2 - Nathan Patterson - future star

Everton close to £10m deal for Rangers & Scotland full-back.

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:Getting closer to a deal, allegedly.

Everton close to £10m deal for Rangers & Scotland full-back.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59855179

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:Getting closer to a deal, allegedly.

Everton close to £10m deal for Rangers & Scotland full-back.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59855179

I found this surprising (in red)... I mean we all know Scottish football is shit, but that's a pretty low fee over the last 10 years or so

Everton are hopeful of completing a £10m deal to sign Rangers right-back Nathan Patterson in what would be a record fee for the Ibrox club.

Scotland right-back Nathan Patterson, 20, is set to undergo a medical with Everton after Rangers accepted a bid of an initial £12m, which could rise to £16m with add-ons.

| We have signed Scotland defender Nathan Patterson from @RangersFC for an undisclosed fee on a deal until the end of June 2027.

Welcome, @np4tterson! ????????????????????????

— Everton (@Everton) January 4, 2022

Super wrote:This thread can be moved to 'The First Team' forum now....

Armchair wrote:Is he any good?

Da Judge wrote:

Armchair wrote:Is he any good?

Speaking to a business colleague, dyed in the wool 'Gers fan. His opinion is that we have got him as an absolute steal. He is solid attacking but better defending that Tavernier (Rangers captain who has kept him out of the team). He is quick and he is a big unit. He is  6' 3" FFS....

Armchair wrote:

Da Judge wrote:

Armchair wrote:Is he any good?

Speaking to a business colleague, dyed in the wool 'Gers fan. His opinion is that we have got him as an absolute steal. He is solid attacking but better defending that Tavernier (Rangers captain who has kept him out of the team). He is quick and he is a big unit. He is  6' 3" FFS....

Yeah, I've just read some comments on youtube from Rangers fans. Quite excited now!

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Armchair wrote:

Da Judge wrote:

Armchair wrote:Is he any good?

Speaking to a business colleague, dyed in the wool 'Gers fan. His opinion is that we have got him as an absolute steal. He is solid attacking but better defending that Tavernier (Rangers captain who has kept him out of the team). He is quick and he is a big unit. He is  6' 3" FFS....

Yeah, I've just read some comments on youtube from Rangers fans. Quite excited now!

big shoes to fill in Seamus... but all looks promising from what you read

hairy cataract wrote:He's a kid, he's played half a dozen times in the Scottish Pub League, and he's got the left back's number, but other than that what could possibly go wrong?

Surely there's no way Rafa is going to stick him straight into the first team?  I reckon Seamus will continue at right back for the rest of the season with Natty Patty playing at Hull and then a few games on the bench, getting the odd twenty minutes here and there.

Da Judge wrote:

hairy cataract wrote:He's a kid, he's played half a dozen times in the Scottish Pub League, and he's got the left back's number, but other than that what could possibly go wrong?

Surely there's no way Rafa is going to stick him straight into the first team?  I reckon Seamus will continue at right back for the rest of the season with Natty Patty playing at Hull and then a few games on the bench, getting the odd twenty minutes here and there.

He is £11m worth of ready - the Club believes. I think he will miss the Hull cup game (get mid season break out of his system) and will play the league games.

The key is solidifying Godfrey in the centre with Keane/Mina and getting everyone fit.

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Da Judge wrote:

hairy cataract wrote:He's a kid, he's played half a dozen times in the Scottish Pub League, and he's got the left back's number, but other than that what could possibly go wrong?

Surely there's no way Rafa is going to stick him straight into the first team?  I reckon Seamus will continue at right back for the rest of the season with Natty Patty playing at Hull and then a few games on the bench, getting the odd twenty minutes here and there.

He is £11m worth of ready - the Club believes. I think he will miss the Hull cup game (get mid season break out of his system) and will play the league games.

The key is solidifying Godfrey in the centre with Keane/Mina and getting everyone fit.

Given that Rafa is in one of his contrary, I'll-Do-What-The-Fuck-I-Want phases, he'll probably loan him out to Harlequins for the season and he'll knacker his leg while buried under a ruck. But that's all fine as long as incoming loanee Stewart Broad can do a job at right back. Turns out that Jair Bolsonaro is ill in hospital so Rafa's interest in the mercurial Brazilian is at an end, per sources.

I'll be honest, I'm massively confused. We spent about ten guineas in the summer, suggesting that we were in FFP trouble. Six months later, when we're in actual football trouble, we're suddenly spending money on young full backs.

I'm all in favour of building a squad with young players but the timing all seems out of whack. When we had time to build such a squad from a position of relative strength, or relative safety at least, we focused on 29 and 30 year olds. Now we're in a relegation battle, we're looking to the future, it seems.

I'll be fascinated to see who else we bring in in January. It would be so Everton if the money suddenly dries up and we go down having invested our last available £10m on a right back who still has to tell his mum where he is and what time he'll be home.

I hope this lad turns out to be good but we haven't got a clue if he will be Prem standard or not. Neither does he, nor Rafa. We'll soon find out I suppose. I say we play him. He'll make mistakes but he's young enough to learn from them, and everyone else is making mistakes anyway, so what do we have to lose? Only some football games.

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Da Judge wrote:

hairy cataract wrote:He's a kid, he's played half a dozen times in the Scottish Pub League, and he's got the left back's number, but other than that what could possibly go wrong?

Surely there's no way Rafa is going to stick him straight into the first team?  I reckon Seamus will continue at right back for the rest of the season with Natty Patty playing at Hull and then a few games on the bench, getting the odd twenty minutes here and there.

He is £11m worth of ready - the Club believes. I think he will miss the Hull cup game (get mid season break out of his system) and will play the league games.

The key is solidifying Godfrey in the centre with Keane/Mina and getting everyone fit.

