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billycopper
Player Valuation: £40m
For argument's sake let's say that the board are trying to get our finances in order so that we don't continue to lose £5m per season. It looks like we were at break even on transfers before the Rodwell deal and that our wage bill will have come down a touch. It's disappointing if we only got £12m up front for Rodders. However, because of the speed that the deal went through it seems like Everton were asked to name their price, so I would expect it to be higher. And if negotiations had been going on for a while, why would we take him to Malaga with us? He was down the pecking order for us an has an ongoing injury concern, so we could afford to sacrifice him.
I don't agree that the squad is threadbare.
___________Howard
___________Mucha
Neville Jagielka Heitinga Baines
Hibbert Duffy Distin Garbutt
Coleman
_________Fellaini Gibson
_________Junior
Osman_________________Pienaar
Barkley_________________Gueye
__________Naismith
__________McAleney
__________Jelavic
__________Vellios
__________Anichebe
Moyes works with a small squad out of preference. If we had three or four injuries to key men we'd probably struggle but so would most sides and I don't think that we'd carry extra players to cover for it. As it stands Mucha, Duffy, Garbutt, Barkley, Gueye, McAleney and Vellios will most likely hardly feature, so he's working with a pool of 16 core players.
I'd imagine that he'll be trying to find someone with the dynamism of Drenthe to come in on loan and play on the wings. And he may want to bring a target man like Straq in to give us an option in case we're chasing games. In both cases, even if he had the money to spend I'm pretty sure that he'd rather take them on trial first. The last thing we would want is for him to get over-excited and to splurge on players like he did with Bily. Slowly, slowly catchy monkey.
I don't agree that the squad is threadbare.
___________Howard
___________Mucha
Neville Jagielka Heitinga Baines
Hibbert Duffy Distin Garbutt
Coleman
_________Fellaini Gibson
_________Junior
Osman_________________Pienaar
Barkley_________________Gueye
__________Naismith
__________McAleney
__________Jelavic
__________Vellios
__________Anichebe
Moyes works with a small squad out of preference. If we had three or four injuries to key men we'd probably struggle but so would most sides and I don't think that we'd carry extra players to cover for it. As it stands Mucha, Duffy, Garbutt, Barkley, Gueye, McAleney and Vellios will most likely hardly feature, so he's working with a pool of 16 core players.
I'd imagine that he'll be trying to find someone with the dynamism of Drenthe to come in on loan and play on the wings. And he may want to bring a target man like Straq in to give us an option in case we're chasing games. In both cases, even if he had the money to spend I'm pretty sure that he'd rather take them on trial first. The last thing we would want is for him to get over-excited and to splurge on players like he did with Bily. Slowly, slowly catchy monkey.
Squad size is a worry, and some of them youngsters are not tried in big games before or aren't good enough e.g Gueye. Everyone buzzing a few weeks ago thought we may see a renewed optimised around Goodison but yet again the doom and gloom has hit.
Bill Kenwright is to blame the cancerous cell that feeds freely off our club. Horrible [Poor language removed] him ad quicker he gives our club back the better!
Bill Kenwright is to blame the cancerous cell that feeds freely off our club. Horrible [Poor language removed] him ad quicker he gives our club back the better!
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
In that ENTIRE squad we have Jagielka, Heitinga, Baines, Fellaini, Pienaar, Jelavic who are quality players = 6.
We then have an abundance of averageness and untried youth.
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Here lads... I know its Everton, but can you not be optimistic for once like ?
Rodwell will bring in more than the 12 upfront as its 12 with add ons. 12 mil + more for a player who i dont see coming off our bench much, to me isn't ALL doom and gloom.
Just wait and see what magic Moyes can do with his pocket money, he's done it before.
And stop pulling rumours out yer fekin arse, especially trying to put definite figures out there, as you don't know, and it doesn't help.
Rodwell will bring in more than the 12 upfront as its 12 with add ons. 12 mil + more for a player who i dont see coming off our bench much, to me isn't ALL doom and gloom.
Just wait and see what magic Moyes can do with his pocket money, he's done it before.
And stop pulling rumours out yer fekin arse, especially trying to put definite figures out there, as you don't know, and it doesn't help.
billycopper
Player Valuation: £40m
We've got a good core to build around. If we can get ourselves in to a position where we can add one quality player each season and bring somebody through the system we will have done very well.
MartSlinger
Player Valuation: £40m
Quality youth isnt cheap. We really dont have the money to buy quality youth, we have to take a chance on someone and hope they develop into a good player.
Rodwell was an initial £15m rising to £18m depending on appearances, so the Echo is wrong again. The banks aren't begging for money, as THT, LCAB and foxy have all said, I would guess we would have more than £6m to spend off the Rodwell sale, hopefully Anichebe will be gone soon as well, adding a further £5m to the pot.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
If we're selling one quality player each season then we need to sign 2 with more potential....
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Says who ?
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
windymiller
Player Valuation: £70m
We only have 16 players in the squad that have more than 10 appearances for the club, including Velios who has a sum total of two starts, and of the others only naismith and Mucha could be called senior players. So, a squad of 18 and a few youngsters. If that isn't threadbare then I don't know what is. And people want us to sell Anichebe and Heitinga and god knows who else. I think Anichebe's an awful player but we will be struggling to put out a team with 7 subs at this rate.
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