Transfer Rumour Gylfi Sigurdsson

[toffeejack]

5 assist from open play, 3 goals from open play.....

but that's sort of saying we're never ever going to win a corner or a free kick.

 

[Pabbers]

but that's sort of saying we're never ever going to win a corner or a free kick.

I like to think we can beat teams in open play, rather than celebrating getting a corner, so we can just whack it in to Benteke or the likes.

Spending £40 million plus on that, just seems utter madness.

 

[Steve0]

The price isn't that crazy....maybe. We know we're getting guaranteed Premier League quality. Salah cost over £40m andwhilst he might have improved it's still a massive risk - the only evidence we have on how he'll do in the league points to him flopping.

There's no chance gylfi will do that.

 

[a bell maul]

The Lisbon?

If The Lisbon had a sister pub, it'd be called The Lesbian...

 

[Pabbers]

We actually scored 14 from set-pieces compared to Swansea's 18

 

[a bell maul]

I like to think we can beat teams in open play, rather than celebrating getting a corner, so we can just whack it in to Benteke or the likes.

Spending £40 million plus on that, just seems utter madness.

I agree. The old phrase 'more dollars than sense' springs to mind.

 

[blueblue]

I remember when transfers were completed by clubs bidding against each other for a player until everybody dropped bar one.It simply amounted to an auction.

That at least gave a market value for a player and by then the selling club had agreed to sell and was accepting bids.

The market now is strange. A club puts an arbitrary valuation on a player and it is met or maybe negotiated downwards.
The money generated by the club in transfers in recent years has been astonishing and has contributed in no small way to our revival.

I do not believe Lukaku is worth 90m or Stones is worth 50m , I think if the figures were halved it would be more realistic and I think 30m plus for Sigurdsson is madness, but then that is a word that describes transfers very well.

 

[Kev The Rat]

I agree. The old phrase 'more dollars than sense' springs to mind.

In my mind if he was signed he would be the highest quality player we have signed all summer and given that we have spent nearly 90m already that says a lot.

 

[Tubey]

I like to think we can beat teams in open play, rather than celebrating getting a corner, so we can just whack it in to Benteke or the likes.

Spending £40 million plus on that, just seems utter madness.

Yep spot on.

Set pieces are the "icing on the cake" if you have a side that can do them too, but open play has to be the priority.

£50m for Sigurdsson would completely negate the good business we did for Lukaku. It would be a terrible signing for the money.

£30m approx, then fine, adds options. But no more than £35m.

 

[Chimpy Glassman]

We'll get him but not for 50m. The paper talk is all bluster.

 

[Lanolin]

Yeah but in a poor Swansea side, we need him, very good player who should be at a bugger club and can offer us something special

Doesn't always work that way though.

Sometimes being the big fish in the small pond and being given licence to do as you please makes a player more productive than they would be in a side where they aren't the main focal point. His own career can be used as an example of that, as can people like Robert Snodgrass and Charlie Adam.

 

[Clive Warren]

I like to think we can beat teams in open play, rather than celebrating getting a corner, so we can just whack it in to Benteke or the likes.

Spending £40 million plus on that, just seems utter madness.

That's the sort of thinking that got Martinez sacked. As long as we beat teams who's arsed how we do it?

 

[GeorgeK]

I'd like to think Ross will stay and challenge Gylfi and whoever else for a starting berth next season. It'd certainly breed some great competition.

The question is, whether Ross has that fight in him or not.

Sigurdsson is currently a better, more rounded and consistent player than Barkley, due to age and experience mostly.

But Ross is no spring chicken now in terms of how many games he has played, even though he is still young. He has improved his game a lot in the last six months, but yet many of the same inconsistencies that were present when he broke through have not been ironed out.

Barkley's main weakness was he never had any movement ahead of him. When Davies who likes to make runs from deep came into the team Barkley improved. I think with Klassen we would see an entirely different player again. I think most of his doddling on the ball is a result of lack of options and not anything to do with him.

I think it would be a huge mistake swapping Sigurdsson for Barkley and to pay 30m or whatever for the privilege would be scandalous.

We are looking at the wrong type of player. We need someone who can beat a man in the final third. We need a Coutinho player and it really makes no sense why we haven't gone out and bought one.

The problem isn't Ross Barkley although I'm not a fan of the rumours surrounding his private life.

 

[hoppy]

BBC pundit Pat Nevin says Gylfi Sigurdsson is worth the £50million Swansea City are demanding Everton pay for him.

Toffees boss Ronald Koeman is keen to add the No.10 to his blossoming ranks on Merseyside following the return of Wayne Rooney to Goodison Park.

 

[MACCA75]

Barkley's main weakness was he never had any movement ahead of him. When Davies who likes to make runs from deep came into the team Barkley improved. I think with Klassen we would see an entirely different player again. I think most of his doddling on the ball is a result of lack of options and not anything to do with him.

I think it would be a huge mistake swapping Sigurdsson for Barkley and to pay 30m or whatever for the privilege would be scandalous.

We are looking at the wrong type of player. We need someone who can beat a man in the final third. We need a Coutinho player and it really makes no sense why we haven't gone out and bought one.

The problem isn't Ross Barkley although I'm not a fan of the rumours surrounding his private life.

Unfortunately, the problem is Ross Barkley. We've offered a contract, he's refused it. The lad wants to leave, and we will have to sell him.
The Gylfi or Ross debate is irrelevant IMO.