Richarlison not too happy with life at Spurs

Would you want him back?

In a heartbeat!

I'd like to see him back but it will never happen as there would be plenty of decent teams after him if he wanted out.

Then again, who else in the Premier League would have or need him?

I'll have an uneducated guess. If he's going to move after a short stint and remain in the Premier League, then I could see Manchester Utd or Newcastle Utd. I don't think he's realistically coming back to Everton.

Conte won't stay. His family are in Italy and I think he generally only stays for about 2 years at any club on average. He's a bit like Mourinho on steroids.

He must be bitterly disappointed in how little playing time he has had under Conte, which again makes me ask who actually signed him for Spurs as it doesn't look like it was Conte.

I am always mystified as to why clubs pay huge sums of money to managers only for them to allow other people to bring players into the club.

I think even in this day and age, £60 million is a lot to spend on a player and not use him, and the one thing about Richarlison is he always gives 100% – even when not fully fit.

1) He always wants to play – and stay on, even when injured.

2) Playing for his country is very important to him – and if not playing regularly, he’s likely to lose his place.

Personally, I’d have him back in a heartbeat. Whether he would come is a different matter.

We're on the verge of relegation to the Championship, and he's the Brazil first choice Number 9.

Just a thought especially as he has hardly started a game yet!

I have always advocated that it very rarely, if at all works, for a player, or manager, to return for a second spell with any success above the first time.

However, I would stick my neck out, and wholeheartedly welcome both Richarlison and Geri Deulofeu back too. Two players who could get you off your seat, and definitely capable of scoring some much-needed goals.

Kulusevski is on an 18-month loan at Spurs, but every indication points to him joining permanently this summer. Richarlison's only real hope of a regular place is if either Son or Kane are sold – something which the Spurs fans won't be too pleased about, especially as that would make Spurs just another average run-of-the-mill Premier League team – which they are anyway... Big club? My arse!

I think most of us said when Richarlison moved to Spurs last summer, he would struggle to get any decent run of games, maybe the domestic cups, and it's been proved right. He wanted Champions League football, but even then he's barely played in it, and his only two goals all season came in the first group game, a staggering 6 months ago.

I've also heard recently that his agent has advised him to get out of Spurs! A bad move all round!

They're a bit like Newcastle and think they are Manchester United without the league titles to back it up.

For me, it was a strange move for Richarlison. Maybe the clubs and agents engineered it.

I couldn't see how he was going to be first choice or a regular starter.

I think he'll go to the continent. Spain, Italy or possibly France. PSG or Lille?

Interesting you mention that Richarlison could end up at Real Madrid if Carlo stays. I was listening to Tim Vickery the South American journalist based in Brazil and he said that Brazil want Carlo as there new manager, Tiete was sacked or resigned whichever is right and they only have a caretaker manager for the next 2 games.

Spurs always seemed a strange move but Kane will leave this summer and Son is looking leggy so maybe he’ll get more opportunity there or move to Europe.

His apparent failure at Spurs is not unexpected he just doesn't have top level ability the basics are dreadful given he's south american. No surprise the world cup was a study in anonymity bar that goal and if somehow he ends up at Madrid then Carlo really has finally lost the plot.

Hopefully not as he needs to finish off the shite first

Even if Madrid dismiss Carlo at least the club statement wouldn’t be dismissive like that of Bruges to Scott Parker. Brutal stuff.

“Scott Parker is no longer head coach of Club Bruges. Parker was announced as the new head coach of Club Bruges on December 31 last year. The English ex-international previously worked for Fulham and Bournemouth and replaced Carl Hoefkens at the club. In 12 games, the Brit could only win two times.”

Even if we had the money to buy him back, he'd have better offers in La Liga, Serie A or England.

Instead of living in the past, better to hunt down the next Richarlison direct at source in South America, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, East Asia etc.

I don't think it was a poor move for Everton, we got a reputed £60M for him. He wanted the move and would have been out of contract this summer if he stayed, I think, so financially we are better off.

If we hadn't've let him go, what would his mood have been like? He's got a titty lip him on at the best of times… 7 going on 25!!

But it won't happen. There's no chance. Even if he wanted to come, Spurs would sell to the highest bidder and that wouldn't be us.

He's worth a fortune. Certainly more than we got.

