{"id":462035,"date":"2019-06-25T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T20:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=462035"},"modified":"2019-06-25T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T20:09:14","slug":"everton-andre-gomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/06\/25\/everton-andre-gomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton Complete Permanent Signing of Andre Gomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everton<\/a> have announced the permanent signing of Portuguese midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/1961b2aa\/Andre-Gomes\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andre Gomes<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_pauljoyce\/status\/1143606098882113539\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a322 million<\/a>. The 25-year-old was on-loan at Goodison Park last season, but has signed a permanent five-year deal.<\/p>\n<h1>Everton Sign Andre Gomes<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f | We are delighted to confirm the permanent signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aftgomes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@aftgomes<\/a> on a five-year deal from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FCBarcelona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back, Andr\u00e9! ?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/haJbk2vDVE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/haJbk2vDVE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Everton (@Everton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everton\/status\/1143607725068304392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Andre Gomes &#8211; Career So Far<\/h2>\n<p>Andre Gomes began his career with Benfica. He made just 14 appearances for the Portuguese side before making a loan move to Valencia in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Valencia made his year long-loan permanent in 2015. During his first season with the club he scored four goals as Valencia finished fourth in La Liga.<\/p>\n<p>He had more individual success during his second season with Valencia as he registered five goals and three assists in the 2015\/16 season. However, Valencia struggled and finished 12th in La Liga.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of his successes, he earned a\u00a0\u20ac35 million move to <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barcelona<\/a>. Gomes was in-and-out of the side during his first season at Nou Camp. Nonetheless, he still saw success as Barcelona triumphed in the Copa del Rey.<\/p>\n<p>Regular appearances were hard to come by during his second season. He made just seven starts in all competitions during the 2017\/18 campaign. As a result, he was loaned to Everton the following campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Despite just one goal and one assist all season, he impressed during his loan spell with Everton. He formed a formidable partnership alongside<a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/72c812f3\/Idrissa-Gana-Gueye\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Idrissa Gana Gueye<\/a> in front of the Everton defence.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Gomes has also made 29 appearances for the Portugal national side.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means For The Future<\/h2>\n<p>Providing Everton can keep hold of Gueye then they build on their partnership from last season.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the pair will help Everton compete for Europe. However, manager Marco Silva will have to keep hold of other key players <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/76dd1480\/Gylfi-Sigurdsson\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gylfi Sigurdsson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/fa031b34\/Richarlison\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richarlison<\/a> to help build a strong challenge for Europe. Everton will likely face competition from <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/leicester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leicester City<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/west-ham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Ham United<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/wolves-club-analysis-news-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> for seventh spot.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"uPt-BkoASpppqOR94iGmUg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1081831238\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'uPt-BkoASpppqOR94iGmUg',sig:'3i2cSN2yXkgUAAwRn83Vk5-x6jAR3H-bQ5fbH45iYgk=',w:'594px',h:'403px',items:'1081831238',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everton have announced the permanent signing of Portuguese midfielder Andre Gomes for \u00a322 million. The 25-year-old was on-loan at Goodison Park last season, but has signed a permanent five-year deal. Everton Sign Andre Gomes &nbsp; \u270d\ufe0f | We are delighted to confirm the permanent signing of @aftgomes on a five-year deal from @FCBarcelona. Welcome back, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":467164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1365,13,3],"tags":[2045,464,45,40,136],"class_list":["post-462035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona","category-everton","category-premier-league","tag-andre-gomes","tag-barcelona","tag-everton","tag-premier-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}