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Henen set to sign permanently this summer
Everton are likely to sign striker David Henen on a permanent basis according to his agent. , 29 May,The 19 year-old has spent the season on loan with the Blues' Under-21s side after signing for Olympiacos on a permanent deal last August.
As part of the arrangement, Everton were given the option of acquiring the Belgian outright this summer and Christophe Henrotay says the signs are good that Henen will stay on Merseyside.
"I have to quickly meet [Roberto] Martinez," the player's agent says in the Liverpool Echo. "But all the signals go in the direction of exercising the option (of a permanent deal).”
“He really changed beyond all recognition. The reports of Martinez and the U21 coach are very favourable. Both praise his mentality, his involvement and his integration.”
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6 Posted 30/05/2015 at 00:25:01
12 Posted 30/05/2015 at 02:46:05
Something has always seemed a little bit dodgy about it to me!
13 Posted 30/05/2015 at 03:27:20
15 Posted 30/05/2015 at 05:38:46
I also note that Atletico Madrid are after Â’Everton targetÂ’ Nolito. Not much chance then that he will playing at Goodison Park next season.
16 Posted 30/05/2015 at 05:51:42
17 Posted 30/05/2015 at 09:10:54
I donÂ’t believe we will get Nolito. More likely Lennon and if Mirallas is sold after his clear the air talks someone who will cost less than what Super Kev fetches.
18 Posted 30/05/2015 at 09:22:52
I know itÂ’s sceptical but we see it too often, Vellios, Gueye, Francisco Junior, Silva, Plessis, too many to mention.
19 Posted 30/05/2015 at 09:31:32
IÂ’m not saying he will make it with us but I think he might have a better career than the majority on your list. He has something about him.
20 Posted 30/05/2015 at 09:47:17
IÂ’d love you to be right but supporting Everton makes you very sceptical, doing it in the U-21s is a world apart from doing it in the Premier League.
21 Posted 30/05/2015 at 09:59:33
Have you seen Henen play at all. I havenÂ’t so would be interested to know what he is like. I understand your scepticism. The list you give is pretty convincing.
22 Posted 30/05/2015 at 10:31:27
23 Posted 30/05/2015 at 11:44:53
Bought young, relatively inexpensively.
If there was 100% chance of it always working then everyone would do it but it is a gamble that the poorer clubs have to make.
Even Arsenal don’t seem to be bothered to take the development / risk approach anymore – recent signings like Ozil and Sanchez would seem to suggest. Buy them ready-made.
Personally, I’m all for it – short of getting a very rich owner, I don’t see much choice.
25 Posted 30/05/2015 at 23:12:12
26 Posted 31/05/2015 at 07:02:41
WeÂ’re mining for diamonds here lad.
God knows I’m no Martinez fan – or Moyes for that matter – but given the financial restrictions they have/had to operate within, what choice do they have?
It's easy to say Henen may be the next Vellios or Gueye, because everyone knows that is the most likely scenario... but every now and then one of these lads prove to be the real deal. IÂ’d rather we kept digging, than to just leave the diamonds for other clubs to unearth.
27 Posted 31/05/2015 at 07:59:32
28 Posted 31/05/2015 at 09:23:20
The top teams in the main buy proven finished articles for a starting price of around 㿊M; we are typically at the 㾶M mark or well below in the hope that these players can achieve an improvement that theyÂ’ve patently been unable to make as theyÂ’ve risen through schoolboy and youth systems. ItÂ’s the brutal reality of modern EPL football, those who have the money to attract top players become top teams.
29 Posted 31/05/2015 at 15:31:49
On thing I have to say after the Cup Final showing is that Benteke is no better than Lukaku when he has to play on his own up front .
Hopefully the Henen situation will work out.
30 Posted 31/05/2015 at 17:02:00
31 Posted 31/05/2015 at 18:30:02
32 Posted 31/05/2015 at 20:32:19
The only hope we have is that, as a club we have been exceptional as developing players but developing a player to become EPL top 4 class is very difficult. So far weÂ’ve only done it once with Rooney who was a massively gifted exception who could be seen to be top class before he entered his teens. The reality was we gave him away to soon for a fast buck that undervalued him by hundreds of percent.
Tim was a brilliant exception who gave us goals from midfield but would a top 4 club have bought him? He was magnificent for us though with those goals that may have meant the difference between being towards the relegation slots and upper table respectability.
WeÂ’d expect >㾻M for Mirallas but surely thereÂ’d be an outcry if we were to pay that for a pretty ordinary player by EPL standards.
33 Posted 31/05/2015 at 23:21:32
34 Posted 01/06/2015 at 10:51:42
There must be someone half-decent who fancies a game for us.
35 Posted 01/06/2015 at 12:03:13
Lennon would be an adequate replacement... if he can find his scoring boots
36 Posted 01/06/2015 at 13:13:28
IÂ’d prefer Lennon to Mirallas with or without his goals. Lennon will try his best every game, the other fella will now and again.
37 Posted 01/06/2015 at 21:21:50
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2 Posted 29/05/2015 at 23:45:00
Well done to the lad. I look forward to watching him make his first team start.
Now sign Dembele from Fulham.