Everton land biggest summer signing so far in Beto

Strange.

Spandau Ballet theme - Gold

Beto, always believe in your Everton Soul,
Always Believing, your Everton Gold
Beto...

UTFTs!

I know this much is trroooooo….

Beto will make some things happen!

Good Times™, baby!

Good Luck, Lad – we need you, we need your goals. Welcome to the Nuthouse!!

COYBs

I would like you to think that Thelwell brokered the deal, and hopefully this is a sign of a "new order" emerging at Everton.

Enjoying the moment!

UTFTs! Viva Santo Domingo!

Love the bloke already.
Unleash the beast on Saturday! 💪

However, the manager's thought process is to assess fitness, well his fitness levels, before thinking of a player starting. We don't have time, even after just 3 games, to fart around with these mysterious fitness levels.

If Calvert-Lewin is not fit, then start him!

73 minutes in a cup game on the 11th
75 minutes against Juventus on the 20th August.

In the cup game, he scored and had an assist.

He also said in his interview that the Everton fans are massive, bigger than the other fans. Does he mean the Udinese fans or the RS?

Rob - The RS obviously!

A KFC Big Bucket tonight me thinks.

He Beto be better than the Eto'o who played for us.

Also, if true, a bloody good bit of footwork by Thelwell on the financial deal! Amazing!

Now just a creative attacking midfielder, please.

Joke!!! (Him, not me).

Where is Ian Edwards? Seems our dastardly fans aren't as bad as he'd have us believe.

Hope he meant the RS, Jack………will have gone up 10000000% in everyone’s estimation if he meant them.

Get Beto playing with two forwards alongside him and a creative midfielder behind him and we might actually score a goal this season.

Continue with Garner and Doucoure in 2 of the 3 creative supporting roles and it won't matter who we sign.

Relieved to see the striker purchase ban has finally been lifted. This time, I've stayed away from researching the player and know quite little of him, preferring to watch "cold" and be pleasantly surprised. Here's hoping.

Thelwell should take a bow on that deal, eh, Mick?

I don't in any way think he's going to be prolific. However, there's a good chance his overall impact on the team will be considerable. The ball will stick, it can go in the air, and we can play it in the channels. I think that's ten extra points right there.

He must be aware expectation is huge but also know a hat trick every other game till xmas should pacify most - it's all about blue sky thinking, baby.

"Erm no. He has a bad thigh strain.

"Why is that if he hasn't trained?"

"Well he sat on the plane too long, I blame the air traffic controllers, the bastards have injured our new striker, you couldn't make it up, he's out for three months, but I suppose, this is Everton."

"Chermiti not ready, Maupay will start the match."

Would make a nice change from some of the garbage we have signed in recent seasons. Still, in my opinion, we still need a decent midfielder as it's piss poor. UTFT

Good stuff. In fairness, if you'd told me our summer would include £40M on two 6ft-2in+ strikers and 2 goalscoring wingers, I'd have snapped your hand off. Not having them in before now is criminal, but hey ho.

Be nice to get one defensive addition over 38 years old to cover in Young…..CB, CDM, or left-footed attacking left-back would be nice.

Then it's all on Dyche… two games to save his skin.

If we can generate £25M from Gray and Iwobi, that will hopefully allow a couple of other purchases.

Hopefully exactly what we need!

Looking forward to seeing Mr Beto in action, and this might just light the blue touch paper and get things moving.

If the manager is smart then Beto leads the line vs Sheffield Utd, not smart would be more of the same ‘unlucky' poor quality.

I'm focusing on this one ''I love to score goals''.

Music to my ears. Bang them in, Beto!

Work hard and these supporters will back you.

You're an Evertonian now.

Does anyone know if he was registered in time? We could do with a good win in that one as it would give everyone the boost we need.

Sorry, Christine, I hadn't read your similar post before commenting and, in essence, asking the same question.

Good to see video of him training in an Everton shirt at high school too.

I actually am starting to get excited by this, finally. Just hope it isn't three games too late.

Usual caveat with players from Europe, May take time to get into the pace of the game in the Premier Legue.

If the deal is structured the way some say on here, all credit to Thelwell, good piece of business.

Hope Beto starts on Saturday.

Praying he doesn't get infected with the self-doubt afflicting his new teammates! Good luck to you, young man! COYB!

