Let’s get this straight about Everton’s transfer window strategy. It was a gamble. A huge one.
They sold perhaps their most consistent performer over the past 18 months in Lucas Digne, and replaced him with a young, untested Ukraine left-back with no big-league experience; likewise at right-back with the promising Nathan Patterson.
And the biggest gamble of all? To put the club’s Premier League survival fight into the hands of not one, but TWO players who have star status, but have been overlooked by a succession of managers at their respective clubs for 18 months or more now.
