Reports: Agreement in place for Anderlecht to extend Onyekuru loan

Let's just buy lots of players, then loan them out (paying their wages) and then sell them on.

Not a chance of him ever pulling on an Everton shirt.

Does anybody else sniff smelly media work on this?

I know very little about him but IF he's going to get games and good experience with Anderlecht then that's probably best for his development and longer term for ours if we can sort out issues in the next year or so.

If he's good enough to play in the Premier league then try and get him in ASAP.

After that Brexit and it's anyone's guess what silly and awkward rules will come in to play.

If, however, he has qualified for a work permit based on time spent in Belgium then we have a decision to make as a club. I can't see Allardyce picking Henry on a regular basis, given his handling of Lookman. Both are exciting young talents, but both are raw. If we end up with someone like Fonseca or Silva I can see these kinds of players getting a chance. Under Allardyce its the bench or U23s.

Just checked and as far as I can make out it's Belgian citizenship after 5 years living and working in the country.

Stroll on.

We would look even worse if we paid a few million for someone, gave them a 5 year deal but they only got a 3 year work permit.

Luckily, that would never happen us. Would it?

Yeah we would be nuts to loan him out if we can help it.

And every one of those questions remains unanswered right now, so there's no way in the world to even guess what will happen with this young man.

Personally, I hope he's healthy, matured, legal and with Everton next season, because his pace alone makes him fun to watch.

We don't know if he's fully recovered from the knee blowout. We don't know if he has matured, or whether his Anderlecht manager's harsh criticism has merit. And we don't know who our manager will be.

Decisions made now can be changed later. Let's just see what the situation is next month, when hopefully we'll have a new boss and hopefully Henry is playing for Nigeria in Russia.

Well, Matt - How much are AC Milan willing to pay for him is maybe the question.

They unearth some great young talent and give them a fair run, they often turn out to be world class too boot.

Continio, Salah, Suarez, Firminho...

We find...

Niasse (bless him), Vlasic and numerous other failures who cannot hold down a first team place.

Something is not right somewhere.

If he's still raw, he can go out on loan before the window shuts or in Jan. God knows the team needs pace and we've got 3 put on loan: this lad, Lookman and Sandro.

I'm in the minority but I'd like to see Sandro with a full Preston but I doubt he'll come back.

He's had six appearances and he "cannot hold down a first team place"??

You have to have an opportunity before you can fail. And he's 20.

Also, the RS didn't "unearth some great young talent" in Suarez, Salah or Firmino. All were age 24 and already established international stars. The RS paid €42m for Salah, £29m for Firmino and £23m for Suarez, which was big bucks back in 2011. They didn't discover world class, they bought it.

Coutinho was the only one they discovered in obscurity. And as you point out, they gave him a run in the side right away. We haven't done that with Vlasic. Or Lookman.

Was it not revealed the other day that Cenk Tosun's conversion rate of 49% is the highest in the league?

There is not much point having a striker who requires a mere 2 shots to score a goal if you only create one chance for him a game now is there?

Who can yet say what Vlasic might do for the team?

My gut tells me he never wanted to leave La Liga in the first place. But his agent probably told him something to the effect of "Look... you'll make way more money in the Premier League. Everton's a club on the rise - they have a new owner who's investing heavily and they're in the Europa League this season, so joining them will help your profile. And they're probably losing Lukaku, so there won't be an established striker blocking you."

The lad joined inter to big fan fare. Sure he flopped and Liverpool took a gamble on him, but he was hardly obscure.

Give Rafa credit, he spotted Moutinho as a teenager and got him for Inter, and even after he failed at Inter, Rafa then brought him to Anfield for the bargain price of £8.5m.

Coutinho was signed by inter with an agreement in place that he'd remain at Vasco for two seasons, to take him to 20 years old.

He actually joined Inter in 2010, two years after they signed him. It was big money, major fanfare and a big deal. He flopped, sure, but it was not obscure. He arrived in Italy as one of the best young players on the planet. Even after flopping, Espanyol took him on loan.

If he was so obscure, then why did Liverpool pay good money for him and intend to play him in the team from the word go?

He was a big player who had had a bad move. Plenty of players do this, and the reason why club give them a second chance is because of what happened to Coutinho at Liverpool.

Poor saints fans must dream of another dimension where Pochettino and all their star players stayed.

What they’ve done is loaded up on exciting and skillful attacking players that can occupy any space up front. It’s plug and play with them. Similar to City with the ability to call on Sterling, Aguero, Jesus, Silva (David and Bernardo), Sane. And that doesn’t even get to add Bruyne who sits behind those players. We on the other hand have Walcott and Tosun.

Only Coutinho's former managers Rafa and Poch knew better and went after him. Nobody else was in for him at the time. Nobody was writing about him -- the Corriere Dello Sport database shows almost no Coutinho stories between July 2010, when Rafa proclaimed him Inter's future, and January 2013, when he left Italy. And the English press pretty much ignored his signing with the RS. Like I said, pretty obscure at that point.

Anyway, my main point was that the RS get too much credit for "discovering" and signing talent in comparison to us. Had it not been for Rafa knowing all about him, they'd have missed on Coutinho like the rest of the world.

When Inter signed him, and Inter are one of the biggest clubs in the world, they said he’s the future of Inter.

He was talked up for years as being the next Messi. Just because he had a couple of bad years at Inter (yet still played a significant number of games in 2.5 years there - far more than Vlasic for us) doesn’t push him into obscurity.

He was a gamble by Liverpool. That’s very much agreed. The fee was not as small as you make out. £8.5m in 2013 for a 20 / 21 year old kid is not pocket change. Sturridge was there other big signing and he cost £12m.

It says more about inflation.