Grading the summer transfer window: Everton

Modified Oct 13, 2017 21:49 GMT

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Davy Klaassen

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With Ross Barkley on the outs with Ronald Koeman and looking likely to move away from Goodison Park – possibly to Tottenham – in January after a close call with a potential transfer to Chelsea in August, Dutch international Klaassen was brought in from Ajax for a substantial fee of £23.6m to essentially act as his replacement.

Unfortunately for all parties, it hasn’t worked out thus far. Despite bringing a good reputation from Ajax, where he was largely an ever-present and even contributed with 20 goals last season, he’s seemingly failed to get to grips with the pace of the Premier League and has quickly slid down the pecking order at his new club.

While Klaassen will probably be given more chances as the season goes on, we’ve seen before with the likes of Vincent Janssen that players from the Dutch Eredivisie find the step up to the Premier League very difficult these days due to the gap in quality. That may well be the case for Klaassen too and it may well be the unfortunate case that Everton have wasted a lot of money on him.

Grading: 1/10

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