COYB! :)

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"It's not just about how many goals Beto will get – if he can hold up the ball he'll create more chances for midfielders".

Agree, Robert. And the brief glimpse of Chermiti on Saturday suggests somebody else who might be able to hold the ball up and lay it off.

Luxury, sheer luxury.

A bit later than I would have liked but this is great news. All we need now is a goalscoring midfield player and better full-back cover.

We definitely can't sign Ivan Toney now, with Beto in the team.

I'll get my coat. Up the toffees

Danjuma, McNeil, Harrison, Calvert-Lewin, Chermiti, Beto, Dobbin & Cannon. Things looking more positive. Gnonto or a creative central midfielder would be icing on the cake!!!

When your at the bottom the only way is up so any help we get up front will be good.

I am not saying we will become a competitive outfit overnight so any points in the next few games would be welcome.

With maybe Iwobi bringing in some cash and another signing the signs are we can make a turning point to alleviate this horrible start.

Branthwaite solves a problem at centre-back and him and Tarkowski look our best pairing. Would be nice to get a commanding centre-back in though because Tarkowski is good at blocking but is very slow and not great with the ball at his feet.

I still think we are woefully short at fullback. I know Patterson is young and still learning but our best right-back is still Seamus Coleman. Ashley Young is not young, I'm afraid. He looks like being the next Fabian Delph and getting one last payday from Everton. Mykolenko is decent at best. Godfrey hasn't been the same player since he got COVID and then got injured in the first game last season.

Everyone knows that we need some pace and creativity through midfield. How I wish we had a Tim Cahill type goal threat from midfield. They are desperately sad times when some of us are pinning our hopes on Deli Ali returning to some sort of form. Out wide, when everyone is fit, we seem to have pretty good options. Danjuma looks promising. Harrison is an upgrade on Gray and McNeill was one of our best outfield players last year. I think Garner could be a good player for us and Onana needs to dominate the midfield more. Unfortunately, I think Idrissa Gueye is too slow for today's game, makes too many mistakes and offers nothing going forward.

I'd like to see us sell Gray and Iwobi and invest in a playmaker.

I still don't fancy us at Sheffield United. I think that will be an intimidating atmosphere and our away form has been dreadful for years. Hope they prove me wrong.

We need to fix the home form. I really hope our survival doesn't depend on fans doing coach welcomes and blue flares come next April, again. Let's start treating home games at the start of the season as cup finals.

When you say who's better, we say it's Beto, it's Beto, it's Beto you bet,
When you see a goal, better you know it's Beto, you Beto you Beto you bet.

You can’t beat a bit of Stylistics.

He talks about Baines, Lukaku, Barkley and Mirallas in the video.

Agreed Spandau Ballet were cring, but that song tune, can be adapted!

The best tonic, regards EFC, for years.

UTFTs!

Viva Santo Domingo!

I won't bother waiting until we actually win something again, but will go overboard when Walrus Chops eventually goes!

Looks like a clever Striker to me,who also gets fouled a lot of times...time to polish our set-piece routines too, methinks!

For the first time in years, we're not going to be going from game to game wondering how we scrape together a forward line. That is a really big change.

"Dcl will be fit for every game now,"

There's no evidence to support this hypothesis (I hope it is true btw).

Ask Beto to phone Roberto Pereyra and get him over here asap. Apparently Udinese may be offering to take him back after releasing him in July.

I am feeling something of Danny's positivity at long last.

Great English so communication won't be a problem, sound like his mate Gerard Deulofeu gave us a really good thumbs up, which helped.

We will not go down. Can't see it happening.

We played very well in two of our losses (very well) and certainly didn't deserve two loses. The glaring, quite obvious issue being an inability to score goals and not having a proper striker up top.

Problem solved. And now we have Beto, Calvert-Lewin, and Chermiti (who I really like the look of) moving forward. From bare bones nothing to depth in like 1-2 weeks.

And people rip Thelwell? He's done a fucking fabulous job under the circumstances.

Off we go with hope restored! Welcome aboard, Beto!

He does, however offer us somethings we need in the middle of our attack, height, strength, speed (certainly got those attributes!) saw some of his goals and his speed and strength will certainly make him dangerous.

It didn't show much of him bringing other players into action; but I suppose these clips just want to show his goal action.

Anyway, I can't wait to see him and what he brings to our attack.

