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10th Aug 2016

Everton have killed off the ‘Announce X’ meme for good with Ashley Williams update

ANNOUNCE WILLIAMS

Tom Victor

In terms of football trends, there’s an argument for saying you should either do something early or not do it at all.

No one’s a fan of ‘Vardy’s on Fire’, ‘We’ve got Alli’ is a waste of all our time, and even club owners buying the fans drinks seems a bit old hat now.

When Arsenal took the piss out of the hordes of ‘Announce Xhaka’ merchants, it was amusing, but everyone going down the same road since reeks of shouting ‘Come on Tim’ at Wimbledon in 2016.

Have Everton got around this by making the same joke individually to multiple fans? We’re not convinced.

In case you couldn’t tell, Ashley Williams has joined the Toffees from Swansea City, signing a three-year deal with Ronald Koeman’s team.

https://twitter.com/nathan_sartain/status/763396730037604352

His arrival comes barely 24 hours after Everton sold John Stones to Manchester City for an estimated £47.5m (less Barnsley’s substantial cut), and the Wales international joins fellow new signings Idrissa Gana Gueye, Chris Renshaw, Bassala Sambou and Maarten Stekelenburg.

The Stones announcement was far more low-key, with City choosing the novel method of confirming the deal by proxy, adding the player to their official Champions League squad list before so much as a tweet.

Sometimes less is more.

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