I like Alan, but he doesn't know anything. When people in his position say "That's not what I'm hearing" they never tell us what they ARE hearing. It's like The Echo, it can only ever be a response in the negative. Perhaps it's because in reality...
It’s an extension of that weird notion that players should be honoured to play for Everton and Everton only, and never have ambitions beyond us.
The reality is that, if signings work out as we want them to, we’ll almost always be a stepping...
No problem with a buy back clause as long as there is a reasonable profit baked in. City could sign any of our players, any time they wanted them anyway.
I don't mind buy back or release clauses if they're going to be worth having i.e at least double the money you're paying for a player. Otherwise you're getting a raw deal.
The likes of McAtee being £35 million with a buy back clause or Luiz on loan being reticent to come aren’t the types of players we should be going for. Same as Grealish, massive wages and wrong side of 30
Players have to want to come, the terms...
There’s a difference though. We played bleeding Sligo rovers to start before then playing league 2 opposition.
This time we started with league 2 and then jumped to championship.
I don’t mean any offence to Sligo, but they were expected to be...