Bolasie is improving at Everton but is it enough?

We could have ended up with Sissoko...

2015-16 - 26 Apps, 5 goals
2014-15 - 34 Apps, 4 goals
2013-14 - 29 Apps, 0 goals,
2012-13 - 45 Apps, 3 goals, 8 assists in the Championship

Compare to Mirallas, mindful that a good number of MIrallas appearances were as a sub.

2015-16 - 23 Apps, 4 goals
2014-15 - 29 Apps, 7 goals
2013-14 - 32 Apps, 9 goals,
2012-13 - 27 Apps, 6 goals,

Premier League official site stats tables show that Bolasie is 5th in number of crosses with 66. Mirallas is 15th with 48. Townsend 1st with 89. Bolasie is also = 6th with 4 assists. Make of that what you will...

I really hope that Bolasie finds and maintains that form he's so often displayed against us... and that Koeman is concerned enough to give him the occasional kick up the backside to ensure he stays focused. We need Bolasie to be at his very best to have any chance of success and, for £28m, we have every right to expect his best.

And it sure is great to have the one thing we lacked most in recent seasons... pure, blazing speed.

I've been a supporter of Mirallas for a long time but right now I don't see how he can hold down a first-team place. Barkley too... but it seems we have nobody else even vying for that central attacking berth.

Bolasie can go on the left and Lennon (who has barely had a poor game in an Everton shirt) can play wide right. Deulofeu through the centre? Or even Tom Davies.

All-in-all, I'm feeling very down on all things Everton at the moment. Even the West Ham win relied heavily on their missed chances. There's something really not quite right at the club.

I think we've lost our mojo. We need someone to help us get it back.

I suppose those tackles against Man City and West Ham Utd can be construed as assist's.. but creative?

That fella who used to take the long throw-ins for Stoke created more chances than Bolasie. I suppose he was creative too...

Bolasie has stepped his game up too, he is working hard, that's how he's been credited with his tackles becoming assists, could anyone see Deulofeu making that challenge vs West Ham?

Bolasie is frustrating, but he's made decent chances in every game this season apart from the Chelsea game, he should only be judged on his here and now, not on his past as we have already signed him so its pointless picking out his past stats.

I do feel we as a group on ToffeeWeb seem to find reason to slate our most important players, always finding reasons to give them shit.

Ross is another one we do this with, but I think we have to look at the players who offer nothing all the time first before moaning about Ross, Rom, Bolasie and Co.

Deulofeu, Lennon and Mirallas all play in Bolasie's position, surely we should be moaning about them before criticising Bolasie!

Everything Everton is a little dull ATM, partly down to 1 win in 7, partly down to getting hammered by Chelsea, but mostly down to Koeman talking shite all the time.

Hope we see a few more of these.

His performances have looked okay partly because of some of them being okay, partly because we're comparing him to Mirallas and Deulofeu, and partly because we've played some poor enough teams.

Still, I'd stick him on the left and give Lennon his bloody chance on the right.

He seems to have a strong connection with Rom already and, if he continues to set him up for more goals, it will be another reason for Rom to stay. He's a lot better than Mirallas and even Pienaar in my opinion but you got to remember that a player who takes men on as much as he does will often lose the ball. It's always been the same with wingers.

The price tag seemed high at the time for a guy that doesn't seem to score a lot of goals compared to Mané but prices this summer really went crazy. I too would always play him on the left but we really need another right-sided player to score goals regularly.

But, for example, in a game where you're behind and you need your wingers to get the ball in the box, it's hugely frustrating, at times, to watch Bolasie slow the ball down enabling a team to double up on him instead of just trying to beat his man.

I think we're entitled to be a little more critical of a signing when he cost so much. I know it's not the player's fault that he cost what he did, so the criticism is directed at Koeman just as much as Bolasie.