Everton Transfer Thread 2016

[COYBL25]

No one is saying Distin wasn't a good signing - for a side that bumped its head at 5th place for all the years after he joined.

'Nothing will be the same' suggested that we were aiming high, it's the new Ev dining at the top table.

All looking like a load of porkies.

Have faith mate, we always do things last minute !

 

[bobafro]

Rachis Ghezzal stinks of someone googling 'next mahrez' and then just linking us with the result.

 

[Milkman]

Anyone heard that McCarthy might be going to Sunderland??

Please be true.

 

[orly]

Anyone heard that McCarthy might be going to Sunderland??

Suddenly my day is improving

 

[windymiller]

So many headless chickens who by the way are only too happy to complain about how other people spend their money! Give them a chance ffs!

Season starts in 4 days. How long do they need?

 

[The Esk]

They were lies, mate.

With respect they were not lies at all. Both attracted genuine interest from the club, we made bids on both and with Carvalho in particular were very close to concluding. Carvalho is not an absolute no at present but less likely than was the case a couple of weeks ago. Koulibaly has indicated a preference for Chelsea.

 

[Toast]

Imagine what it will be like when Lukaku hands in his transfer request

Mate.. This IS coming next isn't it ?

Lack of ambition. Selling best players. Champions league. All rolled into a nifty press release on the sly by his agent..

And we're over a barrel.

 

[Blue Cheese]

I was asking him a question. To which he replied.

You're the one who feels the need to constantly monitor and respond to my posts. That would be closer to stalking than your misunderstanding of the word.

Imbecile.

You're a flute lad, all you do is moan about Esk, wind it in. We get it you don't believe him, cool, move on, you melt.

 

[COYBL25]

What's your beef with arouna lad?

Is it because he's a man of colour

Lol !!!!!!!!!

 

[DualityNSNO]

What's your beef with arouna lad?

Is it because he's a man of colour

Not saying he's lazy, but..

 

[matty1878]

It's simple for me mate, we aimed to bring in certain name targets and a very high profile DoF to conduct these negotiations.

We failed to get the DoF we wanted, and hired a guy with no experience in the role but who does have a stellar record as a scout and notably for picking up bargains or finding players who have gone udner the radar

We are selling Stones to aloow 'the gretaer good' of being able to raise our wage structure at the cluib massively, only now we are apparently going for players in the pool of what we normally would fish in - with presumably wages to match their level, which means we didn't actually need to sell Stones to facilitate this huige wage increase - because we won't be increasing the wage structure by 1m per week this season - or close to that figure

We are also offering Lukaku a new contract worth circa 135k pw (according to the best reports on that), which then effectively tells us exaclty what our top ceiling really is on these mega deals we have been offering players - as common sense tells you Lukaku will be that ceiling wage or else Riaola would not be sitting down with us.

So how are we realistically bidding on Mata for example - who is on roughly 175k pw at United under his current contract - we expect him to take a 40k pw reduction in wages?
How where we bidding against Chelsea for Koulibaly and realistically expecting to get him when Chelsea have just shown with giving Kante 150k pw for a player that would cost less than Koulibaly would the types of wages they will offer for players of that calibre?

Is the reason Witsel not signed up to us - because he is looking at the dip in his sponsorship from coming to a lower profile team than the Italian nutjobs/Chelsea and figuring that us offering him 5-10k per week isn't making the difference up?

There's loads of points raised there mate and if any of them are correct then wtf is going on is all I can say lol

 

[AaronTheBlue]

I don't think anyone believes that Koeman is to blame for all of this. It's the ownership, particularly the ones that spun all the garbage about money being available. It is patently obvious that the much vaunted millions available for new players is a myth and we have had to sell Stones to buy a couple of makeweights to bolster numbers coming up to the start of the season

but there IS money available. The manager is spending it how he and walsh see fit at the end of the day, just because money is there doesn't mean you should throw it around for anyone.

 

[thebluenosebolt]

Rachid Ghezzal a lefty mid...wanted by Liverpool and Leicester. The youtube clips will be on fire tonight.....looks a clever wee player.

 

[neil999]

MONEYBALL!

 

[orly]

Mate.. This IS coming next isn't it ?

Lack of ambition. Selling best players. Champions league. All rolled into a nifty press release on the sly by his agent..

And we're over a barrel.

Oh very much so.

Remember that Mirallas interview where he said the 'old' Everton would have sold Stones last summer?

Whoops - the new one has just done that.

Raiola will walk in this week and say 'no ta' and Lukaku will be done about 10 days.

Still, £111m in for transfers plus £100m budget means a lot of Bolaise.