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Ross Barkley

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Regarding Lukaku’s comments, Koeman said: “Of course I am not happy about that interview. If Everton is not a club with a lot of ambition I would not be manager. But I am not so afraid about his situation because the player has more than two years on his contract. Everyone knows what can happen in football but you need to respect your contract.”

He took a different tone in relation to Barkley: “Ross is a boy from Everton and what we need to show for him is the best reasons to stay and of course his situation is different because his [contract] is running out next season.

“Football is a business and you make decisions at the end of the season. He needs to sign a new contract, if not you need to sell the player. It is not an ultimatum but that is normal – that is business.

“When I was manager at Southampton we had [Nathaniel] Clyne and he did not accept a new contract so we sold him in the summer. I spoke to Ross about a new contract and now it is up to the board to get that contract over the line.

“The player has to understand if he does not sign a new contract by one year
you need to make a decision for the club so it knows what will happen next year.”

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Are any club's actually eager to sign him? I think he's been given an easy ride at Everton because "he's one of us". Interesting to see what clubs would come in for him and what they'd offer.
 
Mad to sell him. Keep him and let his contract run out then worry about it next summer

We need him. Should have signed him up last summer instead of leaving it late.

What I would say is I'm very disappointed in Ross. He's been pretty poor up until a few months ago and had we offered him a deal early season I'm sure he would have signed as at the time he was looking useless! Now he's improved (still nowhere near his best) he's gone all big time again

If he goes to spurs good look starting ahead of dele and eriksen ha
 
McBain said:
Regarding Lukaku’s comments, Koeman said: “Of course I am not happy about that interview. If Everton is not a club with a lot of ambition I would not be manager. But I am not so afraid about his situation because the player has more than two years on his contract. Everyone knows what can happen in football but you need to respect your contract.”

He took a different tone in relation to Barkley: “Ross is a boy from Everton and what we need to show for him is the best reasons to stay and of course his situation is different because his [contract] is running out next season.

“Football is a business and you make decisions at the end of the season. He needs to sign a new contract, if not you need to sell the player. It is not an ultimatum but that is normal – that is business.

“When I was manager at Southampton we had [Nathaniel] Clyne and he did not accept a new contract so we sold him in the summer. I spoke to Ross about a new contract and now it is up to the board to get that contract over the line.

“The player has to understand if he does not sign a new contract by one year
you need to make a decision for the club so it knows what will happen next year.”

?????????​
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Barkley has one year left, Lukaku has two. Its not really that hard to understand is it?
 

Tubey said:
But that's the issue I have - it is unprofessional and counter-productive. It won't work.

I put myself in Barkley's shoes. If it were me, even if I was about to sign the contract the next day and I'd had seen that Koeman presser the other week setting the deadline, I'd about turn in an instant and put down the pen.
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Well it hasn't worked, but at the end of they day, and he goes, Koeman might have thought i wish id put some public pressure on him to sign. a long shot but may have worked. I can see both sides of doing it or not publicly, but I don't see it as unprofessional.
 
Big fan of Ross, but if he wants to go, goodbye and good luck pal. Don't go with the notion it's because of Koeman, Koeman has made him a better player. There are two reasons in my view why he wants to move on, he thinks he can do better than us, or he wants more money than were prepared to give him. Will say this though, I thought he would show a little more loyalty than say Lukaku as Barkley is a home grown player, but I suppose that's a thing of the past now and replace him.
 
McBain said:
Seems to be for some.
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It's irrelevant. He said he doesn't want players who don't want to be here. Rom doesn't want to be here and yet he obviously wants to keep him.

What your quoting from is over 2 months old as well, the comments about him wanting players who want to play for Everton came more recently when asked about Barkley.
 

longers said:
In all competitions he has less goals, less assists and a worse average rating than last year.
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He's improved his final ball and crossing tenfold. Just because he doesn't carry it 30 yards and score Match of the Day goals once in 15 games anymore, people assume he's regressed.
 
longers said:
It's irrelevant. He said he doesn't want players who don't want to be here. Rom doesn't want to be here and yet he obviously wants to keep him.

What your quoting from is over 2 months old as well, lot's been said since then.
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Rom is way better than Ross wouldn't you agree? Ross is a good player, but great? That's the difference in his stance.
 
mikeh72 said:
He's improved his final ball and crossing tenfold. Just because he doesn't carry it 30 yards and score Match of the Day goals once in 15 games anymore, people assume he's regressed.
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See that's a big exaggeration imo. His final ball was never that good and still isn't... Certainly not seen a huge improvement. His corners have got a bit better but his crossing bar that one cracker a few weeks back hasn't been anything to write home about either.

I'm not expecting him to score worldies every week but he's certainly not improved that much offensively since Koemans took over, if he had we'd all be wanting to keep him.
 
Tubey said:
You know what should happen if the club aren't happy with Barkley and his agent's approach on this mate?

Sell him. That simple - withdraw the contract and sell him. He's an asset that is deemed disposable and they're a business. If they aren't prepared to discuss beyond a certain date, sell the player.

Just don't drag it out in public through one ego in press conferences when there's literally zero benefit to doing so. That's actually the issue I have with the whole thing - not losing Barkley, but the woeful lack of professionalism from the club yet again.

For those saying "Koeman just says it as it is" - OK then, I look forward to you explaining when he's asked about transfer targets in the summer and he refuses to answer the question. He's such a straight shooter about every subject after all.
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And that's what they're doing, he's just letting everyone know that the reason for the potential sale is the player and not the club.

I have no issue if Barkley wants to go, it's football and his career, his choice. I'm upset that a blue feels the need to leave us but that's modern day football. I'm more annoyed with him for not letting people know of his decision. It's poor from him or his agent
 

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