How are some people having a go at the transfers?
Johnson 8.6m, sold for 10.5m.
Vellios £200k
Coleman £60k
Arteta, 6 and a half years of quality service and £2m, sold for 10 million aged 29
Tim Cahill 8 years great service £1.5m. Possibly the pick of the lot.
Leighton Baines £6m worth over £25m now.
Tim Howard £2m 6 years great service and worth a lot more than that fee currently.
Landon Donovan, brilliant loan signing. Funds wouldn't permit permanent deal.
Marouane Fellaini £12m (actually paid) now worth £20m easy.
Gibson £500k, great squad player, bargain.
Heitinga £6m, currently probable player of the year, runner up in 2010. Probably worth double that now at least.
Pienaar £2m worth at least 4 times what we sold him for. You can blame him and his agent for the size of the leaving fee.
Phil Jagielka £4m Arsenal were ready to pay £8m on him. Would probably value him in double figures. Even after 5 years.
Nigel Martyn next to nothing. Brilliant buy.
Marcus Bent £450k. Instrumental in 04/05 season. Journeyman. Sold for £2.5m
James McFadden £4.5m profit
Yobo £3.5m, in terms of service, an excellent purchase. 8 years quality service. Was worth double figures to Arse a few years ago.
If we hadn't held on to certain players such as Arteta, Pienaar, Baines, Felli, Jagielka, Yobo, Heitinga, Cahill. Or they hadn't been loyal, we'd have profited big time. Instead we are investing 4/5ths of our revenue in keeping players here for the best part of their careers. Not maximising fees. Just counting fees is ignorant in the extreme. How can you ignore the revenue certain players have undoubtedly brought in over their long careers here? Changing 14ths and 15ths into 5ths, 6ths, 7ths and 8ths is worth huge sums in prize money alone. But forget profit. This is Everton ffs. And you will never convince anyone other than yourselves that Moyes transfer policy has been anything less than exemplary.
Slate tactics all day. But not the transfer policy.