Everton made a gap against Aston Villa over the weekend, but David Moet must be pleased with his team’s start in the 2025/26 campaign.
Although the Exodus was needed this summer, the dramatic upheaval on the blue side of the Mersey highlighted the need for accuracy in the transfer market.
Seven points and three unbeaten runs from four Premier League matches gave Toffee the platform, but they could have won three with three exclusions due to a crude finish against the struggling Villa.
Beto was the culprit.
Beto is not burning against Aston Villa
He made a leaps and bounds under the wings of Moyes, but there is no doubt that Bissau Guinean striker is flawed within his game and tends to ghost at various occasions throughout the campaign.
The 6-foot-4 front fits the moet shape. He is the tower of charm and often commands the sky. He scored twice in five games in every tournament this season. Three of them came from the starting whistle.
However, Beto has only one goal in the Premier League, and may have tripled his tally against Aston Villa.
Thierno Barry signed in the summer to add a ninth place competition, but the 22-year-old is raw and has yet to settle within the tough Premier League crime.
At moments like this, some fans may want another scoring option.
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It’s a shame that Moise Kean hasn’t been proven to be the talisman of Toffee Blue.
Keene initially began his professional career with weight of expectations, including the genius he was charged with. Things were stagnant a bit, but the £25 million move from Juventus to Everton, 19, did little to promote his career.
Under Farhad Mosilli’s ownership, Everton signed Keene in 2019, but it is not unfair to emphasize that the Italians were unable to put it together. Though the criticism depicting Moshiri’s dysfunctional rule is heavily, the move for Kean certainly spoke of ambition.
But that didn’t work, and after a spin on the Lone spell, Keene returned to Turin for a similar person Everton first paid him. So, financially, it wasn’t a shocking blow, but the player’s struggle certainly suggests it was a poor signature.
Perhaps he is considered the successor to Romell Lukaku’s previous location on Everton’s team. Keene was one of many misfires in the transfer market during that long and recent struggle, highlighting what his recent exploitation in Italy might have been in Britain.
Keene struggled even after he left, so he went around Juventus. However, the move to Fiorentina revived his career, and then scored 25 goals in all competitions at Laiola last season, providing three assists.
It’s clear that Keene needs to return to his home country and grow into the player he is today, but Everton saw something and couldn’t make it work.
It is powerful, clinical, “terrifying” physical, Reporter Carlo GarganKeene could have been Everton’s next version of Lukaku. Certainly, it is unlikely that Lukaku’s name was raised in internal debate two years after the Mammoth sale for Manchester United in Belgium, prior to the successful bid for teenagers.
His dribbling is rising very much. Data from FBREF reveals that Keene has ranked in the top 14% of European top five league strikers in the past year.
A successful take-on is recorded when the player defeats the opponent while bringing the ball directly into the possession.
This is something Moys may have made good use of this current Everton setting. Merseysiders and their bosses were separated from practical perceptions and shaped into modern hybrid forms.
Premier League 25/26- XG Leader | ||
|---|---|---|
team | the goal | xg |
Man United | 4 | 7.9 |
Chelsea | 9 | 7.7 |
Man City | 5 | 7.6 |
Brighton | 4 | 6.6 |
Everton | 5 | 6.3 |
Data via FBREF | ||
The fifth Everton sits in the XG (expected target) rankings of previous Premier League campaigns. Of course, it was early on, but evidence of growth and new attack impulses.
The warning is that they have only scored five goals, highlighting the room for improvement in the ball strike division. It’s not a terrible deficit by any means, but Keene’s ability striker can add that difference to make Everton even higher.
Lukaku is certainly on the top of the Imawaki in the form of Everton, and so could Keene. After all, the Azzurri star was named “The New Lukaku” in a big move towards Goodison Park.
Moet and Everton have a bet, but that’s not so bad. The 26-year-old is a strong and sturdy striker. He orders the box well, tasting along with the defender, knocking down the headers on his teammates. He is an excellent player in the appointment of Moyes.
However, Keene is clearly the cut above, and while it is hopeless that he missed the opportunity to develop a star that wasn’t shining back then, that must be a dissatisfaction for the new board.
Whether Barry is good is another question, and the French could certainly overtake Beto and set his marker as the starring striker for Everton, but he’s not there yet. Keene may have been a different maker this season.
