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Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Far too many Veruca Salts on this forum.
ChesterBlue
Player Valuation: £35m
That’s not realistic, certainly after this season’s performances. 30-35, at a push 40 would be the best we would be hoping for
ToothPlucker
Player Valuation: £950k
I think we will make two signings, deregister Tosun and Martina, and keep Niasse because there's no need to sign a striker who won't even get a sniff until the end of the season now. Ancelotti has already said he is not looking for a striker which means he is resigned to Everton and Brands not being able to find a buyer for Niasse between now and the end of the season. This is backed up by him giving him cameo roles to keep him involved in case we need him due to injuries to Richarlison, DCL and Kean. I don't think he was putting him in the shop window. If we are going to make a hefty fee first-team quality signing it has to be a player who qualifies as home-grown IMO.
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alvinh
Player Valuation: £6m
If that 5m is a price that anyone can pay, rather than a part of their loan agreement, then Brands should be on the phone to Huddersfield making an offer. Mooy has proven himself at PL level and at that price it's a perfect way for a club that's got FFP issues to boost the squad.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
He also can't run and isn't an elite enough passer to make up for it. I don't think he's what we need despite the price.
Tipp blue
If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
They must not have scouted him very well then, take 30 and Zouma if they were interested which they are not certainly not at the price quoted.
sharkey1001
Player Valuation: £10m
£500k a week he is on at Liverpool as well - 6 year deal with 50% annual wage rise
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
If 78m for digne is true, we’d be mad to turn it down. It would alleviate considerable pressure on our accounting to meet FFP targets. Allowing Ancelotti to buy the players he wants, not who brands wants, to rebuild the side.
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
Yeah we have to take that if offered.
Nothing wrong with selling players for big money, as Liverpool have shown over the last 5 years
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £35m
Ok Wonka, how much for one of your geese?
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I think there has to be some realism about the type of player we can attract. If we could get Rabiot, I'm sure it would get done. If Can would come initially on a loan deal, again I sense we would do it. However if we are at the point where we have to lash a big fee on a player who isn't perfect for us, I just can't see that. At least I can't see us moving for plan b or plan C again, nor just signing a player for the sake of it.
It doesn't seem to fit what Brands is trying to do and whats Ancelotti would presumably be ok with. If Rabiot is the player he wants, and we have to wait for the summer for him, then to me, so be it.
It's frustrating I know, but last season we spent no money and turned our form around from February onwards. In other years we've spent more to go nowhere. I know it's an overly simplistic analysis but to me there's not as much of a correlation between signing players and improvement, you have to sign the right players.
The big issue with this team is mindset and professionalism. They were absolutely streets ahead of Newcastle for 65 minutes last night, let them in for 15 minutes (but were comfortably holding them at bat) then had a crazy 2 minutes to throw away a game. This is a familiar pattern, see Brighton, Leicester, Millwall, Newcastle, Wolves, Bournemouth away over the last 18 months. It's a common theme. I'm not sure signing single players can change that. It goes deeper.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Where has this rumour emerged from? That seems an insane fee for him. I would consider selling him for half that figure.
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