Everton Agree Fee With Man Utd For Lukaku

[Thomasc]

Can't get my head around anybody moaning about this deal at all.

If you are actually cynically debating that the club have ballsed up in securing a 100m deal for a player they purchased for 28m, then you have really lost a grasp on reality.

Edit: so well done to the club and the manager at the time in signing him originally and showing faith in him - it's a massive day for Everton football club and lets now watch with excitement as the money is invested back into improving the team further.

 

[yakublue]

That's what happens when Africans get loaded

Eh? Ones french and ones Belgian mate

 

[catcherintherye]

We've just got in almost £120M for just three of the signings from his time here with a hell of a lot more to come in the next few weeks.

There can be now doubt Martinez recruited well for us. Nissan was a disaster but as a whole we recruited well.

 

[Maltese_Falcon]

Eh? Ones french and ones Belgian mate

On Paper , but in reality one is Congolese and the other Guinean

 

[ianefc]

£90m + Rooney (if we're looking at it that way) is fantastic money. It's a world record deal.

 

[GwladysBlue]

I'd rather just have the £90m and not take Rooney, tbh.

 

[Amw79]

We've just got in almost £120M for just three of the signings from his time here with a hell of a lot more to come in the next few weeks.

Could you break that down for me?

 

[Death]

We're gona be boss next season.

 

[yakublue]

On Paper , but in reality one is Congolese and the other Guinean

If you know that Pogba was born in France and still think that then youre comment was even more racist than I thought.

 

[Nymzee]

A lot of my United supporting mates are frustrated thinking they've overpaid lol

The one's calling me bitter are the true plastic fans. Watch United on Sky Sports with a beer but couldn't even tell me who scored the free-kick against Celta Vigo in a quiz.

 

[Kal El]

 

[Maltese_Falcon]

If you know that Pogba was born in France and still think that then youre comment was even more racist than I thought.

Lol even his brothers play for the Guinean national team

 

[Wizard]

We've just got in almost £120M for just three of the signings from his time here with a hell of a lot more to come in the next few weeks.

How do you get to £120m if you keep saying we've only definitely got £75m for Rom? Then £10m for Geri and £8m for Cleverley. That makes £93m

 

[davek]

Chelsea were never going to pay that sort of money though mate. They were reluctant to go above 70. 75 million down, raising to 90 with the cherry on top with Rooney is pretty good business. It's not perfect but it's ok. It's a million miles better than Rooney being sold for 30 (after add ons) on transfer deadline day when we'd finished 17th the season before.

He's this season's hot property attacking wise and we really should have had a straight £90M deal in place. Just wait and see the prices now paid for lesser talent in the next few weeks.

Mark my words, when the window closes this £75M upfront will look like an utter mugging. We needed a stronger nerve and better negotiating skills. Some will say the whole package is greater than the sum of the parts, but we'll have to hang on and see whether that will be the case now. It depends now on United being successful again and Rooney being a successful returnee. We should never have been in this position. Lukaku was absolute platinum in this market and we just sold him for the price of silver..

 

[chippy1722]

I dont think anyone would disagree that a fee of £90M is acceptable. But the fee is only £90M if and when United hit targets with Rooney, so it's wholly contingent on that. In that circumstance people have a right to look at it and wonder who got the best end of this deal. And of course the whole thing is overshadowed by the feeling that we got Rooney thrown in as a consolation prize and that we're giving United our best (again) and getting their cast offs in return.

That's the context to all this.

Imo, the club thought they had Chelsea in the bag as a destination for Lukaku with a very clean £95M-£100M fee in mind with limited clauses. Something happened to scupper it - Conte probably - and we've jumped on this second best option.

Things have not gone according to plan here. Not by a long chalk.

I expect another dropped bollock with Barkley going to Sours on the cheap...and of course the ground work to that was done by giving ourselves no wriggle room with Barkley with a take it or leave it approach to him.

The £90m is just to appease people, it's £75m really. If someone asks you your yearly salary you don't tell them a total with what you could earn if you hit targets and bonuses and all that jazz.

I'm happy to get it all over with, it would have a negative effect letting it run through the summer, I'm more disappointed with the way it's been handled and lack of news from Everton. The whole thing has been played through United and Sky sources which turns were spot on from Thursday and made us look small time in my opinion.

We have Phil Neville tweeting pics and Rom and Pogba announcing it and not a word from Everton.