Everton Transfer Thread 2016

[summerisle]

blushes*

That, by the way, was only aimed at Mr Fry ; but you be careful out there and make sure you don't fall in with the wrong crowd.

 

[billybeeru]

Reading the Stones thread on Bluemoon, cos im bored.

Anyway, this post I thought was interesting.

http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/john-stones.314317/page-546

The issue is this is not true see this from todays mediawatch on f365

There are many in the industry happy to insist that nobody just makes up transfer rumours; there has to be a truth somewhere. While Mediawatch is happy to accept that at face value, it is interesting to see how a rumour can gain traction with very little evidence.

Take the example of Romelu Lukaku, for example:

1) In the early hours of Tuesday morning, spurious Italian transfer website transfermarketweb.com claims that Romelu Lukaku could leave Everton for £40m.

‘According to latest rumours gathered through TMW sources, Belgian international striker Romelu Lukaku (23) is getting more and more likely to leave Everton for good and join Chelsea back.

Still tracked by Atletico Madrid, Napoli, AS Roma and Manchester City as well, Toffees star will be moving on an about €48/£40m offer.’

That website handily shows the number of views of each story. On that short piece, there have been 1,672 hits.

2) Later on Tuesday morning, somebody at the Daily Star had seen that story, probably via an aggregator like Newsnow.com.

‘Chelsea close in on £40m deal for in-demand Premier League ace – reports,’ is the Star’s headline.

‘Lukaku has emerged as one of the Premier League’s top strikers since Chelsea allowed him to join the Toffees for £28m two summers ago.

‘They are said to have beaten off competition from a number of top European clubs, including Manchester City and Atletico Madrid.’

Already, ‘getting more likely’ has become ‘closes in on deal’, and ‘still tracked by’ (present tense) has become ‘Chelsea have beaten off competition’ (past tense).

Again the fee is mentioned at £40m, despite there being no way on this earth that Everton will sell Lukaku at that price.

Finally, the story is written by Jamie Styles. The same Jamie Styles reported five days earlier that Chelsea had made an ‘opening bid’ of £50m for Lukaku. They’re probably not going to accept £40m now.



3) By Tuesday afternoon, the Daily Telegraph are all over the story.

‘Another forward on Chelsea’s radar is Romelu Lukaku, who, according to the Daily Star, is edging closer to a Stamford Bridge return after Chelsea launched a £40m bid for him over the weekenf (sic),’ that story reads.

Crucially, the Telegraph don’t want to quote transfermarketweb.com, so instead credit the Daily Star as the source. This is needed to give the story more kudos.

In addition, the Telegraph have added a detail about Chelsea ‘launching a bid’ for Lukaku ‘over the weekend’, despite neither the Star nor TMW mentioning a bid of any sort, let alone one made at a particular time. Has that merely been added for effect?

From a story on a website that got 1,672 hits to a website that in March released figures indicating daily traffic of 4.3m, all because nobody really cares if a story is true just so long as it gets clicks.

Finally, Mediawatch cannot stress this enough: Romelu Lukaku will not be moving to Chelsea for £40m this summer.

The most shocking thing to me is that there are still so many fans who haven't figured out that this kind of practice is rampant and basically one big racket.

 

[4737carlin]

I see some one posted before that Stones would be done by the weekend, I guess that means Friday, the day we finalise most of our delaings

 

[Jags]

I would be pleasantly satisfied if Everton Football Club signed some overly expensive football players soon.

 

[marnie]

What, fat, old, spouting toilet humour that even Kenneth Williams would find difficult to make humorous, and so self deprecating he's lost the all important deprecating.

With the Scouse Quaintness.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

been away for a few days, and still NADA.

is everything still going to happen in...

48 hours.

longest 48 hours of my life. basically it is 48 days and counting

 

[faddy the blue]

So we will once again sell before buying?

 

[GwladysBlue]

Looks like we're more concerned with selling before doing any buying.

No way on earth do we have this supposed £100m transfer budget.

 

[ilikecheese]

Drama queens.

 

[admirschleck]

I see some one posted before that Stones would be done by the weekend, I guess that means Friday, the day we finalise most of our delaings

I posted that. Lolololo

 

[ilikecheese]

Looks like we're more concerned with selling before doing any buying.

No way on earth do we have this supposed £100m transfer budget.

Lol...or you don't have a clue just like all of us.

I hope Stones goes before we buy just so folks like you completely and hopefully irreparably lose your head. It's nearly off already.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Lol...or you don't have a clue just like all of us.

I hope Stones goes before we buy just so folks like you completely and hopefully irreparably lose your head. It's nearly off already.

Sound.

 

[ilikecheese]

Sound.

Just sayin like...no need for the dramatics. Making broad statements that you haven't a clue about.

Sit back and have a laugh at folks trying to create their drama based on mostly jarg internet bollocks, instead of being part of the problem.

It's much healthier.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Just sayin like...no need for the dramatics. Making broad statements that you haven't a clue about.

Sit back and have a laugh at folks trying to create their drama based on mostly jarg internet bollocks, instead of being part of the problem.

It's much healthier.

I think the frustration is justified.

Back-to-back 11th place finishes and we seem to be the only club who haven't improved our squad.

Two weeks to go until the season starts and we were promised that nothing would be the same again. Feeling very much like every transfer window with us.

 

[ilikecheese]

I think the frustration is justified.

Back-to-back 11th place finishes and we seem to be the only club who haven't improved our squad.

Two weeks to go until the season starts and we were promised that nothing would be the same again. Feeling very much like every transfer window with us.

I think neither of us have a clue what is going on behind the scenes. We've had two very poor seasons in a row...perhaps attracting the talent we are targeting is proving to be a more difficult process than we'd like? Your claim suggested we aren't efforting to improve the squad. I'd suggest that we have set very high targets, and getting them over the line has been the challenge. It's not from a lack of effort at the end of the day.