Fofana's agent will already have spoken to the CL teams about signing his player. He will already know if there is any interest there... so far we have seen these CL clubs sign other targets. Fofana will hold off on joining Everton until there is...
His career stats to date will have him in the top 26 PL assists of all time if he carries on, on the same trajectory. He needs 16 more to be in the top 50. If all his Premier League assists had come at Everton then he'd currently be our third...
It's taken about 5 years to clear the squad of the wage drains that were these players who "bolstered the squad", they clearly don't want to go down that route again, hence these squad fillers haven't been offered deals or signed.
I'd rather be...
But, their strategy seems to be to make money on developing players rather than becoming a big club.
At least clubs like Everton , Forest, Spurs have ambitions to be winning trophies in the future and being top four clubs in the league.
People need to get away from the idea that just because things don't work out exactly the way we want it is evidence of incompetence. The transfer market is competitive, selling clubs and the players targeted all have their own set of interests...
It’s mad now that a lad with one decent season at Lyon and a kid from City who can’t make the first team are apparently such top players that they’re swerving guaranteed first team football.
People might have had a point about Moyes targeting...
Flawless logic again. Fill up the wage budget with literally anyone, and then save whatever is left to attract the the big money signings that are currently rejecting us.
It’s very straight forward. If you don’t offer the big wages you don’t get to sign the top quality players it’s that simple. It’s all well and good Jacko saying the other day here that we won’t offer the big wages anymore because we’ll go bust...