Confirmed Signing James Tarkowski

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Weirdly I think Dave might have a point here

He was due one like. It often comes with the regularity of lent in a leap year, but it does happen occasionally

 

[Nymzee]

Weirdly I think Dave might have a point here

He was due one like. Usually it comes every lent in a leap year

He's contracted at his club till 30th June. We'll announce the day after. Nothing to see here.

 

[Littlesue]

Bothe Tarkowski and Frank on holiday plus surely waiting for new shirt launch too?,

 

[jerseytoffee]

Everton and the PL are on the hook for that BS FFP accountancy trick.

Burnley wont go quietly.

That would be my guess over the hold up.

Going for Tarkowski was always going to be also about squaring Burnley off. Absolutely naive to think that isn't the case.

Squaring off... Wouldn’t that be something ridiculous like £30m-£50m from their relegation? For that to be useful to Burnley that would all need to be declared.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

He's contracted at his club till 30th June. We'll announce the day after. Nothing to see here.

Honestly wouldn't shock me if we've done something to try and appease Burnley so this thing goes away

Even if it's technically the PL on the hook and not us

Might not be money changing hands

 

[DanB90]

Everton and the PL are on the hook for that BS FFP accountancy trick.

Burnley wont go quietly.

That would be my guess over the hold up.

Going for Tarkowski was always going to be also about squaring Burnley off. Absolutely naive to think that isn't the case.

He doesn’t play for Burnley, Dave.

 

[allen]

Honestly wouldn't shock me if we've done something to try and appease Burnley so this thing goes away

Even if it's technically the PL on the hook and not us

Might not be money changing hands

There are two things getting conflated here, and that's what makes no sense.

There very well might be some off-the-record (or even on-the-record) chats between Everton / Burnley / the FA looking for something or other to help this lawsuit go away.

Paying Burnley for a player that is no longer theirs is something entirely different. That square cannot be circled.

 

[Nymzee]

Honestly wouldn't shock me if we've done something to try and appease Burnley so this thing goes away

Even if it's technically the PL on the hook and not us

Might not be money changing hands

Everton and the PL are gucci. We have no reason at all to appease Burnley.

 

[Neiler]

Dont care when its announced to be honest, just that its done, we aren't playing until in the PL Aug.

Hes under contract with another club until July, see no point in antagonising them given the context but also what's the harm in being respectful and not causing offence.

 

[davek]

He doesn’t play for Burnley, Dave.

I covered that.

 

[COYBL25]

He's a pawn in all this. He's a free agent who had a lot of offers - but he ends up here. Funny that.

My guess is that he's a winner out of this and has made a small fortune in a signing on fee that will include some form of surreptitious payment to his old club.

I said this a fortnight ago, and the hold up just underlines how feasible that theory is.

 

[davek]

Squaring off... Wouldn’t that be something ridiculous like £30m-£50m from their relegation? For that to be useful to Burnley that would all need to be declared.

Nah, just a few million compo to add to their parachute payment.

 

[Goat]

Squaring off... Wouldn’t that be something ridiculous like £30m-£50m from their relegation? For that to be useful to Burnley that would all need to be declared.

Nar @davek thinks if we throw them 2million they will forget we breached FFP and totally ignore the 150m in prize money they will lose cos of it.

It's naive to think otherwise, LOL

 

[Cameron Manning]

Everton and the PL are gucci. We have no reason at all to appease Burnley.

He could have gone to other clubs, he chose Everton for family reasons, he lives inManchester and Everton are just up the road which suits him fine because he will be close to his family.

 

[davek]

Having a normal one, I see.

Yes, we’re definitely paying off a club that has nothing to do with the player. 100%. That makes total sense, and will make absolute sense from an accounting perspective.

Oh yes. It’d only be naive to think otherwise.

As said. Naive.

Tarkowski comes here for the biggest pay day he ever gets in his life. Everton could easily work cash Burnley's way. If you want to see how creative accountants can be go and see how Everton passed FFP rules.