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Good shout.

Fletcher, O'Shea, and Graham released from Mackems. Likely unpopular idea, but anyone take Fletcher on a one year deal?

I'm not accepting that. If that was a double-whoosh attempt then it was so poorly executed that I claim the whoosh. In a bit. No whooshing intended. Just didn't pick up on the original one

Not really...in '82 the British record transfer was £1.5m. Liverpool paid £1.4 for Mark Lawrenson that same season. In '87 the record was £3.2m, and they paid around almost £2m for Beardsley the same year. Scale that up to current records (£59m presently?), and you'd be looking subjectively at tens of millions

Well not really...they tended to pay the going rate for players. A couple of million back then is more like 10 million plus now.

Smoke me a kipper

Officially yes, although he never really left and it was more a contract renewal

Should make him pay up the value of his contract. Wasn't there some ruling a couple of years back that players over a certain age were allowed to buy themselves out?

Seem to have him pegged on the Arsenal board for what he is....decent player on his day but those days are few and far between. Not many of them think he'd be any good for Arsenal.

N'Zogbia Mk II How did his dream move to Arsenal work out? Oh, Wigan you say? Never mind :-)

Honesty is fine in the right place. Think it's his over-inflated idea of how good he actually is that winds people up.

He'll hang on for grim death for whatever 'loyalty' bonus he's due, unless Arsenal/PSG/Misc champions league team forget that they like players who can pass a football more than 3 yards without loosing it, and it's the mid-level teams that come in for him. All about money and/or prestige nothing else. I'm sure his champions league talk would evaporate if we waved a £300,000 per week contract (not that we would or that he deserves anything like that) at him and he'd suddenly be very happy to 'help us get back where we belong'

Any team that actually wants him will have watched a lot of his performances over the season I'd imagine, and will have seen his relative lack of technique and effort in many games. If by some wild stretch of the imagination Arsenal are interested, it'll be similar to Cabaye when they supposedly made him listen to Arsenals response when they heard his asking price (more than 10 million is a lot for a reserve), as there's no way anyone could think he was a 20 million pound player based on last season. Must be forgetting that scouts watch matches that aren't on TV too, where he did at least attempt to make some effort. Send him to the mackems...just for a laugh

Could see him fitting in well at Leicester if they keep their style from this season

Pretty sure they were for a good while but think they'd already dropped back a fair bit by then. Think it was built up a bit more as they were one of the few teams to beat us that year.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/22/football/football-naismith-everton-homeless/ Apparently he doesn't spend much money either, takes a relatively modest allowance out of his wages and tries to live as grounded a life as possible Good attitude to have compared to a lot of footballers who end up bankrupt in their mid-40's as they didn't have the sense to realise that they can't live like millionaires without the 40K+ per week salary. I don't get the impression he's got commercial deals like Beckham (just an example) coming out of his ears, and there's a heck of a lot of footballers who retire without ending up on Sky/BBC wherever, or becoming successful enough managers to continue living as they did.

How do they pass off the other 18 teams that didn't win the league and athe least two that were relegated with Prozone?

So much this.... Having a gob that doesn't match effort and/or talent is a recipe for hatred. Colback may well be pretty rubbish (being kind) but he's not in the news every other month telling all that listen he wants to be in Champions league. I'd bet most players would too but the ones that are there more often than not can justify it with decent seasons, not the odd performance against a team that they'd give a left nut to play for

Got to be Sissoko. If he spent as much time applying himself as telling anyone who'd listen he wants to be at a Champions League club he probably would be at one.

First time a relegated team has got twelve points in their last six since West Ham in 88/89. It's never been done in the Prem era. We were relegated as bottom that season under Jim Smith. It's also the year Arsenal pipped Liverpool to the title with that Michael Thomas goal. That form over a season would have seen us a comfortable second this year :-( Even over extrapolating the whole form since Rafa arrived, we'd be sitting 11th. 2 or 3 games earlier and i think we'd have been safe. Nice one thumbhead

Krul- 3m - 1 year left on contract Janmaat- 4m Sissoko- 6m Wijnaldum- 8m Perez-7m (hopefully he stays) Townsend- 8m (hopefully he stays) Siem De Jong- 2.5m (hopefully he stays) Riviere- 0.5m Tiote- 2m Cisse- 4m Probably more realistic

I tried to make this point last week too. Lukaku/Barkley/Stones aside their team is nothing special. Maybe one or two places better but I really don't see what they think they have that puts them so much higher than they are. Not that it's wrong to dream but we were crucified for wanting better than 16th when Pardew was here Every single starter in Everton's strongest team bar keeper walks in to starting XI. Yes true...but they wouldn't be walking into a lot of the leagues starting 11.

I tried to make this point last week too. Lukaku/Barkley/Stones aside their team is nothing special. Maybe one or two places better but I really don't see what they think they have that puts them so much higher than they are. Not that it's wrong to dream but we were crucified for wanting better than 16th when Pardew was here