Depends how you look at it really. 300k x 46 weeks is 13.8m. If we were told 7m loan fee and 150k per week no one would be batting an eye given the price they bought him for. Even if we do it for two years cost us 28m. For an England...
I understand you , it’s a difficult situation.
We want to retain all three players .
Tarkowski is probably good for at least a few more seasons.
And we don’t want Branthwaite to go anywhere.
Truthfully O’Brien has played well at RB , and I think...
He wants to play football .
He won’t sit on the bench most of the season.
He was leaving because of lack of game time under Dyche .
Use him or lose him .
But we are Everton. We will turn him into a Reliant Robin in no time...with two wheels instead of three. I reckon we would even have destroyed Messi but, of course, I'm just being a cynical old b*steward.
Compared to players of a similar profile with the same high expectations, he doesn't have any of the red flags that tend to mark the ones who don't pan out, namely not being able to handle the pressure, off field issues, a poor injury record...