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1 point 21 gigawatts! 1 point 21 gigawatts. Great Scott!
what the hell is a gigawatt?
Geoff Nulty
Player Valuation: £750k
Does it actually matter if he signs or not? I got the impression from the agent's comments a week or so ago that, even if he signed now, the Summer was a different matter. He implied he was going to go anyway. If he doesn't sign, then we've saved on wages and it's still far enough away from the end of his contract to allow us to stick firm about the fee.
paulbefc
Player Valuation: £60m
This, surely.
kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
I'll get that for you mate
Romelu Lukaku and Everton contract breakdown - what happens next?
Greg O'Keeffe analyses the latest twist in the Lukaku contract saga
Romelu Lukaku's latest contract development will come as a shock for Everton supporters.
But at some level, the club must have made contingency plans for the prospect that their record Premier League goalscorer might try and hasten his departure.
Even if the suggestions from Lukaku's agent Mino Raiola had been that an agreement was close, there was always the chance things would change.
Today they did, and Lukaku has decided he will not currently sign the terms on offer. The ones which have been perilously stuck on 99.9999% for a couple of ominous weeks.
Romelu Lukaku contract shock for Everton
Everton have not given up on changing the 23-year-old's mind and it is believed the club's position is that a deal remains on the table; with outright rejection not something Raiola has presented to them as a fait accompli.
So what next?
1) The deal remains unsigned and Lukaku pushes for a summer exit
As it stands this must be considered a likely outcome. But aside from the galling prospect of losing their best player, there are some positives from a bleak scenario,
For starters, it would mean Everton have not conceded to the exit clause Lukaku wanted, believed to be in the region of £70m.
The very suggestion that he requested a clause at that figure hinted at a desire to make his Goodison exit easier and more likely.
Everton's position was that any clause would be no less than £90m.
Europe's mega rich clubs on the search for a top striker may see £70m as a relative snip.
In market terms, it under-values a young centre forward who has scored, 17, 16, 20, and 25 goals in his last four seasons.
If another Raiola client Paul Pogba was worth £89m last summer, what price Lukaku this July?
Why should it be any less than the record fee which saw the France midfielder swap Turin for Manchester?
Paul Pogba
Everton's position in this debate was entirely correct. Why should they agree to a value which would see them potentially lose money hand over fist?
Not only perhaps the £20m difference between £70m and £90m but the approximately £2.4m which they would pay the striker in extra wages under the proposed new deal between April and July.
Billionaires don't become billionaires by being prepared to write off nearly £23m to chance.
Farhad Moshiri and his fellow deal-maker Bill Kenwright have previously been rigorous in ensuring Everton are not bullied in the market.
Witness the way John Stones exited last year.
If Lukaku is set on leaving in the summer, it makes no sense whatsoever to ask him to sign a new deal with a buy-out clause considerably below his market value.
If he insists on going, Everton can at least drive his value high in open auction to ensure that if they must lose him the consolation will be a world record fee.
In the meantime Lukaku's attitude is likely to remain focused and on Everton. He is determined to finish the campaign as the Premier League's top marksman, which can only be a plus for the Blues.
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2) Lukaku signs his deal with a newly negotiated exit clause between £70m and £90m
The player is happy and extra motivated to finish what may yet be his swansong season with a spring in his step and goals from his boots.
Then if a Champions League club matches the compromised clause in the summer, he leaves for pastures new and the Blues still get an eye-watering fee - albeit not one they have had the chance to inflate further by an open auction.
Lukaku's agent Mino Raiola
3) The deal remains unsigned, and Lukaku does not leave in the summer
There is always the possibility Everton could price their forward out of the market once the window opens.
Lukaku has undoubted world class potential but he has never had the chance to play in the Champions League yet.
Even though most observers will tell you he is sure to take to that competition smoothly, prospective buyers would argue there are no guarantees.
They might use his relative lack of inexperience as a bargaining chip, and Everton may be in no mood to bargain.
That would mean they have him for the start of next term, at least until January - maybe until summer 2018.
In that case Ronald Koeman would have to hope he could prevent Lukaku from sulking, downing tools or simply losing form because he was disenchanted.
Should it reach that summer, then Everton may have to accept a smaller fee with only 12 months left on the Belgian's deal.
However if the Blues break into the top four next season, all bets are off. They could feasibly match his ambition and keep him as he enters his golden years.
Everton majority investor Farhad Moshiri
4) The deal remains unsigned and Lukaku stays for the remainder of his contract
As above there's the not unrealistic chance that by summer 2019, Everton could be in the Champions League.
That has the potential to change everything.
