Yes such a weird argument, that all these top young players will sign for 4/5 clubs. And this they all want champions league football.
Thomas partey left the Spanish champions to sign for 8th placed Arsenal.
The premier league has a huge pull, probably more so now with covid, a lot of European teams are struggling including some of the bigger ones, obviously we’re struggling financially to. But if we sell, we still will be able to attract players
For the past two seasons we could have moved for most of those players I listed as they had all shown 'something' in my eyes. These scouts we employ were able to find Nkounkou and should be able to list down at least 10 players in France alone that we should be in for.
Leicester signed Fofana for £40mil who went straight into their team and was their best defender before injury.
Its a total myth that players wouldnt want to join. Lampard would be a big pull as well as the new stadium, wages and of course the premier league.
Just look at Guimaraes moving to Newcastle...ive said we should bring him in for 2 seasons.
The players arent unknown and even if we went for only 18-20year olds who werent quite ready to start every game...they would be pushing the first teamers all week long.
Over the season they'd be making places their own.
When those six players are passengers and literally contribute nothing other than being a man dressed in an Everton kit on the pitch… they don’t need replacing , almost every player in the prem that we could sign would be an upgrade
Yes, I listed these players:
Iwobi, Gomes, Holgate, Coleman, Keane and Mina
Iwobi (Richarlison/Dobbin/Gray/Gordon) + Gomes (Allan/Doucoure/Davies/Onyango)
-- Those two are pure deadwood and we already have 8 players in their positions.
Coleman/Holgate/Mina/Keane
-- We have Patterson, Godfrey, Branthwaite so we would need 1 RB + 2 CBs to replace the outgoings.
£40mil in fees and £420/450k a week in wages saved before moving for 3 new players.
Tuson 80k
Siggy 100k
Gomes 100k
Delph 80k
Iwobi 80k
Gbamin 50k
Davies 40k
Al gazi ??k
Lonergan 10k?
Mina 110k
Rondon 50k
Roughly 700-800k a week ( and I’m pretty sure I have forgotten a few )
On players that have literally never played or offer absolutely zero to the team .
Best part of 40m lieterally being flushed down the toilet every year and not much chance of selling anyone other than Mina
In the summer we lose Tosun, Sigurdsson, Delph, El-Ghazi, Lonergan and VDB (who you didnt mention).
We'd be down to:
2023
Davies
Rondon
Mina
Coleman
2024
Gomes
Iwobi
Gbamin
2025
Keane
Holgate
If we can sell Keane + Holgate this summer then we would be on course for a reset in 2024...which is what im hoping for.
Critically I think if we can sell (this summer) the 5 players whose contcts expire in 2024 and 2025 then things start looking much sexier.
Those 9 players could be replaced by 4 new ones.