Harrison excited to get going at Everton

Personally, I hope he is a huge success and we sign him on a permanent deal for a reasonable fee at the end. Here's hoping the shit-house club Leeds don't bounce back up.

We certainly don't want to miss the opportunity to get as many points on the board as possible as soon as possible

We can't get those 3 wasted points back. That really was criminally poor finishing by Maupay particularly, but not just him.

Some games just seem cursed to fail despite best endeavours and having the majority of chances.

In our case though, as we know, it is trying to fight a sword fight with a blunted and under sized blade that is costing us dear.

Welcome aboard Jack Harrison. A very welcome addition. I wish you fellow attackers that know how to find the Onion Bag with regularity, as soon as possible.

Could be a decent addition, certainly a Dyche type player in terms of working hard.

It is what it is, and we are lucky anyone wants to sign for us.

Clock ticking and still no striker !

At this age and with where he has played we may get the chance to give him a few good years and us a few good moves in transfers. We are only contracted for the get by scenario and that will be solved early enough for us to perhaps work our inside track and sign him permanently. First things first, yeah but this looks like Thelwell is seeing things properly and just needs to not make a bad buy.

Dale 9, how is this a good buy? He's out for possibly a month, oh and he was off to Aston Villa, not us. They had booked a medical and, when they knew of the injury, rightly so pulled out of the deal as they wanted a player who could play. We more than Villa need ready-to-go signings. This signing doesn't make sense.

Mate, you haven't got a firkin clue what was happening then, like loads of other posters you sucked in the shite from ‘NewsNow' and accepted it as fact.

No one on TW has a clue what really goes on but, hey, let's not allow the truth to get in the way of a good story.

I'm not having a go at you personally Paul, but why does every bugger jump to conclusions and believe every bit of clickbait that some gormless twat in a Stockport bed sit post's online?

Sometimes I despair.🤦🏼‍♂️

Beat me to it, Ray.

Second, Paul K (11), Harrison is expected to be ready by mid-September and I'd rather we signed a player who can contribute significantly (as I believe he will) for the majority of the season than let the opportunity go by to sign him. Particularly if we have the chance to make his move permanent and benefit from him for a few years to come.

I think this is a very good signing. He's free for now and instantly improves the first team. No-brainer...

Slight downer he's injured but should play in a month or so. It's a very long season so assuming he stays fit, once fit, he'll be a much-needed bonus.

Leave the £20M transfer fee very much on ice. Hopefully we can and will use it on someone younger in 12 months time (if we have it). Like Young, a very much needed stop-gap to (hopefully) stabilise this season.

I can't see the future so I am choosing to believe the lad will bring his A-game and be a valuable addition for us.

For fuck's sake, this is the most Everton thing ever!!! Fuck off, Kenwright and all the other balloons working at Everton Football Club. We've had enough of you disgusting shithouses stealing a wage from fans' pockets. Fuck off.

Stan, I wasn't even aware that I'd given Stockport grief in the past. Mind you, I was knocked back by a bird from Stockport in 1969 so maybe I subconsciously loathe the place. These things run deep you know… 😳

Starvation of fact means any and every reference to anything blue is trawled for daily. This means of course that reality is a concept forgotten as I cuddle my Everton shop precious care bear each night hoping the following day that I awake to news of a signing, a departure, a relief to the 20 years of mismanagement.

But no, like you, I discover daily that the same gormless individual in a Stockpot bedsit has once again ruined my sleep, and left me even lonlier if such a thing is possible.

There are millions of us on this blue planet, in pockets unheard of, as remote as Hawera, New Zealand, who thank God every day for ToffeeWeb despite the distance and relativity in time and space.

(I am of course in the future being 11 hours ahead of you and of course a different sodding planet where the ball they play with is oval and the favourite colour is black.)

So Ray, I envy you having the luxury of said gormless plonkers in Stockport, you could always pack them off and send them to the still-used penal colony not far from here called Australia – I am sure they still take them.

Dear Lonely in Stockport... please find attached your new Australian passport and keys to your new home in Warralotofspace... We hope you enjoy your exile, whoops, typo, we hope you enjoy your holiday.

ps: The crocs are okay as long as you try not to talk to them, they have a low tolerance to Koppites and Stockport.

