Romelu Lukaku

[sageyefc]

So we should be expecting around 100 million in the summer for these two, as we won't sell these cheap so maybe 40 million for stones and 50 for Lukaku so around 90 million plus our spending money of 20 million.

Would want more than that

 

[Brendan Janus]

I don't want us to sell our prized assets, but if we can keep them on long term contracts, it is comforting to know that we can command some extortionate fees !!

 

[Tubey]

Apart from maybe Rooney, this was always the case with the Moyes era Tubey.

It wasn't - we had players sold under us at the last minute, like Arteta.

If Stones goes, he'll go early. There's no way we'll sell him last minute.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

It wasn't - we had players sold under us at the last minute, like Arteta.

If Stones goes, he'll go early. There's no way we'll sell him last minute.

Arteta wanted to go, same with Rooney and Lescott. That's 3 players in 11 years hardly the "losing players every season" you claimed.

If the monies right and the player wants out no club refuses.

 

[Tubey]

Arteta wanted to go, same with Rooney and Lescott. That's 3 players in 11 years hardly the "losing players every season" you claimed.

If the monies right and the player wants out no club refuses.

Stones wanted to go. He handed in a transfer request. The bid was there. We refused.

See Berahino also. Clubs no longer sell late if they don't have to. We'll sell on our terms if we do, not the players.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

Stones wanted to go. He handed in a transfer request. The bid was there. We refused.

See Berahino also. Clubs no longer sell late if they don't have to. We'll sell on our terms if we do, not the players.

As I said "if the monies right".

 

[Tubey]

As I said "if the monies right".

The fee was irrelevant when we turned the Stones bid down. He became "not for sale", because regardless of the fee (beyond something truly daft) it would not have been on our terms to sell.

We will no longer sell a player unless it is on our terms, it's as simple as that.

 

[The Hibbert Agenda]

He's contracted until 2019.
There's a far greater risk of losing Stones.

 

[toffeejack]

Stones wanted to go. He handed in a transfer request. The bid was there. We refused.

See Berahino also. Clubs no longer sell late if they don't have to. We'll sell on our terms if we do, not the players.

don't forget naismith. no way we would have rejected that if it was at the start of the window.

 

[Pabbers]

Felipe Mattioni has the same agent as Lukaku

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

The fee was irrelevant when we turned the Stones bid down. He became "not for sale", because regardless of the fee (beyond something truly daft) it would not have been on our terms to sell.

We will no longer sell a player unless it is on our terms, it's as simple as that.

We only got away with that stance due to the lads character.

He accepted the clubs position and got on with it, and credit to him for doing so.

However, if was a Sterling type character he'd have gone. Also, look at Berahino at WBA, they forced him to stay and he's had his head up his arse ever since and looks a shadow of the player he was last season.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/dec/08/everton-romelu-lukaku-didier-drogba

He's getting noticed now

I look forward to the big media push to sell him soon

 

[Toffeelover]

There is no way we sell him unless a spectacular bid comes in. People are stuck in this mindset from the Moyes era of losing players every season - since Martinez arrived, we haven't lost any important player in any window, barring Fellaini but in that instance he wanted rid anyway.

It'll take north of £50m for Lukaku and £40m for Stones to get a reply from us at the moment, convinced of it. I stick with what I said about Stones in the summer - we'd have been lunatics to sell him then for the fees offered, and we'd be lunatics now.

Stones may go, but it'll be on our terms and we'll be well compensated for it.

I was thinking of the point you have raised. We have two players whose combined value is 90 to 100 mill perhaps more if we really dug our heels in. But it is our board that worries me when they see the likes of these valuations or when offers start coming in.

 

[Toffeelover]

This;-

but the player’s form at a club that develops young talent in a way Stamford Bridge and Mourinho do not.

 

[Steve Wigan]

The fee was irrelevant when we turned the Stones bid down. He became "not for sale", because regardless of the fee (beyond something truly daft) it would not have been on our terms to sell.

We will no longer sell a player unless it is on our terms, it's as simple as that.

Yes, and thats true of many more clubs since the TV money got silly.It is players wages that will soon become the driving force of transfers, rather than the fee involved.