Transfer Rumour Gabriel (Lille)

[MACCA75]

We do need a new CB

Branthwaite looked a good prospect but he is a kid - he was responsible for 2 goals going in, in 2 and a half games btw. He needs a loan.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

£22 Million.

Brands masterclass.

Blokes sadly out of his depth

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Please make it stop

 

[hktoffee]

Good, .

 

[meagher94]

Blokes sadly out of his depth

Or we need to realise what our “depth” is.

Living in London, playing European footy. Or living on Merseyside, and not playing European footy. Brands can woo them all he wants and promise them the world but at the end of the day that’s a very easy choice for most foreign players.

 

[KaiserEFC]

I can’t believe we didn’t sign a player that two much better and much more attractive clubs also matched the asking price for. Everton are an absolute joke and absolutely everyone associated with the club including the fans should be sacked.

 

[Jayhow15]

I can’t believe we didn’t sign a player that two much better and much more attractive clubs also matched the asking price for. Everton are an absolute joke and absolutely everyone associated with the club including the fans should be sacked.

Said this (albeit less sarcastically) about 20 pages back. Basic common football sense.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Or we need to realise what our “depth” is.

Living in London, playing European footy. Or living on Merseyside, and not playing European footy. Brands can woo them all he wants and promise them the world but at the end of the day that’s a very easy choice for most foreign players.

Agree mate however this should have been done and dusted before others got involved - Arsenal were definitely not interested back in February and if you believe the likes of King, Hunter then a £25 million fee was agreed before the pandemic hit.

So essentially we've lost out on a player over £3 million - we could get that selling Besic in the window...

 

[blueblue]

As with everything else about this saga... I don't believe a word.

 

[Thomasc]

Is he finally “out of reach?”

 

[meagher94]

Agree mate however this should have been done and dusted before others got involved - Arsenal were definitely not interested back in February and if you believe the likes of King, Hunter then a £25 million fee was agreed before the pandemic hit.

So essentially we've lost out on a player over £3 million - we could get that selling Besic in the window...

But we don’t know that others weren’t interested. Many clubs will be aware of him he’s been playing in a top European league and in the Champions League. I’d say the player and his agent would’ve waited til the summer anyway, otherwise we would’ve wrapped the signing up pre-COVID.

Brands has a tough job trying to convince a certain calibre of player to come here. Would you rather he went for lower quality players and had them wrapped up quicker?

 

[andy4efc]

I could have swore Fabrizio Romano said Arsenal were close to signing Gabriel, but looking back at his timeline it just said GM was yet to decide.

I can't see him coming here. Why would a non-Everton fan come to to us over Arsenal?

Bigger club
In london
In Europe
Better chance of trophies.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

But we don’t know that others weren’t interested. Many clubs will be aware of him he’s been playing in a top European league and in the Champions League. I’d say the player and his agent would’ve waited til the summer anyway, otherwise we would’ve wrapped the signing up pre-COVID.

Brands has a tough job trying to convince a certain calibre of player to come here. Would you rather he went for lower quality players and had them wrapped up quicker?

I just think our fans make too many excuses for the clubs failures.

We never achieve because there is no pressure from the top down nor from the fans to improve and those who do voice concerns are labelled bed wetters etc.

The facts at this stage look to be:

1. we had him in our grasp at £25 million in February

2. We pulled out when the pandemic hit to renegotiate the fee

3. Other clubs started sniffing around and we've fallen down the pecking order.

4. Other said clubs look to be closing in on £22 million

So essentially we gambled over £3 million and lost. Thats pish poor if he was our main CB target - not like we were negotiating over millions whats £3 million in the grand scheme of things to a PL side in the top 20 richest clubs in Europe?

The blokes out of his depth and sooner he's booted for me the better. I was willing to give him this summer to make a judgement but he keeps making rookie mistakes in the market.

What also happened to him trying to scout these supposed unknown gems from S. America?

 

[mill]

I just think our fans make too many excuses for the clubs failures.

We never achieve because there is no pressure from the top down nor from the fans to improve and those who do voice concerns are labelled bed wetters etc.

The facts at this stage look to be:

1. we had him in our grasp at £25 million in February

2. We pulled out when the pandemic hit to renegotiate the fee

3. Other clubs started sniffing around and we've fallen down the pecking order.

4. Other said clubs look to be closing in on £22 million

So essentially we gambled over £3 million and lost. Thats pish poor if he was our main CB target - not like we were negotiating over millions whats £3 million in the grand scheme of things to a PL side in the top 20 richest clubs in Europe?

The blokes out of his depth and sooner he's booted for me the better. I was willing to give him this summer to make a judgement but he keeps making rookie mistakes in the market.

What also happened to him trying to scout these supposed unknown gems from S. America?

We didn’t gamble over 3m.
We pulled out because a global pandemic hit and no one knew what was going to happen.
We chose not to gamble over 25m in the midst of a global health crisis that shut the entire developed world down for 3 months.
When things approached normality the situation had changed.

 

[andy4efc]

We didn’t gamble over 3m.
We pulled out because a global pandemic hit and no one knew what was going to happen.
We chose not to gamble over 25m in the midst of a global health crisis that shut the entire developed world down for 3 months.
When things approached normality the situation had changed.

It doesnt fit his agenda mate so just ignore those facts