*Transfer Window 2014/15 Season Rumours/Signings *AKA Man U fans listing every player under the Sun

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I'm in Scotland for the commonwealth games... I seen on Twitter the news just as it broke, phone died right after that. Just got back into the hotel loaded up the laptop expecting to see Lukaku plastered all over the OS... but nope, nothing. Brilliant. :D


Well done Everton.
 
Until Mourinho buys him back in 5 years time as the new Drogba for much more? :p

Edit: I actually think he is good enough to be playing every week for any club in England right now. 33 appearances, 16 goals and 8 assists last season. Those stats are absurd for a 21 year old.

The only club in England that agrees with you is Everton.
Actually the only club I've heard him mentioned with apart from Everton is Wolfsburg.
No RM, Barca, PSG, Monaco or any other money spunkers trying to get hold of him, there's a reason why they aren't.
 
The only club in England that agrees with you is Everton.
Actually the only club I've heard him mentioned with apart from Everton is Wolfsburg.
No RM, Barca, PSG, Monaco or any other money spunkers trying to get hold of him, there's a reason why they aren't.

Everton likely can't lose, much. He looks pretty decent right now, worst comes to worst someone will take him for 15-20 in a few years. But he could score 20+ goals for 2 seasons and then find those clubs you mention offering 50+ million for him.

He's a risk, big clubs don't need to penny pinch, they can afford to use a 28 year old striker at the top of his game today and buy Lukaku for 20mil more in 2-3 years when he's a more finished product, simple as that.

The big clubs don't have to penny pinch and get them at 19-22 and HOPE they come good, they can just pay more when and if they do come good.

Top four clubs want a solid, experienced starting striker, and players like Lukaku/Morata/Vela/etc didn't get a chance to play games and progress. The more money there is in the game, the less willing and the less need the likes of Real/Barca/Bayern have to buy cheaper younger players.

Look at who has been bought lately. Bayern bought Lewandowski, after previously having Mandzukic, and Gomez. They bought Gotze AFTER he broke though and became a first team player at a huge cost, rather than buy him 3 years early at half the price.

The best teams are fully of players who played a huge number of games between 19-24 years old, playing most games most seasons and improving constantly.

Big clubs have no interest in potential any more, they can afford to buy quality, most of them are finding that they simply throw money away. Buy 5 players for 20-30mil of which 4 turn out to not step up(in part because they don't get enough games) or buy a single player for 50-80mil when they get to 24-25 and have proven themselves. They end up spending less, WAY less when you factor in 4 extra players wages.

Football has changed, everyone is really doing the "galacticos" thing now, just not calling it that.
 
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that just improves evertons selling point

Sure it does, but is it likely the did that just so they could sell him off this transfer window? Very unlikely. It's probably more of an insurance for them so that when he (hopefully) vastly improves over the next season or two that they can demand a more substantial fee for him.
 
Don't forget Everton had a decent amount of cash come in last summer and likely made a pretty healthy profit last year from improved tv income.

If they are paying in installments then I can't see a reason Everton, with 20-30mil more a year income than previous years, can't pay out 10mil a year on a player and pay off a little debt as well.
 
28 million, we got our pants pulled down unless the repayments are very favourable. I don't think he will get much better and a lot of times is very lazy. I don't think he will ever be top 4 material and have said so many times.

Hell of a gamble for us. I hope it pays off. As I said I can't see us being better this year. We are just spending to tread water and hopefully stay the same but we won't finish as high.
 
So Man United are selling Fellaini. He's the 3rd most expensive player they've ever signed. Him and Moyes were two of the highlights of last season:

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