How many bidders do you think would be interested in signing Richarlison if Spurs decided to let him go? I think Spurs were the only club in the hunt for him when they signed him; all the other allegedly interested clubs never showed any interest.

Richarlison has both Kane and Son in front of him. Again no way to shift them, especially for an individualist like Richarlison. That's one of his problems. Is he a wide player or a central striker? Well now he's just another expensive bench warmer.

It is unfortunate that players get over-inflated ideas about just how good they think they are. He was a good player for Everton because the competition for his place was extremely limited. He was a big fish in a small pond. Now he's a small fish in a big pond and he doesn't like it. We live and learn eh?

Not always though. I wished Gana all the best at PSG and I guess relative underdogs like Antonee Robinson and Kieran Dowell doing okay at other clubs makes me happier. Before them, I was always happy to see Naismith do well.

There's probably no rhyme or reason to it…

My mind also drifted back to Pienaar after reading this story. He was a fabulous little player and felt the love from us Evertonians, much like Richarlison.

Unfortunately, very few players reach the same standards when they come back for a 2nd stint, so I don't think a return for Richarlison would be great for him or us.

He should have stayed with us.

Perhaps we could do a Pienaar as Spurs did; offer them £30M plus they can throw Winks in as well. What goes around, eh.

We got good money for him, as will prove to be the case with Anthony Gordon, and we should thank both of them for helping to shore up the finances of the club.

Calvert-Lewin will probably be kept in reserve until after the International break when it will be now or never time as regards his ability to making an impact on our fight to survive the drop.

At Spurs, Son is past his peak, Conte is on his way out, Kane's future is in doubt, and the fans are unhappy. It will be interesting to see if and how Richarlison fits in with the plans of the new manager, widely tipped to be Pochettino.

I don't get the stick Richarlison gets, he gave his all for Everton and at times dragged us towards safety. He also made Gordon look better.

He also gave us at least 1 extra season to get our act together as a club, which we completely failed to do.

And we couldn't afford to keep him in any case, because it seems strongly likely that Burnley and the Premier League would have taken action for our finances if £60M hadn't turned up in our accounts by 30 June or whenever it was.

Personally, it's the rubbish in the squad and our lack of money that makes me fed up, not the players of genuine ability.

Current team wise, they can look impressive on their day. But in my opinion, they rely on two players.

Bigger picture, they've won more FA Cups than us. They've won the League Cup several times, which continues to elude us, although I am not going to meet my maker until we win that. They've won more European trophies.

But when it comes down to it, when you judge it on league titles, they are way behind. Only 2 to their name, the last being 1961, which makes our 1987 9th title seem like yesterday. Well certainly for my generation.

Back on thread, it still feels like a strange decision by Richarlison in my opinion.

Richarlison sulks and gets frustrated, but there is no doubting that is because of the effort he puts in and, with Everton, the frustration in the players he had around him.

If he was English and called Jack Grealish, he would get a lot more decisions.

Pickford in exchange for Richarlison, anyone?

Doesn't make sense.

Targeted and marked a lot. As in his card is marked.

Brian. No idea. He's not perfect, most of us know his defects, but who would be better? And still young for.a keeper.

Just get out of that 6-yard box and get in the gym to make those parries stronger and put the ball away from danger.

Nearly Saturday. See you there, Blues.

Biggest joke in the Champions League going. At least they win the shiny new stadium award and host the NFL. Twats.

I'd take him back in a flash but I wouldn't ever do business with Levy.

What I don't understand is his performances for England are so much better (on the whole) than for Everton. Forest's first goal on Sunday when he palmed the ball back into play lost us 2 points. That's maybe why?

If we could get good money (the kind Liverpool get when selling on), for me, it's sell.

He's an average player that is not of the quality of Kane, Son or Kulusevski and was never going to get in ahead of any of them on a regular basis.

Who would we get who's just as good, or better? Not just a wish, who "could" we realistically get who's just as good, or better?

Certainly not another English keeper because evidentially none are as good as him, unless the England management are completely wrong.

I think the harder the shot, the further a goalkeeper can palm or push the ball away from his goal.

The shot by Gibbs-White wasn't particularly fierce but was more placed low to Pickford's left. Pickford did well to get down and palm the ball away, but because there was no power in the shot, it didn't go very far.

How many times have we heard a commentator say “The power was in the cross” when a forward scores with a header? Well it's the same for a goalkeeper when parrying a shot away.

