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Summer 2018 Transfer Window

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Jones is an excellent defender, but there would also have to be money spent on cover due to his poor injury record. I'd also take either or both of Wilshire and Ki on a free. Throw in Nasri, too.

Shaw will end up going to Tottenham, unfortunately.
I really hope it's Ki Dong Jun the north Korean bloke your on about and not that fella at Swansea.
 
If we are talking United cast-offs, my list in order would be: Shaw, Herrera, Blind, Fellaini, Jones.

Jones would be number one if he wasn't a walking (hobbling) sick note. He's a great player IMO when he gets a run of games...which he rarely ever does. Shaw, Herrear and Blind are all likely to be gone and anyone would walk into our team if fit.
 

It’s not deriding it’s just asking why go from a Keane to a Phil Jones? Shouldn’t we looking at bigger improvements?

We’ll only need a Jones replacement 12 months down the line.

If we where 'actually' willing to pay 50+m for Koulibaly
As we did pay something like 25m for Keane with one year left on his contract
IF we are willing to offer Wilshere 130k+ per week and a 8m signing fee.

Manolas is available for 30-35m on a buy out - he's had problems and isn't the most popular member of the squad so wouldn't exactly cause a massive upset to them if they did sell, he's prime age, one of the top cb's going, and has everything we lack in our cb's in pace, aggression, good in the air and can pass a ball more than 5 yards. and his contract we could double without breaking any wage structure we have.

For a club that can payb 45m for a player (sigurdsson), can pay 150k pw for others (Rooney), you could get a top class player for considerably less than both the fee and wages we have shown we can pay.

Does strike you that Everton have two lists though, one is players who we have zero chance of getting like Koulibaly etc (because they are on the list of the very very top teams financially), then the other is the ones we can get because no one better would want them, and everything in between is ignored.
 
So sign me, cos im better than all the names you mentioned.

Being better than Michael Keane isnt a massive thing, theres probably only abar 5 CBs in world football worse than him and we have 2 of them.

We seemingly can’t win on a transfer strategy though. The first summer we threw around all these Hollywood bids for the likes of Mata Koulibaly etc. and got pied off by all of them because we were like an urchin in Harrods. We then went for the buying of the best players from the teams below us route and that has proved disastrous. The most recent tactic seems to be to buy from CL clubs and looks to be working ok with Tosun and Walcott seemingly making more of an impact than any of our other signings. If over the next 12 months we move to getting the squad back to being a real top 6/7 with international players in their prime in each position we could then look to kick on and go for the marquee players after that. A team of players like Pickford Coleman Jones Mori Wilshere Siggurdson Walcott Tosun starts to look like a proper top 7 team rather than the dads and lads collection we’ve had recently. Whenever we look to make these types of signings they’re often derided as ‘united cast off, Arsenal cast off’. I’m becoming less and less convinced we are going to go from dross to boss in light speed so why not build up the quality of the squad sensibly and incrementally rather than the recent approach of ‘ah Koulibaly said no, get Williams in instead’.
 

We seemingly can’t win on a transfer strategy though. The first summer we threw around all these Hollywood bids for the likes of Mata Koulibaly etc. and got pied off by all of them because we were like an urchin in Harrods. We then went for the buying of the best players from the teams below us route and that has proved disastrous. The most recent tactic seems to be to buy from CL clubs and looks to be working ok with Tosun and Walcott seemingly making more of an impact than any of our other signings. If over the next 12 months we move to getting the squad back to being a real top 6/7 with international players in their prime in each position we could then look to kick on and go for the marquee players after that. A team of players like Pickford Coleman Jones Mori Wilshere Siggurdson Walcott Tosun starts to look like a proper top 7 team rather than the dads and lads collection we’ve had recently. Whenever we look to make these types of signings they’re often derided as ‘united cast off, Arsenal cast off’. I’m becoming less and less convinced we are going to go from dross to boss in light speed so why not build up the quality of the squad sensibly and incrementally rather than the recent approach of ‘ah Koulibaly said no, get Williams in instead’.

Steve Walsh couldnt build a squad if we gave him another 20 years and another 5000m.
 
The absolute state of the Fellaini shouts, we are way too sentimental. He is not the level we need.

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He's better than every central midfielder we have except Rooney, by a huge margin. Would you honestly say Davies is better than Fellaini?!?
 
Fellaini, Whilshire and Phil fing Jones.

Hope we get a transfer ban.

don't worry, once Belgium win the World Cup Fellini will go to Real Madrid or PSG, Wilshire wont want to move outside of M25, so will go to another London Club or stay at Arsenal and Phil Jones will stay at Manure.

We will instead sign; Stephen Nzonzi, Oguzhan Ozyakup and Johnny Evans. Or are they worse? :):pint2::rant::celebrate:
 
..I think we need real athleticism throughout the side and lots of the names being mentioned don’t seem that type to me. Power, place, agility, mobility, height, not to mention quality.

I don’t like mentioning individuals but you think if we got somebody like Phil Jones we will need to defend deep, he’s hardly rapid. It’s simply wrong to look at players without thinking about the team model they will fit. Indeed, the problem with Walsh is exactly this. He appears to buy individuals with no consideration of a team strategy and no thoughts about how players will compliment each other.
 

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