Sandro secures Sevilla loan move

Memo to our Director of Football – stop scouting players on YouTube.

No problem with players coming into the Premier League and having some shock at the pace and physicality. Just the way it is.

But La Liga is no joke either and this 20-year old Sandro did the business there.

So, knock em dead at Sevilla, Sandro, then c'mon back.

Maybe Everton need a couple more Latino players, so players like Sandro can settle more.

He's not going to want to return to Merseyside once he's got used to the life in sunny Spain and Seville is a beautiful place for it!!

Just about getting as much as we can for him now.

Good luck to him. He has talent.

He is putting a bigger effort into that than addressing weaknesses in the team.

Option to buy cheap: Bad mistake. Major talent, should be nurtured, not sold.

Memo to Michael – some people actually watch La Liga live, not on YouTube, and 16 goals in that league ain't no web video invention. This kid can play..

That will be Sandro, Mirallas, Lennon, plus Klasseen and Besic should be going to Napoli and Boro respectively. There's also youngsters like Henen and Walsh. In terms of money saved that must be somewhere in the region of 𧹈k a week. Weren't Sandro and Klaassen on a bout 𧴜k a week each. Plus loan fees in Sandro and Klaassen's cases.

I think the issue here is that we need to get the aforementioned off the books so we can meet Financial Fair Play rules if we decide to bring someone else in ourselves, more so than a big cost cutting exercise.

Glad Sandro got the move. 𧶀k loan fee is way off the ٠m we reportedly wanted but we should double our money on the ٣.2m outlay if he gets his scoring boots back in the more conducive surroundings of Spain.

Fingers crossed a left-back or a fast midfielder who has the ability to link up play will be brought in tomorrow. I have a feeling we'll bring in the kid from Anderlecht.

However, come the end of the season I am sure others will be gone because I cannot see some of them getting any better.

For most of them, they have had more than half a season to show their worth and failed miserably.

The big questions surround Seamus, Baines and Funes Mori as they get back in from injury and whether they will strengthen this porous defence down the line.

Yes, other positions are also weak in front of the back four so we will have to wait and see what Allardyce does between now and next season.

But certainly what he has is rubbish at the moment despite the big wage players and promising young lads who have disappointed this season..

Louie Walsh, Tommy Walsh, or even Ruby Walsh would have fared better than he has done, with a pin and a piece of paper. (sand paper, a map of the desert, in Tommy's case)

He has, with the exception of Jordan Pickford, been a party to all recent transfer dealings, which have all been over-the-top prices, for less than mediocre players.

He should be pilloried in Bramley-Dock, for his activities in the transfers, what a waste of space he has been, and good oxygen for that matter.

I exclude Walcott and Tosun in the above, but having said that, a temporary reprieve, as the jury is still out, as they have been installed in a shambles of a team at the moment.

The one bit of fresh air that emerged from all this, was the prospect of finally getting rid of Schneiderlin, alas that was short lived, not for sale, I think most would gladly see him go for nought.

You forgot Barkley. Plus Gethin Jones left and he was curiously in our Premier League squad along with Sam Byrne while Garbutt was excluded. Mathis — another Director of Football summer signing, is off on loan to Northampton. Grant would've been but for administrative ineptitude.

Sandro's 14 goals in La Liga, 2 goals behind Griezmann, 1 behind Morata & one more than Neymar... unfortunately, that's not our way.

I don't think he will play for us again; also, I don't think he was ever given a chance.

٧ million as the option for Sevilla to make the move permanent in the summer seems cheap the way transfer fees are rising all the time now. If he performs at all well for them I would have thought we would be asking 㾻 - 20 million minimum.

He must have made it clear he has no intention of returning to us no matter what.

I'd totally forgotten about Barkley, Kieran. Must be cos I've been trying to erase the lil' bonehead's existence outta my mind.

I wish him well and will follow his progress. I still believe he will come good with a bit more maturity. Chelsea will probably sign him from Sevilla after the Euros in 2 years time, for 䀆M.

