2019/20 Leighton Baines.

[ToffeeTim]

Love him but I wouldn’t give him another contract. We should’ve signed a young understudy to him years ago and I’d like to see that now.

You cant sign an understudy to someone who you want to release.

We have Digne. We have Delph in an injury crisis. Keeping Baines is a no brainer. Our 4th choice in any position has to be an academy player. Otherwise what's the point of even having one.

 

[KaiserEFC]

You cant sign an understudy to someone who you want to release.

We have Digne. We have Delph in an injury crisis. Keeping Baines is a no brainer. Our 4th choice in any position has to be an academy player. Otherwise what's the point of even having one.

I want a young and hungry number 2, we should have signed one absolutely years ago

 

[ToffeeTim]

I want a young and hungry number 2, we should have signed one absolutely years ago

We signed a replacement instead. An understudy wasnt sensible. But baines becoming the understudy was very sensible. No better man.

 

[Lloydystark]

I want a young and hungry number 2, we should have signed one absolutely years ago

Luke garbett haha

 

[Lloydystark]

Milner still plays about 40 games a season, it isn’t the same.

Boring James Milner

 

[Lloydystark]

Give him another year ffs. We should of gave jags one too.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Why do we need to pay big money for a backup?

Because most decent players go for stupid money these days. I like the lad Lewis at Norwich, he would cost about £30 mill.

We havent got a young RB who is good enough to step up yet, and any money that we save from having to buy a backup is money we put elsewhere until next season

 

[Goat]

I want a young and hungry number 2, we should have signed one absolutely years ago

We did.

 

[KaiserEFC]

We did.

Thanks for making me vomit.

 

[davek]

I think ideally you would want to develop a squad without FFP but it’s an unfortunate reality that can’t be ignored, you understand the ceilings as well as me. We may decide to bring in a young left back in the summer, but we both know it’s coming from a limited fund and eating into a loss ceiling. In dealing with the reality of that players like are invaluable as they are cost/loss neutral apart from wages, they maximise budgets and minimise loss ceilings.

Ideally you are right, hoping selling Bolaise and Sandro may raise funds for the kid at hearts, but you wouldn’t put money on it happening. I don’t have any sympathy with our ability to sell players, it’s been terrible. Based on that it actually makes better sense to keep the cost neutral option, if you think he can still contribute which the club seems to as it maximises the available budget as it’s unlikely to come from selling deadwood.

I would have been a big critic of our squad management with the centre half situation at the start of the season after the last transfer window, was I right? On reflection maybe not, if we’d signed Zouma would we have developed Holgate.....none of us had faith he would develop like he did, so credit there. It might be thar Baines is more up to it then we all think and or expect like Holgate.

Its about maximisimg windows and budgets and Baines helps enable that over another year. If we can sign a right sided, central mildfilders and a centre half this window with our hole budget and both full back positions in 20/21 instead of now, we likely have the pick of better quality both this summer and next as we can prioritise and maximise budgets.

We'll sell big again in the summer. Richarlison will go, for one. He'll fetch £80M or so. More possibly. Tosun's injury is a pity, but we'll see a couple more fetch a fee of sorts, and there'll be some sort of injection of cash from Moshiri or via a sponsorship deal.

There'll be cash to spend and FFP considerations will be met.

 

[Goat]

We'll sell big again in the summer. Richarlison will go, for one. He'll fetch £80M or so. More possibly. Tosun's injury is a pity, but we'll see a couple more fetch a fee of sorts, and there'll be some sort of injection of cash from Moshiri or via a sponsorship deal.

There'll be cash to spend and FFP considerations will be met.

80m for Rico.

Please dave, if you dont have a clue refrain from posting for Gods sake theres a good lad.

 

[Lloydystark]

We did.

Signed in 2009.... it’s now 2020 and he’s still technically a Everton player, longest serving player after baines and Coleman?

 

[Goat]

"Buy a young player to take over from Digne."

Digne is 26 lads, hes got 6/7 years left, you wanna sign a 12 year old?

 

[Goat]

Signed in 2009.... it’s now 2020 and he’s still technically a Everton player, longest serving player after baines and Coleman?

Christ what a terrible thing.

 

[davek]

80m for Rico.

Please dave, if you dont have a clue refrain from posting for Gods sake theres a good lad.

How much will they get then? My point is that he's the next designated transfer window driver. I'm right in this, just the amount is in question.