Blue Parkender
Player Valuation: £8m
Belgium league's top scorer 28 goals in 36 games I think.
NeilMorepies
Player Valuation: £10m
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
Fair enough, maybe he is truly past it all, but he will know how he feels in the morning or after training. He’ll know how much physio work goes into just getting onto the pitch at the weekend (I don’t know what is or isn’t but there’s always been suggestions he’s very much got to follow a specific program).
More than anything he’ll understand better than most players the precariousness of a football career having been in danger of losing his over that two year spell. I still think he would be very well advised to secure his and his family’s future this summer by signing a long term contract wherever that may be.
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
I think he is also signed onto one of those big fancy sports agencies now and they will push for the max wherever which is possibly going to be more than we could afford, especially with another high earner in Doucoure on the books.
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
Yeah the agency is a concern. Like I say I think in his circumstances the best advice is to sign something but a less personalised agency might not give that advice. As you say they’ll also probably want him to be our top earner just to discuss it and given his lack of productivity over the last few years I’d have questions about that from an Everton perspective. A tricky one.
I remember him walking off in the derby and you just knew there was no way he was going to be able to play again at the weekend because he’d put so much into it. It’s how you’d think about Coleman or when Duncan was doing it in his mid 30s it’s not how you expect to think about a player at his peak.
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
I couldn't make my mind up last season if he was actually up to PL level just yet, there is a player there but he is prone to lapses in concentration.
Agree mate.
We've offered him a great contract, he would be the best paid player at the club. We cant do any more and i think he would struggle to get that elsewhere and i also think he will struggle elsewhere - he's a good striker, not an elite striker. He will regret moving from here if he does in my opinion.
I actually would be a bit concerned about the high wages we would give him and his injuries, being very cold, he was blighted with injuries from 25-27 - that's not likely to improve as he heads towards his 30s.
CielosGrises
Player Valuation: £10m
Doucoure only has a year left though right ? Doubt he is our benchmark now.
Didn't he recently sign a new contract and became our highest paid player ?
Good post mate.
I like him and always backed him, but I wouldn't pay those wages.
His injuries as a worry and going forwards are not getting any better.
Take some replacing, but he either signs the contact quickly or we move him out quickly so we can get someone in.
BainesontoastNEW
Player Valuation: £40m
It was extended in November 2023 until 2025.
Same here mate.
Has to be that way, believe the contract is three years, with an option of a fourth - he would be the best player at the club. I think that is a very fair deal weighing it all up in terms of what we have given him, him us and his injuries. Its also backing his health going forward - which is questionable.
If he wont accept that, we move on. I agree he will be tricky to replace - mostly due to our circumstances, but not impossible, but 2 of his 7 goals were pens last season - can we replace his 7 goals and 5 from open play last season? - its not impossible. 45 other players scored more then him in the league last season. Is that record worth the contract............its debatable.
I think he really struggles elsewhere.
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
Don’t envy the club with this one tbh. If we sell him people will be unhappy. If he winds down his contract people will be angry we didn’t sell him. If he renews people will be happy but if he breaks down again months into a lucrative 4 year deal the same people will want heads on a spike because they should’ve known that would happen.
Personally I’d take the money if money is on offer, but you need a buyer and a player ready to move. Most importantly we need clarity quickly.
Titus Shambles
Player Valuation: £2.5m
If DCL was available as a [non-injured] free transfer next summer, he would almost certainly secure a higher contract than what we are likely to have offered him, based on our current pay structure (many clubs pay a lot more than the £100-120k bracket the likes of Gomes/Mina/Dele were in).
As a free agent, at 28 years old, in his peak years, it's entirely possible the likes of a Spurs or Newcastle or Chelsea or Villa would be keen to take him (possibly even an Arsenal or United at a stretch), and considering there's no transfer fee to pay, could very easily offer him £120k/150k/160k when you factor in the signing fee incorporated into the wages. These clubs all generate more revenue than we do so it's not a bank-breaking number for them to pay to a free agent.
This could be DCL's last chance to go to a club which will have regular European football, will be in the mix for trophies etc, and so he might be perfectly happy to be a squad player, playing every other week at one of the top clubs who -if he wasn't on a free- might never be interested in him.