I’d love Badiashile here. Henry, Schneiderlen and £20m.
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I’d love Badiashile here. Henry, Schneiderlen and £20m.
Seathestars
Player Valuation: £60m
You called me a liar, suggest you get real
We really need Kean to be incredible
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
OK, I get that mate. I just think you're expecting the worse here in assuming that none of our new players will be ready to play until November. There are 3 weeks in August after they arrive when they have the opportunity to train with the first team squad every day. That will effectively be their pre-season. There are no midweek games in that period. And when I say introduced to the team, I didn't necessarily mean as a starter, but as part of the match day squad and getting a run out from the bench. Somebody may even get a run out from the start.
I accept it may take some of them longer to settle as regards the league and the style of play. But some of the players will up to speed quicker and, as I said, barring injury I would expect all of them to be ready to introduce to the first team squad by the beginning of September.
It could take months before we really see them start to settle and gel as a team, and I said as much in my post. But that would be the same had we bought them two weeks ago. Buying them close to deadline day really has little relevance in the overall scheme of things, and that's the point I was trying to make.Plus as I said, all the other teams are in exactly the same boat with their signings. It isn't just us.
I'm convinced we'll have a decent start to the season given our run of games, and I'm hoping our new boys will be starting to gel just as we get into the difficult run in December.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Right ok. I don't disagree with you. It's what we aspite to.
But didn't you just say that the top 6 were our peers?
Currently they are, 5 players this window, 2 or 3 next could change all that.
CRIMHEAD
Player Valuation: £40m
Hold up. It's a lack of pace, then? Is pace - which Keane has a ton of - really all that important as a CB? Having anticipation and good positioning is surely more important. Now being able to turn, having agility - which Keane does lack - is certainly important. But does Zouma has all this agility that made up for Keane last season? I guess I missed that.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Hate to tell you this Goat but a peer is somebody of the same level. As in equal to.
Fact is the OP said the Guardian said we were in for Rakitic.
You told him to stop spreading lies
It was proved he wasn't telling lies
You were wrong ,he was right and I think he deserves an apology.
Whether the story has any foundation is immaterial ,he only quoted a newspaper which loads of lads do here every day
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
If the sacrifice for Wilfried doesn't work I would go all out for Sarr who Watford are after.
Blokes like Mane on crack
Blokes like Mane on crack
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Everton set to take summer spending past £100m
Everton intend to take their spending beyond £100 million in the transfer window as they make a renewed attempt to break into the Premier League’s top six.Negotiations are continuing on deals for the Juventus striker Moise Kean and Mainz midfielder Jean-Phlippe Gbamin, while additional targets inclu
www.thetimes.co.uk
Everton intend to take their spending beyond £100 million in the transfer window as they make a renewed attempt to break into the Premier League’s top six.
Negotiations are continuing on deals for the Juventus striker Moise Kean and Mainz midfielder Jean-Philippe Gbamin, while additional targets include a centre back, a winger and a right back on loan.
A hectic final week prior to the transfer window closing next Thursday now looms, as does another sizeable chunk of investment from the Merseyside club.
Everton have so far spent £30 million on permanent deals for André Gomes and Fabian Delph (goalkeeper Jonas Lossl has signed on a free transfer) which takes their overall spending on incoming transfer fees to beyond £300 million since June 2017.
That cumulative figure will be around the £400 million mark should Everton follow through on their plans and will demonstrate the owner Farhad Moshiri’s determination to propel the club forward.
Contact with Chelsea over signing Kurt Zouma again following the success of last season’s loan deal continues, albeit with little indication, as yet, that they would be willing to sanction the France international’s departure at a time when they are constrained by a transfer ban.
Another centre back is deemed a necessity with Yerry Mina having endured an injury-scarred debut campaign and veteran Phil Jagielka released.
Everton have so far recouped around £60 million from the sales of Idrissa Gueye, Ademola Lookman and Nikola Vlasic with that figure set to increase by the exit of Henry Onyekuru to Monaco for about £15.5 million.
The Nigerian forward has never played for the club since arriving from Belgian side Eupen for £7 million in 2017 due to work permit issues, but enjoyed a successful spell on loan at Galatasaray last term.
With the likes of Yannick Bolasie, Oumar Niasse, Cuco Martina, Kevin Mirallas and Mo Besic also surplus to requirements, there will be a focus during the next week on trimming back the deadwood further.
Yet the reshaping of Marco Silva’s squad will include incoming deals to underline Moshiri’s ambition despite the lavish spending that has already marked his time at the helm.
Continued expenditure will bring pressure on Silva to improve on last season’s eighth-place which owed much to a strong finish following a dismal run of just four Premier League wins between December and the end of February, which included a 6-2 home defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.
Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leicester City, who finished either side of Everton in seventh and ninth position respectively, will have similar designs on infiltrating the perceived elite with Arsenal viewed as vulnerable.
AmericanBlue
Player Valuation: £8m
It's not the Guardian saying we are in for Rakitic, as I said. I didn't call him a liar, to be called a liar would imply that it's a recurring event, I insinuated no such thing.
Let's move on.
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
I think Mina is quite quick too. Reckon he'll have a good season.
I never said you called him a liar.
I said you accused him of spreading lies which he clearly was not
just admit you were wrong ,apologise and move on .
We can all be wrong at times
I was wrong on a Tuesday in 1977
I guess so.
I use it in this context tho.
noun
noun: peer; plural noun: peers
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a member of the nobility in Britain or Ireland, comprising the ranks of duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron.
"hereditary peers could still dominate the proceedings of the House of Lords"
synonyms: aristocrat, lord, lady, peer of the realm, peeress, noble, nobleman, noblewoman, titled man/woman/person, patrician, member of the aristocracy/nobility/peerag
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