Fellaini's replacement

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

So why didn't we agree on a fair price in the clause then, should have been at least 28.

Because Fellaini's team obviously wouldn't accept it being any higher ffs, the level it's at is the result of a negotiation.

 

[Vitalstatistix]

This could be a goer for many reasons:
A) Zenit's president openly talked about signing Fellaini in the January transfer window,
B) They are in the Champions League,
C) They have money to burn
D) John Chapman on Twitter (respected football journo on Belgian football) has been saying for a long time that Witsel is the guaranteed starter in the current national team's midfield, & all the others are fighting to show Wilmots they can play the best with him. At the moment, Dembele & De Bruyne are ahead of the likes of Fellaini, Defour, Chadli & Nainggolan. So it goes without saying that if Felli joined up with his old Standard Liege partner in St Petersburg, it would dramatically improve his chances of starting at the World Cup.

From a personal point of view, I would much rather he went off to Russia. I hate it when we have had to play against the likes of Rooney and Lescott after selling them. Even worse with Arteta.

 

[Essex Blue]

Fellini has been deployed as a striker for a long time now, and if you take away his goals we have absolutely **** all up front. Therefore the Fellaini money should go on a boss new striker, someone capable of scoring 15-20 goals a season.

Can't stand the idea of selling Fellaini and swapping him with a couple of 6 million pound players from the same Market that Norwich are buying from.

 

[VentureBrosEFC]

Fellini has been deployed as a striker for a long time now, and if you take away his goals we have absolutely **** all up front. Therefore the Fellaini money should go on a boss new striker, someone capable of scoring 15-20 goals a season.

Can't stand the idea of selling Fellaini and swapping him with a couple of 6 million pound players from the same Market that Norwich are buying from.

I don't think one season constitutes a long time in his career. And to be honest I think we play much much better and Jelavic especially plays much better when we aren't lumping balls up to Felli's chest. I am predicting Jela to have a revitalization under Martinez. Spend on strengthening the CM area where we are pretty short. Nacer Chadli, Leroy Fer, Wanyama, and Moses will be an amazing transfer window if we can muster it. Could even grab Moses on a loan possibly.

 

[Essex Blue]

Fellaini has played behind the striker for far longer than just one season, he was playing infront of Neville and Gibson for the latter half of the season prior to last year, and for periods prior to that. Nobody was interested in him when he signed his last contract.

I see little point in investing 15 million pound on a player in 2008, waiting 4 or 5 years for him to finally come good, only to then replace him with a couple of 6 or 7 million pound players.

If we were investing 15 million in players in 2008, why are we now regressing back to buying players in an inferior market?

 

[Jozzy]

Fellaini has played behind the striker for far longer than just one season, he was playing infront of Neville and Gibson for the latter half of the season prior to last year, and for periods prior to that. Nobody was interested in him when he signed his last contract.

I see little point in investing 15 million pound on a player in 2008, waiting 4 or 5 years for him to finally come good, only to then replace him with a couple of 6 or 7 million pound players.

If we were investing 15 million in players in 2008, why are we now regressing back to buying players in an inferior market?

We didn't wait four or five years for him to come good, he's been great for years. I would much rather buy a young player, we are a sell to buy club so we're much better off buying someone young so when we do sell them we can et more for them and you can have them playing good football for longer, unless you're Distin.

 

[Tree13]

We'll need an AM, a box to box player and a top class striker if we sell Fellani. Honda, Fer and Negredo would cost £32m - £35m combined.

Fixed that for you.

Regardless of Felli staying or going, we need replacements for Neville and Hitz. If Felli goes then we need a replacement TALL person, because his work at ACM will be taken on by Osman, Barkley and, if we get someone in who can play on the right, Mirallas.

Is there a reason why Diame and De Guzman aren't listed as options on the poll? Both already have prem experience, both likely to be available for between £4m and £6m. Didn't Diame play for RM at Wigan?

