Jonny Evans available for just 3 million....

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Green_Red said:
Yea I know but in fairness how many times has a player from the relegated team made the premier league team of the season? If you can name another one I'll change my opinion.

In the first 10 minutes here Keane is dubbed 'the best young player in the country'. Forest were lucky, they took a punt on him and he proved he had what it takes.



Doesn't happen often.
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From that same forest side - Stuart Pearce was arguably still one of the best fullbacks and Nigel Clough went on to play for Liverpool. Tbf I look at their squad and wonder how they went down
 
Dundrummer said:
Scott Parker won player of the season the year his club finished bottom of the league and then signed for Spurs and was in the PFA team of the year for them.
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Fair enough, I'm probably wrong to write a player off then just because they are getting relegated.
 
Dundrummer said:
Some of us have a weakness for players who played regularly, and regularly very well, when we used to win the league. When we haven't even competed for the title in five years despite spending half a billion it's hardly a sodding mystery that there's some nostalgia. The only argument that justifies selling Jonny was his injuries, but we kept Phil Jones so figure that one out.

Evans will sign for City this summer, a team indisputably better than us, and people will still insist he wasn't good enough to play for Louis Van Gaal's also-rans..
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Haven’t seen much of him this season but has he really been that good? Like world class cb in your opinion?

I still have nightmares from that game against Mk Dons where he probably was the worst player on the pitch.
 
Jesus Christ, how about NO?
We sold him because he was no longer good enough for where we wanted to be. When a player leaves a big team, it speaks volumes to see which level of club shows an interest in that player. Evans joined West Brom. West Bromwich Albion. Not even Everton, West Ham, Newcastle, those mid-level but still big, well regarded clubs. WBA. That was the level of interest in him, which proved we were right to no longer consider him of the right quality to be at United.

Why would we even dream about bringing him back now, about 4yrs later? He's older and around the same quality he was when we sold him. Christ on a bike.
 
Gordon S said:
Haven’t seen much of him this season but has he really been that good? Like world class cb in your opinion?

I still have nightmares from that game against Mk Dons where he probably was the worst player on the pitch.
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Nope he's been shite. Only looked good under Pulis because they sat with 10 men behind the ball, but then every defender looks better in that scenario.

I really would have laughed if City signed him, it would have been a big error.
 
Surely we can all agree that the only type of centre half that we should be looking at is the nailed-on starter type.
 
Still ill said:
Surely we can all agree that the only type of centre half that we should be looking at is the nailed-on starter type.
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If he's very cheap and isn't fêted as The Answer to all our issues at the back (obviously we need fullbacks and I'd ideally like a new leader-of-men-type CB we've been missing since Rio/Vidic) I wouldn't be up in arms if Jonny returned. He has an affinity for the club, knows where the stopcock is etc. and he's done well at an admittedly terrible WBA.

That said I understand people's dismay at the prospect of us getting more squad options when what we sorely need is first XI quality in those defensive areas, and I don't see Jonny as an automatic starter.
 
He's not an improvement over what we have so there's no point.
 
Not sure what the point would be in bringing in another injury prone decent but not quite good enough center back. All of ours are already at that level, and the problem is that they're all injury prone. Would I rather have him then Lindelof or Rojo? Yeah, especially because of the United ties, but it'd be replacing squad player with squad player.
 
If we're in the market for a starting CB he is no where good enough. If we're looking for a squad level CB, we already have about 4 of them.

So no.
 
Absolutely not.... even for free. He was injury prone for years and then dreadful in his final season with us. McNair and Blackett were arguably better than him that year and that says a lot.

He looked good when he was younger and played next to the immense Vidic and Ferdinand but he’s now bottom of the table, playing for an almost certainly relegated West Brom. The only thing he’s improved is his fitness and you know that would change as soon as he hit our training pitches.
 
I think it's is a very good deal for that price. He is pretty decent defensively and his distribution from the back is very good. Evans and Lindeloff could be used against teams that park the buss - they could give us very good base for our attacks. Than we will have Smalling, Rojo, Bailly and Jones to mix and match against the teams that pose more of an attacking threat. 3m is nothing plus he is homegrown.
 
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Holding midfielder?

