Everton Transfer Thread 2016

[marnie]

OOOOHHHHH Another new25k kid on the block.

 

[ToffeeTim]

That just is not correct mate, as frustrating as things are.

I think Koemans general mood today showed clearly what he makes of the club. Bit of a debacle this summer really.

Nothing 3 points won't fix in the short term tho.

 

[Bullet]

Think he's first choice until we bring in a new keeper (or if we do). He played quite a few games at S'hampton last season.

With RK projecting 3-4 more inc Bolassie and Koné and no serious links to keepers it's looking increasingly likely that Stek will be No 1.

 

[ilikecheese]

In simple terms, stones sale allows us to increase wages from the stcc profit made by roughly 800k ow, if we don't use that or close to it then come next season should we once again go in with the ambition of raising our wages by a huge amount which given it as apparently the boards strategy to do so from the outset would make that scenario a likelihood, it would neccesitate the sale of a player who would net us a huge stcc trading profit next summer, currently only lukaku and Barkley could give us that.

See the concern now?

I think the club is focused on generating increased revenue through avenues like a new stadium, better sponsorship, higher finishes in the table.

 

[gmb]

A debacle? Surely you jest.

 

[bluestevon]

We have agreed a fee and terms with Witsel...but as of today he's weighing his options.

We simply can't make people sign.

the witsel deal is pretty much dead after his statement today about seeing his last year of contract out before weighing up his options mate

 

[The Esk]

So since we knew we were probably going to miss out on our targets selling Stones was the wrong thing to do. Even if he sulked in the reserves and we sold him for less than 47m next summer it would still have been better for us.

No mate, we kept him a year longer than he wished to stay.

Holding on to players is a double edged sword - it's good to retain players for perhaps a year for our own purposes but it can be detrimental to recruiting players. If a player incoming thinks we are too aggressive in holding on to players then he may be reluctant to join us.

 

[roydo]

I think Koemans general mood today showed clearly what he makes of the club. Bit of a debacle this summer really.

Nothing 3 points won't fix in the short term tho.

Its not been great, granted.

But we did not sell Stones to fund transfer fees. FWIW, I think the next week or 2 could produce some rabbits out of the hat.

 

[eurosrees]

Still firmly believe that we sold stones to fund our spending. The wage increases are irrelevant cause we cant/have no intention of signing top class players.

I reckon it's cant rather than wont, top players understandably want to play for top teams, and get big wages, at the moment we don't meet that criteria, it's obvious that we've been turned down by a few already.

 

[efcjames]

With RK projecting 3-4 more inc Bolassie and Koné and no serious links to keepers it's looking increasingly likely that Stek will be No 1.

Watched him in a few games and he looks alright, just think we need someone better for first team. This isn't looking likely though as it seems Robles isn't going anywhere.

 

[bluestevon]

I think the club is focused on generating increased revenue through avenues like a new stadium, better sponsorship, higher finishes in the table.

Which will all take time, i the meanwhilst we where far more accepting of stones being sold due to the STCC line that was out there, showing it as a means to a better end, if that better end dpoesnt materialize which frankly it doesnt appear to be going to, then he was sold because he wanted to leave and we wanted the money from the sale as to reduce the amount we would have to spend from other revenue streams mate

Thats the long and short of it

 

[marnie]

No mate, we kept him a year longer than he wished to stay.

Holding on to players is a double edged sword - it's good to retain players for perhaps a year for our own purposes but it can be detrimental to recruiting players. If a player incoming thinks we are too aggressive in holding on to players then he may be reluctant to join us.

Well we don't want those sort of players then.

 

[ilikecheese]

the witsel deal is pretty much dead after his statement today about seeing his last year of contract out before weighing up his options mate

Right which further proves my point that we can't make players sign. Terms were agreed and a fee was agreed. He said thanks, but no thanks. I'm fine where I'm at.

 

[MartyMcFly]

I don't understand how having a player on wage bill who wasn't playing and therefore his value is diminishing would be better for us.

But he would be playing. Martial starts for Utd. If you buy a 19 year old for 30m you can be guaranteed they're good enough for our first 11 otherwise we wouldn't buy them.

There's 18-20 year olds around who are top quality that would be available if we were willing to pay that price. After all it's the only reason we were able to attract Rom and look how good that turned out. In fact you probably take less of a financial risk with them than buying a load of 3m 20 year olds like Martinez did.

Now we have the money we can take that risk although it's a reasonable calculated risk because honestly I think that's the only way we can smash into the top 4 without assuming one of our lottery ticket Martinez like signings will pay off.

 

[The Esk]

If and I stress if, Lukaku is sold the we would have to be very busy in the January window.

I stress I do not believe he will be sold, he will sign a new contract.