Should Everton sign Lucas Vasquez?

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Lucas Vasquez is a name most Evertonians are very familiar with due to the never ending news stories linking him to Goodison Park. It’s fair to say he’s near the top of the list of ‘will they, won’t they’ Everton in the illustrious company of Andriy Yarmolenko and Andrea Belotti. However with his contract coming up at the Bernabeu in the summer, could this move actually happen? Better yet, should it?

It doesn’t seem to be any secret that Everton are in need of someone to take the creative weight off of James Rodriquez and the recently tied down Lucas Digne, and in the COVID struck market we now operate in, could a free transfer like Lucas Vasquez be the answer? The stats would say, maybe. The 29-year old has been deployed as more of a Right-Back than a Right-Winger this season and has registered 2 goals and 3 assists during 1358 La Liga minutes. The Spaniard averages 0.8 shots, 1.7 key passes and 1.4 dribbles per games . For a player who has been deployed in all sort of positions down the right hand side, they’re decent numbers. In comparison Lucas Digne averages 0.4 shots, 1.4 key passes and 0.4 dribbles per game and although it may been a bit unfair to compare the two due to the sometimes pragmatic system Everton employ, it would be a discredit to Lucas Vasquez to suggest he wouldn’t be someone who improves Everton’s creativity. 

It should also be noted how Everton are in the hunt for a Right-Back in the summer having already been linked to Max Aarons. With Vasquez’s ability to play anywhere down the right side could he actually be the man to fill the boots of the 60 grand man Seamus Coleman. Defensively the Irishman has 1.7 tackles, 0.3 interceptions and 1.5 clearances per game. While Vazquez averages 2.4 tackles, 0.9 interceptions and 0.9 clearances per game, although all in 1,015 more minutes of Football. With Coleman’s ability to get up and down the Goodison turf now dwindling, a man like Vasquez could be someone Everton turn to to fill that void should they not get other targets. 

All in all Lucas Vasquez could be someone who fills a gap in the Everton squad, not necessarily as a player who starts week in week out, but as someone who can come in on occasions were Everton are struggling to find a spark and he can provide it. However at 29 years old and on a rumoured £115,000 per week, this’ll likely be one that’ll slip Everton’s grasp, potentially for the best.  

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