Oviedo looking at late-season cameo

It would be good to see Ossie back too. HeÂ’s made a big difference to recent performances, and hopefully Rom will be up for it and might bang in one or two against Burnley.

My option would see all three playing (Garbutt - LB, Baines - LM, Oviedo - LW) but we all know that isnÂ’t going to happen... so I think one of these players will have to be sacrificed and my sacrificial lamb would be... Oviedo.

I like Bryan, I think heÂ’s a great lad and player but heÂ’s injury prone IMO. Bainsey has had an iffy season but heÂ’s still a great player and is coming good again; and Garbutt? Well Luke is pure potential who will eventually take over BainseyÂ’s place at Everton and England so we need to keep him happy.

I donÂ’t think Bryan will be happy to be third choice so, unfortunately, IÂ’d let him go and keep the other two happy.

We cannot hold onto Ovideo at the expense of Garbutt for me. Garbutt is a better financial asset and I think will be a better LB in the long term than Oviedo.

HeÂ’s our best LB right now but heÂ’s also not far off 30 so his value and abilities are only going to go downhill in the next year or two.

Both Oviedo and especially Garbutt can take over imo. Man City will be in the market for a LB and selling Baines to them for say 㾶-15m would be great business. England LB and they need homegrown players in their squad. The funds can then finance a decent player in another position. Remember also that Baines is one or our top earners on around 㿷k/week.

Ideally we would hang on to all three as they are all good players. Any team who picked up Oviedo would be getting a bargain. To be honest, itÂ’s surprising other teams havenÂ’t been sniffing about, as he is a really good player. Still, I suppose thatÂ’s because LB is rarely a glamour position.

IÂ’d like us to at least try to move one of them out onto the wing or into midfield before we move them on. If that fails then being realistic we will have to sell one to have a better balance to the squad and to be fair to the players.

Gavin has the best idea of trying the players out before moving them on. I wonder why no one has suggested Garbutt at a mid spot since his attacking play is better than his defensive play from what I have seen.

Harold, Garbutt is young without many games under his belt and his all-round game will improve in time. I hope we arenÂ’t kickin ourselves when he is getting more pitch time somewhere else.

I have a suggestion nobody has mentioned... Oviedo in BarryÂ’s spot. He has the grit for supporting mid, is much quicker than Barry and will get forward into spaces where McCarthy wonÂ’t (and finish where McCarthy wonÂ’t) and can make the incisive passes Besic cannot. Whattya think?

Oviedo can fill in as a midfielder but has never reached the heights since his unlucky injury, when his best position was full back.

Browning, Ledson also should be blooded now for cameos; as thereÂ’s little to lose.

Keep Oviedo - cause with our perenial injury curse; he"l be needed.

HeÂ’s ahead of Garbutt for me but IÂ’d like to see him given a chance on either wing, unlikely whilst Pienaar and Lennon are fit.

Like others IÂ’d sell Baines to Man City for a few quid and keep Oviedo and Garbutt. True neither has huge experience of our league but they can only get that by playing.

I took a look at our squad appearances and found a few players have played nearly every game but most our squad and some of the youth have been given a chance this season. Has Martinez used this season to see what his squad is capable of?

Competition for places only works if the manager is willing to pick players based on form, which has not been the case with Martinez. I fear young Luke will be gone for nought in a couple of months and if Baines is still around next season Oviedo will probably leave for nought next year. That would be typical Everton and would not surprise me in the least bit.

It appears that his appearances have not registered with the DailyPost as, under the caption Â’Oviedo targets return to actionÂ’ in yesterdayÂ’s paper, shows a photograph subtitled Â’EvertonÂ’s Bryan Oviedo taking on Crystal PalaceÂ’s Jordan Mutch in January, prior to him sustaining a hamstring injuryÂ’.

But that was not OVIEDO – it was BESIC. Now I fully understand how one Phil Kirkbride philipkirkbride@trinitymirror.com 0r @PhilEcho can get his Everton players mixed up in private but to publish the picture of BESIC taking on the Crystal Palace's Mutch is just plain ignorance and probably shows were his allegiances lie.

Idle twat.

I donÂ’t know if this is old news or not but IÂ’m keeping my fingers crossed we can sort this out.