No, Esk hasn't said anything remotely like we're skint.
As we all know, the current squad and therefore the wage bill is far too large, especially with no European football this season.
Therefore the fairly sensible assumption, and has been widely reported, is that the squad/wage bill both need to be quite seriously reduced in order, and possibly before, expensive new signings are confirmed.
There are lots of competing views on how Everton will conduct business this summer, Esk is normally very positive but is at the realist/negative end of that spectrum.
He said that we need to cut another 15 million p/a before we buy. If that proves to be true then I think we are in a bit of a spot of bother and the fan base will be quite frustrated. In truth I am not sure we will be able to do the figures quoted to be able to buy the players we need before August 9th.
If we assume: Schneiderlin 6 (million p/a) Williams 4, Bolasie 5, Mirallas 3, Tarasjah 1, Pennington 1, Browning 1, Galloway 1.5, Connolly 0.5, Martina 1.5.
Even if we got teams to pay all of the wages of the above by the 10th August we have around 10 million p/a to play with. 4-5 of that is on Tierney. Say 6 would be on Lozano (theoretically) we would have no money in the kitty left to buy a centre back, and a central midfielder (at for arguments sake 10 million p/a for the 2).
The best case scenario in that version of events is we move all of the above, many to foreign teams before our deadline is over (and significantly before their own deadline) and if we got teams to pay the entirety of their wages we could afford to bring 2 lads in. The worst case scenario is sides don't pay the full value of wages, we don't move some on in time and we have no flexibility to bring any lads in.
It's my opinion that Moshiri wouldn't risk such an approach. Having sacked Allardyce, attracted Brands and Silva he would really be selling them both down the river if he did. We ended up with 49 points last season and it would be an enormous risk if that is the plan.
It may well give some credence to the idea that lads like Baines may go if that's the case, as frankly the culling will have to go much deeper than we might hope?
It will be interesting anyway. In spite of his spending lots of fans remain quite ambivalent over Moshiri and I think if values which are brought in are not re-allocated to the new management team fans will turn.
