2022/23 Ellis Simms

[blueloon]

So we got more for a 16 year old that’s never played a second of senior football against adults?

Well he’s 17 , actually played against adults in last season‘s Papa John Trophy and it looks like we’ve got nearly twice as much for Simms. Apart from that …….

 

[MikeH72]

Well he’s 17 , actually played against adults in last season‘s Papa John Trophy and it looks like we’ve got nearly twice as much for Simms. Apart from that …….

We’ve got £3.5m for Simms by all accounts with the rest of the add ons to be paid if Coventry ever get promoted (they won’t)

 

[Nymzee]

We’ve got £3.5m for Simms by all accounts with the rest of the add ons to be paid if Coventry ever get promoted (they won’t)

I mean they could. They just got to the play-off final.

 

[MikeH72]

I mean they could. They just got to the play-off final.

3 stronger teams than them went down though and they’ve just lost their top scorer. I don’t think they’ll be anywhere near the playoffs personally.

 

[blueloon]

We’ve got £3.5m for Simms by all accounts with the rest of the add ons to be paid if Coventry ever get promoted (they won’t)

I’ve never seen that figure. By all accounts that I’ve seen it’s £6m -£8 mill . Given that Sunderland and Ipswich were also interested I doubt we’ve let him go for £3.5 m ……but then again it is Everton.

 

[BlueStevie35]

I’ve never seen that figure. By all accounts that I’ve seen it’s £6m -£8 mill . Given that Sunderland and Ipswich were also interested I doubt we’ve let him go for £3.5 m ……but then again it is Everton.

£3.5m upfront, £5m with addons and up to £8m if they go up

 

[blueloon]

£3.5m upfront, £5m with addons and up to £8m if they go up

The Athletic reported on Thursday that Coventry had indicated they would meet Everton’s valuation for the 22-year-old, believed to be between £6-8 million, and he completed his medical on Friday.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

A shrewd move by Coventry selling a centre forward and replacing him with another one.

Might catch on this logic.

 

[Peter The Dog]

good luck to him.

hope he helps coventry get promoted next season.

 

[tommye]

Goodbye and good luck young man.
Go out there and make us regret selling you.

Best wishes lid

 

[windymiller]

So we got more for a 16 year old that’s never played a second of senior football against adults?

Yep, and then we've spanked all of their wages and more on a 38 year old. Progress.

 

[aglee]

Good move for Simms. He's not up to premier league.
We'll have to get a shorter bench.

A stool should do

 

[sd_1992]

Reverse engineer this, would you pay 8mil for him to solve our striker options? I think most would say no. Last year of contract, makes room to add another striker, Maupay is gone, so let’s assume DCL and Cannon. Cannon is a work in progress so I am going to say a #4 striker even if we play one up, DCL we should assume will be out for extended periods, that leaves us needing 2 strikers. Put the 8mil into the kitty for that; bring in an out and out #9 as our#1 striker and let DCL compete against him when fit, then a 2nd striker that can play across the front 3, helps solve the wide problem when all fit and works within our budget of not being able to buy for every position. *CAVEAT assumes we but well but on recent track form well….

By the end of the window we will be begging to pay more for worse players...

 

[Cels]

Good luck to Ellis Simms, I hope it all works out well for the lad and he has a good career. I don't agree with Carlton Palmer though, who I believe stated that Simms will score 20 goals a Season; but you never know.

 

[nsno-chris]

Hes a natural goalscorer, he’ll bag goals. If the team is built around him he’ll succeed