Think Marseille fell into the same trap as us. He’s quite good and going for cheap. Then when you get him you go, actually he’s awful and that was a lot.
If we want to base our transfer strategy around signing 20-25 year olds with good potential and high resale value, then it makes sense to twin this by accessing the free agent/loan/low fee market for experienced old heads. Basically the Brighton...
The problem with that is, he's on £175k per week at City, he's got a year left on his contract, so he won't be taking a big wage drop to come here. He would just stay at City and get paid for not playing.
Realistically, the most City would pay him is probably £50k per week, which has would mean we have to make a 36 year old speedster, who is no longer that quick our highest earner. That would truly be madness.
I doubt it would have anything to do with the scouting system in all honesty.
This would be a Moyes decision and at a complete guess I would assume it would be because we will be bringing in a large number of players, most of the ones we spend...
I know you and I have opposing views on this, but I see Mykolenko as one of three major weaknesses last season's Everton side had in possession (Doucoure and Beto being the other two).
I know you've focused on assists there and you do have a...
The other case for having a more attacking left ball is that it's branthwaite's side to cover, and he's so good and so mobile that we can afford to let a bit more space in behind there cos he'll sweep it up
which is what he does a lot for...
I would be genuinely horrified if the speed of negotiations was dictated by how many fans were wetting their knickers because they weren’t getting their fix of information :)