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3⃣ Chelsea: -€658.64m 🔻
4⃣ Newcastle: -€486.38m 🔻
5⃣ Tottenham: -€465.63m 🔻
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Hard to see how we've been reduced to loaning injured strikers from relegated teams looking at that list. So if true how are we up against the FFP beak? And do these clowns running the show understand we wrote off our most expensive signing due to some botched police investigation? Although that's arguably as much Kenwright & Co's fault.

Desperation has never smelt so bad.

Should we be worried Onana is in London?!?

A complete no-brainer signing, apart from wages, no outlay with an option to buy. On his form for Leeds the past few seasons, he could well be a very useful outlet for goals and assists for the remainder of the season.

It is in the blueprint of survival drawn up by Dyche and Thewell and I suspect flair players who cannot run like the Duracell bunny, are firmly in our past. Luxury items of skill are secondary to endeavour in a world where the cost of such players is now beyond all except a handful of clubs.

So welcome, Mr Harrison, may you enjoy your time here, we will praise the skills you have with relish. Skill and endeavour combined is our mantra. I think he fits the bill.

I quite miss sunny Nelson – I was there before coming up north, watched a couple of games at the soccer club too (nice little club). It seems like a metropolis compared to Hawera!

A few years back, when I was in Brisbane, I managed to organise a family outing to the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane to watch the mighty Blues. Wait for it… that was 13 years ago!!!

We won 2-1 with goals by Rodwell and Gueye. Their manager was Ang Postecoglou… I wonder where he ended up??

Just had a look at the team on the night.

Everton FC:

1. Ian Turner (gk),
3. Leighton Baines,
15. Sylvain Distin,
6. Phil Jagielka,
7. Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (70' 19. Magaye Gueye),
8. Louis Saha (75' 14. James Vaughan),
18, Phil Neville (c),
21. Leon Osman,
26. Jack Rodwell (60' 28. Victor Anichebe),
23. Seamus Coleman,
16. Jermaine Beckford (75' 9. Jose Baxter)

Unused Substitutes:

2. Tony Hibbert,
11. Joao Pereira Da Silva,
22. Lukas Jutkiewicz,
25. Shkodran Mustafi

Crowd: 19,786

So he is out for a few weeks, do we wait until January to sign him instead? I would rather have him at the club now, than have to wait just over 4 Months for the next window to open, even then not guaranteed we would get him.

A very shrewd signing; I like it.

BTW why did that Stockport woman give you the elbow? Was she a Kopite?

Virtually everyone including the BBC had him going to Villa, so I was right to question if he wasn't injured, would he have signed for us.

Also, I think he's a good player and hopefully when fit does great. I just wonder, on our squad being so thin, why get a player in who may be out for a while?

Dave #33, will you accept a wager? I'm coming over in late September. I'll bet you that by the time we meet for a Guinness at the Winslow, Midland, Harlech or wherever before the Luton game, Onana's performances in the intervening six games will have convinced you of his value.

If you still feel the same, I buy our suds for the night. If you've changed, it's on you. (And your odds are great, because as you know my limit on Guinness is one.)

Deal?

I am delighted we finally got a player in that knows where the net is and is always on the front foot.

Okay, he is out injured at the moment but, if he wasn't, maybe we wouldn't have got him.

£70k per week, if true, sounds a bit rich but if it's only a loan, it's not too bad.

We seem to be adding wingers, especially left-wingers, when we already have a decent one in McNeil who seems likely to be back in action before Harrison. Maybe Dyche sees him on the right-wing or elsewhere. Hope he's not this season's Vinagre.

Like everyone else, I'm waiting for a proper striker because it's as clear as day we can't rely on the biscuit of a current striker. If he starts 10 games this season, I'd be astonished.

It will be a pleasure to see you no matter how Onana plays but it will be better if he is playing well.

He's got about five or six games to start improving. See you in September, keep well ‘til then.

Fair enough… and you've had the last laugh!

That caused me to absolutely explode in laughter. At least three TW denizens immediately jumped to mind as candidates for emergency Tourette's outreach.

Dave #47,

I have a hug ready for you. Our dash for the train is still one of my fondest memories. In my retelling of the tale you are now an Olympic sprinter.

