Ross Barkley

[NilSatisOptimum]

If you look at the prices for certain players at the moment, yes, £40m all day, and that's still cheap, even with the contract length.

We should get £40m easily. It's basically the "new" £25m.

Maybe if he had 10 - 15 goals in the bag, journeyman written all over him.

 

[ToffeeTim]

There's no 5 goal a season attacking midfielder/second striker in the world who goes for over 40m.

 

[ilikecheese]

So utterly replaceable.

 

[mixed_up]

If you look at the prices for certain players at the moment, yes, £40m all day, and that's still cheap, even with the contract length.

We should get £40m easily. It's basically the "new" £25m.

£40m+ fees have occurred just 22 times in the history of football. He'd be in the company of Zidane, Suarez, Ronaldo, Higuain, Ibrahimovic. In all honesty if we got £30m for him with 12 months left I'd be very happy. I don't think he will ever repeat the goals/form he showed when Martinez first brought him into the team. He should have been given games as an all-round CM, improving his tackling, getting into the box, still scoring goals, but he's been put under this immense pressure to score/create goals single-handedly and it's ruined him.

 

[toffeeblue9]

In a bit Roscoe

 

[kenada_blue]

Even if he stayed - the lad isn't getting regular football at Everton next season.

Koeman keeps talking about needing players with more intensity, more aggression - that isn't Ross Barkley is it?

Koeman's done well to bang the drum - lets hope there's a couple of clubs waiting to put him on their bench.

I still maintain this;

Him and Koeman don't get on. It's as clear as day.

But there's a reoccurring theme to me as I think his man management style is awful. There's no way he can make average players play like world beaters like the best can (Jose, Fergie etc).

I don't think he has the patience and is why he jumps from club to club.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

its sad that a proper blue doesn't want to stay and prove himself, a die hard evertonion would rather take the easy way out than fight for his place

He's not got the mentality for that.

His previous captain Phil Neville saying he knew Barkley would have a horror show at the Anfield Derby after his England snub, his current captain Phil Jagielka having to reassure him at Wembley the boos weren't for him but the manager, him with tears in his eyes on the bench when his form was on its arse earlier in the season... even him disabling comments on his Instagram etc.

He just doesn't come across as resilient.

Fans bemoan Everton being bottle jobs - is Ross Barkley someone you'd be confident will put in a performance when it really matters?

If Moshiri is genuine, if Koeman is genuine - by genuine I'm talking champions league, then we need better than Ross Barkley.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Him and Koeman don't get on. It's as clear as day.

But there's a reoccurring theme to me as I think his man management style is awful. There's no way he can make average players play like world beaters like the best can (Jose, Fergie etc).

I don't think he has the patience and is why he jumps from club to club.

Their personalities clash like, but I reckon Everton's DNA is much more Koeman than Barkley.

Barkley needs a Martinez, someone to blow smoke up his arse.

 

[samsonthedog1]

Goodbye lad. I'd give up everything to pull on that blue shirt and play in front of the Gwladys street every week. But good luck when your playing for Sunderland in 3 years time.

 

[everton2004]

Their personalities clash like, but I reckon Everton's DNA is much more Koeman than Barkley.

Barkley needs a Martinez, someone to blow smoke up his arse.

 

[Moonlight dribbler]

Yeah, still he's chosen the Barkley question to make the point that he needs other players who offer something different.

And that's completely fine, but he could have said it without singling out Barkley yet again, because he's making it abundantly clear he doesn't value the asset and therefore the asset can be acquired on the cheap.

It's not the way to do things. If he wants rid, honestly fine, but pretend you want to keep him and force a club to go the extra mile to get his contract. It's what we've done with players over the years like Rooney, Lescott, Stones, Jeffers etc. and worked well - the difference this time is an egotist manager is putting his own ego over smart transfer policy.

The lad is not consistent enough, other scouts will have a value on him, nothing whatsoever to do with manager statements, all of those other players were consistent performers, Ross is up and down, all over the shop, you want a successful Everton team, then We need consistent end product, which is his role, he didn't do it.

 

[The_La]

Be interesting to see what happens if/when he goes.

I hope people don't moan if he goes somewhere and scores 10 and makes 10. Because he pretty much did that last season and people still moaned that he was crap. I do think there will be a sense of "you don't know what you've got til it's gone". But that said, the points made about his big-game ability and general inconsistency are well made.

Personally I think it's a massive shame that it seemingly hasn't worked out. Yes he's somewhat hot and cold, but he is capable of brilliance and he's one of our own.
But the club is bigger than one player and both parties will have to move on.

 

[EFCccc]

£40m haha, is that a joke?. I'd say £25m tops.

 

[Azza]

Ross & Everton are a perfect match currently.


Which is why we need to sell him, unfortunately. Dele Alli is a horrible little get, worse than Jack Wilshere and that's impressive, who has a perfect mixture of snide and skill.


Barkley has skill but has no snide and no idea when to use his skill.


Thanks for trying though lad.

 

[kenada_blue]

He's not got the mentality for that.

His previous captain Phil Neville saying he knew Barkley would have a horror show at the Anfield Derby after his England snub, his current captain Phil Jagielka having to reassure him at Wembley the boos weren't for him but the manager, him with tears in his eyes on the bench when his form was on its arse earlier in the season... even him disabling comments on his Instagram etc.

He just doesn't come across as resilient.

Fans bemoan Everton being bottle jobs - is Ross Barkley someone you'd be confident will put in a performance when it really matters?

If Moshiri is genuine, if Koeman is genuine - by genuine I'm talking champions league, then we need better than Ross Barkley.

Or because its the club he's a supporter of rather than anything? He wants to do everything for the club and it hurts him when he can't.

Boo-hoo and all that, but I agree mentally that's a problem. He moves away, I think that will get to him less.

And if the board are genuine...IMO you need Barkley, you need Lukaku. What you don't need is the rest of the squad.