Gbamin still without a club as Everton blamed for injury hell

He still picked up a fat wage for doing nothing.

Brian Collignon, you are a bell-end of the highest order. The wages talked about here for this lad are mind-blowing.

The entire article is revisionist nonsense. He simply wasn't up to playing in the Premier League.

“How do you play football tennis on your own?”

Be able to hit it high and be able to run fast.

Being a rest and recovery regime, there is a resilience deficit in the training regime at Everton, which results in botched rehabilitations. Gbamin needed to be fit to get the match time to get up to the speed of play of the Premier League. He never got either fit or up to speed. We got to see Gbamin kick the ball three times.

There were other players at Everton like him, but their agents were better at managing these players' financial interests.

If the rest of the article is as accurate as the agent's claims, then file it under 'Fiction'.

The past 4-5 years, Gbamin, Bolasie, Gomes, Mina, Delph, Tosun, Allan, etc who were all brought in for £20-25 million fees (except Delph who came in for a bit lower) and high salaries, suffered extended periods of injuries.

Everton did not have the resources to just go out and buy replacements as the Top 6-7 clubs are able to do without batting an eyelid. Most of these injuries were unfortunate or unlucky but they dealt body blows to Everton's ability to compete, and it is one of the main reasons why we have struggled so badly the past couple of seasons.

Maybe. just maybe, we have turned the corner, and Dyche's conservative approach (the approach to Calvert-Lewin's injury, which is what the agent is saying should have happened in Gbamin's case) is just what is needed at this stage, plus a long-overdue dollop of luck for the good health of our players.

Regarding Gbamin, letting go of £5 million was a brave and honourable thing to do – and let us honestly ask ourselves – how many of us would have forfeited such a massive amount of money in the same situation?

Plus he injured himself titting about at home and was also banned from driving for getting behind the wheel of his Audi RS8 whilst under the influence of alcohol.

Lucas Digne was back from a broken ankle in an incredibly short space of time, which makes me want to ask the question, is it sometimes about how much and how quickly a player wants to be really fit?

And also in the front living room of the house.

Add on Godfrey £25M and a £15-20M contract with his snapped leg and long Covid. Not impressed before injuries but, like Gomes, Bolasie, Gbamin, Tosun, unfortunately not up to the required standard afterwards.

Sigurdsson £45M plus his £10M remaining contract, denied charges, not enough evidence, case dropped. Also, don't forget the Russian player of the year 2015: £15M + £15M contract… recently released by Morcambe,

Yes, the nature of football is that players get injured and certainly Gomes suffered an horrendous injury, but he was out on loan all last season and wasn't out injured at Lille. Yet he comes back and all of a sudden despite speculation he would move in the summer window, he is now injured again.

I think if you could see how many games most of our players played last season and then priced up wages against minutes on the pitch, then we have some of the most expensive players in the Premier League.

Or perhaps we got less careful about the physical resilience of some of the players we signed. Players these days are like thoroughbred horses, very high maintenance.

'When JP had an injury earlier in his career at Lens, he played four reserve games after he was fully recovered, before rejoining the first team. Match fitness, confidence, it all plays a part.'

That's a key part of a player's fitness which probably doesn't happen in the modern Premier League game.

Back in the days of black and white, it's my understanding that players generally played their way back into the first team via a series of fairly competitive reserve games, for example Central League, to prove their fitness and get them match fit etc.

Modern-day football is so different for so many reasons, which I won't cover because we'd be here all day debating it... :)

Having said that, I think there is some truth in the agent bringing up Everton's shocking record concerning the fitness and conditioning of our players. It is something that under Dyche seems to be gradually improving.

Remember when teams used to build up strength and fitness by running for an hour or two on the Sandhills? (It was Liverpool under Bill Shankly TBH.)

If a player has niggles, they are given a rest so they complete as many sessions as possible, cut the sessions short if someone's a bit sore, attend Medical Services on a regular basis. Medical Services are in control.

Or

Build them up and push them through those periods where they're a little sore, a little bit tender and a little bit fatigued … to provide them with that robustness to get through. Medical Service are used as part of the process and the Performance Manager is in control.

The first is Rest and Recovery the second is High Performance. Everton's so-called School of Science training regime is the first Rest and Recovery and the rest of the Premier League are some form of the second High Performance regime.

Hope this explains the difference. Can't go into detail at the moment, just got a phonecall – my brother-in-law (57) found dead, did not wake up this morning.

On another matter, I see Nathan Broadhead is ripping it up with Ipswich Town, a player with an eye for goal who we let go for a few million. I know it's always a judgement call with young players, but maybe it's another example of our poor business with transfers in recent years?

Everton have enough problems without more digs from a player (or agent) who should be glad he won the lottery when he signed for us.

Wanker! Is he serious. We'd all love to be paid thousands every week for doing Bo Didley.

Nathan Broadhead isn't ripping it up in the Championship. Now 25, he's doing fine in a well organised team… that's all.

Good luck to him but he's doing nothing to suggest he's a Premier League quality striker. Our mistake was hanging on to him too long, not letting him go too early.

He's got six goals in total this season, and according to my friend (Lucas) who is a big Ipswich fan and goes to the games.

Nathan Broadhead is very popular with their fanbase, and playing well, albeit, as you say, in a very good side.

Have a friend whose cousin didn't wake up one morning, so although not a direct family member, sort of know what you are going through. Think that makes sense. Take care.

His agent said when he was free, the clubs able to sign couldn't afford wages for someone of his quality. So rather than play football, he's holding out for a big deal rather like Jesse Lingard.

Jack Wilshere was better than both and to his credit he rolled the dice playing for peanuts in Scandinavia to try and revive his career. Sadly he couldn't and I doubt these two will either with their wage demands.

Given how much he has earned from us and offered so little in return, I think it shows a lack of class to speak out against the club.

He was desperately unlucky, awful injury. I can't help but wonder what would have happened if he had stayed fit and adapted to the Premier League, and we had signed Zouma… Something tells me Silva would still be our manager.

While every member of our boardroom has been held accountable by angry Evertonians throughout the past couple of seasons (rightly so), the man who did, by far and away, the most damage was somehow allowed to walk away with barely a finger pointed in his direction.

Brands had an eye for sick notes: Mina, Gomes, Delph and Godfrey often joined Gbamin on the "not available" list. Others hardly figured because they were crap.

The £230M he paid in transfers is dwarfed by the amounts he squandered paying ridiculous wages to people who were either not fit enough, or not good enough.

Coming up to half a billion pounds spent in less than four years as DOF and the squad he left behind is only in the Premier League because there have been three even more appalling sides to save us. Two seasons running.

Gbamin is only the tip of the iceberg. How much healthier our financial position would be today if Mr Brands had not darkened our doorstep.

I guess wherever you look under Moshiri's tenure, it has been pretty much bad decision after bad decision; Moshiri is the common denominator here, I'm afraid.

Anyone from that paper wouldn't get into Goodison if I had any say in it.