I'd say top half is a stretch. Maybe top 5? Honestly, I'm surprised at varying levels of negativity about Harrison from ToffeeWeb's most level-headed poster Colin Glassar, the rational malcontent Nick Page, and one of our super scouts, Sam Hoare, with Robert Tressell being the other.

Generally, despite their diverging views, I tend to agree with most posts by all three. But on Harrison, yes it's far from ideal after a losing start we bring in a guy who's going to miss the next few games. But since he was playing for New York Ciity, I've been a fan of Harrison for his dynamism and the stats suggest he's better than Iwobi, McNeil, Gray or Danjuma.

I'm actually excited about his signing. He's a guy I wish we'd had for the last two or three years. I may be completely wrong and a naive old fool but I seriously think he can be a really impactful signing for us. I haven't been this excited about a new signing since … we signed Moise Kean. Okay, no one is perfect, right?

I don't know of many players who play every game these days. For us recently, possibly Tarkowski and Pickford come closest.

Okay, he's injured right now, but he's training and will be ready next month. As mentioned, it's a season of 38 games, not the next 3.

To recap on what my very good Leeds supporting friend told me on the news of this: Great signing, better than Gray, scores some great goals and weighs in with assists and likes to take players on.

His words not mine. I can't comment as I've not really taken much notice of him.

Now he's an Everton player, let's judge him as an Everton player.

As has already been said, Villa will have known about his injury for a while; it won't have been a surprise to them. Was it a factor? Perhaps, but despite all our problems, Everton FC is still a draw for players.

Players like Donovan, Richarlison, Cahill were players that wouldn't have received the same affection elsewhere. We pay top money, and whilst the pundits and London press will have us as a place not to go, for those that will – they have a fabulous opportunity.

He's an exciting player, has vision of what's on for a move. He can score and he can set up chances. If his workrate is high as well, then I think he'll do us fine. I like Gray and think he's done us well. But this lad looks the business. I think he'll lay on chances, score and will work his socks off. I'm getting positive again!

I think the management know we need a goalscorer. I think it's a matter of getting a good one, when finances are low (or non-existent.)

Up to now, I'm optimistic. With the additions we've made, it looks like we'll have more goals in our squad. There's a fortnight to go, near enough. Let's see what our set-up is like at the end of the transfer window, before judging the success, or lack of it in our recruitment.

He must surely be a prime example of what Robert Tressell has repeatedly advocated this transfer season: Buy 'em in young and unknown from a minor continental league.

This bloke turned out to be pretty good – but not for us, sadly. Three years hard work for virtually nothing, before he went to a number of different Champions League teams – including 4½ years at Arsenal after a £35M move from Valencia back in 2016.

Perhaps a testament to Moyes's ability at identifying talent, he's also a testament to Moyes's inability to make the best of young players, leaving him sitting on the bench unused 9 times out of 10 before releasing him on a free.

But perhaps Moyes was right after all: During his tenure at Arsenal, he developed a reputation for errors – so says Wikipedia!

Think you need to get the facts right before you post. Aston Villa were not involved at all.

Yeh, the only Olympic sprinter in history who runs with a walking stick!

Well Villa just turned him down, they are a top half team ( I think, soon find out!) but I doubt there is much gnashing of teeth among their fans at losing him.

That said, I should be clearer that he is a decent signing given our frugal circumstances. I've also thought he had talent and he is as proven as it is possible to be, unlike Moises Kean whose exoticism ended up being greater than his actual contribution. Before Kean, I recall some also getting excited about Sandro

With this lad, he's come through with Leeds and looks good wherever he plays in our football. I'm glad we've got him.

If memory serves me right, Moyes was risk-averse to playing just about any youngster, even Wayne Rooney! Seamus still in the mix which is incredible... only a few left playing now!

"He may well become my new favourite player, a position that's been vacant a good while now"

Good point. James and Richarlison seemed to have as many detractors as admirers. I really cannot remember the last universally accepted (well aside from the minority of permanent malcontents) fan favorite we had. Maybe Tim Cahill? If not him then maybe Andrei almost 30 years ago lol

Mustafi always makes me think.

Okay, not the best, but I think we played him one or two times.

He then went onto win trophies with Arsenal. And, although not a starter in probably the best German team in recent times (2014), played his part and has a World Cup winning medal in his cabinet.

Still just past 30. If available, why not?