Sorrowful Soul
Player Valuation: £750k
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ijjysmith
Calm
http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/...d-season-in-stands-as-everton-move-in-12m-fee
Shaqiri told to avoid season in stands as Everton move in, £12m fee set
Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport say in their Friday edition that Everton remain an option for Zherdan Shaqiri as Inter Milan look to sell the player this summer.
Shaqiri would be a really exciting addition for Everton, especially if Roberto Martinez can get the player back to anything like his best. Just over a year ago Shaqiri was a star of the World Cup, scoring a hat-trick for Switzerland against Honduras and also being named Man of the Match against Ecuador.
Shaqiri was then, and had been for some time, considered to be one of the best young talents in European football. He's still only twenty three years of age and Inter Milan don't appear to be too keen to try and get the best of him, preferring to cash in as the opportunity arises.
Such is Inter's thirst for cash from a Shaqiri deal, that they've told the player to get a new club or face a season in the stands, according to Gazzetta dello Sport. The idea of Inter Milan being able to assemble a squad which has no place for Shaqiri should frankly be laughable, but the Italian club are using hardball tactics just as they have on occasion before.
Schalke have been interested too but haven't met Inter's £12m set fee, a reasonable price for a player as talented as Shaqiri.
The worry here is that they've got his first name wrong.
SpurtingLesbian
Ken Dodd Nagasaki
yeah, but we all know it's just a story dropped into the Italian Press by Inter to wring their asking fee out of Schalke. ;-)
Professor Toffee
On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
Alan Pardew is the new Pep Guardiola, Pep Pardew
SpurtingLesbian
Ken Dodd Nagasaki
Pap Pardew.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
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BlueLlama
10/11/17 TWAIN CRUSH DAY
@Sorrowful Soul turning into a poltergeist is the most interesting thing that this thread has produced.
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deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
This net spend issue just won't die. Infuriating.
If we sold McCarthy for £25m and brought in Yarmolenko for £8m and Van Dijk for £10m, we'd have a negative net spend. But it would be good business.
Equally, if we sold Mirallas for £8m and spent £9m on Jonny Evans, £4m on Hertaux and £25m on Ashley Williams, we'd have a huge positive net spend. But it would be beyond awful.
How do people not grasp this? The quality of the players sold and bought, and the respective prices paid for each player, matter FAR more than the net spend figure .
ijjysmith
Calm
Hi, do you fancy meeting for a drink?
SpurtingLesbian
Ken Dodd Nagasaki
indeed, I don't give a toss how much we do or don't spend in a window as long as we come out of it better by the time the window shuts.
So far we've not lost anybody we don't want to lose, brought in a couple of first teamers that will improve us and not spent anything. There's still work to do, and Bobby's still got his budget intact.
16m euros is a fair chunk of change. I don't know enough about this guy to say whether I'd want to spend that much on him. Yarmolenko wouldn't coast as much (eleven months left on contract) - how does Shaqiri compare to him?
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