Everton Summer transfers 2021

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I’ve been led to believe we’ve at least scouted Gianluca Busio, another American young gun playing for Sporting Kansas City. 18, highly rated midfielder with an Italian passport who apparently had a 4mil bid from Fiorentina turned down previously. I’m absolutely not claiming to know anything, but hearing it led me to another question. With Brexit stuff, does an Italian passport even still help, assuming we were actually interested?
I thought that generally it made signing EU players harder but players from South America easier. Not sure though.
 

Koulibaly is an elite player and if there’s a chance Carlo can get him in you take it. You’d need to ship out one of Mina or Keane though to make that happen.
99.9% certain it’s bs though
 
Just seen that...

Koulibaly + Rabiot make some sense.

Lautaro is mind blowing.




No idea but thats a very random shout...




We need a RB as well.

It seems a very random shout, but then James was a very random shout 12 months ago.

The fact these stories are coming up, around the time that FFP is due to go is very interesting. I mean it's hard to imagine us signing them if FFP stays or if we are not in (at least) the EL. However Ancelotti has a pull to him. Winning at Anfield, coming back to geta result at OT etc tend to have quite a symbolic impact.

We are said to be targetting Serie A as there is financial trouble. I believe Inter are in quite a hole currently. He has 2 years on a contract, if an extension can't be agreed, youd imagine he gets sold before he really starts to bleed value.

They apparently wanted 100m last year for him which nobody paid. Lets assume his real value was closer to say 75m as to what the market would have gone too. If prices drop again next year, lets be catious and say 30% that puts him available at around the 50-55m spot. Maybe.

Exciting names. If FFP goes I could see is spending 200m+ sales.
 


I suppose its now a common set of rules for everywhere outside the Uk. It is now obviously harder to buy from Europe relative to the old rules, because of brexit, but those same rules are obviously slightly easie4 than we used to apply to rest of world.
So the threshold for Europeans is higher than it was but the threshold broadly is lowered. It’s all just normalized. Thanks.
 
Weird. I don’t understand it at all.

The important difference is that players from continents other than Europe are now considered with far greater context than was previously the case.

It used to be that non-EU nationals were judged primarily on the number of international caps they'd had recently; the lower ranked the country, the higher the percentage of appearances required. So you could have Jimmy Noskill from Bububo who'd played 100 percent of their country's World Cup qualifiers for the last however many years, losing every single one, being allowed to sign for West Brom simply because they were an international regular.

Now, every non-British player is subjected to a pretty detailed points system which takes into account club football appearances as well as international. Domestic leagues and continental competitions are ranked in bands, and the Copa Liberdatores is ranked particularly highly - it's on par with the Champions League. This is a huge change for South American players. Where once they were unfairly (I would argue, at least) discriminated against because they happened to be born in countries with intense competition for international caps, now they're recognised as being part of the talent bed that produces such competition.
 

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