice nah. As has been said any player that will expect to be paid over 100k a week won’t be here.

Everton remind me so much of what we were during 2008/9.

Tonight the team he picks will be interesting, he will have to rotate in this run of 4 games in 10 days. For everyone that’s been looking for any reason to start Bruno they will probably get their wish soon enough

Their fans are generally fucking rank and deserve everything they get

Apparently one of them chucked their season card at the manager and stormed out when they were 0-1 down

What? I just said in my post that he’s not African, no need for the rabid race accusations like. All I said was that the post about African players commonly fiddling their ages isn’t exactly wrong.

I mean, he’s kind of right though (about the fiddling of ages not Zapata being African)

This is a big point for us at the moment, it defo feels like we are signing players depending on their personality as much as their ability. Howe seems to have an exact idea of the type of mentality he wants around the club.

He’s had a massive resurgence compared to the first few games under Howe, I was one of the people saying he shouldn’t be playing in a back 4 and he’s making me eat my words at the moment. Long may it continue.

I think he’s actually a bit underrated going forward as you say obviously no Trippier but he has shown himself to be effective enough, very very solid defensively and as consistent as you like so far at PL level? I was expecting him to be £20-25m.

I don’t expect us to shift any of the core members of the dressing room this summer so the likes of Lascelles, Shelvey (would keep anyway) and Dummett will stay. Almiron, Gayle, Fede, Clark, Lewis, Krafth almost certain to leave if we can do deals for them all.. I think we will bring in 5 + Targett.

£15m for him looks a steal

That’s fair enough, I get the thinking. I’d prefer that to but we might need to move the project along a year or two before we can tempt some high level young players.

If 35-40m for a just turned 31 yo is to much then would you not pay 8-10m for a 35 yo like say.. Dzeko either?

Him turning 31 doesn’t put me off at all tbh, with his physical build and style of play he could easily play at the top level for 4/5 more seasons.. but I can see why £40m for a 31 year old might seem a bit much. To me he perfectly fits the bill of what we’d be looking for, as for Calvert Lewin wouldn’t he be on more than 100k a week at Everton? I think it’s pretty safe to count out any player that’s earning north of that number for the next window.

I suppose at this point it’s worth mentioning that our current record unbeaten streak is 11 games

I really hope the rumours about Zapata during January were concrete, that guy is a monster and as much of a ready made premier league striker as you could find outside of England. Would probably cost around £40m but I’d be more than happy to bet that he’d end up being worth every penny.