Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer Agree on Everton's Thierno Barry

Thierno Barry is becoming more of a household name every single week now as he continues to bang in the goals for Everton.

Barry was a name plastered all over social media in the opening few weeks of the season, mainly due to the number of chances he was missing. In more recent weeks, Barry has been all over the media for more positive reasons, as he starts to turn his missed chances into goals.

It's something we've spoken about on the channel multiple times this season, suggesting that Barry missing chances is a positive overall. It was always going to start levelling out, and even now, we could still see Barry on more goals.

The French striker is now on six goals in the Premier League, while he's contributed 13 goals and assists in 13 games in all competitions. Barry is slowly starting to get the respect he deserves, and that will only continue if he keeps putting the ball in the back of the net.

At the end of the day, strikers will be judged on how many times they score goals, especially by casual football fans who aren't watching Everton as religiously as us.

David Moyes has certainly been impressed with Barry in recent weeks, and hopefully that will continue long into the season. 

Barry is now becoming a topic of discussion among football podcasts, with many starting to take notice of the towering striker.

Speaking on the Rest is Football podcast, former strikers Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer have been discussing the form of Barry.

They are certainly two players who are more than qualified to speak about strikers in the Premier League, and they have had plenty of praise for the former Villarreal man.

 "A word on Thierno Barry. He's quite interesting because he's got a higher xG than Erling Haaland," said Lineker.

“That tells you a couple of things. First, he needs to improve his finishing, which maybe now with two goals he is; secondly, his movement is clearly exceptional and he's getting into positions to score.

"Down the line, because he's still a young man, it's easier to improve your finishing than the natural talent of finding positions to score goals."

Lineker clearly understands how important it is for a player to be constantly getting into attacking positions to score goals. As Lineker mentioned, Barry can easily improve his finishing, but having the natural instinct to be in the right positions is something that's more difficult to teach.

  "There's so many times I've looked at Barry and seen him miss sitters, and I was thinking: 'Oh my god'. How has he missed that?'. Without a doubt he's improving, but he keeps getting in those positions and doesn't stop," adds Shearer.

  "Already mentally he must be really strong because he doesn't give a flying... It's a great credit to him and he's getting his rewards now."

Shearer praises the attitude and mentality of Barry, as he is constantly getting on the end of these chances, even though he sometimes fails to score. It's an incredibly underrated trait for a striker to be able to get so many opportunities, especially when it's not as if Everton are huge creators anyway. 

As we've mentioned previously, there is a lot of pressure on Barry to continue producing for the Toffees, having failed to sign a backup striker during the summer transfer window.