Youssef Chermiti: Keep or Loan?

It's most likely Chermiti goes on loan and we are replacing him.

If anyone needs to be out on loan it's him because, unless I'm missing something, he hasn't impressed in his appearances, apart from the odd glimpse of something maybe.

Now Barry is here, and he knows where the back of the net is, as does our enigma, Chermiti will be no use as 3rd reserve on a bench of academy no hopers.

Get him gone for some experience, Moysie.

A simple bit of research would have told you that.

He was then out injured for virtually the entire season.

It will give him experience he has missed and develop him.

He will go on loan though this summer.

With him, we have 3 strikers. It only takes an injury and we're down to 2. Add in cup competitions, which hopefully we will have a decently run in, we'll need backup.

Plus, won't we lose Beto for the Africa Cup of Nations mid-season?

Again, I'm not calling the shots, but if I was, I wouldn't be sending Chermiti out on loan.

Maybe it would still appeal if a loan can be brought in as an experienced 3rd choice striker, although one would hope it would not be one who is injured, like Broja!

Thereby allowing Chermiti the opportunity to get more match experience than Everton are likely to offer him without leaving ourselves short of cover.

For his benefit, he needs to play regularly and this is most likely to happen if he gets a loan to another club. Pity as we are clearly short of numbers, but we have no idea if he is Premier League match ready.

Now that we have Beto and Barry, Chermiti has to go on loan to develop.

But if you don't send Chermiti on loan to go and play 35-ish games, then you are seriously harming his development as a footballer, especially since he's missed so much football since arriving.

If he comes back from loan a good player, then we might keep him with the first-team squad next season.

Perhaps we can include a recall clause in case of injury but this is a £10M asset who will either leave for next to nothing or hopefully develop into a £30M player. He won't do the latter sat on the bench.

Two forwards, and I would get Callum Wilson and loan chimitti.

Beto won’t be going to the AFCON as his country didn’t qualify

This is a make or break time for him and I'm confident that given the right guidance and development he will come good.

As for only having two strikers we need to get intense in landing a couple of goalscoring wingers in the Richy mode.

I don't see the logic myself. But we'll have to see what Moyes thinks.

Then again stranger things have happened.

As for Keane up front. Please no. He can be effective when on the pitch going up for set pieces, like most centre backs, but he's not a centre forward.

If we get that done quickly enough we could perhaps start thinking about being more strategic about Chermiti's development. For now, with the way we've dragged our feet about appointing people and signing new players, no-one can leave.

When Branthwaite was loaned to PSV he came back a better player. Lewis Dobbin loaned to Derby County. Played 43 games, didn't improve at all. Sold to Villa as a makeweight, immediately loaned out to West Brom and then Norwich. No doubt Villa will loan him out again or sell him.

If a young player must be loaned out, at least loan him to a club where he will learn something besides "toughening up".

Also can he (or possibly Barry) offer something in the wide roles? Barry certainly comes off the left a lot. We lack pace in the wide positions, have done for years now.

Loaning a player so he gets game time, which may well be down a division or two will be beneficial compared to just training and occasionally warming the bench.

By your argument there is no benefit in signing a player from a lower league as he will have learned nothing... erm, Tim Cahill?

If we have cover for the front 2, be it a Richarlison type who can play across the front line, or an experienced striker, such as Vardy or Wilson (Not advocating, just saying), then Chermiti playing regularly, building up confidence and sharpness will be an advantage for us in the second half of the season or in future seasons.

If he can't hack it at Stoke, we'll have learned something.

Going back David Beckham etc

I can see the logic in Danny's argument for keeping him. And also in Robert's and Sam's point for loaning him out to get playing time for his professional development.

I think we really need to see who else we get in and where they play to make a valid decision. Some versatile attackers or attacking midfielders can provide us with attacking options in case of injury.

If this were to happen, it would open up a whole new dimension to the debate.

But I agree with Danny, we don't want to go down the route of bringing in a veteran striker who is approaching the end of his career after loaning out a promising young striker already on our books.

So my educated but totally useless opinion would be wait and see what happens! If we get the right players in, he goes out on loan; if not, he stays.

Very uncomfortable on this fence!!!

He ain't gonna improve sat on our bench because he ain't playing ahead of Beto and Barry.

He'll learn far more playing week-in and week-out than sat on our bench.

Needs to bang a few in and then come back.

Chermiti might benefit from a spell in the Championship - where a high proportion of the best players are Premier League club loanees. Equally if there's a top flight club on the continent (Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal etc) that can offer him about 35 games then that's a good option.

But I don't think you can rule out lower league experience entirely. Dobbin, like loads of Premier League academy graduates, found his level. He was never going to make it wherever he was sent on loan.

Many of the players we are now all keen on - the likes of Doak, McAtee, Hutchison and Gallagher - all got games under their belts in the Championship (and in Gallagher's case League 1, I think).

They need competitive games. For players of any real ability, there is very little to learn in u18s and u21 football after hitting 16.

I'll vote loan, with a right to recall in case of an injury. I have zero enthusiam for signing a veteran striker as third choice when we have so many other needs. Ndiaye can play up top in an emergency.

For me it's not really about if Chermiti can do it, it's that he's already 3rd place in the pecking order and Barry and Beto still need to learn the Premier League as well.

I'd like a good experienced striker to come in as Beto is still learning top level football. Also, Barry both needs to learn more things plus get a lot of game time; as I'm sure the manager will give Barry game time to adapt to the Premier League instead of thinking when to give Chermiti a few minutes which would mean keeping Barry on the bench in some games.

Will be exciting to see Barry, Ndiaye and Alcaraz flying down the left like PSG now there's pace and players who can run with a ball or beyond the man for a return pass.

Tosun was what 26 when he signed for Everton and a full international, not a 21 year old unproven kid who’s not played 30 senior games like Chermitti.

So many players in history dropped down and played a lesser standard of football and then started premier league games for their parent club.

Look at liam Delap too. Norwich and Hull he went on loan too.

Barry will need time to settle, so if we loan Chermiti out we are going to look to a little short up front.

I think more players have gone on loan and not made it back to the Premier League and Everton than have over the years.

We can probably cite Leon Osman, Seamus Coleman and Jarrad Branthwaite in recent times. Maybe Harrison Armstrong will join that group. Maybe some can point out others, but those named is over a 20+ year period.

I'm not changing my position. My concern is that we are left light in that position, something that has impacted us in all positions over the pitch for seasons.

If Moyes decides, and it's his decision, not ours, that a loan is beneficial, I'd probably prefer he went to the continent.

Gut instinct? If he goes on loan, I wouldn't expect to see him back at Everton. No crystal ball, just a hunch.

We've got other areas of the pitch to worry about if we maintain 3 strikers.

Ryan, watching Pedro, I wonder what Delap is thinking right now?