James McCarthy

[Moomin]

The board backed Roberto if you look at his signings and also backed our EX to quite a degree in his dealings, so have to say I disagree with your statement. Prior to that it was all under Johnstone and he allowed Smith to make a number of big signings.

Last 5 seasons net spend table

http://transferleague.co.uk/league-tables/transfer-league-table-last-five-seasons.html


# Net Spend last 5 Years Purchased Gross Sold Nett Per Season
1 Chelsea £473,759,000 £159,400,000 £314,359,000 £62,871,800
2 Manchester City £405,950,000 £119,900,000 £286,050,000 £57,210,000
3 Manchester United £266,800,000 £49,600,000 £217,200,000 £43,440,000
4 Liverpool £313,950,000 £218,150,000 £95,800,000 £19,160,000
5 West Ham £84,850,000 £9,300,000 £75,550,000 £15,110,000
6 Arsenal £228,525,000 £141,300,000 £87,225,000 £17,445,000
7 Queesn Park Rangers £77,350,000 £20,250,000 £57,100,000 £11,420,000
8 Stoke City £62,975,000 £5,600,000 £57,375,000 £11,475,000
9 Hull City £49,125,000 £8,750,000 £40,375,000 £8,075,000
10 Crystal Palace £27,950,000 £3,900,000 £24,050,000 £4,810,000
11 Aston Villa £93,650,000 £71,750,000 £21,900,000 £4,380,000
12 Swansea £53,875,000 £33,360,000 £20,515,000 £4,103,000
15 West Bromwich Albion £43,420,000 £25,009,000 £18,411,000 £3,682,200
14 Sunderland £105,130,000 £88,550,000 £16,580,000 £3,316,000
15 Leicester £20,000,000 £3,850,000 £16,150,000 £3,230,000
16 Southampton £92,250,000 £105,750,000 -£13,500,000 -£2,700,000
17 Newcastle £92,250,000 £92,400,000 -£150,000 -£30,000
18 Burnley £6,900,000 £20,350,000 -£13,450,000 -£2,690,000
19 Tottenham £195,200,000 £220,300,000 -£25,100,000 -£5,020,000
20 Everton £54,000,000 £82,516,000 -£28,516,000 -£5,703,200

 

[18Chris87]

'Berto should grab him by his horrid ginger barnet and drag him to the quotes wall on our Finch Farm stairs and hold him his head in place to read "The only way after leaving this club is down" quote. 'Berto proceeds to give him a backhand, McCarthy falls to the floor stunned, then Barkley and his thug mates come out with some old fashioned English cricket bats and break his legs before making a guard of honour for the approaching Besic wearing a suit, he rips off his jacket to reveal a "Besic, 16" shirt and takes a gun out of his pocket. "Are you going to kill me?" asks a tearful McCarthy, pathetically. With a laugh "We will see what happens" replies Mo.

 

[WA Toffee]

Oh dear McCarthy, silly boy...

What has he done / said?

 

[Pabbers]

Massive over-reaction in here

 

[mawders]

whatever. Journo's spinning one line in an interview. Doesn't mean anything. Hasn't he just signed a new contract anyway?

 

[davek]

 

[Carlito]

I was wondering where the Lukaku money was coming from.

 

[Toffeelover]

It's business like selling cars, you part exchange one to get a new one with a bit of cash difference.

 

[Khalekan]

Its not a myth its a fact for gods sake! This will be the only year i can remember where someone hasnt been sold in order for us to sign anyone.

But that's not what you said.

You said:

Mean in terms of net spend mate. Selling our star player every season in order to buy 3 or 4 is hardly what id class as backing the manager tbh.

We have not sold our "star player every season".

Only twice this century has our "star player" been sold.....Rooney and Arteta.

They were the best player in the team when they were sold.

The only three other examples in support of a flawed argument you could possibly come up with are Lescott, Rodwell and Fellani.

Subsequent events have shown we would have been mad to turn down the silly money we were offered for them.....and on all three occasions the money raised was used to make our team better.

Fellani himself was brought in when Lescott left....along with Disdin.

Mirallas was signed after Rodwell went.

And by Jove we got a better deal than United when Fellani went there for silly dough and James MacCarthy was bought for half the money.

None of those three players were our "star player" when they were sold.

Going back a bit further Alan Ball and Duncan Ferguson were sold when they were our best player at the time they were sold against their wishes.

I suppose we could add Lineker to that list....he left to play European football.

So in my days going to Everton there have been five players IMO who were our "star player" when they were sold.

Ball, Lineker, Ferguson, Rooney and Arteta.

There may be others (Barmby perhaps...or Speed?) but one thing is for sure.

It is just a myth that we sell our "star player" every season.

 

[blueboy1945]

Could be Roberto is quite happy to let him go for a ridiculously high fee in order to finance some other signing(s).
Hence the signing of Besic as a ready made replacement.

 

[pablo 1878]

Massive over-reaction in here

There's a few obviously jokey "Burn him/ Kill him" posts and a single "McCarthy has been a bit silly"

Whereabouts are these over-reactions?

 

[WA Toffee]

What has he done?

 

[orly]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[andybaker]

But that's not what you said.

You said:



We have not sold our "star player every season".

Only twice this century has our "star player" been sold.....Rooney and Arteta.

They were the best player in the team when they were sold.

The only three other examples in support of a flawed argument you could possibly come up with are Lescott, Rodwell and Fellani.

Subsequent events have shown we would have been mad to turn down the silly money we were offered for them.....and on all three occasions the money raised was used to make our team better.

Fellani himself was brought in when Lescott left....along with Disdin.

Mirallas was signed after Rodwell went.

And by Jove we got a better deal than United when Fellani went there for silly dough and James MacCarthy was bought for half the money.

None of those three players were our "star player" when they were sold.

Going back a bit further Alan Ball and Duncan Ferguson were sold when they were our best player at the time they were sold against their wishes.

I suppose we could add Lineker to that list....he left to play European football.

So in my days going to Everton there have been five players IMO who were our "star player" when they were sold.

Ball, Lineker, Ferguson, Rooney and Arteta.

There may be others (Barmby perhaps...or Speed?) but one thing is for sure.

It is just a myth that we sell our "star player" every season.

If thats how you want to see it mate then fair play to you. Ill see it how i want to see it.

 

[davek]

Judas.