Player Watch: Joao Virginia

Disastrous loan spells to lower-league teams.

Good luck to him trying to catch on somewhere else.

He's 23, almost 6'-5", 11 clean sheets in 30 starts, 32 goals conceded (one a howler when a 70-yard free kick bounced over him).

Steve Bruce wants to keep him there permanently.

Seems like maybe he's our future, not Virginia.

We should certainly bring him 'home', where he would be a fine deputy for Jordan. And if we need a third goalkeeper, Billy Crellin also out on loan would be available.

Harry has indeed climbed above Joao on the club's Goalkeeper pecking order. 30 starts with 11 clean sheets for a Blackpool team that is solidly at 10th place in a competitive League One this season: that is as good a loan as we would hope to be.

Quick tangent: Given Seamus' 6 months with Blackpool (arguably, the Promotion Races & Playoffs made his bones) and Harry's success so far this season, we should establish a firmer and more regular players-loan relationship with them. Although I understand the high turnover of managers at the lower leagues would tend to jeopardise those arrangements, Blackpool seems to be a club that would benefit, especially with their under-siege owner Simon Sadler having stopped spending and might look to sell the club.

We appear to have stocked up on keepers very well which is irritating given the incompetence to strengthen the full-back or centre-forward positions. Nonetheless, the deputy goalkeeper with Pickford there might need to be a youngster unless we end up with a long Europe campaign which Moyes knows how to manage squad-wise.

Tyrer doesn't have to actually be at Everton physically to be Jordan's heir apparent. One alternative might be another loan next season, maybe to the Championship, with a recall provision in case Pickford is injured.

I'm no expert, but I'd rather have him starting 35-40 games in a tough league than sitting on our bench.

If he were to return, it is most likely he would not play apart from a few dead rubbers here or there (like Virginia and Begovic).

Andrew #5, I don't think we're well stocked for GKs at all. It would be a real worry if Pickford got injured.

The real talent in our ranks is Doug Lukjanciks – but at 17 he probably needs a year or two more before first team appearances.

Definitely better for Tyrer to have another loan rather than sit on the bench. Same with Harrison Armstrong, unless Moyes think he's likely to start 20+ games, he'd be better off staying at Derby or elsewhere.

For his own career, he probably needs to move on, but we do need quality back-up, because you just never know what is around the corner.

I'll use the Neville Southall injury in 1986. No disrespect to Bobby Mimms, who done well, but the big man being out for the run-in contributed to us missing out on the 85-86 league title in my opinion.

Harry Tyrer has been at Everton for a long time and impressed in the Academy teams and since with his loan spells. I didn't know he was that tall, his sister used to post on ToffeeWeb when he was coming through the ranks.

I hope he keeps improving and getting further loan deals will help rather than stagnating in U21 games and fleeting minutes in the first team — if he gets any!

40 years old in September. Earning around £1,200,000 per year. Champions League winner and runner-up medal (forget the 2005 final, we all try to) plus possibility of adding an FA Cup winners medal to his runners-up one.

Not sure he is that frustrated. Come to think of it. If it was me, I wouldn't be frustrated.

Maybe that's just the purist in me.

He is a solid goal-keeper, who can be called upon in case of an injury to Pickford. I vote for giving him an extension to his contract.

Not ideal to rely on him as our number 2.

It's not too long ago we had Pickford and his number 2 was a highly experienced Swedish international with Champions League and Serie A experience.

Virginia is miles off that.

“I love the club, I love everything around it.”

“I want to show myself and prove myself to the new staff and the new manager because I have been away for so long.”

“I found out in the morning I was playing. I was working hard at the time to get on the teamsheet and I was happy when the manager picked me for that game. I went into it with confidence - I felt good. We struggled because we had the red card in the second half. I was called up into some action and we got the draw and we took the game to Goodison.”

“Before a game you always feel anxious, but once you're there at the stadium you get confident and you forget about it and you just focus on your job.

“There was a little rush through my body [when he walked out to Z-Cars]. It's a great feeling, really. I think I've read somewhere that footballers get this adrenaline rush when they play football, and that's exactly what you feel when you walk onto the pitch and you hear Z-Cars and everyone shouting at you. There's nothing to replace it for sure.

“And I think that I had an even better game in that one [than the first tie]. That was my first game at Goodison with the full crowd and it was like a dream debut with the crowd there. It was a moment that I will remember forever.”

“You want to have the confidence of your manager. And I think for a goalkeeper, that's really, really important. I felt that the team trusted me [after that] and they all still trust me. It's a good place to be at. It is hard that I don't play as much as I want to but to have the confidence from everyone around you, it's definitely good and motivates you.”

“It's such a big difference. Without the crowd, everything is silent, everything is quiet, you can hear everyone shouting at each other. The game is a bit slower, I don't know why, I think it is because the emotions are not there as much, the adrenaline is not there because of the noise. It is hard to compare, I think it's much better when we have our supporters, for sure.”