Gray is a top flight performer age 25 who we are paying £1m for. If he comes good we have a £25m player. It's worth the punt.
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Tigger
Player Valuation: £35m
I know that mate, your obsession with bringing them into every subject possible is the strange bit.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
The best way to look at this signing is if Richarlison is out/unavailable then would Gray offer a similar level of output.
The next thing to look at is him flopping in the premier league and also the Bundesliga.
The third thing to look at is what we need...we need 3 high quality wide players and one backup.
1: Richarlison
2:
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4: Townsend
If Gray is a starter or the rotation player then we wont get anywhere.
This window, i wouldnt have gone with wide forwards as its expensive to buy quality. However, if were going down that route you need to have 2 starters and someone to rotate in/out.
On your point, why do we need to compare Gray with Bernard, Iwobi, Sigurdsson and Walcott?
Why are we sitting here discussing this topic when we should be discussing those 3 (walcott has gone) leaving and us bringing in one top class starter.
Id happily go with Richarlison, Bailey/Antony, Townsend, Gordon....that makes sense as were still short one top player but arent wasting money on Gray.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Baningime is a top flight 'performer', so is Jonjoe Kenny...
Theyre not really 'performers' are they though? Theyre top flight failures if were being honest.
Gray has also failed in Germany...
£25mil....the mind boggles, leicester and Leverkusen couldnt give him away for more than €2mil.
Everton transfer news: Demarai Gray joins Toffees for £1.7m after six-month Bayer Leverkusen spell
Former Birmingham and Leicester winger Demarai Gray signs three-year deal with Everton after agreeing £1.7m move from Bayer Leverkusen; Gray only moved to Germany in January after five years with Leicester
Cost cutting makes sense when you have a bloated squad of crap players you CAN'T SELL. People bang on every season about how we should just "sell the deadwood" as if it's as simple as that. If it was we'd have done it. While we are resigned to at least one more year of crap we can't shift, it's a responsible thing to do to bring in players on lower wages by way of damage limitation.
I have no idea if that's what we're doing - as I have said before I think PL teams will vote to bin/mitigate FFP anyway - but it's not a terrible strategy if so.
he was at the end of his contracts. he was selected for an England squad 18 months ago and has 100 appearances to his credit. for a good team. He's still got it all to do. Rafael knows players. There is every chance this is a real bargain.
I humbly retract my earlier statement. Urinate away, doomsayers.
BirkenheadBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
Decent next-to-no-risk signing this one.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
I dont believe we need to sign both Gray and Townsend.
Townsend + Gordon would make more sense financially (save the fee and wages) if that was the plan.
Or alternatively another punt like Nkounkou rather than a two club failure at 25.
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