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Again, I'm happy to say that the club needs to sell players. But in the middle of the season it's a huge risk, to go with two young players, one who is new to the league (which frankly at £17m I'm sorry, seems awfully steep) and the other a right-footed CB playing out of position (and it shows).
we've lost millions, sometimes tens of millions on every one of his signings. He was utterly dreadful.
No he didn't tbf. He said Digne said he was ill, so he was not available. That's not Digne 'opting out', that's a player not being able to train the day before a game so he was not included. Benitez tried to play politics, as he does, instead of just saying he was ill. Well, Rondon, Delph and Gray are also all ill. So clearly, it isn't a lie.
The player should play because he is the only natural option we have in the position and he happens to be very good, albeit going through rough form, not helped by the manager. A manager who insisted 'the team comes first' but then proved that is only the case for others and not himself.
I don't mind signing this lad, he could be a good player. But we do not need a left-back and should not need a left-back and the priority singing should not be a left-back, especially a 22-year-old from Dynamo Kyiv for £17m, when we are so desperate in other areas of the pitch.
We haven't, you're chatting wham.
I'm not defending that he did a great job, I don't think he did. But we haven't lost tens of millions.
Yeah he was was apparently all done, then arsenal promised him more game time, which they haven’t done. So he will be definitely be going this window. Hopefully we can make a deal.
how much would we get for Iwobi and Gbamin now?
Well we know Iwobi wasn't his signing - Joobriachan got Moshiri in on it as his sweetner for missing out on Zaha.
Brands clearly should have been stronger in saying no and putting his foot down. He was with Zaha (and I like Zaha), but not with Iwobi.
Gbamin, yeah it hasn't worked out so far has it, it probably won't do. But is it Brands' fault he was totally mismanaged by Silva, got an injury that was then mismanaged by the medical team, and then got two totally freak injuries? No, it's not, only an idiot would say it was. The fault that lies with Brands for that signing is that it wasn't done ahead of time when we knew Gana was going to go.
You said 'we've lost millions, sometimes tens of millions on every one of his signings'
We haven't.
I'm blaming him for both. He didn't resign over Iwobi, and it certainly wasn't a Silva signing, he had the opportunity to put his foot down and manifestly didn't take it.there are also big question marks over whether Juve come through with their fee for KEAN, if they don't that's another thirty down the plughole. And Mina is on over a hundred gs a week here, if nobody matches that he stays here and leaves for nothing in 18 months, so there's another thirty gone.
list them, and we can do the maths.
We've both got better things to do with our Friday night.
I agree, except Digne is not going to play for the club again.
You'll be pleased to know that there is no let up in the hard work being done by the Alliance of Everton Fan's Groups to make our club great again.
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Player Valuation: £70m
That’s not true though is it? He’s had some clunkers like Iwobi. Mina we’d probably make our money back. Doucoure is worth what we paid. Gray we’d probably 15x our investment. Digne we got some good years and will still be well compensated when he leaves. Biggest issues for me was because he spent big on a couple flops, we didn’t have the funds to fill actual needs like right back, central midfield depth, etc.
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