Catfish Blues
Player Valuation: £15m
Well you've totally ignored my point about players loyalty ( which you started ) so I'll bid you good night.
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Well you've totally ignored my point about players loyalty ( which you started ) so I'll bid you good night.
and I totally agree mate, with 100m in the bank I've no doubt we will strengthen accordingly if someone matches our valuation
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Now he's dependent again on Martinez. I'd PMSL if he got them to the WC final and played Benteke instead.
Revenge served up cold.
RM made him, RM can break him.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
That £100M will go right in the vault next to the £50M we got for Rooney.
Runcornblue52
Player Valuation: £8m
Lolz .....Ok plastic scouse boy
Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/already-brillaint-lukaku-is-still-getting-better-3v7qg3sfw
Already brilliant, Lukaku’s best is yet to come
Romelu Lukaku should take it as a credit for just how effective he has been this season that the attention around him has focused on something he has not done as opposed to everything he routinely delivers.
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Premier League goal number 24 was dispatched with ease beyond Burnley’s Tom Heaton on Saturday, and yet thoughts turned swiftly back to the £140,000-a-week contract Everton have presented to the forward but which remains unsigned.
The success Lukaku has enjoyed this season, en route to becoming one of the nominees for PFA Player of the Year, has been appreciated far beyond Goodison Park.
At Chelsea and Manchester United, certainly, and at a cluster of other clubs there is recognition that although the talent of modern strikers is often exaggerated, that is not the case with Lukaku.
It will take £100 million to secure the Belgian’s services at another club but that price-tag comes with a guarantee.
His scoring record amounts to a promise of goals. In the past four seasons he has plundered 17, 16, 20 and 25, and he is 25 not out in all competitions this year with five more games to play. It is an impressive upwards trend with the anomaly of 2013-14, when he finished one shy of the previous term’s tally, largely due to injury absences.
Lukaku considers himself above his Premier League contemporaries and the evidence is there to underpin that billowing self-belief. Around Europe, only Lionel Messi, with 17 goals, has scored more than Lukaku’s 14 in 2017.
Like with all clinical goalscorers, recognising Lukaku’s threat and being able to contain or nullify it are two different things, as Michael Keane became the latest to discover.
Keane, whose progress this term has elevated him into the England squad, found himself too tight to the Belgium forward and was rolled in one smooth motion with the subsequent left-foot finish a delight. It was in many respects a trademark strike from Lukaku, although one of his assets is the range of goals that he musters.
Of his overall tally in the league, there have been 11 with his left foot, seven with his right and six headed goals. Twenty-three have come from inside the penalty area with the only strike delivered from outside being the free kick against Crystal Palace earlier in the campaign.
At only 23, Lukaku has much left to give
One of the other impressive numbers that Lukaku’s campaign has thrown up is his appearance record. He missed two Premier League games in 2014-15, one in 2015-16 and is on course to be absent in only one this season, too. With ruthlessness comes reliability.
And for all this, the feats that have seen him become the first Everton player since Dixie Dean in 1934 to score in nine successive home games, the first since Bob Latchford in 1978 to score 25 goals in consecutive seasons and the first since Gary Lineker in 1986 to net 20 league goals, the feeling is that there is so much more from him to come.
There are occasions on those afternoons when Lukaku pushes himself on the periphery by not making the most of his talents, giving opponents an easy ride instead of using brawn and brain to drive them to distraction, when Ronald Koeman must want to shake the player he describes as a “machine”.
that 100m will get spunked on some quality players mate, I know it, you know it, we all know it so there's no point harking back to a time when we didn't have a pot to piss in
Raul Moat has more chance of managing in a World Cup final than Martinez.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Shot memory syndrome here.
He was walking the streets of West Bromwich with his career in the gutter before he was rescued by us.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Let's hope he doesn't spend it on three Bolasie class signings then.
I'm just arguing my point that if you add up the pros and cons it adds up that yes we should demand a near record fee of £80-85 million and if someone pays great if not atleast you can put the case to Rom that we wanted a realistic fee and we never got that. £100 million going from 70 to 80 to now that just looks like a war between him and his agent and as I demonstrated I see no benefit to having a half arsed Rom next season, even a on it Rom next season I wouldn't sacrifice £30-40 million for as it does nothing for us when we have to sell him the following season for relative peanuts.
Our best chance of the top 4 next season is going into the season in high spirits, with a squad all pulling in the same direction after having (hopefully) spent £100 million+ on decent players- not this sideshow saga with Rom and his agent.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
we will get so much money for Lukaku mate we can spunk dollar in getting another 4 Bolasies if that's what we want.
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