If we don't sell, or send on loan, Maupay, then I wouldn't discount him getting some goals for us alonside a centre forward as he's done before.

All in all, looking very good so far; and looks alarmingly like there's a logic behind our recruitment!

COYB

This one is coming in fully fit, match ready and having played in a decent competitive league. So why not give him some time against Doncaster? Might give him a chance to break his duck and get that monkey off his back early on.

Now we just need them to gel and put in a few good performances and get a few goals.

If we can just get a couple of wins and get some confidence in the team I'm sure we will see a team who we are proud to support.

Let's hope we can now get a few more off the wage bill.

COYB

Udinese 5-1 Calgari.

This is confidence for you!

One more thing, most people are talking about Saturday as the big challenge. We need to put a strong eleven out tomorrow night and take the game to Doncaster.
A few goals would do us all a world of good.

He's Sky Beto Championship level and, deep (fried) down you all know it.

Udinese 4-1 Cantanzaro

I liked, when asked what he would bring to the team, he said aggression and enthusiasm, which I liked. Started in the 5th tier in Portugal and had a part-time job in KFC, so he has had to work his way up the ranks, a bit like Vardy did. Now I am not saying he is going to be as good as Vardy, but it's a good grounding.

He said he watched his idol Eto'o play for us and he was also a fan of Lukaku. At Udinese, he played with Deulofeu who said the fans are great and told him to join us.

Wishing good luck and all power to your elbow (metaphorically only in this age of VAR)... and even more power to your shooting boots... and may yer heading be reminiscent of William Ralph.

One last wish: May you stay healthy in blue always.

I like it too that he worked his way up from very lowly football beginnings. He hasn't needed a silver spoon to get to the top, just hard graft and producing the goods on every step of the way. He's done it the hard way, no reason at all that he won't continue in the same vein at Everton.

UTFT! & COYBETO!

Well done to Thewell. Now get shut of a few passengers and Iwobi and get Gallagher.

Blimey, Stan (#116), don't spoil the moment. Love him to score 20 goals plus!

This is positive and better than what we had yesterday! Let's not destroy his confidence from the stands! We need better players to feed him the ball!

Exactly that I was thinking! This is all part of the Dyche master-plan to Mike Bassett us to the upper echelons of the Premier League!

Mind you after the last two seasons, I'd grab that with both hands, if it works! 4-4-(fucking)2 it is! 🤣

It also shows why the deals have been so hard to be completed. Does it mean we still have room for more incoming players?

New striker, nothing up front to pay, leaving cash for other areas??

What's not to like??

I'm liking Thelwell more and more!!

Welcome to the best-supported club in the world! I hope your stay is filled with success, goals and enjoyment.

Thelwell has done a super job getting this one over the line. He deserves no praise because he did not get this done before the Fulham game?

You have no idea if Beto was our number one target a few weeks ago. The deal that Thelwel has negotiated matches our financial situation perfectly (and might possibly free up money for another signing).

It's easy to come up with single sentence remarks but situations are usually a little more complex and nuanced than that.

BTW, I didn't stay too long in Danny's dreamworld coz you know I'm an eternal pain-in-the-arse pessimist.

Correct me if I'm wrong, which I often am, but wasn't there a link with him earlier in the year and the story ran that he was not that especially interested in a move to the greatest club in the world?

While we're at it, sell Gana who is way past his best and replace with a midfield destroyer. We are a soft touch through the middle of midfield.

Gallagher won't play too regularly for Chelsea as he's being blamed for them conceding goals.

Let's all D'ream eh!!!!!!

He's had a preseason and a couple of games so can get on the pitch straight away. Will need to give him time to adjust but really relieved we can now stop wondering every Friday if Calvert-Lewin is fit or not!

Season starts now and, with a few of the injured back in September, we can look to kick on and get clear of the drop zone.

If anyone can, you Beto can!

I struggle to understand what some Evertonians want or expect. Hands up who thinks Thelwell has done a great job, still three days to go.

I said on another thread that I hope Dyche plays a full-strength team tomorrow. 2 or 3 goals would be a huge morale booster for Saturday.

We need our wingers to give him the right ball, the service has been so poor, no wonder Calvert-Lewin got injured. Hope for a couple of more signings, a midfielder instead of Iwobi would suffice.

Here's hoping he has a baptism of fire on Saturday, and hope Dom can make the bench.

