Confirmed Signing Richarlison

[WA Toffee]

I hate this mentality, no offense.

The reason people moan about the fee is because Everton, like MOST other clubs, have a budget. They only can spend what's allotted to them. Value for money. If you spend £30 mil on someone like Klassen you have less money available for another possible player.

No offence taken, but the quality of the player is much more important than the price tag. A few years ago we didn’t have the budget to buy Christoph Samba (12M), so we bought John Stones (1.5M)
Conversley, we bought Davy Klaasen for pretty much the same price as the RS paid for Salah.

Price tags mean nothing unless you are the one paying it, for a fan the only question we need to ask is “will they improve us”

 

[Goat]

False dichotomy -- there are more than two options.

I understand that some fans aren't interested in following the business side, but that's different from saying we should just spunk money on anyone.

Im very interested in the business side, I personally dont see where this 50m is coming from, we certainly do not have 50m currently floating around from what I know, put it that way. Im certainly not saying im an expert, not even close, but I can do basic math and from my calculations we are proper skint.

 

[4737carlin]

Personally I would be laughing my nipples off that they are spending 50m on utter tosh.

To be honest.

O yeah but people would still moan that they have and we didnt

 

[GARY_EVERTONIAN]

i cant stop laughing at reds who r taunting us about Shaqiri - 13 mil Richardlison - 40 mil .

Honestly what to say to such "Pundits "

 

[Wizard]

No offence taken, but the quality of the player is much more important than the price tag. A few years ago we didn’t have the budget to buy Christoph Samba (12M), so we bought John Stones (1.5M)
Conversley, we bought Davy Klaasen for pretty much the same price as the RS paid for Salah.

Price tags mean nothing unless you are the one paying it, for a fan the only question we need to ask is “will they improve us”

We bought Klaasen for just under £25m. Salah cost about £37m. Not really “pretty much the same price”.

Saying that I do largely agree with the argument you’re making

 

[Goat]

O yeah but people would still moan that they have and we didnt

Well a few people thought we should have signed the Alpine Messi and no doubt will remind us of that every goal he scores next season.

 

[4737carlin]

No offence taken, but the quality of the player is much more important than the price tag. A few years ago we didn’t have the budget to buy Christoph Samba (12M), so we bought John Stones (1.5M)
Conversley, we bought Davy Klaasen for pretty much the same price as the RS paid for Salah.

Price tags mean nothing unless you are the one paying it, for a fan the only question we need to ask is “will they improve us”

Thing is we need to go back to the strategy of finding these Stones type players, even Lescott no one was looking at when we went for him, now were going for big money players but have no idea what we are doing with the money we have. Were going to end up selling several players at a loss, which is awful way to do things, once the price goes high alarm bells should ring. A few more windows like last summer and we will be in a very deep mess

 

[Blue83]

That was a month and a half ago.

Please don't destroy the hope that it can still be true

 

[Neiler]

Im very interested in the business side, I personally dont see where this 50m is coming from, we certainly do not have 50m currently floating around from what I know, put it that way. Im certainly not saying im an expert, not even close, but I can do basic math and from my calculations we are proper skint.

I suspect it’s player trading, I think we have a few deals earmarked for outs. I think the deal will be 35 mill, we won’t be liable for the add ons this year. Wages will be the left over of Rooney’s, lower I’d imagine, I’d say he’s on a poor wage at Watford given his profile arriving there. He will be happy with 60-80k here.

 

[Goat]

I suspect it’s player trading, I think we have a few deals earmarked for outs. I think the deal will be 35 mill, we won’t be lieable for the add ons this year. Wages will be the left over of Rooney’s, lower I’d imagine, I’d say he’s on a poor wage at Watford given his profile arriving there. He will be happy with 60-80k here.

Yes of course and as you pointed out earlier, we probably wont be paying 50m upfront, it will be spread over a few years.

I mean when I do the math, its based on the here and now, but our accounts are far more complex than anything I could even begin to work out.

 

[VentureBrosEFC]

Please don't destroy the hope that it can still be true

Only if you don't try and destroy my enthusiasm about the deal and new season in general .

 

[tsubaki]

Thing is we need to go back to the strategy of finding these Stones type players, even Lescott no one was looking at when we went for him, now were going for big money players but have no idea what we are doing with the money we have. Were going to end up selling several players at a loss, which is awful way to do things, once the price goes high alarm bells should ring. A few more windows like last summer and we will be in a very deep mess

Well exactly. What is the point of the DoF role if we are buying "established" players from the rest of the PL at a premium?

 

[ilikecheese]

Thing is we need to go back to the strategy of finding these Stones type players, even Lescott no one was looking at when we went for him, now were going for big money players but have no idea what we are doing with the money we have. Were going to end up selling several players at a loss, which is awful way to do things, once the price goes high alarm bells should ring. A few more windows like last summer and we will be in a very deep mess

Why do you think we should be shopping the bargain bin?

Did Rom not prove that sometimes it's wise to spend money to make money?

 

[ToffeeJord]

Pretty sure we could of signed Leon Bailey for price quoted for Richy. What a shame

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

It's unbelievable how many people believe that Everton have agreed to pay Watford's 50m asking price which they leaked to the media yesterday. Perhaps its an excuse to hate the club even more than they already do. Unreal.