Gomes re-finding his form at Lille

I thought he never recovered properly from that injury and goes down as yet another player being victim to the instability of Everton.

Good luck to him.

Add to being in a dysfunctional set-up, and a clear lack of fitness training, he became more and more of a liability.

Good to see him regaining confidence in himself and his game.

He had a brilliant game versus Liverpool in the “Pickford” derby game and scored a great goal in a 3-1 defeat at home to Wolves. I can't think of any times he stood out; he was poor before he was injured and even worse after.

Another woeful signing, a big fee and huge wages which will keep him here until his contract is up even if we pay most of his wages for another loan signing next season. Another leech around the club's neck.

And in the article, absolutely HEAPED the praise on everyone and everything Everton immediately after the injury, right thru the welcome he received the first time he ran back out at Goodison.

That was nice to read.

Interesting that when he started his recovery workouts, Mina and Richarlison would go home with him afterwards. Good guys.

no wonder he loves us.

And we have an accountant in charge.

Sums up the Moshiri and Kenwright /DOF years in a nutshell, unfortunately there where loads of Gomes’s, that’s why we’re in such a mess now.

And yet Billy Bullshit is STILL our chairman.

This season shows that Andre's football IQ is still intact for him to be a good performer in a Continential League that is slower in pace. As much as I would love to see him play for us again, the Premier League is too physically taxing at this stage of his career.

Fingers crossed that we can flock him for a decent replenishment to the coffer in the summer.

Wherever he goes, I'll forever be a fan of his.

Firstly, they arrive here with a nice pay rise, a juicy signing on fee and a guarantee of no financial worries for at least 5 years.

Then there are no worries about poor performances affecting future selection. Whereas in a decent team, they may not get another chance in the starting XI for ages, here they know that their replacements are going to play as bad as they did and, in desperation, they will soon be selected again.

Fall foul of the manager, can't learn his tactics, no problem, he'll get the blame and soon be gone.

It's a great life being an Everton player!

(Unless of course, you desperately want to win something, then it might not be for you).

However, it seems that in France he has rediscovered the form which once made him such an outstanding player at Goodison and a darling of the fans, myself included.

Andre Gomes is only 29. Form is temporary, talent is permanent. I hope he returns and Dyche gives him an opportunity to show once more, what a brilliant midfield asset he can be to the club.

In fact, if fully recovered from that dreadful injury against Spurs, he may well be the answer to our prayers.

Maybe when Onana moves onto a ‘bigger club’ there might be space

Also if we can’t sign players ….

He can have a good career, but not in a fast league with fine margins where athleticism and mobility often decide games.

I really hope he does well, and I'm gutted it won't be at Everton.

As a club we need to target players with a point to prove rather than a bigger clubs cast off.

Wish him all the best in France and hopefully we can get a small fee back on him. Pay off a little of the Onana fee.

Oh and Son will always be a fucking shithouse.

He’s better suited to a league where he gets more time on the ball and I’m glad he’s done well with Lille. Seems like a good guy. Hopefully we can get £5-8m for him and get his wages off the books

Our scouts , recruitment or whoever drove this deal , have to shoulder some of the blame for recruiting him based on that . Especially with the 50 million fee and contract outlay. For a club like us this is too big an error to quickly recover from . From both football and P&S perspectives.

As Sam has said above, he needs that split second more time on the ball to strut his stuff. Opponent managers knew it from early on and pressed him relentlessly always forcing him into mistakes or coughing up possession, often initiating a counter attack and a goal chance. He became a liability.

His true value will become apparent in the summer with the level of offer we receive for him. But this loan has worked out well for us and concur with Sam’s appraisals, hopefully we receive a decent fee (5-10m?) along with his huge wages off the books.

Similar to what happened when we cut our losses on Allan's wages.

As for Nkounkou, he's doing well but at a low standard (French second tier) and he's just not a left back. With a year left on his contract I think we'll probably get a couple of million for him this summer too.

Branthwaite
Cannon
Lewis Dobbin
Nkounkou
Warrington
etc

I don’t recall anyone complaining when Gomes was signed on a permanent deal in 2019. Indeed I suspect if Brands, or anyone on the board, had vetoed the signing opprobrium would have been heaped upon them. It was one instance of many when someone within the club’s hierarchy ought to have intervened with some pertinent questions. What exactly will this player offer the team? How much will it cost? Can we afford it? Seemingly we had nobody with authority within the club prepared to ask such awkward questions and with the authority to say ‘no’.

Everybody loved him when he came in, and he was a stand-out in an adequate midfield.

Son's shithousery destroyed his pace, and our basket case of a club exacerbated the problem with a succession of very different managers and grossly inadequate fitness training.

The net result was an inadequate version of Andre Gomes who couldn't live with the pace of the league. Better managed, who knows how he might have turned out.

Cried after he deliberately went about injuring a fellow player.

Shithouse is the correct Scouse vernacular to describe it.

Gomes is not every Evertonian's favourite player, but he was taken out cynically and injured.

Had that been an Everton player on St Harry Kane there would have been a criminal prosecution.

If we had a Peter Reid, he would have done a Marwood challenge on him. After Marwood done that to Inchy, Reid was waiting for the chance and left him on the floor.

Overall I accept his shortcomings in the squad we had in ths league. With a different setup that plays to his creativity he is a worthy player.