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£40m Bid Made For Sigurdsson

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Giving the board some credit here as even they think anything near £40mill is lunacy.

We'll fold though and give Swansea a summer kitty.
 
Jay said:
In modern day transfers, there are 3 parties, the buyer, the seller and the player himself and the players nowadays have so much power when it comes to transfers, it happened with us in Lukaku's case, we didn't want to sell him but the player himself forced the move and left us with one option, do the best deal possible for us and that's what we did, we negotiated the best deal possible and moved on.

With Sigurdsson, it's the same situation, the player is forcing the move, he already withdrew from their pre-season, this is a good point for us and a bad point for Swansea when it comes to negotiations, if we tell them we are out, they will have an unhappy player who already turned his back to the club, their fans are already saying what we were saying about Lukaku after he told the press "returning to Everton is not an option".

Do you think Sigurdsson withdrew from their pre-season on his own? Obviously his agent is in contact with us and the move (withdrawing from the squad) was a calculated move.

We said we want 100M for Lukaku, in the end we had to settle for 75M + Add-ons and even negotiated a free transfer for Rooney, i am sure its the same situation right now, Swansea trying to get as much money as they can while we are somehow in a comfortable situation, we have the player on our side and we are not panicking against their strategy, we won't pay 50M, simply because we don't want to make other clubs have the same strategy as Swansea (they put the price and we pay it), i am also sure that our 40M offer (in case it was true) was not 40M, it was much less with add-ons, the final outcome will be the same, Swansea will say it's 45M while it will be something like 35M + Add-ons.
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;););) spot on !!
 

MorgsGoat said:
Ive seen very little to suggest any interest from Spurs.

They seem to want Barkley instead........
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Spurs love gazumping us so do not rule them out - they have been linked to SIG - they want Barkley for next to nothing no way will they help to fund us - they signed a dud on deadline day to frustrate us - thank goodness!
 

BlueToff said:
Coutinho cost that in 2012, though. Before the huge influx of TV money - and it's not comparable.

Gylfi's stats are up there with Ozil, De Bruyne, Coutinho and Silva in terms of assists, goals, chances created etc etc in the last two years. You would pay £40m for all of those players.
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He's not near the quality of them guys, come on now. Yes, set pieces are useful but we NEED creativity. The best creative players can do the passing and the set piece stuff. Need to go for whoever has the profile of the next Payet/Silva. Probably best scouring the French & Spanish leagues.
 
Baines' left foot said:
Who cares about resale value though really? That's the attitude of a selling club, which we aren't any more.
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Lukaku?
Our spending spree started big did you not feel we knew he was going?
Yes we have funds , but let's see what our net spend is when deadline day comes as Ross looks like he will be sold too!
That imo is both our bests assets out the door?
 
DrEFC said:
He's not near the quality of them guys, come on now. Yes, set pieces are useful but we NEED creativity. The best creative players can do the passing and the set piece stuff. Need to go for whoever has the profile of the next Payet/Silva. Probably best scouring the French & Spanish leagues.
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His stats put him bang on the middle with those payers, the differance is the club he plays for is well behind the clubs those guys play for, time for him to step up to one of the big boys has come
 
DrEFC said:
He's not near the quality of them guys, come on now. Yes, set pieces are useful but we NEED creativity. The best creative players can do the passing and the set piece stuff. Need to go for whoever has the profile of the next Payet/Silva. Probably best scouring the French & Spanish leagues.
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Are you sure he's not as good as those guys? How is he not creative? How is he not a terrific passer?

I swear, some of you have never seen the guy play.

9 and 13 are great numbers, but I would think he would do BETTER with us.
 

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