Give Dyche two games? Are you for real?

For a really great window I'd love to see Alli, Gbamin and Gomes shipped for some low fees to Saudi clubs. Adam Wharton in to replace them.

What will Dyche do against Doncaster?

Strong starting eleven or save the "big" guns for Saturday?
I think we need a confidence lift so we need to pass the first round by any means. Make it work, Mr Dyche, no excuses now.

Question: is Beto available to play v Doncaster?

And if Beto fails for 4 consecutive games, get rid!

Any other players born 31st Jan we can sign?

The past, is the past, and we live for now, every day is a good day.

For me, this is in context, all circumstances, where all circumstances, are known, the biggest transfer impact signing for decades. Hamed, was massive, but this for me is the decisive buy, to hange the whole out look of EFC.

Well done K T, and Team!

Everton, since January, have run the media gauntlet, and completed a signing, from initial to final interest.

This signing, will kick start this season.

UTFTs!
Viva Santo Domingo!
Welcome Beto!
"What's Our Name?"
NBlThere's a long way to go, but Everton, are boxing clever, at last.

I'll reserve judgement until I've seen him play a few games.

Good luck to him and all Toffees!

A bit of luck on and off the pitch is what's needed now.

If we get the centre-back Elvedi from Monchengladbach for under £5M and swop Keane and Cannon for Blackburn's Wharton, it's a good window.

Even better with Bakayoko in, paid for by the sale of Gray and (reluctantly but last year of contract) Iwobi.

COYB.

I like that last line of your post. “Everton are boxing clever at last”. Yes, it's been quite a while but some sensible signings financially and hopefully successfully after a good few years of absolutely millions of pounds wasted.

Little acorns are starting to grow again!

Apparently Udinese last won a title (Serie B) in 1979 so even our current mediocrity is a step up for him. The new Moise Kean, I suspect.

This is actually turning out to be a better transfer window than I would ever have expected.

He will provide a much needed focal point. Difficult to know where on the scale of Rondon to Lukaku he might fall but chances are he'll resemble both at different times.

Let's be patient and not expect the world straight away. If he manages 8 or so goals this season that's a decent start. Whatever happens, his presence should help us get up the pitch.

We can only hope that, sooner than later, these guys do a good job that gets us out of the doldrums.

Just like when we brought in new managers we all said they need some time to assess the situation and get with the program but the initial success with all of them was short lived and now we are hoping Dyche can work with these new boys better than his predecessors.

He got us over the line last season with some good victories so let's see where we go from here. Up I hope.

I'll try to do Beto next time.

Deliverance, time will prove, but for the metal side of life, and the outlook on Everton, well it's a match made, hopefully.

I hope Thelwell has done it all, and the final exorcism of the evil spirits which have dragged the club to purgatory will be completed soon.

In context and that's what it is, it's a sense of breaking the ice, living, and Everton are still there, in the mix.

3 games down, but the rest of the season to claw back. This season starts tomorrow.

The October Inquest will or may not bring the club down further, beyond its knees, but for me this day has brought some smiles and belief back into the world of Evertonians.

Let's all embrace and enjoy this day and a double victory in South Yorkshire this week.

I've not known such Everton joy over a single singing since Latchford or Lineker but this is bigger and more important signing, hinged to the survival of EFC.

UTFTs!
Viva Santo Domingo!
“Whats Our Name?”

If Thelwell pulls that deal off, then, God forbid, he will be the next big broker on Wall Street!

UTFTs!

As Keith says, Cannon could be an excellent bargaining chip.

They said hey. what's his name?
Do you think he'll take you to fame?
We said hey now don't you wait
Cos he's gonna break the scoring rate.

Beto, baby it's Beto, Beto, baby it's. Beto.

If Beto is as good as his European and Everton scout reviews, then Everton will hold their own this season.

I think he is a sharp street-wise version of “Rom”?

UTFTs!

We just wanted one afternoon of being happy mate :(

So fingers crossed that the combined cash we can hopefully get from selling the expiring contracts of Iwobi (£‎16 Million?) and Gray (£‎10 Million+?) will be enough to get Sulemana.

DuPont #180 – if we can get that right-footed right-winger, I think we will really be in business.

If he can resemble Lukaku and Rondon at different times then I obviously hope he provides the best bits of both these players. And now it's time for some late business for Dyche to change how our midfield are going to play imo.

