£40m Bid Made For Sigurdsson

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brieverton said:
Hard to see what the hold up is now.

We know they want £50m, or a package totalling that. Everton have known it for weeks. You would have thought if its £45m + add-ons + player, then we would have made what we consider to be our best and final offer and told Swansea to take it or leave it.

I can't fathom how we would still be formulating an offer when we have had weeks at this and a crystal clear message from Swansea as to what they will/won't accept. It can't simply be a case of faxing an offer and getting a rejection fax back 5 minutes later. For a deal of this size, surely senior board members/executive management at both clubs have at least had significant video conference discussions, if not an actual face to face meeting.

And by the way, the media coverage of this who thing has been absolutely pitiful. Just the same old reheated "close" rubbish day in day out. Clearly nobody has bothered to dig beneath the surface a bit and see what is actually going on.

Being cynical at this stage, I wonder if Koeman was playing games with his comments on Sunday, to try and put pressure on internally to move this along. At the moment it seems to suit both camps to sit on this and do nothing. That's the only conclusion I can draw at this point.
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It's like the western front in WWI. Both sides are dug in and attacking is just a pointless waste of resources.
 
longers said:
How do you all manage to keep finding scruff to post about in this thread lol

How are people so arsed about us signing him ? He's decent player but we're going to finish 7th regardless of if we sign him or not.
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With that kind of attitude mate, YOU are the reason Everton will finish 7th.
 
matty1878 said:
Why are we? - honestly we're do people
Get there own theory's from its utterly mind boggling
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because if we were minded to compromise we would have done so by now, three more weeks and maybe five miilion off the price? Moshiri may well feel that's worth doing
 

Kev50 said:
because if we were minded to compromise we would have done so by now, three more weeks and maybe five miilion off the price? Moshiri may well feel that's worth doing
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Why would we? I don't know about you but I haven't a clue how a football transfer works, all the little intricacies and the timings of things. Not a clue so I tend to let things take as long as they take.
 
brieverton said:
Hard to see what the hold up is now.

We know they want £50m, or a package totalling that. Everton have known it for weeks. You would have thought if its £45m + add-ons + player, then we would have made what we consider to be our best and final offer and told Swansea to take it or leave it.

I can't fathom how we would still be formulating an offer when we have had weeks at this and a crystal clear message from Swansea as to what they will/won't accept. It can't simply be a case of faxing an offer and getting a rejection fax back 5 minutes later. For a deal of this size, surely senior board members/executive management at both clubs have at least had significant video conference discussions, if not an actual face to face meeting.

And by the way, the media coverage of this who thing has been absolutely pitiful. Just the same old reheated "close" rubbish day in day out. Clearly nobody has bothered to dig beneath the surface a bit and see what is actually going on.

Being cynical at this stage, I wonder if Koeman was playing games with his comments on Sunday, to try and put pressure on internally to move this along. At the moment it seems to suit both camps to sit on this and do nothing. That's the only conclusion I can draw at this point.
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My guess ( and it is only that as not ITK ) based on the history of this matter and the recent comments of the 2 managers is that a deal is done between the 2 clubs but Swansea will not proceed until they sign a replacement
 

brieverton said:
Hard to see what the hold up is now.

We know they want £50m, or a package totalling that. Everton have known it for weeks. You would have thought if its £45m + add-ons + player, then we would have made what we consider to be our best and final offer and told Swansea to take it or leave it.

I can't fathom how we would still be formulating an offer when we have had weeks at this and a crystal clear message from Swansea as to what they will/won't accept. It can't simply be a case of faxing an offer and getting a rejection fax back 5 minutes later. For a deal of this size, surely senior board members/executive management at both clubs have at least had significant video conference discussions, if not an actual face to face meeting.

And by the way, the media coverage of this who thing has been absolutely pitiful. Just the same old reheated "close" rubbish day in day out. Clearly nobody has bothered to dig beneath the surface a bit and see what is actually going on.

Being cynical at this stage, I wonder if Koeman was playing games with his comments on Sunday, to try and put pressure on internally to move this along. At the moment it seems to suit both camps to sit on this and do nothing. That's the only conclusion I can draw at this point.
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I don't see how it suits both camps to sit tight and not move things along.

It is obvious that Iceland is done with Swansea so one would think it is in their interests to get this deal over the line so they can properly prepare for the coming season.

As for EFC, we really could be doing with him for the EL games against Split and apparently if he is not signed by midnight tonight he is ineligible for those games.

Plus our pre season performances show we are badly in need of some of the skills he can offer.

So I am left to agree with those whom say it is Swansea's American owners holding things up by playing some macho game behind the scenes.

As for Iceland, if he wants this move so bad, why doesn't he try and force the issue by requesting a transfer.
 
Does anyone think we will actually have him signed to play saturday,or even be at the ground,at least the window closes in 23 days so thats as long as we have to wait for this and other deals to be done-no more its been taking 3/4 weeks etc
 

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