 

[Essex Blue]

We didn't wait four or five years for him to come good, he's been great for years. I would much rather buy a young player, we are a sell to buy club so we're much better off buying someone young so when we do sell them we can et more for them and you can have them playing good football for longer, unless you're Distin.

Check the vaults, he was vilified for long periods due to poor performances. Lets not pretend that he was an instant success and has been brilliant for years. Where was all the interest from the top clubs at the time he signed his last contract? There wasn't any.

It seems stupid to regress back to buying players from a lower market when we were investing 15million at a time when we had far less money at our disposal. Why didn't we just buy two 7 million pound players back in 2008?

 

[bluestevon]

Fellaini has played behind the striker for far longer than just one season, he was playing infront of Neville and Gibson for the latter half of the season prior to last year, and for periods prior to that. Nobody was interested in him when he signed his last contract.

I see little point in investing 15 million pound on a player in 2008, waiting 4 or 5 years for him to finally come good, only to then replace him with a couple of 6 or 7 million pound players.

If we were investing 15 million in players in 2008, why are we now regressing back to buying players in an inferior market?

For one when we bought fellaini he was only really worth about 6-7m we VASTLY overpaid for him, and your speaking like spending 15-20m on a lid is some recipe for success over spending 6m, sorry mate footy isnt like that

Baines 6m, Mirrales 6m, Jags 4-5m, Distan 5m

Yakuba -12-13m, Billy - 10m, Felli -15m.

Only used the years since around feli arrived and ignored obvious bargains like coleman and gibson when listing this like, but honestly can you say that the 6m market has been inferior to the ones breaking for us, 10m+

You havnt got a clue about what the squad needs if you think we should just replace like for like and ignore the glaring holes we have in 3 areas of the park mate

 

[bluestevon]

Check the vaults, he was vilified for long periods due to poor performances. Lets not pretend that he was an instant success and has been brilliant for years. Where was all the interest from the top clubs at the time he signed his last contract? There wasn't any.

It seems stupid to regress back to buying players from a lower market when we were investing 15million at a time when we had far less money at our disposal. Why didn't we just buy two 7 million pound players back in 2008?

so you think we shouldnt have bought oviedo mirrales stones and Pinnear last year mate the total was around the 17m mark, im guessing you would have just preferred us to have spent that on the one player instead?

Serious question like

 

[hktoffee]

From the above list I will take any of Leroy Fer, Kesiuke Honda, Ever Banega, Benat and Kevin Strootman. If Fellaini is leaving for the reported £24m, we probably can buy 2 players from my list. One to play DM/CM with Gibbo and the other as AM. I will say my first choice pair are Fer and Banega. Realistically, Strootman won't join us. Honda again I don't think he will join. Benat is alright but I think we need some steel in CM.

I predict the combined fees of Fer and Banega will be around £20m. That definiately leaves us £4m plus £3m from Heitinga as well as £2/3m left in the January window. I will get a winger from that amount. Moses? Susaeta? N'Zogbia? Chadli? Maybe we have £10 odd millions from the new TV money to buy a striker - Bony perhaps. We will sign Alcaraz and a 2nd keeper on a free.

So my FM Everton team for the new season will be:

Howard

Coleman Jagielka (capt) Distin Baines

Gibson Fer

New winger (undecided) Banega Mirallas

Bony

 

[Essex Blue]

For one when we bought fellaini he was only really worth about 6-7m we VASTLY overpaid for him, and your speaking like spending 15-20m on a lid is some recipe for success over spending 6m, sorry mate footy isnt like that

Baines 6m, Mirrales 6m, Jags 4-5m, Distan 5m

Yakuba -12-13m, Billy - 10m, Felli -15m.

Only used the years since around feli arrived and ignored obvious bargains like coleman and gibson when listing this like, but honestly can you say that the 6m market has been inferior to the ones breaking for us, 10m+

You havnt got a clue about what the squad needs if you think we should just replace like for like and ignore the glaring holes we have in 3 areas of the park mate

How have we vastly overpaid for him when he is about to fetch us 24 million pounds? We paid the premium for potential, and it eventually paid off.

