The reason why Shani Tarashaj is still an Everton player

Can we please just stop already?

Stop with these ridiculous stories about supposed Everton players that just aren't real. I mean seriously, we bought the guy so he can finish his National Services?!? WTF?!?!

He's good enough for the high-flying Swiss team but, in 4½ years, has not played a single first-team game for the Blues. Not ever. And we're giving him £3½ MILLION in cold hard cash... The world has gone fucking mad. Fucking totally fucking mad.

I really do despair when I read utter shite like this that our highly praised managers got us into. How many is this now? I think I just have to lie down behind the sofa for a while...

Don't get me started on Mirallas, Niasse, Garbutt, and all the others from the past 5 years! And yet Kenwright is STILL well thought of amongst some blues... unbelievable!

He was pretty good in 2016-17 and not good in 2017-18 which was his last. Just think about this. We got a skillful goalscoring winger for £7 million and now we got a winger for £30 million in Iwobi who isn't skillful and doesn't score goals. And I don't care if he is suited to central attacking midfield.... he's still a terrible signing.

My thoughts exactly.

Resale proceeds £2.5 million.

It’s mind boggling and we haven’t even factored in Tosun, Walcott and Klaassen. Take them into the equation and you’re well on the way to Quarter of a Billion pounds!!!!!!!

The post was really to point out just what an enormous amount of money we have wasted on poor playing purchases in the last few years. I can’t believe we did better under Moyes with his meagre net transfer spend.

I think it shows the DoF role is highly questionable to be perfectly honest. We have no idea what Brands’ or Walsh’s desired style of play that the Coach is supposed to produce, with supposedly carefully selected purchases to fit that remit.

I’ve nothing against Marcel, but so far he’s not done a great deal better than Walsh to influence an improvement on the pitch. We are stuck in mid table and if it wasn’t for Ancelotti what reasons would you have to be optimistic on that improving? Very few I’d say.

Besic had had a good World Cup for Bosnia, marking Messi out of a game, so another good signing, at the time. Same with Sandro, a cheap buy out clause for a guy who had just scored 15 goals in La Liga for Malaga.

It's the Chairman's job to pick the manager and give him autonomy over signings within a budget, so you can't blame Bill Kenwright either.

All clubs gamble and lose in the market. Liverpool with Andy Carroll, Chelsea with Torres, Barcelona with Coutinho spring to mind. Chelsea with Salah and De Bruyne outgoing.

They wasted millions in the likes of El-Hadji Diouf, Le-Tallec, Sinema Pongolle, Eric Mejer, Stewart Downing, Paul Konchesky and countless other woeful players.

They were lucky in that the occasional good signing did come in, and that the League was much less competitive.

I remember when we were linked with Bolasie, I thought "this is the type of player Liverpool would've signed before". And he turned out exactly as I imagined (even worse due to the injury).

This Swiss lad at least was low cost teenager, and sometimes a risk like that is worth it i.e. Holgate, DCL, and Stones.

In that respect, Sandro stands out as a total disaster.

It is hit and miss too. You can reduce the risk through good scouting, by finding players who fit the system and playing environment and by having a clear route to the first team (even if it means loans).

Obviously Tarashaj proved a complete failure. All clubs have similar failures. It's a relatively cheap failure however in the context of football transfers.

Tarashaj was touted as a big new prospect with other big clubs in for him. Niasse, who we bought around the same time, was a journeyman in his mid-20s who scored a good but not amazing haul in a weak league.

Niasse was a blatant mistake but Tarashaj was a more forgivable failure. I'd still rather our young signings come from UK leagues though in the -main – with the 21- to 24-year-olds bought in from abroad after showing some first-team quality.

With Roberto at the helm and Bill in the background I really think we would have won the league within 3 years.

In the scheme of things I can't believe his wages would make much of a difference unless we hope he may come good and we could get a fee for him in another year?

Other than Lukaku we had a very poor recruitment record under Martinez. I think that's possibly why the director of football was introduced.

We wasted money on crock or rubbish ex-Wigan players from our ex-Wigan manager. All very suspect.

Then there were several other youngsters recruited for multiple millions when we could simply have splashed the cash on established players in the Championship, Scottish Premier league, Germany, Spain etc.

As if to prove how NOT to do it, we appoint a scout as DoF and waste tens of millions on the wrong positions and still largely unproven players not fit or good enough for the Premier league.

Why players and all other football saff are not handed performance related contracts I can't understand it.

Clive #12. So when Johnson refused to sign players requested by Joe Royle,the chairman was wrong. And you then blame the chairman for signing players requested by Martinez.

In other words, in your view, they cannot win.

We've appointed poor managers who were barely given any transfer funds and those players we did sign appear to be on a play today pay tomorrow basis subject to the Banks permission after the August repayment being made. Then there is the case(s) of takeovers at Goodison from "Fortress" Willi Steele, a lifelong Evertonian who barely remembered 1966 Cup Final, the unemployed bloke in his one bedroom flat to the Arabs who decamped to Maine Road. Not to mention the super-duper lawn mowers, the poor marketing performance and sponsorship deals, British Virgin Islands loans, ring-fenced funds for a new ground and almost invisible Directors.

Mind you, he did make a lovely speech after that Wimbledon game!

It seems like the lad was sensible and thinking bigger picture. His career is in tatters and he needed to take action to resurrect it and the Dutch league is a good place and standard to do just that.

Fair play to Shani and good luck to him.

I think his loan to the Bundesliga was a smart one, but then his career was torpedoed by injuries. The signing had potential, but then the wheels completely came off. These things happen, unfortunately.