Leipzig signal desire to keep Lookman

So much rebuilding of the squad is needed, whoever is in charge...

By no means has he been the first name on the team sheet at RB but he's been consistently involved, getting minutes improving and allowed to express himself.

I'm not even saying he's the real deal – it's so hard to tell at his age – but his attitude has shown many of his Evertonian teammates up.

If he leaves and goes on to be a decent player, Everton will have only themselves to blame. Imagine him, Onerkyru, & Sigurdsson behind a decent striker?

Oh, hang on a minute. Let's have a survey!

Would love to see him get a go with us next season. Offers a bit of pace and directness. I'll admit, he can be frustrating and he can go missing but he is also capable of the sublime. Rather him than Yannick if I'm honest.

Don't get me wrong – I do rate him but If he doesn't want to play for us, then sell him. We want players with hunger and determination; we have too many passengers already.

He wants to play, and if our current setup doesn't seem to rate him, he'll go somewhere he is appreciated.

I want him back and given a chance to show that hunger and determination with us... but it won't happen under the current regime it seems.

(Survey - 0 points if I'd received one!)

I believe he said at the time of his loan that his "heart is at Everton", but that he wanted to go to Leipzig to get playing time – which he obviously wasn't getting under Sam Allardyce.

Under no circumstances should he be sold off, we can see the talent and the shrewdies at Leipzig can see it too.

When Sam is out of the picture in a few weeks time it will be good to see Ademola back and fighting for a starting place in pre season.

With another season under his belt he will be more able to offer a significant contribution over the 90 minutes and not just sporadically.

I would say he may be the best of our young talent and I am looking forward to his continued progress in a BLUE shirt.

If he was playing for the Red Shite, they'd have him playing minutes every week. It seems a shame that over the past few years, Everton don't seem to like skilful unpredictable players.

Jagielka is 36! Would anyone really think that Lookman would've been worse than Bolasie this season? Would playing Davies ahead of Schneiderlin been a disaster? Holgate instead of Williams? Jonjoe Kenny has done a great job as Coleman's stand-in and can push him all the way for a starting place.

When people talk of loaning Calvert-Lewin to a Championship side, when we're hardly blessed with strikers, makes me laugh. Get them in the team ahead of some of the deadwood stealing a living. It's the only way we're ever going to build a team.

Since 1976, I've been supporting this club, and this the worst it's ever been. Everything Everton is plain awful these days. Moshiri needs to act, and be decisive.

Tosun and Niasse have been missing service.

Do not sell this kid. No. Period.

I couldn't agree more. If we sell this kid, it's a travesty.

This is what a good professional footballer does when he realises that the Manager is not up to the job. There will be others in the same frame of mind. A good professional footballer would not join the present regime at Everton.

This is the damage that a Manager like Allardyce can do to Everton if he is allowed to stay. Never mind how a team Managed by him would play next season. That is immaterial to the damage such an idiot could inflict,

As regards Bolasie, I and many others at the time baulked at the 㿅m+ we paid for him. (Zaha or even Townsend were better bets and cheaper at the time.) So, unfortunately, we seem to be getting proved right – although that does nothing to deter Allardyce from picking him every game.

We do have the nucleus of a good young team – Pickford, Kenny, Holgate, Davies, Baningime, Vlasic, Calvert-Lewin – with Dowell to return and Onyekuru looking very promising up until his injury. Under Captain Coleman and even a half decent manager, there's enough there to give supporters something positive to shout about. Unfortunately, we don't have a half-decent manager. If only they'd given Unsy a few home games to make his mark.

Most of the 'experienced' players have let themselves and the club down. Talked big and delivered little. Time to get most of them off the wage bill and give the kids the opportunity.

ps: There isn't a club in Europe whose accountants don't light up when they hear the magic words 'We've got Everton on the phone about.....'

I want this kid to stay more than anything, but I don't think the damning of the club will be on whether they sell him, but rather if Lookman himself is the one who wants to leave. Don't get me wrong, both scenarios would be dreadful, but if a young player like him would rather leave the club that took a gamble on him and made him a (bit of a) household name, that would be a very deep cut.

He is mustard and I reckon he will end up playing for any of the top 5 Premier League teams.

