Timhowardsswearbox
Player Valuation: £5m
This. If there had ever been an actual official bid the whole world would have known about it. As far as we know there is lots of talk about interested parties, but not a single official bid has been made.
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This. If there had ever been an actual official bid the whole world would have known about it. As far as we know there is lots of talk about interested parties, but not a single official bid has been made.
Goodison Groaner
Player Valuation: £750k
I don't think clubs make official bids until fairly late in the process. They sound clubs and players out exhaustively before they get to that stage. Chelsea probably told Everton what they would be prepared to pay... expecting some encouragement... and not getting any. In the media that seems to count as making a bid and having it rejected!
Goodison Groaner
Player Valuation: £750k
If you remember last summer the London based press, particularly the Evening Standard, ran a number of stories linking Lukaku with Chelsea. The language used in those reports always suggested that Chelsea were supremely confident that a deal would be done and was in fact imminent. The tone hinted that this was more than the usual 'player linked to another club' story.
The press were clearly being briefed by Chelsea and finding Everton reluctant to do business they obviously tried to force the issue by encouraging Rom to request the transfer. It was probably Moshiri who talked him around with big promises... promises that Rom doesn't yet feel have been fulfilled.
A win-win situation for Everton.
The player accepts that he has one more season at Everton , helps us in our bid for CL place and then decides on his future with only twelve months left on his contract.
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Clubs that want to buy this summer know they are dealing with an unwilling seller and that only megabucks could tempt the club to sell.
If Lukaku has another good season it may tempt other buyers into the market ensuring Everton get a good price in twelve months time.
The player accepts that he has one more season at Everton , helps us in our bid for CL place and then decides on his future with only twelve months left on his contract.
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Clubs that want to buy this summer know they are dealing with an unwilling seller and that only megabucks could tempt the club to sell.
If Lukaku has another good season it may tempt other buyers into the market ensuring Everton get a good price in twelve months time.
Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
We didn't
chippy1722
Player Valuation: £35m
Probably more likely they sounded us out with a £40/50m bid and we laughed at them. If an official bid was made SSN would have ran it for hours, as they did with John Stones.
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
Should have known what was going to happen even Shakespeare saw it coming:
O Romelu, Romelu, wherefore art thou Romelu?
Deny thy Mino Raiola and refuse thy move;
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my enemy
As thou shall no longer be a toffee.
O Romelu, Romelu, wherefore art thou Romelu?
Deny thy Mino Raiola and refuse thy move;
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my enemy
As thou shall no longer be a toffee.
Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
Not being funny here but if we got a 70 million pound bid last summer we would have sold him, no question.Romelu Lukaku has already regaled everyone with the strikers he regards as the best on the planet or, as he succinctly put it, “[Luis] Suarez, [Robert] Lewandowski, [Karim] Benzema, [Edinson] Cavani. That’s it. I’m not looking at the rest. No chance.”
So, it would be interesting if he ever reels off the names of his toughest opponent. Perhaps Vincent Kompany and John Terry would feature. What about Farhad Moshiri?
Everton turned down a £70 million bid from Chelsea last summer for Lukaku with Moshiri newly ensconced at Goodison Park as the club’s major shareholder. Almost 12 months on, there is no suggestion the Iranian billionaire is about to roll over and wave the forward through the exit door despite his apparent eagerness to move on.
This is the new Everton that Lukaku is signed up to for the next two years. A club intent on challenging their rivals and one for whom Lukaku’s value is best measured in a blue jersey rather than a fantasy figure transfer fee that would simply swell an already considerable kitty.
Of course, it is true that the player’s agent, Mino Raiola, has a habit of making deals happen and delivering what buying clubs — and his clients — want.
Raiola was a guest last Thursday at the London premiere of Everton chairman Bill Kenwright’s new film “Another Woman’s Son” and was spotted in conversation with Moshiri and, briefly, manager Ronald Koeman.
Yet it was Kenwright and Moshiri who were sat together. They share the tightest of bonds and the strongest of desires to re-establish the Merseyside club as a force.
Chelsea will be back and there is plenty about a return to Stamford Bridge that will appeal to Lukaku
There is no smoke and mirrors about Lukaku’s unwillingness to sign the most lucrative contract in Everton’s history at £140,000 a week. It is not about release clauses. The subject has not featured during discussions with Everton having made clear at the outset of talks that one would not be entertained.
They have steadfastly refused to insert them into contracts ever since reluctantly agreeing to Marouane Fellaini’s demands for an exit figure which led to his move to Manchester United in 2013 [ironically, United CEO Ed Woodward ended up paying more than he would have needed to a few weeks earlier as Kenwright showed himself to be negotiator extraordinaire once more].
This is purely about Lukaku, who is proving himself worth in the region of the £89 million fee United paid for Paul Pogba, wanting to play in the Champions League. It is an ambition of which he has hardly made a secret.
“I have been playing [professionally] since I was 16 and never had a taste of the Champions League. It is going to be seven years. You think about it,” he said in March last year, almost 12 months to the very day last week when he repeated that sermon.
He is in a hurry to succeed and his numbers as a goalscorer are quite exceptional. Chelsea will be back and there is plenty about a return to Stamford Bridge that will appeal to Lukaku, three years after his permanent exit.
Yet he should be wary of Koeman’s comments in the aftermath of the interview, which appeared in The Times and underlined where the 23-year-old marksman sees himself and caused such a furore.
“I am not so afraid of his situation because the player has two more years on his contract,” said Koeman, who has started speaking like the manager Evertonians would expect him to be after the faux pas earlier in his tenure.
“Of course that gives me confidence. Everyone knows what can happen in football, but you need to respect your contract.
“The final word is always to the board of the club and if we don’t sell the player, we don’t sell the player. The people in the club are really strong enough to keep something and, if we go to that direction, it’s the final decision for the board of the club.”
Moshiri has blocked Lukaku’s departure once. An interesting summer looms.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Not me saying it mate, was Joyce
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In 12 months time he has had a bad season through an injury, a negative attitude due to him having been forced to stay another year or perhaps even goes through a period out of the team through a loss of form.There is no CL qualification for Everton nor are any club in the CL prepared to pay even £30 million .Then the player says sod you I am going to run my contract down and leave on a Bosman . Everton are then faced with accepting whatever is offered if the player likes the destination or he walks in June 2019.
Won't happen I hear you say but a player is only one tackle away from a year or so out.
The reality is players take more and more control of the situation and Everton are no where near enough stable financially to write of potentially tens of millions and that is where the club really are. If he wants out this summer and no new contract has been signed he is gone.
Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
I know mate, not aiming that at you. I jkust think if we had got that amount he would have gone no question about it. To be honest he will probably go for around that anyway, even if we all value him higher!
TheCount
Player Valuation: £10m
It's a World Cup year next season, Rom will be motivated wherever he is. Keep him.
If he wants out the descion maker will be the manager ger just like it was when Stones wanted away. Koeman isn't a manger that keeps players against their will he like 99.% of managers know the damage it causes . It was a great buzz line keeping Stones but he went just as will Lukaku if he wants out.
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