by TiagoIlori »
23 Sep 2020 23:33
SCIAG Surely Everton are missing a trick by not sending Gibson to League One where he might actually have a chance at playing?
If McIntyre really does want to be starting every week then I guess we have to loan him out (particularly if there are no offers for Moore) but I don't think it's the right thing for us, and it's a huge gamble on his part.
He had a huge impact at fleetwood and helped transform their defence making them into genuine automatic promotion contenders pre lockdown. He’s certainly more than good enough. The question if anything should be do we need him?
In regards to whether we need him, I’d say yes we do. We need a left footed centre back. Moore has struggled on the left and Morrison is too slow to play a high line with(it’s obvious Paunovic wants us to dominate the game, you can’t do that playing from deep). I’m not completely sold on McIntyre to be honest with you, I feel some of his game needs to sharpen up(for example against Luton he didn’t anticipate he was getting pressed, before he was fully closed down he realised what was happening too late and he lost the ball in a dangerous area) and I’m not convinced he’s the quickest although I am encouraged by what I’ve seen from him. He seems to struggle to avoid injuries in particular, in recent years he’s had some pretty serious injuries that left him out for a while.
It appears to be purely tactical, which aligns with our Eddie reporting that Paunovic made a huge effort to sign him and Gibson saying him and Paunovic had a very good conversation over what they want to play in. I trust Paunovic in this one personally.