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Toast
Player Valuation: £80m
A fat Ronaldo serving ?
DownOnTheUpside
Player Valuation: £30m
If we play him it has to be upfront paired with sandro for me
Klassen is a better playmaker and his pace is gone
All he has is finishing
Klassen is a better playmaker and his pace is gone
All he has is finishing
msb
Player Valuation: £10m
Possibly buying something for the kids? Of course, it is beyond imagination that it is not for him, does not fit our collective narrative.
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
He looks so pleased... Should have gone out in a wig and set of groucho moustache, nose and glasses. That'll fool the McD's staff.
Amateur.
ham2
Player Valuation: £10m
Have you not thought his son might be hungry, I take my kids maccies but only get a coffee, it is known
Blue83
Player Valuation: £25m
chippy1722
Player Valuation: £35m
The clues are all there, even Stevie Wonder can see this deal being done by the weekend.
Bullet
Player Valuation: £10m
Good article on why Rooney is probably a mistake by Andy Dunn. Have to agree with most of it. Despite the positive things he's previously said I'm not convinced Steve Walsh thinks this is a good idea. What else was he going to say when asked?
"If there is one key man who will need convincing Wayne Rooney and Everton are a good fit, surely it is Ronald Koeman. It is right up Bill Kenwright’s street, drama king that he is. The return of the Prodigal Son and all that. Good, old Bill could probably put it on the West End stage. You can just imagine him, upright and teary-eyed, when Rooney runs out to the Z-Cars tune in Everton blue again.
Farhad Moshiri would probably have no complaints. It would make commercial sense and give Everton a face instantly recognisable in global football markets. If you take some historical words from Koeman at face value, it looks like it would be approved by the manager. This is what he said at the beginning of March. Paul Stretford, Rooney's agent, met with Bill Kenwright this week . “In my opinion he (Rooney) is one of the players who can make Everton stronger than they are now,” Koeman said. “Every player who we feel can make the team stronger is welcome at Everton.”
No problem, then, it seems. Only Koeman was never going to close the door on the possibility of a Rooney return. Politically, it would have made no sense. And the Everton of early March was a very different one from the group who will start the 2017/18 season. From his overall form in the last 12 months, it is impossible to see how Rooney would make the Everton team stronger.
When selecting his strongest eleven, Jose Mourinho did not rate Rooney a serious consideration. United finished one place above Everton. It surely goes without saying that if Rooney cannot make United’s starting line-up, he should not be able to make Everton’s. Koeman cannot think otherwise, similarly Steve Walsh. Manchester United agree huge £75m fee with Everton for Romelu Lukaku and end interest in Alvaro Morata
Everton’s director of football seems to be having a sterling summer.
The proof will be in performance but Michael Keane, Davy Klaasen, Jordan Pickford, Sandro Ramirez and Henry Onyekuru look a promising, talented collection. You can bet Rooney was not on Walsh’s radar. Morgan Schneiderlin chats to manager Ronald Koeman (Image: Everton FC)
No, if Rooney does go back to Goodison Park, it will smack of compromise on the footballing side of things.
Moshiri has been true to his word and backed Koeman. As a very active chairman, Kenwright remains an important figure in transfer negotiations. Koeman will be allowed to spend more than the £75million Everton have got coming for Romelu Lukaku. Some owners and chairmen might have baulked at the idea of paying £30million for a 23-year-old goalkeeper or the same amount for a Burnley centre-half.
From most angles, it looks like the Rooney move would be quid pro quo.
Does he bring a guarantee of goals and assists? No. But would the scenario of the finest player this country has produced in recent times going back to his boyhood club appeal to the romantic that is Kenwright? Yes.
Would Rooney still be a marquee acquisition in the business brain of Moshiri? Yes. Ronald, we’ve given you Keane, Pickford, etc, etc. We might yet get you Gylfi Sigurdsson. Now indulge us with Rooney. It would be a perfectly understandable compromise but a compromise all the same.
And in football, compromises rarely work out."
"If there is one key man who will need convincing Wayne Rooney and Everton are a good fit, surely it is Ronald Koeman. It is right up Bill Kenwright’s street, drama king that he is. The return of the Prodigal Son and all that. Good, old Bill could probably put it on the West End stage. You can just imagine him, upright and teary-eyed, when Rooney runs out to the Z-Cars tune in Everton blue again.
Farhad Moshiri would probably have no complaints. It would make commercial sense and give Everton a face instantly recognisable in global football markets. If you take some historical words from Koeman at face value, it looks like it would be approved by the manager. This is what he said at the beginning of March. Paul Stretford, Rooney's agent, met with Bill Kenwright this week . “In my opinion he (Rooney) is one of the players who can make Everton stronger than they are now,” Koeman said. “Every player who we feel can make the team stronger is welcome at Everton.”
No problem, then, it seems. Only Koeman was never going to close the door on the possibility of a Rooney return. Politically, it would have made no sense. And the Everton of early March was a very different one from the group who will start the 2017/18 season. From his overall form in the last 12 months, it is impossible to see how Rooney would make the Everton team stronger.
When selecting his strongest eleven, Jose Mourinho did not rate Rooney a serious consideration. United finished one place above Everton. It surely goes without saying that if Rooney cannot make United’s starting line-up, he should not be able to make Everton’s. Koeman cannot think otherwise, similarly Steve Walsh. Manchester United agree huge £75m fee with Everton for Romelu Lukaku and end interest in Alvaro Morata
Everton’s director of football seems to be having a sterling summer.
The proof will be in performance but Michael Keane, Davy Klaasen, Jordan Pickford, Sandro Ramirez and Henry Onyekuru look a promising, talented collection. You can bet Rooney was not on Walsh’s radar. Morgan Schneiderlin chats to manager Ronald Koeman (Image: Everton FC)
No, if Rooney does go back to Goodison Park, it will smack of compromise on the footballing side of things.
Moshiri has been true to his word and backed Koeman. As a very active chairman, Kenwright remains an important figure in transfer negotiations. Koeman will be allowed to spend more than the £75million Everton have got coming for Romelu Lukaku. Some owners and chairmen might have baulked at the idea of paying £30million for a 23-year-old goalkeeper or the same amount for a Burnley centre-half.
From most angles, it looks like the Rooney move would be quid pro quo.
Does he bring a guarantee of goals and assists? No. But would the scenario of the finest player this country has produced in recent times going back to his boyhood club appeal to the romantic that is Kenwright? Yes.
Would Rooney still be a marquee acquisition in the business brain of Moshiri? Yes. Ronald, we’ve given you Keane, Pickford, etc, etc. We might yet get you Gylfi Sigurdsson. Now indulge us with Rooney. It would be a perfectly understandable compromise but a compromise all the same.
And in football, compromises rarely work out."
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