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Tigger
Player Valuation: £35m
Na he's male mate definately not an aunt.
macst
Player Valuation: £1.5m
Haha. I know mate. If we sign him and if anyone is interested, I'll translate it properly
Librarian
Player Valuation: £70m
I agree mate, he's worth a punt
Small piglet?
BlueAmigo
Player Valuation: £6m
This all day long.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/30/everton-switzerland-under-21-striker-shani-tarashaj
Everton close to signing Switzerland Under-21 forward Shani Tarashaj
• Club have offered 20-year-old a four-and-a-half year contract
• Grasshopper player one of Switzerland’s brightest talents
Shani Tarashaj scored Switzerland Under-21s’ only goal in their 3-1 defeat by England in November. Photograph: Catherine Ivill - AMA/Getty Images
Exclusive byDaniel Taylor
Wednesday 30 December 2015 16.35 GMTLast modified on Wednesday 30 December 201516.39 GMT
Shani Tarashaj, one of the brightest young talents in Swiss football, has been lined up for a move to Everton as the club prepare to let Steven Naismith move to Norwich City and try to arrange their January transfer business in advance.
Everton have offered Tarashaj, a Switzerland Under-21 international, a four-and-a-half year contract and the player’s advisers have been in Liverpool over the last couple of days to discuss terms and take in the 4-3 defeat against Stoke City. Talks are at advanced stage but sources in Switzerland have confirmed that Grasshopper Club Zurich want him to be loaned back for the remainder of the season if, as expected, the two clubs agree a fee.
Tarashaj is a 20-year-old secondary striker or attacking midfielder who has scored eight goals in 18 games for Grasshopper this season, helping them to second position in the Super League at the point of their mid-season break, albeit 10 points behind the leaders Basel. He began the season with five goals in his first four appearances and also scored Switzerland’s goal when their under-21s lost 3-1 to England last month, in their qualifying match for the 2017 European Championships.
Roberto Martinez regards him as a creative player who can flourish at Goodison and Everton’s manager will almost certainly be needing a new attacker now Naismith is close to leaving Merseyside, with Norwich provisionally agreeing a deal that would see the Scotland international move to Carrow Road in the coming weeks.
Norwich tried to lure Naismith away from Everton in the late stages of the summer transfer window but Martinez blocked the transfer at the time. Since then, however, Naismith has started only four times in the Premier League, with Romelu Lukaku and Arouna Koné figuring more prominently in Martinez’s thinking. There is also interest elsewhere for Naismith, scorer of a hat-trick against Chelsea earlier this season, but Martinez is not in a rush bearing in mind Everton now embark on five games in a two-week period, beginning with Tottenham Hotspur’s visit to Goodison on Sunday.
Martinez, who insisted Kevin Mirallas remains part of his plans, has said there will be only “tweaks” during the transfer window and the expectation is that Tarashaj will be the only incoming transfer for a club that have dropped to 11th in the league. Tarashaj, born to Albanian parents but raised in Switzerland with the option to play for either country, signed a new contract at Grasshopper in September, with his previous deal due to expire at the end of the current season. He is now contracted until 2019 and Everton will have to recognise that in the transfer fee.
If this is true, it has absolutely no baring on the naismith deal what so ever. So i have no idea why they've mentioned it. I like that we're looking at so much youth potential, but there is a chance we'll have too much. Suppose not all of them make it and it could be a case of building one massive squad that's comfortably together after years growing together. The other positive effect is that most will become squad fillers, whilst growing, which can save millions and millions. Just look at how much we paid on our backup centre back - if you start buying plaayers young and they develop, that's saving £5ms here are there which can then go towards buying one top £20m player every summer. Instead of using it on 3 players who won't take us to the next level.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
We're rumored to be signing a young prospect no one has heard of or seen play? Where's Zat?
Coffee and TV
Player Valuation: £25m
The Echo is also linking us to Byram again, although all they said was "Leeds United right-back Sam Byram is also being closely monitored by the Blues" in the middle of this article about Tarashaj
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...verton-transfers-blues-close-signing-10668525
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...verton-transfers-blues-close-signing-10668525
For all Martinez's talk of competition for places Coleman has none so this would go some way to changing that.
TheFinnFan
Finners
Tarashaj..why the hell not...sign him bobby
Agreed, Ashley Williams gets my vote.
Misread that originally and thought you said we were interested in signing @Bryan as the defensive hard man, which sounded quite good until I re read it !
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