Is this like another version of Everton have stopped the leaks?
Despite us all knowing, with the exception of Alcaraz, every player we're signing for months in advance?
Getting a decent fee for our top players is one thing, but my point was our sales as a club over the last decade hasn't been good enough.
The biggest reason for that is poor recruitment, not prioritising resale value. "it's not your money fella...
Think they go for Fofana/Kubo personally.
Think Romano has just lashed his name as a list of options and few more content journos have ran with it.
Spurs wading in for Dibling seems almost too obvious - a lot have joked it for about a month...
Part of the problem.
But even when you go to Godfrey, Gomes, Keane, Niasse, Mori etc.
Allan, Doucoure, Gbamin, Delph, Mina...
We've spent a hell of a lot, and got nothing, or buttons back on most.
Hang on...
You're actually saying Everton have bought/sold well the past decade?
If you want to play top trumps, I'll win. Comfortably. I'll just go and get my Bolasie, Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin, Williams, Klaassen, Tosun, Walcott etc etc cards...
Selling has always been a part of the game, never more so than right now.
Every club, particularly our level at the moment - have to sell, and sell well.
Our sales overall the last decade has been piss poor - whenever we've spent money on...
My hunch is we've got a chunk we can spend, but waiting on things to play out to see if we can get a Kubo/Fofana type.
All else fails, we agree a fee for Dibling*
* Spurs wade in and we pay double what Moyes turned his nose up at for Tom...