Because we have had 30 years of this quality of recruitment amidst 30 years of nothingness.
One of the more obvious mantras of football is that you aim to buy at the level above to progress.
I know we hope a manager can create a team better than...
And unfortunately, Everton is synonymous in most peoples' minds with mediocrity and bad football. You don’t change that narrative with signing Tom Fellows. That's the unfortunate truth of the situation.
Not sure saying you are desperate helps as a negotiating tactic. Hopefully he's done it to try and bring a resolution one way or another to ongoing talks.
Everyone’s being used in football. None of the reports you see from ITKs are the result of them doing incredible investigative work, it’s all being fed from someone who has a skin in the game. Players, clubs and agents are all out for their own...
Very much so. There's still a chance Fofana signs for us - he's not said no, and according to Bobble he is open to a PL club, but ideally he wants a CL club.
But he is obviously fairly desperate for it to not be us 😆. Chelsea and Liverpool would...
He is a quality player. I'm sure I mentioned him on here as one we should be looking at when Diao was at Betis and went for a miniscule sum. Como's owners are some of the richest people around, so he won't be leaving for south of €50m. The same...
Their negotiating position for wages is likely strengthened towards the end of the window when clubs become desperate. As they get paid by us anyway, why jump at less money? Both DCL and Doucoure feel they are worth £100k plus per week.