Ramiro Funes Mori

[catcherintherye]

Seems a very high fee. I can't help but think we'd have been better going for someone like a Scott Dann. Or Alternatively looking for a loan and trying to put the money towards a playmaker.

 

[Blue 1]

Fee seems ever so high.

Still, nice to be signing players rather than praying for the window to shut and hoping we hang on to the family silver.

 

[neo2020]

Whoa, £9.5 million. That seems way more than originally reported, no?

 

[RFUS]

Utterly ridiculous fee. Everton should have left it undisclosed, but in true Everton fashion we're flaunting the fee so we can say we had a higher net spend.

Which is mad. People don't understand that we want to sign proven quality, which usually costs proper money. Hence people want to see us spend a fair bit. Wasting money is another thing altogether.

Of course I'm right behind him and I hope he's ace, but regardless of how well he does for us, at this point in time, that is far too much to pay for an unproven CB from Argentina.

 

[loooweee]

Anyone loving the broad walk empire look he is pulling off.

 

[Jags..class]

Seems a very high fee. I can't help but think we'd have been better going for someone like a Scott Dann. Or Alternatively looking for a loan and trying to put the money towards a playmaker.

Damn a massive rs fan who was just looking for a new contact as his club

 

[bizzaro]

Everton have completed their first signing of what might prove a hectic final day with Ramiro Funes Mori sealing his move from River Plate. Everton have stated the final fee is £9.5m (a sum that includes a necessary percentage to the Argentinian football federation) - a £3.5m increase on what was supposedly agreed for the 24-year-old central defender only 10 days ago. Seems it may not have been international clearance that was the cause of the hold-up after all. The Argentina defender was called up for forthcoming internationals having impressed in his previous club’s Copa Liberatores’ triumph this summer and is competition, not a replacement, for John Stones and Phil Jagielka.

EH?

I hope that Evertons lawyers looked this over as paying any fees to government or regulatory officials is covered under the Bribery Act and has to be very carefully scrutinized.

I am sure someone has mistranslated that part.

More likely it was a third party player agent that owned a proportion of his contract there that we were legally required to also buy out.

If not upfront but under a contractual arrangement.

@the esk @Tubey @davek

 

[AaronTheBlue]

they've padded that out a lot.

No chance it's anywhere near that, and they're just trying to appease fans by saying they've spent more than they have.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

What's the general view on the size of the fee?

 

[Lukaku'sLeftTesticle]

9.5m ... FFS EVERTON - I hated it for 5.5m ... South American defenders never step up to the prem

 

[ElPorto]

The face of a man who has had his advances rejected by the new signing... quality hand placement to make up for it though.

 

[DanEFC92]

£9.5m? Christ. Had it in my head it was going to be less than £1m.

 

[Lukaku'sLeftTesticle]

Van dijk for 2m more .. sigh

 

[bizzaro]

they've padded that out a lot.

No chance it's anywhere near that, and they're just trying to appease fans by saying they've spent more than they have.

Its spread out. Appearance based. Can't be any other way as the cashflow situation at Everton wouldn't allow it.

 

[Ihaters]

What's the general view on the size of the fee?

They wont of spent that without seeing the player a lot first, I guess we need to wait to see how good he is but I suspect he's better than we are anticipating.