Jarrad Branthwaite

You just know under previous regime we would have spent the money on him even while injured.
 
Good move. You’ve got to assess the player and get the value from there, the last thing you should do is get into the nonsensical relative market which leads to stuff like “Maguire was 90 so this player is worth the same” when Maguire was obviously never worth 90 and flopped.

Gvardiol was worth mega money because he can do just about everything you could want in a CB, LB, and probably even DM. Brainthwaite is nothing like that level of player and his value might drop a bit by next summer.
 
If Everton go down this year we will revisit this in the summer I imagine.
 
If Everton go down this year we will revisit this in the summer I imagine.

They will probably survive again by the least shit out of the bottom 4 or 5 teams.

Also if they stop taking 2-0 leads they should be fine.