January Transfer Window 2017/18
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I think he would be a great signing, can only hope!I'm all for it, spend spend spend!
Juve, £100m.....I cant see him moving anywhere for at least £120-130m and with the inevitable bidding war it could well be north of that.
Would be great to see him playing for the home team at OT but I just cant see it unless we improve massively in the 2nd half of the season from a consistency pov
(and the soonest it will happen will be for Summer '18)
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Riquelme to Everton. Done deal
That was a great day
Hope you didn't buy the t-shirt Everton were selling with the Kop on the front of it
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We already have lots of players from lower price brackets, that you rightly say need replacing. Why would we want any more?
If you want to take it up a notch, the marginal price for extra quality is often hefty. If he performs, he's worth the money.
A strong defence is often built around a key player e.g. everyone that partnered Hypiaa in CD looked reliable. If he can lift the existing personnel the fee really starts to makes sense.
If you want to buy something, you need to offer more than everyone else. Does that make every player a waste of money?
City have had to spend many "absurd" sums to get where they are.
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Bailly is worth nothing at the moment as he seems injury prone.
One of the best defenders I've seen recently but he's no good if he's not fit.
When he is at Jones' level of getting injuries I will be worried, until then he is still worth having - more than every other CB at the club put together lol
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Rumour is that Everton officials have been in Turkey negotiating the transfer of Cenk Tosun from Besiktas.
Honestly over no idea who he is or how good he is but we need new recruits. Our problem over the last 18 months is that we are missing 5 of our best players.
Lukaku - Sold, not replaced
Barry - Sold, replacements not good enough
Barkley - Injured, will likely leave
Baines - Injured, ageing, needs replacing
Coleman - Long term injury, no replacement.
Apart from Jordon Pickford it has seemed that the summer recruitment has been a bit of a farce. It echoes the kind of transfers that Spurs made when they sold Bale. Most of those new signings were moved on and I can see a lot of Everton's signings being sold on for a net loss.
We need a natural goalscorer, Tosun perhaps.
A powerful midfielder, Nzonzi?
A natural left footer, left back or left wing to balance that side better.
Honestly over no idea who he is or how good he is but we need new recruits. Our problem over the last 18 months is that we are missing 5 of our best players.
Lukaku - Sold, not replaced
Barry - Sold, replacements not good enough
Barkley - Injured, will likely leave
Baines - Injured, ageing, needs replacing
Coleman - Long term injury, no replacement.
Apart from Jordon Pickford it has seemed that the summer recruitment has been a bit of a farce. It echoes the kind of transfers that Spurs made when they sold Bale. Most of those new signings were moved on and I can see a lot of Everton's signings being sold on for a net loss.
We need a natural goalscorer, Tosun perhaps.
A powerful midfielder, Nzonzi?
A natural left footer, left back or left wing to balance that side better.
Jose is just an idiot with media at this point, Utd have spent more than enough, Jose is just looking for excuses, there transfer stratagey even before him as been a mess
His comments about not being able to compete financially are ludicrous, yes. Everyone knows that isn't the case.
Regarding Klopp, he once said that if Pogba level transfers became commonplace, he'd leave football as he doesn't want to be a part of that (or something along those lines) - yet here he is paying £75m for Van Dijk. I've nothing against that, but there is hypocrisy there.
Regarding Klopp, he once said that if Pogba level transfers became commonplace, he'd leave football as he doesn't want to be a part of that (or something along those lines) - yet here he is paying £75m for Van Dijk. I've nothing against that, but there is hypocrisy there.
Klopp did indeed say that, did admit market has now changed and his view must have at this point, he also said yesterday its still not a nice fee to pay.
Avg players now are even in upper 30m mark which is daft, the catalyst for the market being on the up dates back to Ronaldo sale at 80m that imo started it all and has since just gone up and up
When you make the comments Klopp did then sign a £75m CB you're going to get called a hypocrite but lets be fair, Mourinho's just being a ****, Klopp's comments at the time were genuine. You only have to look at his very first press conference when he arrived to see that Klopp can't stand the fascination in this country with spending and transfers being the only answer. In his first transfer window it was widely reported that Klopp, not the owners or board, pulled the plug on a deal for Alex Teixeira because the fee got too high and it's even been reported with this deal that Mike Gordon (FSG's man at Liverpool) had to allay any misgivings Klopp had in spending so much.