Very confident in his own ability, plays with a smile and exactly the profile of player we should be getting, massive sell on value too if he reaches his ceiling. Time to stop buying players past there sell by value unless they serve a specific purpose like idrissa will for a nominal fee, otherwise we will keep ending up like this summer skint.
Yeah it’s very easy for us to look at any deal that benefits us and look the other way but in fairness this genuinely does just look like a case of a lad wanting to leave being fairly justified. Look at it this way, if he was playing every week at Ajax he’d never want to come to Everton, they just seem to be really ignoring him in terms of their squad.
No doubt our bench was dire. It's a great pickup for the club.
Just reminded them to get cracking ?
He definitely has some very old-fashioned views...
I understand all that and agree with the examples given. The big one for me, as you previously mentioned, is the World Cup. If his striking is all based around game time and development before the WC, then I’m all for it.
Which gives value for money in terms of how long we can use them for and resale value if they do or don't pan out.
The name of the game for most clubs these days mate. The trick is to identify the young talent, nurture it and sell at a profit. I'd much sooner go back to the days of John Moores and the Mersey millionaires, but, realistically, there are only a handful of clubs worldwide who can afford not to sell sometimes when the big offer comes in. Go with the flow, if the boy forces a transfer from Ajax and Lampard and Thelwell rate him, great. We just have to accept that In a few years he may be doing the same to us. If so, we just have to suck it up and get the most inflated fee for him we possibly can.
