Gbamin completes Turkey loan switch

He can meet up with Dele and chat about those good times they had at Goodison and how good the Chairman was to them in financial terms.

With Dele, we'll always have the Palace 2nd half. With Gbamin, we'll always have that Wolves first half.

Alli has in effect got no value on the books and Gbamin must have had his cost amortised to about zero by now. This means whatever they go for it won't count against us.

I just wish all this frenetic stuff had happened before the season started so we weren't playing catch up with a derby looming.

I just want to see a headline starting with 'Done Deal'.

Not a bad shout that for Gomes to Fenerbahce. I have been his only defender on here for some time but even I gave up the ghost midway through last season, ate the peach and accepted he is never going to be who he was. A confidence player who lost the crowd and sadly any notion of mobility after the injury.

David @5, talking of Warrington, I wonder how much difference there is in him and Garner longer term. Maybe we should give the lad more minutes this season? I like the look of him.

The 5-sub rule means he and Mills will get some minutes this season, great for all involved. I was hoping we could get a decent fee for Davies this summer but now I think we will need him; maybe Frank can get a tune out of him.

Don't know what to say on Gbamin other than his sad story epitomises our cursed luck over the last years, he looked like he was going to be a baller and built for the Premier League.

He did well last season on loan in Moscow so is fitness the issue? Are the rigours of the Premier League too much for him or does he just not fancy it now, afraid to get injured again? Best shot of him.

Gbamin's Everton career never took off because of injury but, after playing for the last 12 games of the season with CSKA Moscow, I thought a fresh start in pre-season would be his last chance.

Lampard knows best, but he was one of the few who put in a performance against Minnesota Utd, he hasn't got a look in since. Looking at his physique, you'd think he'd suit the Premier League sadly.

Further irony here in that both he and Dele are/were the equal of anything we have, if only it could have worked out.

I'll be surprised if Besiktas come up with the ٥M for Dele next summer.

We are getting rid of a fair few so I'm guessing we have some new faces already lined up. But then again!

Christy #10, I too thought he looked pretty good in preseason, but Frank sees him every day, and his call is that the guy isn't good enough. We barely saw him before the injuries, so we'll never know if he was a bad buy or just a bad-luck case.

On Warrington, I see potential. It's not just his number 6 positional play, he has a great range of passing on him.

I don't know if there is a stat to show how much we are getting from this squad in terms of wages against minutes on the field of play. Mina another on 𧴦k per week yet spends more time on the treatment table than on the pitch.

Dele another on 𧴜k + a week and I think he has only started one game and has hardly played more than 45 minutes in any game. Gomes and Allan hardly seen on the pitch in months.

Mind this follows the new tradition at Everton: Besic, Bolasie and Tosun – 3 more who hardly kicked a ball in the last 2 years of their contract.

He was not in the squad last night after being on the bench on Saturday. Rumours that he has been offered to Roma after the Wijnaldum injury.

The double injury was bad luck though it sounds as though he has not always behaved himself off the pitch either, which is a shame.

Bad luck rather than bad scouting this one but yet more big losses on expensive signings.

The others we are trying to 'lose' have pretty much all answered that question and not in the affirmative.

Actually, I still cling to some faint hope that he will complete his comeback in glory. I think he is a very fine, but desperately unlucky player. Not deadwood, in my view. Not at all.

Sigurdsson
Delph
Kenny
Tosun
Van der Beek
El Ghazi
Kean
Richarlison

Pending or looking like going:
Gordon
Alli
Allan
Gbamin
Gomes

Chuck in a couple like Branthwaite etc.

A very good player. Terrible luck.

Beggars belief the amount we've spent on players the last 5 years or so and ended up with the squad we have.

Yes, absolutely, we've had terrible luck with injuries but our summer 2019 midfield signings of Gbamin and Delph took it to a whole different level of bad luck.

Had they stayed fit – particularly Gbamin cos Delph was always a sicknote – I do think Silva would have kept his job, at least for that season anyway.

Appetite as a player ruined by injuries and spoiled by the big contract. Nothing else to see here. Let's move on.

The same could be said of Everton.

Denis #28

He had an injury-prone record before joining Everton.

Brands and Medical Services where prepared to take risks on injury-prone players, thinking they would get them for less. They where suckered every time.

What I do like about the players that we are bringing in is the mentality and leadership qualities that the likes of Tarkowski, Coady, Onana have. It's clear that, as well as talent, we are trying to change the mindset and attitude of the squad as well.

This is great to see and will take time to turn around. Seems more similar to the transfer business of Moyes where he was obsessive about character of individuals.

Regardless, he clearly has no future here, so the sooner his situation is sorted, the better.

I can't see any Turkish clubs waning to pay a transfer fee, so Gbamin and Gomes will probably go on loan if Turkey is the end destination. I would prefer sales for both.

So I really hope there is some truth to this rumour, and that he can find a new club to get fully fit with. The Premier League is not at all the place to slowly work your way back to your old skill levels, I'm afraid.

We've had a few. Do you remember that Brazilian Rodrigo that Moyes signed I think on loan with a view to a permanent deal?

But he got injured pre-season, he was out for about 2 years and then had a brief stint at Southampton before disappearing. He was supposedly pretty good pre-injury.

Then we had Billic, Williamson, millions worth of talent that produced a few dozen games combined.

I do recall Pele saying he was Brazil's best player around the time we signed him! I was only 21 back then so I believed bollocks like that and got all excited... just to be let down... again.

I know — "Let's have a party!"

Waste of bleeding space.

Keep a stiff upper lip.

It will be alright on the night.

I know there is a difference in quality but our midfield options have been so poor since he apparently got fit that you'd expect some game time if he was good enough for bench duty.

Would have liked to see him get at least one competitive start this season to confirm he remained completely off the pace in the Premier League.

I had written him off as a player we could not count on, as I had feared his top-level career could be over once he relapsed so quickly and for so long.

Hopefully he can knuckle down and still have a career, if that's what he really wants.

Crazy.

And we get to do this all again next summer when he and Dele inevitably return.

“According to the agreement, it was noted that the Ivory Coast player, who was rented free of charge from Everton, will be paid a guaranteed fee of 1 million 500 thousand Euros for the 2022-2023 football season.”

Unfortunately got injured early on but made for life.