Confirmed Signing Tyler Dibling

[allen]

Joyce on his podcast very pessimistic about it

Paddy Boyland also quite pessimistic on the byline, think this is a case of we have tried our hand but got nowhere near the levels to get him out of the club, similar to Zaha at Palace a few years ago

It’s worth saying that these journalists are given precisely the info the club wants to give them.

What gives us the best chance of an improved deal is Southampton thinking we’re walking away and leaving them with a disgruntled player they are clearly prepping for sale.

 

[Miked1e]

I hope the recruitment team have other right wing options.

I would rather not get banished to Newcastle thank you very much

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

Hurrah for the fake bidding toffees. Bid half the asking price and then walk away once the time for an actual serious offer comes about. We tried FC

 

[MikeH72]

Ridiculous vanity pursuit. Why didn’t we know their asking price before August?

3 weeks of the window left and we need 5 players and still have ZERO right wingers at the football club.

 

[Jokerdan]

From what I've seen of the lad - admittedly not a terrible lot - but he does have something of the Gareth Bale about him and look how he turned out. Dibbling has played in the Prem so it would not be a shock to him, he performed well against established PL teams for a very poor Southampton side and given his age he still has a couple of years maturing to go which, you would expect, will only make him stronger and better.

If he develops as anticipated then his sell on value will rise exponentially along with that development.

But as I said once before in another thread, if given Messi at a young age, we would have 'Everton'd out' Messi and turned him into a bog standard journeyman baller. So for Diblings sake he may be better not signing for us*

* Actually, I really hope he does given his potential

 

[Bedfordblue]

Risk / reward for this kid at these astronomical figures seems a bit much for where we are right now imho.
He already wilted at Chelsea a couple of years ago, there’s absolutely no guarantee the sound of 50k simultaneous tuts and huffs when he gives the ball away wouldn't have the same effect here.
Despite the apparent (attempted) splurge this window, we would be tying up a significant sum of money in a pretty large gamble that would constrain our spending in the next couple of years.

 

[Manx Blue]

50% of the fan base - Kid not worth it, move on, we’d be over-paying.

50% of the fan base - Everton fail again.

Jesus wept.

 

[toffeeblue9]

Joyce on his podcast very pessimistic about it

Nothing new TBF, just that Southampton's value of Dibling is very high and it's a difficult deal to do without them coming down from that.

It does feel at this point like it's not going to happen though

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

Ridiculous vanity pursuit. Why didn’t we know their asking price before August?

3 weeks of the window left and we need 5 players and still have ZERO right wingers at the football club.

My point as well.

Need five players and we are walking away after a 3 week pursuit which instead of giving us 6 weeks to get 5 players now it's half that time to still get 5...

Very disappointing from the Transfer Team.

 

[toffeeblue9]

50% of the fan base - Kid not worth it, move on, we’d be over-paying.

50% of the fan base - Everton fail again.

Jesus wept.

There's a halfway house. I think he's a tremendous talent and probably worth that money within a year or two, but if we can't stretch to that sort of figure just now and Southampton stand firm then fair enough, we have to look elsewhere (as disappointing as that would be).

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Hurrah for the fake bidding toffees. Bid half the asking price and then walk away once the time for an actual serious offer comes about. We tried FC

Ridiculous vanity pursuit. Why didn’t we know their asking price before August?

3 weeks of the window left and we need 5 players and still have ZERO right wingers at the football club.

It is how it works, the RS doing the same with Isak now. You go low, they go high, meet in the middle - sometimes it works others not.

We are not alone in this method, far from it, it is standard.

 

[Eggs]

50% of the fan base - Kid not worth it, move on, we’d be over-paying.

50% of the fan base - Everton fail again.

Jesus wept.

….i think that’s called having opinions

 

[MikeH72]

50% of the fan base - Kid not worth it, move on, we’d be over-paying.

50% of the fan base - Everton fail again.

Jesus wept.

But it actually can be both can’t it, clearly we had no strategy in place for this window and have just been flailing around throwing silly bids in for a player that we seem to have only started talking to in the past 3 weeks. The “move on” bit doesn’t seem to have happened either, as it would appear we have maxed out whatever list the clown car of a recruitment team had cobbled together since July 1st.

 

[Blue Alert]

Joyce on his podcast very pessimistic about it

Yes that was a rather dispiriting listen. Just seems that we’re not ready to make something like Dibling happen. Had he been in this position next summer, I suspect we’d have been able to get it done.

 

[MikeH72]

It is how it works, the RS doing the same with Isak now. You go low, they go high, meet in the middle - sometimes it works others not.

We are not alone in this method, far from it, it is standard.

Seems like Southampton don’t have any intention of meeting in the middle, and actually want the asking price, which might and was always going to be a problem.