Fellaini wants to leave Everton?

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This is like when Take That split up back in the day, there were rumours, they promised that they weren't, a few months later and bam.

I don't want Fellaini to leave!
 
Doesn't make sense if he said it. Going to upset fans and unsettle the team. Surely he can't be that stupid.

I hope it's all false.

If he has said it, think of the players in Belgium he is playing with at the moment - big names a young guy could easily have his head turned by the likes of Kompany and Hazard. Fellaini was happy in Everton before he went to play for his international team. Anyway I am only guessing it could be made up lies by the papers.
 
billycopper said:
Contract- What difference does it make if he has 4 years or 2 years left on their deal? Arteta, Yobo, Rodwell and Cahill were well in contract and it didn't have any bearing on their price.
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Of course it did, in each instance. Arteta made it clear he wanted to leave, and had he been on a shorter contract Arsenal would have offered less and we would have accepted less; Yobo wanted out and we wanted him gone, had he not had multiple years left on his contract we would have probably accepted £500,000. Rodwell was £12m rising to £18m - do you think we would have got that if he was approaching his final year of a contract? Cahill was physically at the end of the road so once again we would have got virtually nowt if he'd ALSO been at the tail-end of a contract.

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Age- Martinez (24), Garcia (25), Rodwell (21), Allen (22), N'Zonzi (23), Song (25).
Internationals (caps): Martinez (8), Garcia (1), Rodwell (2), Allen (9), N'Zonzi (6 U21), Song (34)....Fellaini (36)
Injury: Only Rodwell has had significant problems.
Prem Experience: Doesn't that only matter if the buying club is from the Premier League?

Song is as close as you're going to get to Fellaini. Same age-ish. Same amount of caps. Song got 11 league assists and 1 goal last year. Fellaini has 3 goals and 4 assists.
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international Caps and age-wise, yes Song is the most similar. He's also got comparable prem experience. But he is exclusively a defensive mid, lacking Fellaini's goalscoring record and positional versatility (Felli has scored 22 goals in all competitions for Everton, in 140 games. Song has 10 goals in 204 games), and that attracts a premium. I would say that there is nothing that suggests Martinez is worth more than Song, but he went for £32m and i see no reason why Felli is not worth at least that if not more, given his body of work to date.

Premier league experience is important, as another poster pointed out, because it illustrates that he can play consistently at a high level in a league that is widely accepted to be the most physically demanding.

billycopper said:
Modric! Are you serious?? He pulled the strings in a side containing Van der Vaart, Bale and Adebayor and will be competing with Ozil and Di Maria for a game at the Bernebeu.
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And how does any of that mean he's not a fair yardstick to hold up when discussing an acceptable transfer fee for Fellaini?

billycopper said:
You are living in absolute dreamland. PSG spent £49m on Ibrahimovic AND Silva, but you think we can get £40m for Fellaini? Kenwright and Moyes would never let a transfer drag out over months and months like Fabregas, Ronaldo or Modric which is what we would need to do to frustrate a suitor into meeting our asking price. And defensive-minded midfielders won't command the same sort of fee as someone who can unlock stubborn defences.
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Last line first: Martinez and Modric went for virtually the same price, in direct contradiction to your belief.

I agree that Kenwright and Moyes have no track record for dragging a transfer out in the manner described, but there is the possibility of more than one team bidding which would drive the price up a bit. And Moyes has shown signs this summer of developing a different approach to transfer business.

£49M for Ibra and Silva.... one is a 30 year old striker, the other a 27 year old centre half. Neither are a direct comparison to a 24/25 year old six foot four inch goalscoring midfielder. I'm not suggesting we WILL get £40m, I'm saying that by ASKING for £40m we could conceivably attract a fee of £32m to £36m, which would represent sound business. If we only ask for £30m, we could easily find ourselves selling at £24m to £26m.

If a relatively untried Martinez is worth £32m, and Modric at three years older, physically less impressive and having scored less goals than Felli in the same number of seasons (both came to England in 2008/09 season: Modric scored 17 in four seasons, Felli scored 20) is worth £32m, then isn't Felli worth arguably more than either of them?
 
Belgium's training ground this past week:

"Hey Vincent, how much do you earn?"
"Wow!"
"Hey Eden, how much do you earn?"
"Wow!"
Hang on....
"Vermaelen?.....!" "Dembele?.....! Even you Dembele??!!"

Somebody get my agent on the phone, and quick.
 
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