There is a YouTube showreel of Oumar Niasse playing for Lokomotiv Moscow before he signed for Everton.



It’s a distillation of the footballer that fans on the blue half of Merseyside would come to know.



Watching it back you notice a few things; how often he falls over, that clumsy gait in the six-yard box. Then you notice how he makes things happen despite, or because of, that.



The chaos he brings through his pace, lack of finesse and unpredictability. It baffles some defenders. They, like him, don’t know what’s coming next.



You also wonder what scouting reports the manager Roberto Martinez read back in the winter of 2016 that convinced him to pay £13.5 million for the Senegal forward. It was a substantial fee for a club which was still a month away from entering a new bolder financial age under the ownership of Farhad Moshiri.



And even if Niasse was intriguing, his chaotic quality has not been enough to make him a...