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Romelu Lukaku

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We can't replace him with similar quality at this point, as our stock isn't high enough to attract a striker of equal standing.

We don't need to sell, we don't want to sell, therefore we won't sell.

No idea who's feeding this and why - given that Costa is seemingly going nowhere, as Atletico have now bought Gameiro.
 
We can't replace him with similar quality at this point, as our stock isn't high enough to attract a striker of equal standing.

We don't need to sell, we don't want to sell, therefore we won't sell.

No idea who's feeding this and why - given that Costa is seemingly going nowhere, as Atletico have now bought Gameiro.

Spot on!
 
only fear is he will run his contract down whilst not being arsed to perform and we will get a smaller fee or nothing,, he doesnt seem to be happy playing for us,,,
 

People aren't looking at the full picture. It's not as simple as ship Rom and Stones out and spend 100m on new, better players.

Players will already be edgy about joining us, we're not a force (yet) we can't offer Europe. The last thing we want when trying to encourage good players is losing some of our stars. It doesn't send out the right message.

"Come join us, we have Kone as our only striker"


Agree under normal circumstances, but In Koeman & Walsh we've got a guy who had to rebuild his Southmpton team & one who seems to know where the gems are hidden.

It's on them to do the business.
 
only fear is he will run his contract down whilst not being arsed to perform and we will get a smaller fee or nothing,, he doesnt seem to be happy playing for us,,,

He can't afford to do that so it's not a fear at all.

He has three years left on his deal.

What's he gonna do, be crap for three seasons and then hope Real Madrid sign him on a free?
 
We know he is not worth £70m, that's not the point, Everton have put a daft price on his head in order to seriously deter all clubs from bidding for him. It is clear Everton want to keep him.

I think we do want to keep him and if the Esk is right there's been no bid from Milwall, so presumably all the chatter is designed to get him to hand in a transfer request. If he wants to go I would take the money, he's been whinging every close season and at some point the spirit in the squad has to take preference. I don't think for one minute that his presence or absence will have any impact on our ability to sign quality players, it's the EPL, money talks and for the first time in a long time, we have a few quid.
 
Agree under normal circumstances, but In Koeman & Walsh we've got a guy who had to rebuild his Southmpton team & one who seems to know where the gems are hidden.

It's on them to do the business.

I'd imagine one of the deciding factors for RK in leaving S'ton (as well as the money) will be the fact that they consistently sell their best players.

They've done it brilliantly and made a lot of profit on said players, but it does kind of put a glass ceiling on their ambitions.

I believe Koeman will have been promised that we won't sell our best players unless their valuation is met and that we're looking to build the team around Rom, even if Stones does end up leaving.

To improve we can't just rely on getting two gems in the most important position of the pitch. A lot easier to keep our proven goalscorer and build the team to suit his style (direct play in behind the defence), and get a 'gem' in as back up than sell him.
 
I think we do want to keep him and if the Esk is right there's been no bid from Milwall, so presumably all the chatter is designed to get him to hand in a transfer request. If he wants to go I would take the money, he's been whinging every close season and at some point the spirit in the squad has to take preference. I don't think for one minute that his presence or absence will have any impact on our ability to sign quality players, it's the EPL, money talks and for the first time in a long time, we have a few quid.

If that was the case then Carvalho and Witsel would already be here lad...

Yes, it boils down to that, but we also have a lot of convincing to do and sometimes that isn't just down to cash.
 

I think we do want to keep him and if the Esk is right there's been no bid from Milwall, so presumably all the chatter is designed to get him to hand in a transfer request. If he wants to go I would take the money, he's been whinging every close season and at some point the spirit in the squad has to take preference. I don't think for one minute that his presence or absence will have any impact on our ability to sign quality players, it's the EPL, money talks and for the first time in a long time, we have a few quid.
At last someone talking sense! I would take 35-40m and frog March him out of the club, he's not even that great tbh
 
If you want to sell him, let me know where to send the men in the white jackets. Complete madness you gang of mentalists
 

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