New signings profiled – Jan Mucha(GK, with Video)

As the club and David Moyes have made moves to suggest that ‘lessons have been learned’ from the Blues sluggish summer transfer movements in past seasons – Slovakian goalkeeper Jan Mucha and young Portuguese striker Jaoa Silva already signed, with Leeds United’s Jermaine Beckford long having been touted to join them in the coming weeks – SOS has decided to give Blues fans the low-down on all of this summers signings(a good few more of which we hope will follow!!), bringing together many of the snippets of information that can be found in various corners of that there t’internet, for your collective perusal…………..

EVERTON FC SIGNINGS AHEAD OF 2010/11 SEASON……

#1, JAN MUCHA

Position: Goalkeeper

Nationality: Slovakian

Age: 27

From: Legia Warsaw

Fee: Bosman Free

Joins: July 1st, 2010

Height: 1.90, (6’3″)

Caps: 14, Slovakia (senior)

Confirmation: #EFC Official + Interview#

Did You Know?: Mucha was voted the 2nd best player in Poland for the 2008/09 season!

Wikipedia Profile:

Ján Mucha started his career in his local club TJ Slovan Belá nad Cirochou. Then he moved to MŠK Snina, and later to Inter Bratislava. He spent there 2 seasons in A-team, but he didn’t play in any match. He moved to MŠK Žilina in summer 2002. He won the Slovak championship there twice. In 2005, he was sent on a half-year loan to 1. HFC Humenné.

He signed for Legia Warszawa in Poland in summer 2005. In the 2005–06 season he was second-choice goalkeeper, behind Łukasz Fabiański. Fabiański moved to Arsenal in 2007, and Mucha became first-choice ‘keeper. With Legia he has won the 2007–08 Polish Cupand the Polish Supercup in 2008. In January 2010 Mucha signed a pre-contract deal with English club Everton to join in July the same year.

Mucha made his debut for Slovakia in February 2008, in a friendly match against Hungary.

Trial By Video…………

As can be found more and more often nowadays, even with players from obscure Nations or lower divisions, there is a collection of video content on the net that show the best and worst of the player……here is a selection of that……

1. Mucha in action in the Polish League. Not much to get excited about here but he does show some tidy handling, a decent command of his box and seems to have a monstrous kick on him with either foot!! The slight concern would be, judging by the ending to the video, this may have been put together by his agent. If this is ‘the best of’ Mucha, it makes you wonda, if it’s all Mucha do about nothing!!

2. Less said, the better. Any relation to Paul Gerrard!!??

3. Or perhaps Richard Wright…(1st goal)..although he does redeem it later!

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF JAN MUCHA?  GOOD SIGNING…WASTE OF TIME….BETTER THAN CARLO NASH SO “HE’LL DO”??

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