Given that Rafa is in one of his contrary, I'll-Do-What-The-Fuck-I-Want phases, he'll probably loan him out to Harlequins for the season and he'll knacker his leg while buried under a ruck. But that's all fine as long as incoming loanee Stewart Broad can do a job at right back. Turns out that Jair Bolsonaro is ill in hospital so Rafa's interest in the mercurial Brazilian is at an end, per sources.

I'll be honest, I'm massively confused. We spent about ten guineas in the summer, suggesting that we were in FFP trouble. Six months later, when we're in actual football trouble, we're suddenly spending money on young full backs.

I'm all in favour of building a squad with young players but the timing all seems out of whack. When we had time to build such a squad from a position of relative strength, or relative safety at least, we focused on 29 and 30 year olds. Now we're in a relegation battle, we're looking to the future, it seems.

I'll be fascinated to see who else we bring in in January. It would be so Everton if the money suddenly dries up and we go down having invested our last available £10m on a right back who still has to tell his mum where he is and what time he'll be home.

I hope this lad turns out to be good but we haven't got a clue if he will be Prem standard or not. Neither does he, nor Rafa. We'll soon find out I suppose. I say we play him. He'll make mistakes but he's young enough to learn from them, and everyone else is making mistakes anyway, so what do we have to lose? Only some football games.

Just to add that Tavernier, the right back who was keeping Patterson out of the side at Rangers, is 30 and didn't make it in the Prem. Newcastle and Wigan both binned him off. My lad keeps on telling me "yeah but Tavernier's really good" but how good, exactly? Not good enough for a Prem team to buy him in the last seven years. Just a thought. I don't want to be unduly negative but I have very little faith in the club getting anything right just now.

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Da Judge wrote:

hairy cataract wrote:He's a kid, he's played half a dozen times in the Scottish Pub League, and he's got the left back's number, but other than that what could possibly go wrong?

Surely there's no way Rafa is going to stick him straight into the first team?  I reckon Seamus will continue at right back for the rest of the season with Natty Patty playing at Hull and then a few games on the bench, getting the odd twenty minutes here and there.

He is £11m worth of ready - the Club believes. I think he will miss the Hull cup game (get mid season break out of his system) and will play the league games.

The key is solidifying Godfrey in the centre with Keane/Mina and getting everyone fit.

Given that Rafa is in one of his contrary, I'll-Do-What-The-Fuck-I-Want phases, he'll probably loan him out to Harlequins for the season and he'll knacker his leg while buried under a ruck. But that's all fine as long as incoming loanee Stewart Broad can do a job at right back. Turns out that Jair Bolsonaro is ill in hospital so Rafa's interest in the mercurial Brazilian is at an end, per sources.

I'll be honest, I'm massively confused. We spent about ten guineas in the summer, suggesting that we were in FFP trouble. Six months later, when we're in actual football trouble, we're suddenly spending money on young full backs.

I'm all in favour of building a squad with young players but the timing all seems out of whack. When we had time to build such a squad from a position of relative strength, or relative safety at least, we focused on 29 and 30 year olds. Now we're in a relegation battle, we're looking to the future, it seems.

I'll be fascinated to see who else we bring in in January. It would be so Everton if the money suddenly dries up and we go down having invested our last available £10m on a right back who still has to tell his mum where he is and what time he'll be home.

I hope this lad turns out to be good but we haven't got a clue if he will be Prem standard or not. Neither does he, nor Rafa. We'll soon find out I suppose. I say we play him. He'll make mistakes but he's young enough to learn from them, and everyone else is making mistakes anyway, so what do we have to lose? Only some football games.

Just to add that Tavernier, the right back who was keeping Patterson out of the side at Rangers, is 30 and didn't make it in the Prem. Newcastle and Wigan both binned him off. My lad keeps on telling me "yeah but Tavernier's really good" but how good, exactly? Not good enough for a Prem team to buy him in the last seven years. Just a thought. I don't want to be unduly negative but I have very little faith in the club getting anything right just now.

Most really good players in Scottish prem are circa league 1, maybe Championship standard... so it is a worry

hairy cataract wrote:Just watched him playing for the U23s, live on YouTube.  Subbed on the hour mark but he was very good to be fair.  Strong, confident, making powerful runs and put in an absolute peach of a cross on the overlap for Dobbin to nod home.  Wouldn't be surprised to see him get a start in the Brentford game.

Armchair wrote:

hairy cataract wrote:Just watched him playing for the U23s, live on YouTube.  Subbed on the hour mark but he was very good to be fair.  Strong, confident, making powerful runs and put in an absolute peach of a cross on the overlap for Dobbin to nod home.  Wouldn't be surprised to see him get a start in the Brentford game.

Sign him!

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:To back up hairy's report,,,

Nathan Patterson marked his first Everton appearance with an assist for Lewis Dobbin’s decisive goal as the Blues’ Under-23 side beat high-flying Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 at Southport FC on Monday night.

Scotland international Patterson – who joined Everton from Glasgow Rangers earlier this month – supplied a pinpoint cross which Dobbin met with a bullet header to put the Toffees in front on the stroke of half-time.

Patterson’s athleticism and quality in possession impressed as he completed 60 minutes of the clash, with the victory seeing David Unsworth’s side stretch their unbeaten run to seven matches.

Centre-back Jarrad Branthwaite also played for an hour of the Premier League 2 encounter, delivering an assured display to help the young Blues record a clean sheet against a free-scoring Tottenham team who sit third in the table, five places above Everton.

https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2462911/patterson-impresses-in-fine-u23s-win?fbclid=IwAR2jXQI1-mdXZq8puj45iKcptGGj5Abnt9miaBX6KIqTt_N6YSjHhJcxaRY