Tyler Dibling

[brap2]

For me it's much less of a risk than buying a 27 year old who will leave us on a free in 4-5 years time.

[superpull]

We bought Ndiaye for £15m a year ago following a tough season at Marseille. Obviously that was a great deal and he is a few years older, but we're talking £25-30m more than that for this lad on the back of the 1 season he's had in football where he put up Jack Harrison numbers?

He's obviously talented and Southampton were obviously shit but absolutely no guarantee he's going to be an effective footballer in the future and little evidence of it so far to be spending that much money on him.

You look at Palace with Eze, Olise, Wharton, etc... Go for that sort of player before the fee becomes absolutely ridiculous. Tom Fellows or even Omari Hutchinson would be better buys at this point.

Word on the street is we have been quoted £40m+ for Hutchinson as well

[Cods]

That video does well to cut off every time before he passes/shoots. Here's hoping the best, I think most likely we have a £40m bench warmer for the season.

Feels like maybe a bit short in decision making, passing and shooting vs good technique and ball skills. The former attributes might come with age. At that price hope so.

[kramer]

Hutchinson feels like the worst bang for your buck of the three. Similar lack of goal contributions to Dibling but not nearly as much in the ball-carrying department. Ipswich are clearly backing themselves to come right back. With no release clause, I don’t think he’ll come for a reasonable price.

The next class of player is Fellows and Doak. Doak is probably a non-starter because of his club. Fellows looks to be the most limited and one-dimensional player of the bunch but can clearly pick a cross.

I get why we’ve explored other options first but I can see Fellows succeeding here purely based on squad construction. Ndiaye loves to drift inside to link up with the midfield and has shown a decent goal threat. Fellows would have a couple of strong aerial attackers in Beto/Barry to aim for in the middle with Ndiaye at the back post or in the middle for a cutback and Dewsbury-Hall arriving late as well.

[kramer]

I feel like we’ve gone after Dibling first because he looks like the best option for ball progression/retention.

We know that Moyes wants a couple of players who can hold the ball up to keep pressure off. Ndiaye is option one, Beto appears to be improving but will probably still be outclassed by PL CBs a fair bit. Dibling probably intended to be that second option to relieve pressure.

[blueToffee]

I don’t think Doak should be off limits if he was an option and maybe even cheaper than Dibling.

[kramer]

Fofana, Kubo, and Dibling are all left-footers.

So maybe we’re not even looking at right-footed players whose first instinct is to go down the line.

This is the position that has me most anxious. Our options on the right are terrible until we add someone.

[blueToffee]

Fofana, Kubo, and Dibling are all left-footers.

So maybe we’re not even looking at right-footed players whose first instinct is to go down the line.

This is the position that has me most anxious. Our options on the right are terrible until we add someone.

I’m a litttttle surprised about the profiles we’ve been linked to, I expected one or two more speedy/direct players just to mix it up.

Kanchelskis 2.0.

[Evertonian in NC]

A one-dimensional player whose carrying tool (sorry for the Americanism) is crossing? Hard pass. That shouldn't be how we base our attack anyway, kissing cousin to hoofball.

Not that I am anti-crossing, just "anti-crossing specialist."

[American Evertonian]

I'm disappointed we've gone that high because I can't see any club spending over £30m on him. Should have bid that and waited for deadline day. They don't have much leverage if he's only got 2 years left on his contract.

We are victims of our own inaction here. Southampton knows we are desperate and we play into their hand with repetitively increased bids going over our valuation of him.

People talk as if he has the potential to become a £70m player. There aren’t many players worth that much and odds are he won’t become that. It’s a high risk transfer and if the £50m rumors is true (base plus add ons) then the upside on profit still makes me think the risk outweighs the benefit.

We need players and we didn’t help ourselves by taking our time. Whether that’s our fault or the markets doesn’t matter because we are in the situation we are in. Every market is a tough market so hopefully we don’t get baited into a bad decision.

[kramer]

A one-dimensional player whose carrying tool (sorry for the Americanism) is crossing? Hard pass. That shouldn't be how we base our attack anyway, kissing cousin to hoofball.

Not that I am anti-crossing, just "anti-crossing specialist."

I don’t know if it’s entirely fair to call him one-dimensional, he just seems to have less variety to his game than some of others linked (i.e. not much in front of goal).

Two things stand out on FBRef: progressive carries and assists (both actual and expected). Videos mostly show him going down the line before clipping a cross in.

It’s not like he’s just firing the ball in from deep though, he gets into very good positions.

Think he’d be a good player at this level in the right setup and ours looks pretty good for him.

Edit: He actually seems to cut in on his left a fair bit. Still most effective beating his man and getting a cross in with his right foot. This is what I get for half-remembering a video I watched the first time we were linked.

[superpull]

A one-dimensional player whose carrying tool (sorry for the Americanism) is crossing? Hard pass. That shouldn't be how we base our attack anyway, kissing cousin to hoofball.

Not that I am anti-crossing, just "anti-crossing specialist."

Getting down the line, with speed, from direct play and putting it in the box for a big centre forward to smash it home is 100% "the Everton way" and the crowd laps it up.

[Kerryblueboy]

We need to walk away here

[Bluebridge]

Getting down the line, with speed, from direct play and putting it in the box for a big centre forward to smash it home is 100% "the Everton way" and the crowd laps it up.

DCL signs new contract.

[The Doc]

I'll be gutted if we don't sign him tbh, I think he's a real future star.