Transfer Rumour Lamine Kone

[BiggyRat]

Having money doesn't mean we sell out any values we once had.

*See Man City or Chelsea if unsure what this means.

 

[matty1878]

It's amusing me how our fans are happy when it's not something that happens to us but fume when it's on us.

Having money doesn't mean we sell out any values we once had.

I think youl find that's football mate! I get your point like tbf as its happened to Everton loads over the years and now we're taking clubs best players - but only clubs who we are above as such. I mean city come and took stones so it's a funny old game

 

[Ashtonian]

Tbf to the Chap he played in their first game with no problems, no downing of tools...we don't know exactly what has gone on..

He is clearly forcing a move away from the club. The same as he would do to us if he finds out a bigger team are in for him.

Silver lining is that we should then profit on him also.

 

[chicoazul]

I think youl find that's football mate! I get your point like tbf as its happened to Everton loads over the years and now we're taking clubs best players - but only clubs who we are above as such. I mean city come and took stones so it's a funny old game

How Stones handled that transfer is an example of how much better it can be done. The last time we sold a defender to City in Lescott being an example of how Sunderland may feel now. We shouldn't overlook it as "we've got a bit of money" mate.

 

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

He is clearly forcing a move away from the club. The same as he would do to us if he finds out a bigger team are in for him.

Silver lining is that we should then profit on him also.

It appears the multiplier is around 4, so if we buy him for 18m we should be looking at just short of 80m if we sell him in January

 

[witchdoc187]

He's played six months for a football club who brought him to England, give him a pay rise, a chance and a long contract.

Even in the lamentable ethics of modern football it's virtually unheard for a player to be playing up this early into a contract. Never mind releasing statements through his agent and claiming injury ahead of a local derby.

Seven months with Sunderland, a club that's not treated him bad at all truth be told. He's behaving terribly, there's better ways of getting a transfer you want, like John Stones for example.

Maybe he thinks he deserves better. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[matty1878]

How Stones handled that transfer is an example of how much better it can be done. The last time we sold a defender to City in Lescott being an example of how Sunderland may feel now. We shouldn't overlook it as "we've got a bit of money" mate.

No we shoudnt as such if we wanna be a respectful club, but money changes things mate nobody knows If moshri sits of smoking £50 notes and thinks il buy who I want - or he's a nice business guy lol

 

[chicoazul]

Maybe he thinks he deserves better. Nothing wrong with that.

After barely six months at a club who gave him a chance and a payrise?

How would we feel if one of our own players done similar?

What about if he declared himself unfit before a derby while all this was going on?

Come on, we're not kopites.

 

[chicoazul]

No we shoudnt as such if we wanna be a respectful club, but money changes things mate nobody knows If moshri sits of smoking £50 notes and thinks il buy who I want - or he's a nice business guy lol

If money buys out our ethics then we're Tories. Nothing more mate.

 

[CairnsToffee]

Actually forgot about him ! Another player with a value to offload !

Think we need to keep hold of Cleverley because of the home grown ruling

 

[matty1878]

If money buys out our ethics then we're Tories. Nothing more mate.

I hate the tories mate but they our in leadership! lol

 

[Durham Toffee]

After barely six months at a club who gave him a chance and a payrise?

How would we feel if one of our own players done similar?

What about if he declared himself unfit before a derby while all this was going on?

Come on, we're not kopites.

I really wanted Kone, but I'm coming to see @chicoazul point here.

We are a club that prides itself on playing for the shirt and playing for the community. That doesn't mean we can't now be ruthless and brutal when it comes to ridding ourselves of dead wood or pursuing players who will make our team better - we deserve the best.

But at the dismissal of our primary values?

I would still be pleased to have Kone because he's a solid defender, but I'd certainly be very cautious about his character thereafter and id never entirely warm to him.

We're not plucky Everton anymore, no. And neither should we ever return to that mindset. But we are a club of principle and we should be able to maintain a balance here.

Tricky one.

 

[dublinbluenose]

His behaviour over the last 2-3 weeks doesn't inspire. Smells of the Bilics to me a bit. Would be fuming with him if I was a mackim.

 

[royalblue66]

We talk about being more nasty and snide,get it done.

 

[Dymak]

Footballers are human beings, the idea that multi-million pound corporations own them outright and have the right to deprive them of their liberty and restrict their freedom through dictating who they can and cannot work for, and where they can and cannot live, is about as unethical as you can get.

Not only that, but Everton have been using financial 'muscle' to prise talent away from smaller clubs for decades. We don't pay our players with magic beans; our wage bill is circa 80 million pounds! You can kid yourself that we are somehow different to the other clubs that are involved in the capitalist competition that is the Premier League, but the truth is that we have been one of the forerunners in all of this.

I also don't see how Manchester City have lost their soul, when their stadium has a lack of day trippers, and in fact constitutes the same 30k crowd that was watching them in Division 3? If it's because they have used money to prise the best talent away from smaller clubs, well, Everton have been doing that for donkey's years!