Well with little activity on the tranfer fornt, the question i have asked myself is why?
Im not one for screaming for the manager/chairmans head and panicing because we havnt signed anyone. I think waiting for tranfers is an art of paitence and one i hope i have learned as i have gotten older (kind of). That said its hard not to become frustrated, praticularly with Journos coming up with sensational links to give us all the footballing equivelent of a stiffy.
Trying to analyse the clubs strategy is a personal opinion i know! But for my two cents here goes: For me the club are playig a waiting game, it appears their top targets all play for championship clubs i.e. Jags, Nugent, Koumas etc. The uniuqe thing about this situation is that the three i named above are all reported to favour a move to Everton. This gives us considerable leverage in terms approaching and negotiating in terms of price.
Why have we not signed anybody? Simple answer is the club is waiting to get the best price. Those palyers i listed above are the most salable assests at their respective clubs. Their clubs are hoping to cash in on them for the largest pot possible to fund their promotion drive being that gettinng into the prem will be worth 50 mill. The intresting thing about it is that those clubs cant actually fund their own signings or replacements for departing stars, untill big deals are agreed. Therefore as time ticks by they will be willing to drop their prices as preseason and the actual season draws ever closer. Despite all their shaping and intentions of hard bargaining, once they begin to miss on their own targets it will be panic stations.
But Sund/Wet Ham are in for Nugent, Villa for Koumas, And Bolton/Wigan for Jags, i hear you say. True but the club seem pretty sure that those players have their hearts set on Goodison and perhaps Everton have told them to sit tight. European football must also come into the equation with England caps to be had next summer. I can hear Moyes negotiating personal terms "Remeber were A.J. and Lescott were this time last year son".
A dangerous game certainly we could end up with all of them and perhaps a few i havn't mentioned or it could all go pearshaped and we could end up with David Thompson on a free.
Certainly though its exciting, the club is playing Russian roulette I.M.O. with championship clubs but i guess the question is who will win?
Im not one for screaming for the manager/chairmans head and panicing because we havnt signed anyone. I think waiting for tranfers is an art of paitence and one i hope i have learned as i have gotten older (kind of). That said its hard not to become frustrated, praticularly with Journos coming up with sensational links to give us all the footballing equivelent of a stiffy.
Trying to analyse the clubs strategy is a personal opinion i know! But for my two cents here goes: For me the club are playig a waiting game, it appears their top targets all play for championship clubs i.e. Jags, Nugent, Koumas etc. The uniuqe thing about this situation is that the three i named above are all reported to favour a move to Everton. This gives us considerable leverage in terms approaching and negotiating in terms of price.
Why have we not signed anybody? Simple answer is the club is waiting to get the best price. Those palyers i listed above are the most salable assests at their respective clubs. Their clubs are hoping to cash in on them for the largest pot possible to fund their promotion drive being that gettinng into the prem will be worth 50 mill. The intresting thing about it is that those clubs cant actually fund their own signings or replacements for departing stars, untill big deals are agreed. Therefore as time ticks by they will be willing to drop their prices as preseason and the actual season draws ever closer. Despite all their shaping and intentions of hard bargaining, once they begin to miss on their own targets it will be panic stations.
But Sund/Wet Ham are in for Nugent, Villa for Koumas, And Bolton/Wigan for Jags, i hear you say. True but the club seem pretty sure that those players have their hearts set on Goodison and perhaps Everton have told them to sit tight. European football must also come into the equation with England caps to be had next summer. I can hear Moyes negotiating personal terms "Remeber were A.J. and Lescott were this time last year son".
A dangerous game certainly we could end up with all of them and perhaps a few i havn't mentioned or it could all go pearshaped and we could end up with David Thompson on a free.
Certainly though its exciting, the club is playing Russian roulette I.M.O. with championship clubs but i guess the question is who will win?
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