I don't mind loads of them Mont. They're friends and family. The others though, the Internet cling ons can get to.
Geoff Nulty
Player Valuation: £750k
Despite being an urbane and sophisticated 53 year-old man, with all his own teeth and a near-complete set of Jennings first edition hard-backs, I have found myself as desperate for transfer news as I was when a boy of 14. More so, perhaps, as there was no transfer window then, and you couldn't focus your attention as happens now.
So I'm as wound up as the next idiot and check this and other sites far too often to see if anyone has actually signed for us. I want Khoulibaly and Witsel and Carvalho, even though I've not really seen much of them. But they're glossy and expensive and glamorous. I want Moshiri to spend an absolute fortune, even though I know money doesn't necessarily mean quality. I want Stones and Lukaku to stay, although the former can't head the ball, and the latter can't trap it.
The truth that I'm reluctant to acknowledge is that that FourFourTwo piece makes a great deal of sense. We have the chance now to build something lasting, and that takes time and patience and strategy, especially when, rich though we are, we're not by any means among the richest or most glamorous clubs in our league. So that means being shrewd, and buying Williams and Gueye before we buy Neuer and Griezman. It means sprucing up Goodison before we build by the river, and, in all likelihood, getting top six before getting top four.
While we can all list our historic achievements, we have to acknowledge we've won nothing since 1995, and that all our periods of success have been more fleeting and sporadic than they should have been. Yes, that's partly because league titles have on occasion heralded world wars, in the way a flapping butterfly can cause an earthquake, but it's mainly been down to poor management and complacency and lack of vision.
A vibrant, forward-thinking, pro-active board and management structure will see us right over a couple of generations at least. Better that than lurching impatiently into paying over the odds for players who don't really want to be here just to make a splash and to satisfy the demands of an attention-deficient fanbase, of which I'm definitely one.
This has been brought to you through gritted teeth.
So I'm as wound up as the next idiot and check this and other sites far too often to see if anyone has actually signed for us. I want Khoulibaly and Witsel and Carvalho, even though I've not really seen much of them. But they're glossy and expensive and glamorous. I want Moshiri to spend an absolute fortune, even though I know money doesn't necessarily mean quality. I want Stones and Lukaku to stay, although the former can't head the ball, and the latter can't trap it.
The truth that I'm reluctant to acknowledge is that that FourFourTwo piece makes a great deal of sense. We have the chance now to build something lasting, and that takes time and patience and strategy, especially when, rich though we are, we're not by any means among the richest or most glamorous clubs in our league. So that means being shrewd, and buying Williams and Gueye before we buy Neuer and Griezman. It means sprucing up Goodison before we build by the river, and, in all likelihood, getting top six before getting top four.
While we can all list our historic achievements, we have to acknowledge we've won nothing since 1995, and that all our periods of success have been more fleeting and sporadic than they should have been. Yes, that's partly because league titles have on occasion heralded world wars, in the way a flapping butterfly can cause an earthquake, but it's mainly been down to poor management and complacency and lack of vision.
A vibrant, forward-thinking, pro-active board and management structure will see us right over a couple of generations at least. Better that than lurching impatiently into paying over the odds for players who don't really want to be here just to make a splash and to satisfy the demands of an attention-deficient fanbase, of which I'm definitely one.
This has been brought to you through gritted teeth.
Good post mate, even if you are one of my least favourite players to wear the blue jersey.
royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
Can't beat a good smirk mate.Like most on here, I have koppites goading and sneering in their inimitable childish smugness.
"signed anyone yet lad ?"
"Thought this Moshiri fella had money lad"
"I see it's the same old blues lad"
My response is to smile at them with a look of pity and say nothing. They don't like it.
What they REALLY won't like, is when I continue to smile in silence as big signings are announced and success follows.
He had a green one underneath mate.
Bullet
Player Valuation: £10m
The prophesy is starting to come true. I'll also now add that Lukaku will leave. I only thought he'd stay when it seemed no one was in for him.
This has an effect on the predicted net spend. It'll be nowhere near £100 million.
moyeslovechild
Player Valuation: £15m
pitfalls of sharing info isnt it.... you can only go off what youre told, esk gets told stuff by people then as the messenger cops blame when their beliefs turn out to be mistaken
ToffeeDoug
Player Valuation: £35m
...or perhaps only delayed in their fruition?
Yellow more like, the coward.
Are you still smiling ?Like most on here, I have koppites goading and sneering in their inimitable childish smugness.
"signed anyone yet lad ?"
"Thought this Moshiri fella had money lad"
"I see it's the same old blues lad"
My response is to smile at them with a look of pity and say nothing. They don't like it.
What they REALLY won't like, is when I continue to smile in silence as big signings are announced and success follows.
real question is - was Esk fed a line to placate the fans ?
Frank Gallagher
Player Valuation: £50m
GwladysBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
If this Iranian has got the dough he claims he has, we want Draxler, or if not him Witsel.
I don't think for a second Esk is a kopite but was he unwittingly used ?
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