Substandard central defender for an elite team but he’s quality on the ball and about 6’3 to satisfy Jose’s large midfielder fetish - I’d be for acquiring him for £3m, but only to play in the McTominay role or even leftback cover.

Would probably be able to sell him to a relegation threatened team in January for about £10m anyway if he’s no use.
 
Christ. We should be looking at the likes of Koulibaly and Alderweireld, not Evans, regardless of how 'cheap' he is.
 
Nikelesh Reddy said:
Should we be seriously considering signing him this summer?Hes available for just 3 million quid....knows United inside out...he seems to have overcome his injury troubles,he's been a good consistent performer for West brom.Plus he's a very good distributor of the ball who knows how to bring the ball out from the back and at 30,he definitely has at least another 3-4 seasons left in him.So,should we bring him back or should we just look for an upgrade??
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we never should have sold him in the first place, but now that we have I can't see us bringing him in at the expense of a younger player. If one of our central defenders were to leave I would hope they would be replaced with a younger player. The only way I would bring in a 30 year old is if he's world class, which unfortunately, Evans isn't...
 
Makes about same amount of sense as selling Shaw and signing Rose. Or maybe even tad less.
 
sorry but he wasn't good enough for us when he left Old Trafford and someone explain just how that has changed... no, right. i hasn't
 
Bring him in as a lindelof smalling or jones replacement a squad type player but not for the best xi... only really need 4/5 centre halves bailly rojo if they can stay fit only two good enough and reliable enough.. fosu mensah and tuanzebe come back and be replacements we will still need someone else..
 
He’s no better than what we have, but Jose has worked wonders with Rojo and Jones so maybe he could bring Evans up a level. It’s not a signing that would fill me with confidence though.
 
AP88 said:
Holding midfielder?

Substandard central defender for an elite team but he’s quality on the ball and about 6’3 to satisfy Jose’s large midfielder fetish - I’d be for acquiring him for £3m, but only to play in the McTominay role or even leftback cover.

Would probably be able to sell him to a relegation threatened team in January for about £10m anyway if he’s no use.
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He's old for a role change. He's not quick on thinking nor quick with his feet. He's tall but not exactly combative. Jones can do a job there. Lindelof was known to put in a shift as central midfielder too. Rather Mctominay and even Tuanzebe for central midfielder than experimenting with Johnny Evans.

Johnny Evans ball playing is overstated. He has technique for pass, but takes ages to angle him self and/or pick the runner to pass to, thus invite unnecessarily pressure.
 
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El Zoido said:
He’s no better than what we have, but Jose has worked wonders with Rojo and Jones so maybe he could bring Evans up a level. It’s not a signing that would fill me with confidence though.
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Evans before he left was better than smalling and jones.. more often than not he was “1st choice” with rio and vidics injuries. Had the odd nightmare but they were less often than the other two.. lvg being the clown he is letting him go was yet another strange one
 
I reckon i rate him higher than a lot on here seem to, a lot seem to judge him off his last season where most of his terrible games came when Van Gaal mostly played him in a back 3.

But even so no point resigning old players and if we're signing a centre back to replace Jones and/or Rojo it needs to be someone who isn't likely to be just as injury prone.
 
berbasloth4 said:
Evans before he left was better than smalling and jones.. more often than not he was “1st choice” with rio and vidics injuries. Had the odd nightmare but they were less often than the other two.. lvg being the clown he is letting him go was yet another strange one
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He wasn't better than Smalling or Jones. When Evans left he was the laughing stock of the league. The MK Dons 4-0 loss was the final straw.
 
berbasloth4 said:
Evans before he left was better than smalling and jones.. more often than not he was “1st choice” with rio and vidics injuries. Had the odd nightmare but they were less often than the other two.. lvg being the clown he is letting him go was yet another strange one
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Uh no. He was better when SAF was still in charge. Once SAF left he was not the same. LVG just exposed him even more. So he was better when he left. Evans under LVG was damn terrible. The less we talk about the better.
 
Either asked not to play in WBA's last game or refused to. Isn't/wasn't he the captain?
 
Wouldn't mind bringing in Alderweireld and Evans and letting go of Rojo and Jones. That would improve our starting lineup massively and give us a better, more reliable backup. If the 3mil price is accurate it'd be a smart move.
 
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