everton1953
Player Valuation: £40m
The only way to get EFC to take your advice is to send letters to the owners by recorded delivery and get a signed receipt. Otherwise they are condemned to live in ignorance.
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I guess the thinking is fans of clubs like Leeds and Villa and many others probably look back and wish that somebody at some point was a bit more frugal and controlled with the spending.
We can't change anything when moaning about a player costing too much but it's completely understandable that people do fixate on it IMO
Bolasie or instance. Christ almighty. The perfect example of no thought and no control (goes for the person who said yes to the deal and the player actually!)
I think it's much more understandable that a fan worries about spending than the fans who say it's not your money so it doesn't matter.
I'd like the club to stick around if possible and not ever go bust.....I kinda like Everton ya see?
We can't change anything when moaning about a player costing too much but it's completely understandable that people do fixate on it IMO
Bolasie or instance. Christ almighty. The perfect example of no thought and no control (goes for the person who said yes to the deal and the player actually!)
I think it's much more understandable that a fan worries about spending than the fans who say it's not your money so it doesn't matter.
I'd like the club to stick around if possible and not ever go bust.....I kinda like Everton ya see?
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But now you are moaning about moaning about someone moaning about people
Borussin
Player Valuation: £1m
I think another reason fans are obsessed with transfer fees, is that when their club is paying big fees for players, it lessens their ammunition call out other teams and fan bases when their teams pay a big fee for players. It's tougher to have a go at another teams spending when they can just turn round and say 'well you spent 50 million on such and such a player' or whatever.
Just have to look at the Richarlison thread here and fans are obsessing over how much the add ons are and insisting on quoting the fee without them even though we all know that all transfers have add ons - in and out of clubs. And I'm sure when our team sells a player - we'd insist on quoting the fee the club got WITH the add-ons.
It's just how fans are, of every club.
Just have to look at the Richarlison thread here and fans are obsessing over how much the add ons are and insisting on quoting the fee without them even though we all know that all transfers have add ons - in and out of clubs. And I'm sure when our team sells a player - we'd insist on quoting the fee the club got WITH the add-ons.
It's just how fans are, of every club.
Sunderland.
That's why. Let's not, eh?
That's why. Let's not, eh?
Its all about opinions...and mine is you're living in a blinkered dream world
Edit; 'Its not my money being spent' - tell that to Leeds Portsmouth Sunderland and QPR.
not having a go at you, but this is the type of post I don't get for 3 reasons.
you say he not worth 35m, but would be happy with 20-25m.There is a 5 million difference between your figures, so you are happy for us to just throw away 5 million? why not throw away another 5 million and pay 30? you cant claim to be frugal yhen dismiss 5 million quid.
For the 20-25, how much woild you pay upfront, what installments would the remainder be, what add-ons would be included, are agent fees included or is that additional. Transfers arent as simple as the headline figure, so when you say 20-25 what would be the total spend?
what is the difference between a 25m player and a 35m player? what skills and attributes make him worth 25 instead of say 15m, and what is he missing to make him a 35m player?
McBain
Player Valuation: £80m
One does boss stepovers but can't beat the first man and the other is thinking about buying a Tesla and has thought up cracking goal celebration?
Let’s just keep overspending and not being able to shift failures. Leeds, Sunderland and Villa say hi.
$6 for a gallon of milk! Outrageous!
Im fairly sure thats NOT the plan.
it seems some fans are ok with it as a business model
Im still stunned where we managed to get 35m from to sign this Richy Anderson fella.
Toffee in Jandals
Player Valuation: £35m
The high wages we pay are as big, if not a bigger risk than the initial transfer fee.
Higher the wages = yes, we may attract a player who is thinking of his wallet perhaps before his ambition, but if he doesn't adapt to the league / has a poor season / we change manager and the new manager is not a fan of said player, we could be stuck with him for 3-4 years paying him 60-80K a week, i.e. the Rodwell situation at Sunderland. Or, if you like, our current Sandro/Bolasie/Klaassen situation. If you were being paid an obscene amount of money at a job, even if you felt you didn't deserve it, why would you quit?
Lower the wages = we may therefore not be seen as quite an attractive proposition to prospective players, but on the flip-side it could be easier to get rid of perceived "deadwood" as these players could still earn more in another league, perhaps USA or China. Also, you could argue that players playing for clubs who don't pay as high a wedge are motivated by the right reasons (Tottenham Hotspur arguably the best example).
In all honesty I'm not too bothered about the transfer fees, as overall it will balance itself out - even our over-spending last season was compensated for by the sale of Lukaku. It's just a pity that the money we got from Rom's sale was invested so unwisely. That said - Pickford's value would now be double what we got for him last year, and even Sandro we'd make a profit. Sigurdsson, Klaassen and Bolasie though would almost assuredly be a loss.
Higher the wages = yes, we may attract a player who is thinking of his wallet perhaps before his ambition, but if he doesn't adapt to the league / has a poor season / we change manager and the new manager is not a fan of said player, we could be stuck with him for 3-4 years paying him 60-80K a week, i.e. the Rodwell situation at Sunderland. Or, if you like, our current Sandro/Bolasie/Klaassen situation. If you were being paid an obscene amount of money at a job, even if you felt you didn't deserve it, why would you quit?
Lower the wages = we may therefore not be seen as quite an attractive proposition to prospective players, but on the flip-side it could be easier to get rid of perceived "deadwood" as these players could still earn more in another league, perhaps USA or China. Also, you could argue that players playing for clubs who don't pay as high a wedge are motivated by the right reasons (Tottenham Hotspur arguably the best example).
In all honesty I'm not too bothered about the transfer fees, as overall it will balance itself out - even our over-spending last season was compensated for by the sale of Lukaku. It's just a pity that the money we got from Rom's sale was invested so unwisely. That said - Pickford's value would now be double what we got for him last year, and even Sandro we'd make a profit. Sigurdsson, Klaassen and Bolasie though would almost assuredly be a loss.
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