Koeman: "Barkley looking for a new challenge"

[Nymzee]

I reckon none of the top 6 will go for him this summer. Why spend £30m+ now on a sub when you can all spend the next 12 months trying to sway him to join you on a free then?

 

[Duncan Disordely]

Disappointed to hear this. Think it'll be a mistake for the lad as we are on the up, and I can't see him starting in any of the teams above us currently.

If he couldn't handle Goodison getting on his back when he miscontrolled the ball, took a safe option, or miss-hit a pass then at least we know he'll have a stinker when he faces a fully hostile Goodison when he returns.

 

[Garymc2412]

I really wanted Ross to do well at this club.
Have not been on his case at goodison in games
Waited a long time, then waited some more to give him more chances
Now he wants to go.well good riddance the contract offered was
Reportedly £115000 a week to play for your hometown club.
See ya Ross

 

[Mickey]

Sake Rosco.

 

[Toffeeslam]

I think Ross knows his position is unattainable here. Ronald Koeman has done this to him subliminally without anybody realising. He has never got on with him since coming to Everton and made a scapegoat out of him last season. He has backed Ross into a corner and made him feel like he has to leave. Koeman is looking to have two or three players in that no. 10 role ahead of him and Ross knows his only way to go is out. Well played Ronald, you have played a blinder.

Koeman doesn't want him so he offers him a new improved contract??

Yeah ok

Meanwhile Omar Naisse must be wondering what he has to do to get a locker let alone a contract offered

 

[widnesblue]

Wonder if he can live up to his potential in the bright lights of London. Doubt it, move on and go sign a player who doesn't rely on his potential and actually delivers on the pitch, week in, week out.

 

[cymrublue]

A bit like Lukaku in that I'd excluded him from thoughts on our first team weeks ago. If Swansea are holding out for £50 mill for Siggi, we should be holding out for at least £35 mill for Ross an England international and hope a bidding war develops. I would have said more for him but it's not an outright sellers market with 1 year left on his contract and he wants to go therfore we won't fight to keep him at any price.

The problem will be trying to find someone to pay £35m for him,we'll be lucky to get £20m,can still see him being here on 1st September.

 

[GwladysBlue]

'They're not booing you, Roscoe!'

God, we're going to make him cry when he returns to Goodison.

 

[AdamEFC]

That will do

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Ross knew he wasn't a part of the manager's plans last season. He is not a Koeman player.

He played every week last season, and we offered him a bumper new contract.

 

[matty1878]

Hasn't he realised yet that he hasn't done enough for a CL club to pull out all the stops to sign him? He's pinning his hopes on Spurs paying enough but that's looking less likely by the day.

The big boys aren't going after him like they were for Rom.

Or maybe 'a new challenge' means 'an easier challenge'.

It's the latter and the pound signs. But he will no doubt say it was to further his career yada yada. Something is a miss here for sure. Agents, tapping up wrong advice or he clearly thinks he's above everyone else. Sad tbh very sad when he's supposedly a blue? Loyalty has well
And truely gone from football

 

[AndyC]

His footballing problems are in his brain and no Pochettino or Wenger will coach his timidity, fragility, and slowness of thought out of him.

Too much fuss hass been made of him, and he would and may indeed still be given short shrift at a club with fans with notably less patience and no emotional attachment.

If he succeeds at a higher placed club, then I'll take my hat off to him but the indications are that this will not happen.

Tend to agree with this, sad but most likely the truth.
Don't wish the lad any ill will, but boy has he made a rod for his own back, especially with no apparent queue of suitors/purchasers.

 

[blue to the bone]

Newcastle I'd guess. Alongside another great English midfielder in jonjo shelvey.

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

Arsenal's new signing

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

As I've said in other threads over the months, every other player leaving I understood.

Gosling, Lescott, Rooney, Arteta etc.

With Barkley, I just think it's bonkers.

He genuinely wants Champions League football, and prompted further by not having his backside kissed by Koeman.

Still, over the years we've all constantly bemoaned a bottling mentality. Ross Barkley epitomised that.

For all the raw ability, and despite the romantic "local academy lad" - Barkley isn't good enough to be an integral part in Everton's team to reach the level above us.

Shift him out, he hasn't got the will, or the fight to improve his game and compete for his place which he has had guaranteed for years. Bring Sigurdsson in, twice the player.

This ^

Patently being told to work off the ball isn't what he fancies doing, good luck with that mentality under Poch you bobble head.