Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
I just have done. You said the same thing last summer and the one before....
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The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
If nothing else, the closure of the window gives us time to pressure the Board in terms of finding new investment.
Capital is what the club needs to move onto the next level in terms of squad, stadium and commercial activities.
Bring capital into the business, show a funded development plan and none of our key players would want to leave.
Well we turned down £40m for 2 players so I think that questions been answered
In fact, would you like to remind us when a player was sold to appease the banks
marty mcfly
Player Valuation: £40m
We need to get Barkley to extend before the Euros unfortunately now with Martinez blocking Stones he might think twice.
tadpole
Player Valuation: £20m
Fans have been going on all summer about lack of funding, and the fact we've not spent anything.
That whole argument's been blown out of the water. Firstly we've got a net spend in the region of £15m which is a fair bit by most standards. Secondly the club resisted bids or potential bids for Stones, Miralles, McCarthy and Naismith. You may agree or disagree whether this was right, but it's certainly not a sign of a club that's skint. Thirdly, @roydo confirms that we've been in talks with Kiev in the last 48 hours. Remember this was when there was no longer any chance of selling Stones. But we were still prepared to fork out upwards of £15m for Yarmalenko, and again @roydo will confirm that this was a genuine bid and not some phantom bid.
The real scandal is the fact that we had money, we needed a playmaker, and we failed to sort something out well before the end of the transfer window.
But there's another even bigger scandal than that. I'm talking about the almighty screwup over the Mori transfer. I'm talking about the fact that someone failed to read the small print with the unbelievable result that a transfer which - until a few days ago - the club believed was going to cost around £6m ended up costing 50% extra. A screwup that's completely overshadowed all the good work that went into landing Lennon for just half the price that Spurs were demanding at the start of the window. Heads should roll for this.
That whole argument's been blown out of the water. Firstly we've got a net spend in the region of £15m which is a fair bit by most standards. Secondly the club resisted bids or potential bids for Stones, Miralles, McCarthy and Naismith. You may agree or disagree whether this was right, but it's certainly not a sign of a club that's skint. Thirdly, @roydo confirms that we've been in talks with Kiev in the last 48 hours. Remember this was when there was no longer any chance of selling Stones. But we were still prepared to fork out upwards of £15m for Yarmalenko, and again @roydo will confirm that this was a genuine bid and not some phantom bid.
The real scandal is the fact that we had money, we needed a playmaker, and we failed to sort something out well before the end of the transfer window.
But there's another even bigger scandal than that. I'm talking about the almighty screwup over the Mori transfer. I'm talking about the fact that someone failed to read the small print with the unbelievable result that a transfer which - until a few days ago - the club believed was going to cost around £6m ended up costing 50% extra. A screwup that's completely overshadowed all the good work that went into landing Lennon for just half the price that Spurs were demanding at the start of the window. Heads should roll for this.
marty mcfly
Player Valuation: £40m
We could turn Stones down because of the length of his contract. It will be harder if someone comes in for Barkley next summer. Luckily he's a blue and loves Martinez (although so did Stones).
We really need to think where we're going as a club. If we are serious about wanting to keep our young stars we need to show more ambition than we did this window.
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
You know the answer.
Legitimately someone in legal/contracts made a 3+ Million dollar error. That is genuinely a sackable offense.
Reading WT's manifesto... am I reading this incorrectly, or does WT lead his claims by suggesting that Kenwright is a Kopite in disguise?
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
We havnt been in talks with Kiev in the last 48 hours; we had been for about a fortnight before that, but since last Thursday, (CL draw), there have been no talks, (that I know of), but paperwork has been ready, (which I do know) if Surkis changed his mind. He didnt.
But the bid, which was an improved one, was accepted by club and player, before the Stones transfer was bounced by EFC.
But The Echo will say otherwise. Your call.
tadpole
Player Valuation: £20m
OK - I don't think that negates my argument, either way it's still the case that we were in a position to and willing to buy him.
Chang Elephant
Forum God
There's some book written by/about theatre ponces which includes a reference to a young actor from Merseyside....William Kenwright, complaining that some production didn't use the YNWA dirge.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Indeed we were. And not our fault we didnt. Sort of
Why we didnt secure a difrent player though. Different question.
paulashcroftefc
Player Valuation: £8m
Who the [Poor language removed] is Miralles ? Sick of seeing this , surely as a fan you know the difference between Mirallas and Miralles
Mate of mine emailed a link to WT treatise tonight so I read the big expose.Reading WT's manifesto... am I reading this incorrectly, or does WT lead his claims by suggesting that Kenwright is a Kopite in disguise?
Yes he has questioned Mr Kenwright's blue credentials, but that is the least of the problems that I have with it.
Have read with growing incredulity the constant claims (without any concrete evidence) that Philip Green owns a percentage of Everton and pulls the strings. Problem is, that under Premier League rules, beneficial owners of above 10% of the club must be declared -Philip Green isn't, so either it's a conspiracy within the club, or, the most likely scenario, Philip Green has no beneficial interest in the club.
If his wife has an investment vehicle called Taveta, the shares would be held by that anyway surely?
The Vibrac/Mousehole/JG Funding/Carroch Holdings/Kirkton Investment structure loans money at a commercial rate to football clubs, not just Everton. The beneficial owner of the structure will probably never be known unless the Corporate Service Providers' offices in both the BVI and IOM are broken into and the MLR and due diligence files on the Companies are stolen. It would be my guess that ownership in the Companies would probably be vested in trust(s), preferably discretionary so no beneficiaries need be listed, and the settlor of the trust could literally be anyone in certain jurisdictions.
These loans are not disclosed as related party transactions in the accounts, so in the absence of that, the conclusion is that the loans come from companies that are in no way related to thr directors and major shareholders of EFC.
Power8 - well, quite frankly there is no excuse for getting involved with the company as a partner in my humble opinion. If I took this company or similar on, I would be looking down tje barrel of prosecution on the Proceeds of Crime Act.
I have said it before and truly believe that in certain respects Watched Toffee has done some good, but should not pass off opinion as fact.
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