£40m Bid Made For Sigurdsson

carolinablue232 · July 13, 2017

roydo said:
Hours ago mate.

Cheers. Too busy celebrating the SportPesa cup win. Rioting in the streets we are over here.

ilikecheese · July 13, 2017

Dan Tanner said:
Gaaahhhhhhh..... Dawn predictive text, fat fingers and a dialling wand for all in the new Kenwright/Moshri administration

Hahaha Dawn

kenada_blue · July 13, 2017

MorgsGoat said:
Giroud is going to cost 30m regardless.

In 12months 50m for Iceland will seem like a bargain.

You know I'm expecting a trophy this season if this happens.

If not. Pressure on for Ron I'm afraid.

malcson · July 13, 2017

We tried for top, top quality last season and got burned e.g. Witsel, Mata, Koulibaly, Milik. I think this season we have gone for the best of who will be likely to see us a good option. The only other choice was to gamble on potential (as in Sandro Ramirez), I think we have done this with Henry Onyekuru (who had to be loaned out) and a couple of the other youngsters e.g. Josh Bowler. These players are great for the future, they would be no guarantee to improve our squad immediately which we needed with 2 senior players departing in Barkley and Lukaku.

The way I look at it is Sigurdsson is a direct swap for Barkley, to get a player of similar quality we will have to pay a similar price (on most pundits lists Sigurdsson had a better season than Barkley last season)

Rooney, Sandro and if we get him Giroud (or A.N. Other) are combined a suitable replacement for Lukaku and cheaper.

So we will replace what we have sold for less money than we got for the departures, then invested the remainder AND some to strengthen in key areas e.g. Pickford, Keane, and Klaasen (probably to replace another outgoing).

I don't think once all our business is done we will be much more than £25 -£40 million in terms of net spend, and could be less. Then everyone will moan that we could have backed the manager, where is the £100 million war chest et. etc.

At present we have spent according to Wikipedia (which excludes add ons for Pickford, Keane and Lukaku) £87,100,000 on transfers and received £93,600,000 in transfer fees. So as of now we have made a trading profit of + £6,500,000! In other words everyone stop panicking we haven't even spent any money yet!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–18_Everton_F.C._season

Goat · July 13, 2017

kenada_blue said:
You know I'm expecting a trophy this season if this happens.

If not. Pressure on for Ron I'm afraid.

You already have the knives out for Ronny, I expect us to win a trophy every season tho.

ianefc · July 13, 2017

kenada_blue said:
You know I'm expecting a trophy this season if this happens.

If not. Pressure on for Ron I'm afraid.

The team who finished one place above us has already outspent us. We'll be 7th favourites for the 3 domestics trophies and even lower for the EL.

That shows you the size of the task he is facing.

marsh · July 13, 2017

Whats happening then?

Zatara · July 13, 2017

malcson said:
We tried for top, top quality last season and got burned e.g. Witsel, Mata, Koulibaly, Milik. I think this season we have gone for the best of who will be likely to see us a good option. The only other choice was to gamble on potential (as in Sandro Ramirez), I think we have done this with Henry Onyekuru (who had to be loaned out) and a couple of the other youngsters e.g. Josh Bowler. These players are great for the future, they would be no guarantee to improve our squad immediately which we needed with 2 senior players departing in Barkley and Lukaku.

The way I look at it is Sigurdsson is a direct swap for Barkley, to get a player of similar quality we will have to pay a similar price (on most pundits lists Sigurdsson had a better season than Barkley last season)

Rooney, Sandro and if we get him Giroud (or A.N. Other) are combined a suitable replacement for Lukaku and cheaper.

So we will replace what we have sold for less money than we got for the departures, then invested the remainder AND some to strengthen in key areas e.g. Pickford, Keane, and Klaasen (probably to replace another outgoing).

I don't think once all our business is done we will be much more than £25 -£40 million in terms of net spend, and could be less. Then everyone will moan that we could have backed the manager, where is the £100 million war chest et. etc.

At present we have spent according to Wikipedia (which excludes add ons for Pickford, Keane and Lukaku) £87,100,000 on transfers and received £93,600,000 in transfer fees. So as of now we have made a trading profit of + £6,500,000! In other words everyone stop panicking we haven't even spent any money yet!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–18_Everton_F.C._season

We could bring in circa 80mil in sales yet so even if Gylfi costs 45mil we still have perhaps 35mil in the cupboard before spending a bean.

GwladysBlue · July 13, 2017

ianefc said:
The team who finished one place above us has already outspent us. We'll be 7th favourites for the 3 domestics trophies and even lower for the EL.

That shows you the size of the task he is facing.

We're actually 4th favourite for the Europa.

BlueToff · July 13, 2017

marsh said:
Whats happening then?

He's not gone on the tour.

Supposedly we've bid £40m, and are confident of getting it done.

Though others saying we haven't bid at all.

I reckon this will be tied up over the weekend. Then again, I thought he'd be going on the tour.

ianefc · July 13, 2017

GwladysBlue said:
We're actually 4th favourite for the Europa.

Fair enough. Didn't realise that. Still a huge task.

arch stanton · July 13, 2017

malcson said:
We tried for top, top quality last season and got burned e.g. Witsel, Mata, Koulibaly, Milik. I think this season we have gone for the best of who will be likely to see us a good option. The only other choice was to gamble on potential (as in Sandro Ramirez), I think we have done this with Henry Onyekuru (who had to be loaned out) and a couple of the other youngsters e.g. Josh Bowler. These players are great for the future, they would be no guarantee to improve our squad immediately which we needed with 2 senior players departing in Barkley and Lukaku.

The way I look at it is Sigurdsson is a direct swap for Barkley, to get a player of similar quality we will have to pay a similar price (on most pundits lists Sigurdsson had a better season than Barkley last season)

Rooney, Sandro and if we get him Giroud (or A.N. Other) are combined a suitable replacement for Lukaku and cheaper.

So we will replace what we have sold for less money than we got for the departures, then invested the remainder AND some to strengthen in key areas e.g. Pickford, Keane, and Klaasen (probably to replace another outgoing).

I don't think once all our business is done we will be much more than £25 -£40 million in terms of net spend, and could be less. Then everyone will moan that we could have backed the manager, where is the £100 million war chest et. etc.

At present we have spent according to Wikipedia (which excludes add ons for Pickford, Keane and Lukaku) £87,100,000 on transfers and received £93,600,000 in transfer fees. So as of now we have made a trading profit of + £6,500,000! In other words everyone stop panicking we haven't even spent any money yet!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–18_Everton_F.C._season

i'm pretty happy with the window so far and if we haven't even spent any money yet thats a double bonus.

marsh · July 13, 2017

BlueToff said:
He's not gone on the tour.

Supposedly we've bid £40m, and are confident of getting it done.

Though others saying we haven't bid at all.

I reckon this will be tied up over the weekend. Then again, I thought he'd be going on the tour.

Just read on sky sports just now Leceister have already had superior bid to ours turned down? Wonder how true that is..

Goat · July 13, 2017

Zatara said:
We could bring in circa 80mil in sales yet so even if Gylfi costs 45mil we still have perhaps 35mil in the cupboard before spending a bean.

80m Zat?

Have you removed your brain?