In fact, if you look at how transfer fees have continued to grow it's almost like just recouping the outlay (ignoring his wages for the last 5-6 months). Have you seen anything of Tosun that convinces you he is worth 4 times as much?

Looks more shambolic than good business to me.

How fuckin' bottleless to not even see how well he does for the rest of the season there first???

I now sincerely believe that Les Patterson, the 'other' Australian ambassador, would do a far better job running our club than this board.

You know that thing that Everton are really good at like gifting a opposition player a goal who has never scored in his career or some team has not won in 20 games then win against us.

Well Big Sam has saved many a team's bacon from the drop zone... but you know he is gonna take us down!

He's a young guy, Spanish, living in Liverpool where the weather is shit and the football is equally as shit.

Because no young Spanish players or players from "hot countries" have ever excelled in Liverpool?

It's irrelevant.

When was he ever given a run of games to allow him to adjust his style of play to suit his new club and his teammates? It was as if he was expected to hit the ground running in Koeman's pathetic attempt to produce a team.

The lad was never given a fair chance to prove himself in an Everton shirt and will now probably go on to become a real superstar and we will wonder why we never utilised his skills when we had the opportunity.

I'd like to put on record I couldn't care less about somebody else's money anyway. It would be nice if we'd spend it wisely though.

Add to that the fact that he did not set the world on fire, and it might have been a source of friction in the club.

All ifs and buts however.

The fact is I hope he is a success at Sevilla but am afraid this one may come back to haunt us – ie, right player wrong time (eg, Materazzi, Dacourt, Newell, Keown).

We can't even get a fucking shot on target at the moment; have apparently no interest in looking for another striker this month, so what do we do: we sell one of our options!

If he doesn't start banging them in soon, I think patience (not something that's ever been in great supply in football at the best of times) will soon wear thin come Springtime.

But the thing is really, when you pay biggish money for a striker to solve a lack of goals issue, you kind of need him to be scoring sooner rather than later...

We'll get to see him against Man Utd next month.

We should be keeping these young players and wait for the right manager to get the best out of them.

It will be a novelty tomorrow reading some happy posts.

I'm pleased that he has a loan move but as others have pointed out its crazy that the likes of Napoli and Seville are chasing players who we have decided aren't good enough for our astoundingly mediocre first team.

Neither Klaassen nor Sandro have been given enough minutes to bed in properly and have fallen foul of the bizarre logic that players with more Premier League experience will naturally fare better, a logic that Schneiderlin has single-handedly proven wrong this season.

- Score 8 on loan with Sevilla this season
- Signed by Sevilla permanently in the summer for €9M
- Scores 20 next season
- Off to Atletico Madrid for €25M next summer
- Becomes a regular Spanish international
- Off to Real Madrid or Barcelona before the end of his career

Ultimately, and especially now we have 5 centre-forward options (Tosun, Rooney, Walcott, DCL and Niasse) I don't see the drama here. We took a punt at a crazy cheap price, it didn't work out but we've let the player head back home and look like making a small profit. Seems pretty smart operating to me,

He was also tasked with keeping us up by playing any type of shit football necessary and boy is he doing that. He's already said about keeping clean sheets no mention of attacking and scoring more goals than the opposition.

This dinosaur is not the manager to take the club forward and if the board can't see that we are in for a long miserable future.

Just what the moneyman will do when we are again seen to be in danger is anybody's guess. But he keeps saying he 'get's Everton' so all should be well.

Not without a left-back and a few goals it won't, chum. Villaland beckons and Bramley Moore Dock may soon offer the only option for escape !

From what I've seen (which admittedly isn't a lot), the only way he would have worked out was if we went with two up top and he played alongside a target man, looking for knock downs etc. He was never going to work out as the main striker on his own.

I can't really see how he would fit in playing for the team either now or in the near future. Such a shame after all of the hype but it's good to get rid of his high wages (which wasn't his fault) and to make a profit on his transfer fee which will go in the summer transfer kitty.