2018/19 Idrissa Gueye

[TheSecondComing]

If we replace him with injury prone Fabian Delph we might as well call it quits and fold.

Frank Kessie is your man not a direct replacement but think we might have to switch to flat 3 with a pivot

 

[maccavennie]

If we replace him with injury prone Fabian Delph we might as well call it quits and fold.

Frank Kessie is your man not a direct replacement but think we might have to switch to flat 3 with a pivot

U WOT

 

[Zatara]

You said whoever they'd acquire would both be better than Gana in a year, not me. But yeah, I'd bring in Sangare for like 25M and someone younger and more developmental. The guys I listed wouldn't be much more than 10M. That's 25M Sangare + 10M Sosa + 20M for Gomes.

But we are going to blow that away in sales and have plenty left over for a CB, CF, RW, RB if we are smart with a net spend of around 75M and a much lower wage bill.

Just thinking about sales...

> Young guy sales - We sold Vlasic for 15M, Lookmans gonna go for 22M, Onyenkuru for 20M+. That's 50M right there.
> Last year contract guy sales - even if we dumped them for nothing - McCarthy / Niasse / Mirallas / Martina / Garbutt / Tarashaj we'd save probably 13M in salary alone and we'll probably get 15M for them.
> DM sales - you sell Besic / Scheniderlin, who you don't need anymore, for say 10M, plus the 7M you are saving in salary.

Suddenly you are at 75M in sales and stripped 20M in salary plus whatever Onyenkuru / Lookman / Vlasic were making - maybe 5M.

I know it's not that easy, it's not Football Manager, but I really think a lot of this type of thing is going to happen.

Sosa and Sangare i think would be around £42mil so anything over £30mil and i think thats what will happen (or similar) with a chest of £50mil gold soverigns available for 2 playeds.

After 1 season Sangare i think will be better than Gana in what he offers a team wanting to play a 433. Thats my prediction + Sosa also would be decent based purely on Brands signing him lol

 

[Michaelcoyb]

In particular with Gana, I would want to see his replacement in the door (or as good as) before he goes.

I know we have Brands but this is still Everton. Like it says in the bible, you can flush away a big turd but it always leaves a smell.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Without being argumentative in this thread...

I cant see why ANYONE would want to keep Gana if they trusted Marcel Brands and Marco Silva ?

Because just blindly agreeing with your leaders without any critical thought is a cult

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

The point is that we are selling our best player...again. And that it will set us back... again. And that we will win nothing and finish mid table... again.

Dress it up however you want, tell yourself it's an inevitability. Or that it makes sense because he is about to turn 30, just before we replace him with Delph who is also about to turn 30.

Whatever you do to try and make yourself feel better about it, it's going to set us back, and all this talk about capitalising on the deterioration of Arsenal and United etc will be for nothing.

We will be competing with Wolves, and hoping for a good cup run!

And we'll no doubt be enjoying away days as well. For shame!

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Not sure that rumour is true.

But £30m for a player about to enter his last year of his deal....hmmm

Very tricky as he’s very important to us.

Basically if he wants the move then we should probably cash in

If he wants to stay and sign a new deal, then we should sign him up

I'm not convinced that he's going to go off a cliff anytime soon

Makelele was winning titles past the age of 30 and played 46 games in 06/07 for Chelsea when he would have been 33-34 years old

Being 30 isn't a death sentence for a player. I would honestly like Gana to ink his last big contract with us. We'll get at least another 3 years out of him I think, if not more

 

[AsiaAsia82]

Only PSG after him? Strange that

 

[ForeverBlue92]

These two games are why. The other 3 games he didn't play were against City so who cares that we got beat that happens and Huddersfield both times which we also drew one of. Counterattacks went through us impossibly easy without him.

Exactly this. Look at how Kante played a massive part in Leicester winning the league.

If the club sell him more fool them.

 

[Papa Shango]

I can't believe that in 2019 people are still saying that he struggles to pass a ball.

 

[Papa Shango]

Only PSG after him? Strange that

Probably more of a case of if he wants to go then he only wants to go there. His grew up in France so I would assume his family are all based there so it makes sense.

 

[Zatara]

Because just blindly agreeing with your leaders without any critical thought is a cult

If i had a 100% success rate in something...would you back me to succeed or fail ?

Because thats what were working with here.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

If i had a 100% success rate in something...would you back me to succeed or fail ?

Because thats what were working with here.

I would view every decision you made in it's own unique circumstances, as would any other sensible person

I wouldn't just blindly let you do whatever you wanted, regardless of past successes

 

[Papa Shango]

If i had a 100% success rate in something...would you back me to succeed or fail ?

Because thats what were working with here.

Jury is still out on Mina.

 

[ijjysmith]

Basically if he wants the move then we should probably cash in

If he wants to stay and sign a new deal, then we should sign him up

I'm not convinced that he's going to go off a cliff anytime soon

Makelele was winning titles past the age of 30 and played 46 games in 06/07 for Chelsea when he would have been 33-34 years old

Being 30 isn't a death sentence for a player. I would honestly like Gana to ink his last big contract with us. We'll get at least another 3 years out of him I think, if not more

I agree.

I reckon we’ll be starting the season without him anyway as he’s gonna be knackered after dragging his country through the AFCON.