02 Apr 2026 14:26:47
Everton linked with Christian Kofane of Bayer Leverkusen.
19 year old Cameroonian international.
Watched this lad in the CL against Arsenal and City. He is aggressive off the ball, presses well from the front and closes defenders down quickly.
Seems brilliant at getting the run on his man and attacking the box - a bit like Giroud used to do poaching near-post finishes. Big physical lad at 6ft 2 and puts himself about.
Seems like the player we were supposed to be getting when we got Barry. Perhaps Bayer would be interested in a swap hahah!
02 Apr 2026 20:03:20
Just out of curiosity, did you know anything about Beto or Barry before we bought them BN?
02 Apr 2026 21:59:45
Not Barry, BR. Knew nothing about the lad but I think he had only been at Villareal for the season before we signed him.
Beto, I actually knew of because of Del Boy, tbh. They played at Udinese together and struck up a decent partnership, reminiscent of his and Lukaku's.
To me he looked like he would be a decent centre-forward for us. In his defence, we have not played to his strengths in the slightest.
We have seen shades of him at his best when we play the ball in behind. Pertinent goals that spring to mind like Doncaster, Newcastle, Liverpool, Leicester, Chelsea.
He is by no means the best footballer and I would prefer a more well-rounded player leading the line for us but there is no reason why he couldn't score 10/15 goals a season for us, if we played to his strengths.
03 Apr 2026 22:04:47
I actually watched a few Villarreal games when Barry was playing for them and, although his stats looked good (I think it was 11 in 35 games) , he was absolute garbage. He missed numerous sitters, fell over the ball and looked out of his depth (sound familiar?) .
I couldn't believe it when we were linked with him and posted on here last summer that he was crap, but obviously hoped that he would prove me wrong if we signed him.
What made matters worse was when he signed he said that Moyes convinced him to come to us by telling him that he would do well in the Premier League. To be honest, I don't recall anyone else being in for him.
I don't know what it is with our club and crap French strikers. First Maupay and now this clown. Both are crap, Maupay vaguely resembled a footballer, but Barry certainly doesn't. Both stank the place out with their attitude and both criticised their own fans on social media.
If we can only sign one striker in the summer then I would keep Beto. Barry has to go. I'm sick of the sight of him sitting on the bench sulking with his head in his hands. It shows a terrible attitude.
I don't care how much we get for him, just get shut, put it down to experience and move on.
{Ed025's Note - im with you SB..
04 Apr 2026 16:30:48
Agree, mate. Time to get a decent striker at last.
05 Apr 2026 08:52:14
Shropshire, don't forget Mikael Madar. ?
But on the upside we did have Louis Saha.