Confirmed Signing Cenk Tosun

Penno · January 3, 2018

BlueToff said:
I'm confident we've done more than enough to show we can be a top half side this year.

But that's it.

Get through the season now. Get to 40 points first and foremost and then see where we are from there.

All this season has done has shown just how reliant Martinez and Koeman both were on Lukaku and Barkley.

And Coleman

MikeH72 · January 3, 2018

Oh dear god.

Stuartisitc1878 · January 3, 2018

cArsi said:
Fikret Orman (pres. of Besiktas) commented on the transfer of Cenk to Everton.

He said Everton made an offer but nothing is finalized yet. Also he mentioned that a Chinese club bid €35m for Cenk earlier but it was not accepted because Cenk is a valuable player and his opinions matter to him (meaning Cenk didn't want to go to China). On the bright side this means EFC's offer doesn't necessarily need to be higher than 35M, but it should be close.

So knowing the pres. what I am reading from this is:

Besiktas can sell Cenk anytime for a good fee. He is in no hurry.
Cenk definitely wants to play in EPL and he prefers Everton.
EFC bid was good but not enough, it should be higher.
Walsh had a meeting with the vice pres. earlier but there was no agreement.
Reports claiming there was an agreement but then he raised the price is not true.

Also, he is set to travel to London today for further negotiations with EFC. We will see what happens but be aware because he almost always gets what he wants.

ha, he's never dealt with Everton before

Besiktas President: " we want to sell to you and he wants to play for you. Your offer of 25million is good but we ask for 30million. We believe this is fair".
Bill Kenwright: " Listen, I'm a fair man and i appreciate you meeting me today. I respect you and will up our offer to 25.2million. (spits intoo hand) Shake on it"?

OnlyBlueWillDo · January 3, 2018

Stuartisitc1878 said:
Coleman and Baines are massive misses, they provide so much to our attacking threat. The number of times Baines would whip in a cross and Coleman would be running in to finish it.

They are, quality players with a lot of experience.

GwladysBlue · January 3, 2018

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...s/besiktas-fire-warning-everton-over-14106650

OnlyBlueWillDo · January 3, 2018

ToffeeTim said:
Haha

The thing is the Besiktas President knows Cenk doesn't want to move to China, doesn't want to play for West Ham or Palace, he wants to move to us.

There is only one reason he has flown over, to get the deal done.

LouReedwalkonthewildside · January 3, 2018

GwladysBlue said:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...s/besiktas-fire-warning-everton-over-14106650

So in all reality they want over £30m for him!!!

blue to the bone · January 3, 2018

The chairman is tryin to pressure everton into payin more money. Who knows if a Chinese club bid or not.
If your selling a car and someone offers you say 4 grand. You say will someone had already offered 4200. They pay it or say no thanks. It's bargaining. No more

ijjysmith · January 3, 2018

Stuartisitc1878 said:
oh please

I'll get my mate Walshie to have a word to them but I wouldn't get your hopes up.

BlueToff · January 3, 2018

LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
So in all reality they want over £30m for him!!!

Got a feeling we'll end up paying £25m up front, rising to £30m with add ons.

If it isn't done in the next few days, it won't get done at all.

In the mean time we need to be making serious progress on other positions.

blueblue · January 3, 2018

They would have taken the 35m from the Chinese but the player wouldn't go. I wonder if Tosun kept having photographs taken of himself as he went shopping in Bejing .
The player clearly has made his mind up and returning to play in Turkey is probably not an option any longer. Besiktas know this but this posturing is probably more for their fans than any real expectation of getting much more money.