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They could just say "no transfer request has been handed in" if there hasn't been. Or they could say "John Stones has handed in a transfer request, and we are sitting down, and are in discussions with John and his agent"
Not saying nothing is not really in the fans or the clubs interest going into tonight's game.
chazzle_dazzle
Player Valuation: £35m
Is every club not there to satisfy the needs of the rich, don' see many clubs fighting city and chelsea or any other rich club off...? infact is that not generally the way of the world.
Until we have 1) the finances to stand up to these clubs or 2) get a board with some balls, we wont be much more then we currently are.
If he stays and proves himself again tot he supporters to go next year... it doesnt make a blind bit of difference.
He has put his request in - its upto the board to make a stand, but if the board aren't going to invest in the first 11, we will stagnate anyways - everyone else has improved, we havent, we are weaker as a squad.
FTY
Player Valuation: £70m
I'd do that.
Just get the little judas rat out the door.
EFC78
Player Valuation: £25m
Agree with a lot of that but he's hardly a Judas is he? He's a young lad from Barnsley who left his hometown club to make a step up to the Premier League. The lad has ambition and would now like to make another step up for his career. I know we're Everton and all that and we've had a proud history etc, but at the end of the day, Chelsea is a step up from us in this era. They're the Champions, they play in the Champions League, the media loves them, they've got Mourinho as manager, players like Hazard, Fabregas and Pedro, not to mention the 4x salary increase he will get and the location being in the Capital. When you look at it without an Evertonian perspective you can't really blame him for wanting the move.
Having said that, I think he's making a mistake demanding this move at this moment in time. He should have waited until he'd made it in to the Euro's squad as he's now risking that by joining them. He's also not the finished article, but ambitious people take that risk so from a neutral perspective, fair play to him.
Now on to the media campaign and Chelsea/Mourinho. I agree with you 100% and this is why for me it is irrelevant that they're seen as a step up from us because they've treated us with disrespect from the very start. Even worse than Chelsea and all the public tapping up they've done has been the media. Genuinely sickening when you're on the wrong end of it as a fan and there is no punishment for them doing it and making up stuff.
I reckon a lot of untoward stuff has gone on in this whole period. Players having a word with him on the sly, messages being passed from certain people to his agent to whisper in his ear. None of that is so bad, if it's before the season starts, but for it all to go on now while we've started our campaign is a disgrace.
We can't sell him. I'll be livid if we do.
royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
At this stage they don't have to say anything,this is like a game of poker,first one to blink, and things like that, next move is up to Chelsiki, they know of the transfer request,now it's up to them to come back.
Any sounds coming from the boardroom? Bet they come back with,'we had no choice but to sell him' .Not sure whats the point of a contract. Fans should have a contract each season and then they can decide if they still want to go if the team keeps selling its best players! Specially to teams only been going since 2003! and have been relegated more times than they have won the league!
You mean the current champions?
kenada_blue
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Hazard was ripping up the French league and was player of the year for 2 seasons. Hed "develop" anywhere.
Aint sold on Zouma.
uknightbreed
Player Valuation: £35m
I think they should throw stones into the rancor pit under kenwrights desk, unchain 'the besic' (who is rumoured to have not been fed in a few days), and let him snap the traitor into little pieces and splinters.
FTY
Player Valuation: £70m
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