I'd get rid of Iwobi, Gray and Onana if there are any takers, and get in the wide players with pace that he desires, to bring in the craft.

Our midfield needs freshening up and also lacks a bit of craft and composure, but if we can get that extra craft out wide, then I'd swap our drifters for scrappers, and completely change the way we play.

It's all about opinions, and mine is that we would suddenly become a much more resilient team, but hurry up, Dyche, because this failure to prepare once again could/should cost you your job, in the eyes of a few other fans.

Rondon had best bits????

Were they part of Chairman Bill's good times???

He came to Everton unfit, when the most divisive manager in our entire history was given £1.7 million to spend, with a mantra to reduce the wage bill, before he would be given money to spend.

He never got no money and then lost both Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison to injury, which left us without a fit centre-forward in the squad.

Failing to prepare has cost us a lot of points over the last three seasons, but I'm sure Kenwright is gonna get out of his sick bed for the last 48 hours of this window, and hopefully give us the players to produce those illusive good times.

We could see the reverse of Rafa's season, where we were excellent up until the international break. Here's hoping!

Fingers crossed it works well for us! Looking forward to seeing him on the pitch.

As for tonight, we really need a win and, just as importantly, to score some bloody goals and to get off the mark this season.

What a time to be an Everton fan!

He ticks a lot of boxes.

I wonder if he quite understands what he now is? Even without the Number 9 shirt?

Could be the start of something beautiful. Or not. I've no idea. But there's hope... which is something that's been missing.

Also which wide men does he select from McNeil, Harrison, Danjuma and (if he hasn't gone) Iwobi, with talk about bringing in another winger.

Who knows… we may at some point see Dele Alli although Dyche reckons he is miles away from being ready.

Just checked where Napoli finished last season… 'Champions'. This is a good omen.

I sincerely hope so!

I was in Colwyn Bay on holiday on the morning the Charity Shield was to take place at Goodison Park. I walked round to the paper shop while my mum cooked the breakfast and my dad had a lie in.

I bought the Daily Mirror and went straight to back page and saw the headline:

EVERTON SIGN ALAN BALL £110,000

We played Liverpool that afternoon without Bally of course and got beat 1-0. Two Saturdays later, we hammered them at Goodison 3-1, Bally scoring twice.

About 12 months later on the morning of one of my GCEs, I read that Howard K had signed for £80,000, really getting up Shankly's nose.

Those were the days of John Moores and Harry Catterick when you never heard anything until The Catt had sealed the deal — which could never happen these days!

By a strange coincidence, I wasn't far away. I was staying in a caravan in Rhyl with a few mates. Peculiar for me, on that particular day, I chose to read the front page of my Mirror first!

When I turned to the back page, I literally danced for joy all the way back to the caravan. BTW don't think it was the same day as the Charity Shield match. I was at that game where Ray Wilson & Roger Hunt carried the Jules Rimet trophy around the pitch.

Bally's first game was away to Fulham where he scored the only goal of the game. Cheers.

I feel positive about Sean Dyche and so look forward to a relatively positive season after the next 2 or 3 games.

- Dyche will play 451 / 433 / 4231 variant. 442 may make an appearance late in games if we're desperate for a goal, but it won't be our usual set up.

- Dele Alli will never play another game for Everton.

That's interesting news, all the way from the Middle East, and I'm surely going to be right one day when I say Everton are going to be sold, because I've said it enough times over the years! 🤞💙🙏

I thought the Chinese were unwelcome bedfellows in the UK, strongly influenced by the Americans? Having said that, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is in China and he said amongst other things:

"It is important that we maintain regular dialogue, regular lines of communication" then we can all laugh when they invest billions in a football club that is great at losing money. The last bit isn't true!

Losing millions indeed, Barry, but hopefully that will change once the arl bastard finally leaves us for good.

I was still under a year old then but my arl man always talked about Ball, Harvey and George Best, as the best players of that era, along with the unlucky Tony Kay.

Good to have some hope for a change and starting a match with genuine hope and purpose.

UTFTs!

Selling Iwobi and Gray would be good business given both are in the last years of their contracts. The club finally beginning to learn it's not a great idea allowing players to sit out their contracts and then leave for free.

Now if we could just get rid of Maupay and Keane that would be the icing...