Farhad Moshiri

[Toffeelover]

I could say, but im avoiding being rude.

Just because not everyone buys into your sell to buy idea. Porto messed us up on the price, Napoli could not line up a replacement and DM stuck his heels in. Are you suggesting that the club was not really making serious offers for these players but was limited to how much was received from the Stones sale.

 

[Goat]

Just because not everyone buys into your sell to buy idea. Porto messed us up on the price, Napoli could not line up a replacement and DM stuck his heels in. Are you suggesting that the club was not really making serious offers for these players but was limited to how much was received from the Stones sale.

Im saying we didnt buy anybody of value UNTIL we sold a player for 47.5m.

Bidding for players is not the same as BUYING players.

 

[Toffeelover]

Tell you what Tubey and Goat, leave it at that and let us see IDC what happens in January.

 

[royalblue66]

Does the Esk T Shirt come with a hard hat ?

 

[The Esk]

Bidding for players is not the same as BUYING players.

But you cannot bid without the resources to pay for those bids....

 

[Tubey]

Have you read any of Tubey's previous posts?

Nobody reads my posts. They notice a wall of text, glance at the avatar for confirmation, then move swiftly on.

That's why I have to type the same thing twenty times over until someone bites and quotes me on something. Then it's game on.

 

[ToffeeTim]

But you cannot bid without the resources to pay for those bids....

Yes you can. You can bid for whoever you want. You just can't pay for them. I can down an auction tomorrow and throw offers all over the show if I want.

 

[Paul Dean]

But you cannot bid without the resources to pay for those bids....

Of course you can

Bidding for players you have no chance of attracting

 

[Goat]

But you cannot bid without the resources to pay for those bids....

Oh I know, I did say I believe we wanted to buy all these players, but the evidence tells us that we sold Stones and then bought players.

Ignoring what we "know", the facts are really that simple, we sold to buy.

 

[Tubey]

But you cannot bid without the resources to pay for those bids....

That's quite obviously not true. A players contract is an invitation to treat, so making a bid doesn't constitute a binding agreement to complete a deal.

 

[The Mighty Quint]

This isn't hard to understand. People aren't saying we shouldn't have sold Stones - what we're saying is that we could only buy once Stones was sold, which means his sale was a necessity to buy.

Pure speculation, and that's being kind.

Do you think Koeman would have come here if that was the case, he'd have resigned already having been lied to.

 

[royalblue66]

Yes you can. You can bid for whoever you want. You just can't pay for them. I can down an auction tomorrow and throw offers all over the show if I want.

I remember us bidding for Alen Shearer once

 

[ToffeeTim]

I remember us bidding for Alen Shearer once

Exactly.

 

[Goat]

Pure speculation, and that's being kind.

Do you think Koeman would have come here if that was the case, he'd have resigned already having been lied to.

John Stones Man City £47,500,000 09 Aug, 2016

Ashley Williams Swansea 10 Aug, 2016
Yannick Bolasie C Palace 15 Aug, 2016

Looks very much like fact rather than speculation to me.

 

[Tubey]

Pure speculation, and that's being kind.

Do you think Koeman would have come here if that was the case, he'd have resigned already having been lied to.

It's speculation based on things that have actually happened - which are that we only bought high value players once we had sold to cover that price.

As Evertonians, we should recognise it by now when we see it as it's all we've done for 20+ years, and this is as crystal clear an example of it as we've had.

Any speculation to the contrary is based on absolutely nothing. So you go on probabilities - and the strong probability at this point is that we are sell to buy. Until we actually demonstrate we are not, that is the way it is.