Contracts -- an opportunity

[Simon Buttle]

more important things like staying up?

It is possible to do 2 things at once you know, we have enough staff, Dyche can get on with his thing and others can get on in the background with planning for next season. It's not exactly hard, folk need to stop with the excuses all the time.

 

[DanB90]

we might actually be stuck with keane, maupay and holgate until 2025
SMFH @ this club

Didn’t someone kind of reliable like Bobble or Romano say that Maupay was close to a move in January? Or was I dreaming.

 

[matty1878]

It is possible to do 2 things at once you know, we have enough staff, Dyche can get on with his thing and others can get on in the background with planning for next season. It's not exactly hard, folk need to stop with the excuses all the time.

we can’t multi task lol

 

[ETID]

@matty1878 has a point we can barely focus on playing football in the last 2 years

 

[Simon Buttle]

we can’t multi task lol

We have no choice but to although I agree I doubt it would be plain sailing like for most other clubs.

 

[st.domingo]

Didn’t someone kind of reliable like Bobble or Romano say that Maupay was close to a move in January? Or was I dreaming.

Serie A, according to his agent via … er … Tuttomercatoweb

Everton's Neal Maupay was close to Serie A switch, confirms agent - Get Italian Football News

Everton's Neal Maupay could have played in Serie A this season and it is still possible that he plays in Italy from next season, his agent Federico Pastorello

www.getfootballnewsitaly.com

 

[Dublin blue 75]

Clear an interfering board (chairman principally) and owner from the equation first, then we can hit reset on this. Until then, at least one of that pair will continue to meddle and the cycle will go on.

 

[Huyton Layne]

We need to what Palace did. They had a major clear out, which was a risk. But now I'd rip your arm off for their squad of young talent.

 

[Cjplennon]

It’s absolutely clear that operating with a 96% Wages to Turnover is unsustainable.

It means any form of signing is leaving you in debt.

My hope is some of the bigger earners will move on in the summer, and we can start to really rebuild.

For years, we’ve gambled and subsequently failed at trying to match the bigger sides and our turnover isn’t sustainable for that.

Mina - £120k
Gomes - £110k
Iwobi - Rumoured up to £100k (as low as £60k)
Doucoure - Up to £100k
Probably on high wages is someone like Gana, who’ll be off.


I reckon there you’re probably saving about £400-£500k a week, on them alone, we’re saving £20m. It’s things like thag which will help us in the long term.

We simply can’t afford to keep blowing high money on average players.

I’m hoping (and it’s my eternal optimist in me) that going down (or even if we pull off a miracle and stay up) will change how we approach transfers and we start looking to the model of buy low, sell high prospects.

Is that not what most clubs in the PL attempt? Cant be that easy as not many achieve it - you have to be able to spot talent that noone else is aware of. I imagine there is a fair bit of luck involved, top class scouting department is required along with a long term plan for the type of football the club wants to play.
We have no luck, gash scouting and only clueless plans.

 

[Baggzio]

we might actually be stuck with keane, maupay and holgate until 2025
SMFH @ this club

I think Holgate and Maupay get sold, we'll have a loss on Maupay and Holgate is all profit so we'd likely accept basically anything for him. Maupay was linked to Italy in January, think that could start again in the Summer, Holgate as well could definitely draw interest from Championship clubs. We might be stuck with Keane after his recent performances, there's always the chance though that Sheffield United or the like might take a punt on him if they're looking for that "PL experience" nonsense. Again I think any sort of fee would be accepted for him at this point.

 

[barneygumble]

Is that not what most clubs in the PL attempt? Cant be that easy as not many achieve it - you have to be able to spot talent that noone else is aware of. I imagine there is a fair bit of luck involved, top class scouting department is required along with a long term plan for the type of football the club wants to play.
We have no luck, gash scouting and only clueless plans.

It’s what very few teams do actually.
You’d think they would, but then I guess you run the risk of it backfiring like it did with Southampton.

But for me, the efforts of signing players at their peak, whether star players or cast offs need to stop.

Onana will be a success story in that it’s either going to provide us a gem or a huge profit. It needs to be the model going forward.

 

[matty1878]

We have no choice but to although I agree I doubt it would be plain sailing like for most other clubs.

i just wanna stay up and anything else can wait

 

[Bluebonic]

we can’t multi task lol

We can barely single task mate

 

[Toffeepot]

Didn’t someone kind of reliable like Bobble or Romano say that Maupay was close to a move in January? Or was I dreaming.

Yea he did but haven't holgate and keane been close to moves a few times too?
Always feels like ages to get rid of our poor players and they're stuck on big contracts coz they probably told BK 'Chairman Bill' suits him

 

[Martin Alvito]

It's an opportunity if we figure out what to do with it, for once.

The more I think about it, the more I like your 'write the checks for two young, proven goalscorers and Everloan some depth next season' idea, provided we can attract players of sufficient quality with the funds. The sales pitch is simple: playing time and attention paid to the player's influence in the Prem. Then, we patch up the depth problem next summer with young players.

All the pieces of real consequence are tied down for once, so this is the moment to fix the goals-for problem. We need to replace Richarlison's contribution, and buy a striker that can play as the lead and as a second striker, depending on DCL's fitness and form. Done right, we should land somewhere between midtable and comfortably up next season. We then plug some holes with developmental talent the next summer, extend the right contracts and paper over any remaining cracks with loans. That should put us in position to complete the squad the next summer using the revenue bump from BMD.

Of course, if the players don't deliver in the next two fixtures, all of that goes right out the window.