Pickford did actually palm the ball away from goal, albeit not very far, because there was no power in the shot, not directly back into the 6-yard box, as some seem to think.

I agree, Richarlison was always a poor passer of the ball. I used to call him the worst Brazilian passer of the ball in history. He also likes to come onto his right, which makes it easier to defend against him.

His strengths are work rate, running at defenders, and shooting. Most of his goals are opportunist with a good shot. I remember him only scoring once with his left foot.

In the Champions League, a player has to be able to pass a ball and a forward has to be strong on interplay in the final third. Work rate is a given at that level. The chances of getting an opportunist goal from a good shot are greatly reduced.

Actually, anytime Everton have won since he left, it has been with an opportunist Richarlison-like shot. It has got that we know the play isn't what it should be and are hoping for an opportunist shot every game.

Maybe we need Richarlison back for this reason. Many are hoping Calvert-Lewin will pull off this saviour-type shot on his return.

He may go to Real Madrid, but not while Ancelotti is manager.

Really? Have a look at the posts on another thread about a player who plays for us, Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Now that's what I call shitty from his own 'supporters'?

Richarlison admittedly was not the player some built him up to be and didn't become the player we hoped when he was signed. Mainly because of the conveyor belt of coaches and the players around him.

But one senses we sold him for a few less quid than we should have because replacing his influence in our forward line was going to be tough.

It would not surprise me if one of two things happened. Spurs realized they could shift Dele to us in exchange for Richarlison 6 months later at a knockdown rate and Everton hoped that Dele was a risk worth taking.

Or...

The £60 million was cash plus a valuation Spurs and Everton agreed for Dele. Potentially we might have got £40 million for Richarlison with Dele as a makeweight in the deal.

All speculation yet this smacks of taking several Man Utd players on the drip following the sale of Rooney to them.

We gave him time off to compete in the bloody poxy Olympics!

I do recall he was paid each month too, and I guess he was on money we can only dream of. So he did very well out of us.

He was still a sulky twat and a diving cheat and if he wasn't our diving cheat, we would all have hated him.

We often forget that a lot of these players, although they become affiliated with and have affection towards Everton, are not Evertonians like you and I who have never known anything different since we can remember. From cradle to grave, as they say.

I did hear a lot of good things about Richarlison and how he interacted with the supporters. I'm not sure he will have the same relationship with Tottenham.

Yes, he sulks a lot, but I often thought that's because he gives a shit and was probably frustrated with what was around him. Also, just his own personal demeanour. I've always been told to smile more. I was born with a frown.

Nice scenes of him in the changing room after the Palace match, him walking through the fans in the Enclosure to meet what I presume was family in the executive boxes and then heading to the Gwladys Street with his baby wrapped in a Brazil flag.

With regards to the diving. Tricky one. In the modern game, a fast-moving player who gets clipped will go down either naturally, or because they feel the contact. Because they are moving quickly, it can look spectacular, but it's just the momentum.

Once they get a reputation, it's difficult for them to shift it and get a decision. It happened to Andy Johnson once Mourinho called it on Sky. He wasn't a diver, he was a quick player, who when clipped, went down. But because of his pace, the slightest touch made it look worse. So he got labelled.

I'll revert back to my observations of Jack Grealish. He isn't considered a diver by the media. He is referred to as the most fouled player in the Premier League.

Funny how the media and supporters spin things depending on the player. Grealish plays for England and Manchester City. Richarlison played for Everton and Brazil.

Different perceptions and bias.

I think for all footballers who went to the World Cup in Qatar, this season, in mental terms, must feel like an extended stretch, and it's impacted all clubs who had players on World Cup duty.

Richarlison, I reckon, will vamos Spurs in the next preseason, he's wasted a year of his career.

UTFTs!

Trying to keep them happy is the hard part.

Liverpool's strike force is, unfortunately for us, a good example with Nunez, Diaz, Jota, Firmino, Salah, Gakpo.

Keeping them happy is reasonably easy. Being part of a trophy-winning side helps.

As for Richarlison, he wants Champions League football. He may be more suited to playing abroad in Spain or France.

I am not sure why people think he'd come back to Everton or go on loan to places like Fulham.

I also think £60 million or whatever it was represented good value considering he probably only had 1 year left on his contract.

Reports of his failure there may prove to be premature.