Summer Transfer Window 2017

[Eggs]

Looks like they're putting all their Eggs in the same basket, Eggs.

..oh dear.

 

[stamullenblue]

Batshayi is not getting a look in at Chelsea if they sign Llorente. To be honest at 14million we should have been all over Llorente, but hey, I guess we aren't they skilled in the transfer market or he just doesn't want to join us. Barkley for Batshayi straight swap, got to be worth a try. If not add 10million and it should be a deal.

Add 20 and still a good deal !

 

[Bob Elstone]

Get batshuayi as part of the Barkley deal..

All these people saying get batshuayi, have you seen him play? Looks woeful. Maybe it's because he's at Chelsea people have the blinkers on.

Hope we don't go near him.

 

[Eggs]

What's Straq doing nowadays? We could afford him.

..somebody said he's a bouncer in the Winslow.

 

[Norwegian Cow]

i knew we should have made the Valencia loan deal permanent.

 

[kenada_blue]

..I heard he's a bouncer in the Winslow.

Get ya boots lid

 

[longers]

All these people saying get batshuayi, have you seen him play? Looks woeful. Maybe it's because he's at Chelsea people have the blinkers on.

Hope we don't go near him.

Chelsea fans love him and think he's got huge potential

 

[Marius57]

Rejected 25m for Barkley from Chelsea apparently. (According to the BBC) Think we will get at least another 10m from them as they panic about homegrown player quota.

 

[bluestevon]

..I suppose the other consideration is clubs unwilling to sell their best players at this stage in the window.

As it stands right as of now, our major interest and activity seems to be trying to get the best possible fee for the last remaining very talented player remaining from when Koeman took charge.

Whatever the variety of reasons for players being sold (and as of now the sell to buy brigade have every rigth to state this is the major reason for sales - and nothing has effectively changed besides us receiving such a huge fee that it enabled a misdirection on that fact by the numbers brought in with that Lukaku money)

BUT it is unmistakable that once Lukaku was sold the transfer activity ground to an absolute halt, sigurdsson deal aside which frankly became a bit of a pantomime and seemed to absorb every last persons interest involved in transfer activity at the club.

as of right now, i would pick ;last seasons Everton team with Barkley and Lukaku in it to beat the current one, i also think that clubs below us have strengthened the teams or will do so in the remaining couple of days more than we have, all besides Arsenal above us have strengthened better than we have as well, and throw in the extra European games we will have this season and i can see us points wise slipping down on last year and 2-3 teams below improving significantly.

Pointed out a whilst ago that as of this moment we are an injury away from a Martina/Jagielka/Williams/Baines back 4 and with no recognized striker.

Removing the blue tinted specs, if it was another team with our squad and with our business this summer in 7th that we where chasing i would feel they had weakened and would hope to catch them, and that is a big worry

 

[boris]

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[boris]

All these people saying get batshuayi, have you seen him play? Looks woeful. Maybe it's because he's at Chelsea people have the blinkers on.

Hope we don't go near him.

I think he looks attrocious, I wouldn't want us to go near him.

 

[bluestevon]

To be honest I wasn't happy to some extent no.

Keane and pickford are both young players though for the future and long term, so hardly comparable. Siggurdson I did question in here why no-one else has gone for him and whether he would be worth so much money. Gueye was an unknown to everyone at the time so hard to form a previous opinion there.

The comparison here is that benteke at a similar level scores goals, this Watford lad doesn't. What is the point in signing a player not good enough for Watford? Because the players you mentioned were all among or the best players at their club when we signed them. None of them were cast offs and unwanted at that level , they were key. That's the difference here, never mind where they come from, it's whether their club actually want them or not.

Consider this as well the Watford manager who is willing to let him go is the same one who brought Niasse in for Hull - which shows how highly he rates Okaka

 

[navidson]

Rejected 25m for Barkley from Chelsea apparently. (According to the BBC) Think we will get at least another 10m from them as they panic about homegrown player quota.

Yep, get about £35m for him and we've reset the net-spend-ometer

 

[bluestevon]

Elstone and kenwright at a guess.

that excuse doesn't wash anymore, what is the point in having a new owner if he doesn't actually decide who does the deals, if he's let the same people do the same mistakes, then it's on Moshiris head, it's easy to leave incompetent people in charge and use them as a convenient scapegoat

 

[Barnfred 55]

Most people trying to appear ITK have a reason to be doing so, for certain individuals it's an ego thing, for others they have directly used that 'claim to fame' to further their ambitions - in media for the main, it's why the blue room should effectively be boycotted by Evertonians.

All the people working on that have bigged up themselves by using itk information that has been shown to be absolute lies, yet it got them noticed and enough gullible people who still believe they are connected or get information prior to others, to then allow others to give them the platform they crave.

They may be absolutely sound people irl, may even at the start have been well meaning before the buzz they received became like a drug, or maybe the penny dropped at the amount lapping up what they said and they realised they could use it to there advantage, but they took lots of Evertonians for a ride and directly benefited from those lies - and in some cases (if not all) have benefited financially from those lies.

On that score btw wrd is very much the exception, he has just passed on things he has heard, with zero reward in any way from it, and honestly only such 'anonymous' posters can hold their hands up as not trying to benefit in some way from passing info on.

Very insightful mate and can't say I disagree with any of it.. Not sure why you quoted my response to somebody having a go at Lukakus heading ability though.

Anyway mate. With 2 days left how do you think we'll do.. Surely you can't be as confident as you were a week ago. I know I'm not. I like this Croatian lad, but very concerned about the striker situation now. Just hope theres some truth to the Costa talk, even until January.