If not and - as unlikely as it seems - Lukaku has been held to the full length of his deal, he could sign a pre-contract with foreign clubs in January 2019 and they risk losing a megastar for nothing.
1000 megawatts, or 1000000000 watts.
GBracey77
Player Valuation: £500k
Well i've got no problem with the lad wanting to better himself, nothing wrong in that at all.
But what really annoys me, is he doesn't have the decency to answer that question with...
Reporter: Are you going to sign the contract?
Romelu: Well, im just concentrating on my football right now and in the summer we will sit down and discuss the contract situation.
Instead, he always seems to answer with a snigger like its some joke and always seems to be spouting off about wanting to be in a champions league team.
I dont like it to be honest and i think he shows a complete lack of class/respect to the fans and the club who pay him.
Basically wish he would just keep his mouth shut.
But what really annoys me, is he doesn't have the decency to answer that question with...
Reporter: Are you going to sign the contract?
Romelu: Well, im just concentrating on my football right now and in the summer we will sit down and discuss the contract situation.
Instead, he always seems to answer with a snigger like its some joke and always seems to be spouting off about wanting to be in a champions league team.
I dont like it to be honest and i think he shows a complete lack of class/respect to the fans and the club who pay him.
Basically wish he would just keep his mouth shut.
No. Because Leicester was/is a freak example and not an elite club.
He is going to go to an elite level club, one that regularly plays in the latter stages of all competitions and win trophies on a regular basis.
Players move every few years because of clubs as well. Clubs are about as loyal to players as players are to them too.
Whilst I dont know your employment but if you were offered the chance to progress up in the world, go to a higher profile job/better company/improved prospects, would you not go? Irrespective of money. Chances are that you will get offered more money anyway as the employer is trying to get you from a rival anyway but would you really say 'yes I would be delighted to join you and you can even pay me less than what I earn now. Even though your bending over backwards to sign me up'.
Do you honestly expect him to stay if a club comes in for him which regularly wins trophies/competes at the top end of competitions whilst we try and establish ourselves again amongst the top end of the PL?
I stand by my comments. If you think this is purely down to money your deluded. How would you feel if Everton said 'we will pay you 50k more than whatever anyone else is offering you'. Would him signing be down to money or ambition?
He literally said that weeks ago.
Steve0
Player Valuation: £35m
Hurry up and either sign or leave - I want to decide whether you're the best striker we've had for years, the pivotal point of our CL seeking squad of fire, or a lazy, luxury mercenary with boots made out of flubber and rarely turns it on against the big team, bolstering his record with hattricks against Sunderland and the lie.
If he goes he goes.
We will get easy 60M plus for him, probably already a done deal for him to go to one of the European elite clubs.
Bayern, PSG, A Madrid, Juventus or Leicester.
We will get easy 60M plus for him, probably already a done deal for him to go to one of the European elite clubs.
Bayern, PSG, A Madrid, Juventus or Leicester.
GBracey77
Player Valuation: £500k
But why come out now and say "No, im not signing"
Just when we are on a good run and pushing for european places, this will kill the team spirit, you just watch.
He didnt need to answer the way he did. But i understand everyone will have different opinions on this but thats mine.
P.S Yes iv had a bad day and this has made it worse
"Cant blame cos he wants Champions lge"
"Its not about the money"
What a load of crap , tell you what Rom pull your finger out and smash Liverpool ,Man Utd ,Chelsea and Arsenal...there's your Champions league mate...WITH US.
Dont lets kid ourselves its not about money here either his best mate up the M62 will no doubt have shown him his wage packet.
This is about Rom wanting to be at a Mega Glamour Club like his agent has told him from day one. I dont have aproblem with that at all.
But Champions lge ?
Not about money ?.....Pleeze.
Hope the club dont buckle one inch now....sell for the absolute top of the market rate and move on.
"Its not about the money"
What a load of crap , tell you what Rom pull your finger out and smash Liverpool ,Man Utd ,Chelsea and Arsenal...there's your Champions league mate...WITH US.
Dont lets kid ourselves its not about money here either his best mate up the M62 will no doubt have shown him his wage packet.
This is about Rom wanting to be at a Mega Glamour Club like his agent has told him from day one. I dont have aproblem with that at all.
But Champions lge ?
Not about money ?.....Pleeze.
Hope the club dont buckle one inch now....sell for the absolute top of the market rate and move on.
Only problem is mate is if it's true that it's down to the fee of the release clause that we want inserted into the contract, then you would think it's only going to be signed if the club lower the amount of that release clause, would look weak if we backed down.
hmmm if only it was that simple
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