2021/22 James Rodriguez

[Thomasc]

We'll be forced to pay half the wages of this feller to get him out.

Then we may as well keep him for another year

 

[IRISHBLUE1]

He played 51% of league minutes last season.
1763 minutes out of 3420.

 

[Barnfred 55]

...even subsidising his wages could fund a signing in.

And would that signing bring us more than James would.?

Can I just take this opportunity Dave to say that you are a complete enigma to me. You've spent your time in here defending or praising players who, shall we say, show more ability than work rate. Payers like Kieran Dowell for example.

Here we have a prime example in James Rodriguez, a player with an absolute wand of a left foot (and I've only ever used that phrase on one other Everton player), a player I honestly believed you'd be purring over, and it turns out to be the opposite.

 

[davek]

And would that signing bring us more than James would.?

Can I just take this opportunity Dave to say that you are a complete enigma to me. You've spent your time in here defending or praising players who, shall we say, show more ability than work rate. Payers like Kieran Dowell for example.

Here we have a prime example in James Rodriguez, a player with an absolute wand of a left foot (and I've only ever used that phrase on one other Everton player), a player I honestly believed you'd be purring over, and it turns out to be the opposite.

Kieran Dowell would have walked from Ormskirk every day in bare feet to play for Everton; James gets about 200k a week and cant be arsed playing for us.

 

[stevie blott]

Kieran Dowell would have walked from Ormskirk every day in bare feet to play for Everton; James gets about 200k a week and cant be arsed playing for us.

It's a fair point

 

[kenada_blue]

Kieran Dowell would have walked from Ormskirk every day in bare feet to play for Everton; James gets about 200k a week and cant be arsed playing for us.

But he's rubbish.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Kieran Dowell would have walked from Ormskirk every day in bare feet to play for Everton; James gets about 200k a week and cant be arsed playing for us.

He doesn't earn £200k a week and he was told by the manager on return to training that he's not in his plans and to find another club.

 

[davek]

But he's rubbish.

Dowell?

Nah. Good player.

 

[davek]

He doesn't earn £200k a week and he was told by the manager on return to training that he's not in his plans and to find another club.

He wont have come to Everton for much less than that.

 

[Barnfred 55]

He wont have come to Everton for much less than that.

Basically neither you or I know for certain. reports vary. It ranges from £90k to £140k. Most reports coming in at £140k in fairness. And he cost us nothing in transfer fees.

 

[davek]

Basically neither you or I know for certain. reports vary. It ranges from £90k to £140k. Most reports coming in at £140k in fairness. And he cost us nothing in transfer fees.

Get half that wage off the books and it finances a new player.

I can see another club - knowing the position we're in - leaving it to the last day of the window and saying "we'll take him on loan, but we'll only poay 50% of what he's on at Everton".

 

[BlueToff]

But in how many of those matches was he match fit?

Well he played more minutes last season than in 4/8 seasons before.

But i'd say towards the end of the season, probably not many.

Again, that was on the recruitment and Carlo making him the fulcrum of the team so he absolutely had to play any game he was fit for, in season that was already condensed.

He sitll had an impact though. He wasn't fully fit at OT or Anfield but scored a great goal and set up a goal with a brilliant assist, and in the latter was part of our best performance of the season.

But it's more convenient for people to say he's lazy.

 

[BlueToff]

I think some of our fans overestimate how attractive the Everton job is.

Particularly if during the interview process they were told we have very little flexibility in the market.

I'm very cynical and know just how tinpot we are. I don't like the club or how it's run, I haven't in a while and this summer has solidified it.

Part of that reason is because we make incredibly bad decisions.

Let's hope this bucks the trend.

 

[BlueToff]

Get half that wage off the books and it finances a new player.

I can see another club - knowing the position we're in - leaving it to the last day of the window and saying "we'll take him on loan, but we'll only poay 50% of what he's on at Everton".

and we would be absolutely insane to take that (if this is James you're on about)

Theo Walcott is one thing.

If anybody at Everton grants James Rodriguez, going to another club, and we'd still be paying him £75k-150k a week to play for that club, instead of paying him to play for us, when we have Andros friggin Townsend, then they'd need shooting.

I mean it. In the face.

 

[davek]

and we would be absolutely insane to take that (if this is James you're on about)

Theo Walcott is one thing.

If anybody at Everton grants James Rodriguez, going to another club, and we'd still be paying him £75k-150k a week to play for that club, instead of paying him to play for us, when we have Andros friggin Townsend, then they'd need shooting.

I mean it. In the face.

Pragmatism. If it helps us on the pitch and eases an unwanted player ut of the club it'd be worth it.