I know that a greater transfer fee doesn't guarantee success, but nor does a small one. If that was the case then everybody (including the top clubs) would be out buying all those Seamus Colemans that are ready, available and waiting to join the top clubs, but it doesn't work like that either!

Our main 'glaring hole' is upfront, and if you take Fellaini away from that then we have absolutely **** all up there, it's a Championship strikeforce. The players you mention; Baines, Jags and Distin, they're all bloody defenders that come with hefty Mark's and Spencer's price tags for defenders. We NEED a striker, and the 11million we spent on Yakubu was only wasted through injury which you just cannot account for, prior to that he was money well spent. You tend not to get good strikers for 6 or 7 million pound. Buying those type of strikers is a gamble, more of a gamble than paying 18million for someone like Negredo who comes with a great pedigree.

Moyes decreased our squad size when he bought Fellaini, as his purchase was funded by selling the likes of AJ and McFadden, and he did this because he knew that quality is better than quantity. It will be bloody stupid to sell Fellaini and replace him with someone from an inferior market.

 

[griffla]

I'm of the opinion we should keep Fellaini but if he is sold we would have to get 2 CMs, 1as Fellaini's replacement and the other as a backup or a complement to the other CMs we already have. So for me it would have to be one of the big, strong, athletic box to box CMs like Fer, Strootman, Wanyama or Capoue along with one the deep playmakers, better passers CMs like Defour, Banega, McCarthy, Jonathan Dos Santos or Eikrem.

Then spend the rest of the money on a CB, a Striker and a Winger.

This. We wanted to buy Fer to play alongside Fellaini. So if the big 'fro is sold I'd hope we'd get at least Fer (or someone of similar quality) plus players with the money raised from his transfer.
So get Leroy in, play Barkley where Felli used to play and then spend the fellaini money on 2 or 3 sh!t hot players. Over to you Roberto

 

[michaelgt5]

From the above list I will take any of Leroy Fer, Kesiuke Honda, Ever Banega, Benat and Kevin Strootman. If Fellaini is leaving for the reported £24m, we probably can buy 2 players from my list. One to play DM/CM with Gibbo and the other as AM. I will say my first choice pair are Fer and Banega. Realistically, Strootman won't join us. Honda again I don't think he will join. Benat is alright but I think we need some steel in CM.

I predict the combined fees of Fer and Banega will be around £20m. That definiately leaves us £4m plus £3m from Heitinga as well as £2/3m left in the January window. I will get a winger from that amount. Moses? Susaeta? N'Zogbia? Chadli? Maybe we have £10 odd millions from the new TV money to buy a striker - Bony perhaps. We will sign Alcaraz and a 2nd keeper on a free.

So my FM Everton team for the new season will be:

Howard

Coleman Jagielka (capt) Distin Baines

Gibson Fer

New winger (undecided) Banega Mirallas

Bony

i like that team, susaeta for right wing b)

 

[bainesontoast]

This could be a goer for many reasons:
A) Zenit's president openly talked about signing Fellaini in the January transfer window,
B) They are in the Champions League,
C) They have money to burn
D) John Chapman on Twitter (respected football journo on Belgian football) has been saying for a long time that Witsel is the guaranteed starter in the current national team's midfield, & all the others are fighting to show Wilmots they can play the best with him. At the moment, Dembele & De Bruyne are ahead of the likes of Fellaini, Defour, Chadli & Nainggolan. So it goes without saying that if Felli joined up with his old Standard Liege partner in St Petersburg, it would dramatically improve his chances of starting at the World Cup.

From a personal point of view, I would much rather he went off to Russia. I hate it when we have had to play against the likes of Rooney and Lescott after selling them. Even worse with Arteta.

I think a lot of us are in the same boat, mate. Nobody in their right mind would want to see Fellaini playing for Arsenal next season and bossing our midfield. I hope me and you are right with our Zenit theories so then we can still appreciate the big man without feeling bitter.