Definition, please.

Forgive the question, but I'm always playing ketchup on British slang, and I'm in a pickle on this one.

If Fat Sam stays, you can turn the lights off cos no-one will be around to watch. Got it?

Allardyce Out – Got it !

Nil Points – Got it.

No. I bet you don't... After all, it's EFC I'm talking to.

So we know how he picks his team. All based on transfer value rather than ability. Nice one Sam. How many more of our future stars will this man get rid of?

For fuck's sake, he has to be fired, and fast, before we have no players left.

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Hope that got you out of a jam mate.

I can see Newcastle taking us on Monday... that should be a great opportunity to get rid of him. I'd stomach a defeat if it meant it he was sacked straight after.

He should be sacked for that idea alone.

He is by far more skillful and threatening than Bolasie at present while he is recovering from injury and should have got into the team before him.

We have got to keep our good young players or we will never get to the heights we are striving for.

Sam, who didn't give him a chance was so frustrated with him for moving abroad on loan; I just can't see him excepting that his own advice was ignored.

He has so much potential but he does have to start showing it. He was in and out of the U20s who won the World Cup and I can see why.

Let's hope they can't afford him and he blossoms into an Everton great. Although very different, I think Calvert-Lewin and Davies are better prospects. I get a bit of a Bolasie feeling about him. Mr Inconsistent Mk 2. Make that Mk 22 – there's worse.

WHY IS NOBODY AT THE CLUB TAKING CONTROL OF THIS SITUATION!!!! Shut this fat piece of shit up!!

I've built up in my head that the club understands what's at stake but, with each utterance, Allardyce is making me feel less certain and I wonder who at the club will actually stop him from doing lasting (if not done already) damage.

I can only hope that, come Monday evening, Allardyce has said so much to discredit the club this week, the Goodison faithful stand up to him and make their feelings clear to the board.

It seems if Allardyce is to go, he's taking everything and everyone else with him. Has the club ever seemed to without leadership under Moshiri?

He knows he's gone; we know he's gone; it has to be about levels of compensation to date of sacking.

Does the club fully and solely apologise for the survey? I doubt it, but it was a total PR disaster.

Is Sam goaded, is he planning his next move? Will Farhad grow some...? What next, in the scintillating next twist on The Road To Nowhere.

His public chastising of a senior staff member will not go unnoticed, plus his questioning of the board in public for support probably raised a few red flags. He's had history in the past with public spats especially with fans and I'm sure that the club will hope for more of these.

The only problem with this is he unsettles the club and players, but it allows the management to get rid of him easier, and with hopefully less compensation.

We just need to get the fake Sheikh out of retirement to try to get him to blabber about his corrupt behaviours.

My guess? He thinks he's one for the future. When quals are determined, and looking at the table and games left they are, Bayern will likely win the DFB pokal which means 5th, 6th, 7th – make Europa, Lookman will get more game time.

Pretty similar to EFC in that job was to put relegation behind us. Anyone who didn't think that our uninspired, shapeless, unbalanced squad of November was going only one way was kidding themselves. We'd just been destroyed by Southampton.

In that situation taking a chance on kids would have been madness. Never wanted Bolasie but got to hand it to him for working his hump off for the cause. At this point, we may have seen Lookman get game time. Allardyce told him he'd be better off staying. It would have been better for EFC to have the chance to look at our own player in the Premier League rather than his getting little time in the Bundesliga which, in any event, is nothing like as competitive.

With regards to players for sale, they all are if the price is right and the situation warrants it. Same for every club.

I was horrified as anyone to see even a hint that a player like Lookman could end up being sold on by Everton in the future, particularly going by the amount of shite we have playing for us now.

I'm not saying Lookman is going to become a world beater but he's certainly got something about him that excites football fans. I was gutted to see this lad go out on loan, so to see reports of him possibly being sold off just sums up this fucked-up, disgrace of a club and how it is being run.

With the amounts of money we've wasted and the utter bollocks football we play, I'm afraid it's only a matter of when and not if we get relegated to the Championship.

I'm glad he's in Germany. Perhaps it's like a mini-vacation. Hopefully he will be back more energetic under a new, braver and innovative manager.