£40m Bid Made For Sigurdsson

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davek said:
Begovic would have been a third of the price paid for Pickford and just as good if not better

No problem with Keane quality wise, but that was a £10M payment over the odds.

Klaassen was a poor signing at £24M. My choice would have been from a far superior league: Kagawa of Dortmund or Osako at Cologne, and each would have cost less.
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I'm staggered that the 30 year old Begovich would have been cheaper than the 23 year old Pickford. A great learning day on GOT.
 

Bungle said:
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Don't every change darling.
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matty1878 said:
We're not talking about Sandro here and we don't know if he's proven in this league yet. Two PROVEN goal scorers in this league will cost more than 50 mill
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SIG is well over priced and you know it - 50 million of Lukaku's fee wasted on him is just plain stupid Rooney and Klassen, and Davies are meant to do that job with ease - no good buying a playmaker if you have no one to pass too?
Sandro cost 5 million there may be more bargains out there DOF has been a waste of money so far we have signed very little since Lukaku's departure, and Ross we know is certainly going again we have in my opinion filled the void -liked him to have signed and stayed that's not happening is it - if we had not paid 24 million for Klassen then maybe the SIG would be woth the cash but 50 million really?????????????????
 
Lanolin said:
And the whole point of what I'm trying to say is that they wouldn't have wanted to leave if Moshiri was a sugar daddy! I'm not complaining that he's not, simply saying what seems abundantly clear to me.

When City were taken over, they immediately went out and made big signings. Forget the 'marquee' aspect, I'm not interested in that, I'm talking about them taking Lescott off us and Barry off Villa even though we're both traditionally bigger clubs and were both regularly finishing above them in the league. We just haven't made that sort of splash, even the big money signings we've made are the type of player we would have expected to be able to attract (if not afford) anyway. The players we already had aren't buying into it because they can see that it's not that type of takeover, they don't see us suddenly signing players that the teams above us were desperate to keep, and they don't see us signing Robinho, Tevez and Toure. If they had, and/or we were offering them more than the going rate (like City did) then I think they would have stayed.

This has gone way off topic but the only reason this was mentioned was to point out that the player trading model is an important one to clubs like us. It isn't to the uber-rich because they'll be bankrolled anyway and have no need to worry about resale values, but the model we appear to be using will require us to think about resale when recruiting. I cannot see Moshiri spending £100m+ every season which is what you need to do when you're not generating money from sales, it's as simple as that. That isn't a criticism of him, simply an innocuous observation which seems blindingly obvious based on the past 12 months.
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Right, but Lukaku wanted to test himself at the highest level. We got an extra year out of him than many thought we would. Stones wanted out as well? I don't think Moshiri being or not being a 'sugar daddy' had anything to do with it. They didn't have the patience to sit out the project...

I think that'll come next year when we don't have the high-value assets like Lukaku to trade we'll see if he is willing to put his hands in his pocket for the squad, or if he wants to use any money he invests to focus on the stadium/commercial side of the club...
 

nsno-chris said:
Sorry, did i miss the close of the transfer window.

Think some extra large pampers maybe the best fit for you lid
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Was refering to our last `Barcalona prodigy` and the fact that we have signed a player we know little about
so we have to basically see how it goes, I applaud your optimism though, others are just not as naive I suppose
 
Joey66 said:
SI is well over priced and you know it - 50 million of Lukaku's fee wasted on him is just plain stupid Rooney and Klassen, and Davies are meant to do that job with ease - no good buying a playmaker if you have no one to pass too?
Sandro cost 5 million there may be more bargains out there DOF has been a waste of money so far we have signed very little since Lukaku's departure, and Ross we know is certainly going again we have in my opinion filled the void -liked him to have signed and stayed that's not happening is it - if we had not paid 24 million for Klassen then maybe the SIG would be woth the cash but 50 million really?????????????????
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he did sign gueye also which everyone ridiculed at the time. gueye and ramirez were both great bargains by the look off it.
 
eddy said:
Oh dear, the old marketability line, we can re visit that in 3 months when he is sat on the pine on 100k per week.
Unproven striker in, 25 goal a season striker out, for what will have been buttons when he smashes 30+ goals for united next season
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If Rooney is sat on the bench in 3 months time, then cool, cause it means that we have somebody better than him on the pitch. If he was simply coaching the kids and no longer involved in 1st team training, I wouldn't really give a toss, as it means we likely have better in his place. We got more coverage this summer transfer window than I remember throughout the premier league era. International corporations have been carrying print about Everton on scales I have not seen for a long time. That's not because we signed Henry Onyekuru is it. I'm really not bothered about Net spend or what we spend on wages, far more financially adept personnel than me will deal with that, I'm bothered about Everton being noticed, no longer being considered as inconsequential, ineffective cannon-fodder for the media teams. I want Everton to be in the mix and affecting things, have our name on cups and the lips of fans across the world again. When you consider the ability that Rooney has to attract media attention over the world, consider why it took United a few days to announce Lukaku. They were clearly waiting for the furore of the Rooney deal to die down so that them buying Lukaku never got swallowed. It still did in many places. Lukaku has said himself that he knew where he would be 18 months ago. Keeping him here against his will would have served no purpose, he'd of become a disruptive influence in my opinion.

There is time to go in the window and I know what will make me happier still, and that's buying a quality CF, LB cover and an AM. If we spent £150m or £1.50p to get them, I couldn't care less.

Media and the large media corporations have had a say in everything everywhere for many many years, that's due to the value place on public opinion, and more importantly the ability to control it to a point. The Rooney deal goes some way to creating a story about us, a hook for people to look out for, a reason for people to buy the papers if we're in it. Marketability is a huge deal, but the lack of it could be a bigger deal.
 
eddy said:
Was refering to our last `Barcalona prodigy` and the fact that we have signed a player we know little about
so we have to basically see how it goes, I applaud your optimism though, others are just not as naive I suppose
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Wouldn't any player be "see how it goes"? Football isn't played with valuations
 
Joey66 said:
SIG is well over priced and you know it - 50 million of Lukaku's fee wasted on him is just plain stupid Rooney and Klassen, and Davies are meant to do that job with ease - no good buying a playmaker if you have no one to pass too?
Sandro cost 5 million there may be more bargains out there DOF has been a waste of money so far we have signed very little since Lukaku's departure, and Ross we know is certainly going again we have in my opinion filled the void -liked him to have signed and stayed that's not happening is it - if we had not paid 24 million for Klassen then maybe the SIG would be woth the cash but 50 million really?????????????????
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clean up on isle 2
 

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