I am so excited I cannot eat my dinner. Who is the boss midfielder? Please
What you having for tea mate ?
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What you having for tea mate ?
everton1953
Player Valuation: £40m
It has suddenly dawned on my dull brain that you meant Gomez. As I knew we had him in the bag I thought you were saying we had another player, hence my wondering who he might be. Where I have been these last few weeks there was no internet and only "world" news and little sport. Sorry to have caused you so much grief.
Finally, after all these years, we managed to sign up Jason Koumas on a five year deal. Had to pay £22m to price him away from the wive.I am so excited I cannot eat my dinner. Who is the boss midfielder? Please
everton1953
Player Valuation: £40m
I use the "Like" and the "Quote" but not the "Reply" button for some reason. I will try it and see what happens. My dinner was krap by the way.
Joyce proper hates us these days.
Im gonna need some tory with a times sub please.
There is a certain irony that Real Valladolid, the La Liga club owned by the original Ronaldo, should be, in part, pinning their hopes for the forthcoming campaign on Everton outcast Sandro Ramírez.
Valladolid sealed the loan signing of the 23-year-old on Tuesday evening, despite Ramírez having scored just one goal in two years and even that proved no more than a meagre consolation in a 5-1 Europa League drubbing against Atalanta in October 2017. Ronaldo-esque his record is not.
Having arrived at Goodison Park from Malaga in the preceding June, the club claiming it had pulled off a £5.2 million coup, the reality is he has spent the last 18 months on loan back in Spain.
Spells at Seville and Real Sociedad have not sparked Ramírez back into the scoring groove and he must now buck that trend at his next temporary stop off where Ronaldo, the former Real Madrid and Brazil striker, acquired a 51 per cent majority stake in the club last September.
Unfortunately for Everton, Ramírez’s departure once more brings unwanted focus on to the summer when attempts to establish themselves among the elite proved forlorn, the reinvestment of the proceeds of Romelu Lukaku’s £75 million sale to Manchester United flawed.
Of the players who arrived in that period, Nikola Vlasic, Wayne Rooney and Davy Klaassen have moved on permanently. Everton will hope Cuco Martina joins Ramírez in leaving on loan. Henry Onyekuru, who has never played for the club, seems primed for another spell away, too.
Jordan Pickford, Michael Keane and Gylfi Sigurdsson remain, but must all step up next season under manager Marco Silva by displaying more leadership.
And it did not get any better in the January window last year when Cenk Tosun and Theo Walcott arrived for big fees, and big wages, and have done little to justify that outlay.
All of which brings us to Leicester City and the saga which is developing over the future of Harry Maguire.
Leicester’s desire to hold out for a world record fee of £80 million for a defender, rebuffing interest at around the £70 million mark from Manchester United and neighbours City, automatically raises eyebrows.
The England international was signed from Hull City for an initial £12 million two years ago and the chance to make a £60 million-plus profit seems a no-brainer to many.
Yet, in this instance, the pertinent question quickly shifts from how much Leicester might eventually get for Maguire and on to how manager Brendan Rodgers, and head of recruitment Lee Congerton, would spend the proceeds to ensure upward momentum?
So far in this window they have recruited right back James Justin from Luton Town, but hope to add £16 million Ayoze Pérez from Newcastle United and there is a £40 million deal for Youri Tielemans to finalise after he impressed on loan from Monaco in the second half of last term.
However, there is a scarcity of centre halves, which is a headache when it comes to replacing Maguire. Rodgers, too, knows from his time at Liverpool how banking a sizeable cheque can lead to issues. More money, more problems so to speak.
The £75 million sale of Luis Suárez to Barcelona in 2014 was not reinvested well (Mario Balotelli was among the arrivals) amid tension at Anfield over the process of signing players.
With Maguire, there is a good chance of Leicester challenging next season to earn a place in Europe. Without him, that opportunity of reinfiltrating the established elite once again must remain.
The fact that Everton will be watching events with interest speaks volumes, not least because Steve Walsh, who they recruited from Leicester, was director of football when much of the haphazard spending took place under Ronald Koeman and Sam Allardyce.
One interesting tit-bit to emerge in recent days was that Everton had targeted Marcel Brands, their present director of football, three years ago, but that Koeman, who had just arrived from Southampton, was against the appointment.
Brands had been director of football at AZ Alkmaar when Koeman was sacked after just seven months in the job in 2009.
“The board and directors no longer see any basis for further co-operation,” said a curt statement from Alkmaar at the time.
Walsh, instead, was brought in. The fall-out from that era continues to bite.
The permanent £22 million capture of André Gomes from Barcelona last week took Everton’s spending to around £300 million under owner Farhad Moshiri since June 2017. Instead of spending lavishly in one window, the spree continued across three in an attempt to clear up the mess and make fresh strides.
While there is a desire to bring in offensive and defensive reinforcements before the new season starts, Everton must now be more prudent in order to comply with Premier League profit and sustainability rules.
They have essentially been spending more than they have been earning and guidelines state clubs cannot post losses of more than £105 million across three years.
Everton made an operating loss of £22.9 million, excluding player trading, in 2018 according to club accounts and are likely to report another loss in 2019.
Leicester finished last season a place and two points below Everton in ninth. Rodgers’ target will be to be leapfrog them, along with Wolverhampton Wanderers, who finished seventh, and Arsenal, who finished sixth and appear vulnerable.
What happens over the coming weeks will determine whether that remains plausible.
P.S. I'm not a tory you [Poor language removed] @MarcelsGoat
neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
They got to him... It's the constant 'this isnt fekir paul'
Seems so, a few interesting things there tho :
We are utterly skint
Perez is only costing 16m
And Koeman said no to Brands
Yeah, Joyce has been cut out and he is NOT happy.
Thats like the 4th or 5th hatchet job hes done on us in the last 6 months.
Cheers, Esk
efcste97
Player Valuation: £10m
Think he has a cob on cos he gets told zilch about whats going on nowadays.
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