Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Lol what’s my agenda here?
Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
I can't work out if that's a compliment or an insult!
He looked a very good player at the last Euros i think it was mate, surprised he hasn't stepped up.
I see Mbueno is making sounds about a move, Brentford are regressing in my opinion, we need to be ahead of them next season.
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Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
Nathan Collins is a dud!
Kevin Schade is a dud!
Aaron Hickey has played less games than Nathan Patterson (who incidentally when fit gets picked ahead of him for Scotland)
Keane Lewis Potter has been a dud
The others are 'meh'
Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
We were ahead of them this season............with a points deduction!
I know mate, but thats not next season is it. lol
This Vincent Komapmy thing might work in our favour.
Dude managed to convince Burnley to spend 110 million in one window.
Dude managed to convince Burnley to spend 110 million in one window.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Everton’s recruitment has been terrible recently, but you’d think from reading this place that we’ve got no scouts, are completely and utterly incompetent at transfers, and never make any sort of player profit from sales.
In the last 10 years we’ve sold:
Stones 50 mill - record for a CB at the time, bought him for 3 mill from Barnsley.
Lukaku - 90 mill record for a striker at the time (before Neymar distorted prices), w bought him for 30 mill.
Barkley - sold to Chelsea for 15 mill despite being crocked
Richarlison - doubled our money even when being forced to sell
Gordon - we turned an academy prospect into a 40 mill pound asset
Digne, bought for 12 mill sold for 30
Idrissa Gueye - bought for 7 mill, sold for 30, and we got him back again for pittance
We got larger fees for Moise Kean, Vlasic and Lookman than what we bought them for.
We got a ridiculous fee for Iwobi.
We’ll end up close to doubling our money on Onana
We’ll probably end up close to a transfer record when we sell Branthwaite
We could sell DCL for 20 mill tomorrow and he cost us 2.5 I think.
We got Tarkowski on a free transfer.
We’ve absolutely wasted a ton of money on and buys down the years but it doesn’t half get tiring when people on here act as though every single signing that goes to another club is genius and anyone that Everton are linked with is crap or that we also don’t know how to find decent prospects and sell them on.
A lot of clubs in the league would absolutely kill for academy prospects/ youth scouting that delivered Rooney, Rodwell, Barkley, Stones, Calvert Lewin, Gordon, Branthwaite. Some of them barely have one noticeable player in this same period.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Ha a compliment, too much praise is dished out to these teams too early. If Frank is so great and their recruitment so perfect how did they finish below one of the worst Everton teams ever last season even with a points deduction? People just repeat mantras that Brentford and Brighton do everything right. It was the same with Leicester before they went down and with Wolves for a while. All these other clubs are making similar errors to Everton.
It isn't that simple or cheap.
We all know that Michael Keane is costing far more per week than we can afford for a reserve player.
However, we are not spoilt for choice in the centre half department as it stands.
If we loan out Michael Keane as per your suggestion we still have half of his wages to pay and then he has to be replaced and that player will cost a transfer fee and then we have wages to pay as well.
Michael Keane is nearly always available to play and is adequate cover for a club with our financial problems.
We need to focus on the areas where we are weakest.
We need a central midfielder, two if Onana leaves.
We badly need to sign a player that will bring some creativity to the team.
We need a right back and a left back if we are not to rely on Seamus Coleman and Ashley Young for the season.
Sean Dyche talks about balancing the squad.... he is correct.
There are areas of the pitch far more need of strengthening than centre half.
We also have Garner who I think has proven to be excellent value for around 9m , as has McNeill for around 15m.
Chermiti is still very much a work in progress but I was impressed with his cameos at the tail end of the season.
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £40m
Honestly I’d take the point deduction for PAR breach and gamble on him being a stand out for Belgium. Getting say £15m more for him could get us way more points (through a decent player purchase) than we will lose through points penalties, even if they throw the book at us.
But I’m a degenerate.
Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
agreed mate, were we have messed up is going beyond our means on big wages (usually players over 26) for either not good enough, or injury prone players!
Then they haven't been able to be shifted.
What we have been good at, as you say is making the BIG money on players for small outlays, or even straight from the academy!
I don't think there has been a science to it, i think it might be our profile that helps that?
Vintage
Player Valuation: £50m
Ya they havnt done as well in their recruitment since they got promoted. Only thing is they probably wouldn't lose too much on those players if they sell them on and unlike Everton probably not on rediclous wages, so would be able to sell on rather than having to loan out till their contracts expire
Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
I've been preaching this for ages now!
If Brighton were ace, why do they keep playing Danny Welbeck, Adam Lallana, Jason Steele & Adam Webster.
I also think people massively underate some of our players and if they were available on a free transfer (Doucoure for example) he would walk into Palace & Brighton's team!