Dave Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 £6m for Lewis Gibson?? Why are we selling someone so highly valued? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Depressing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 I've never seen him play or read about him on here until he was linked to them last week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Brilliant fee that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
healthyaddiction Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 £6m for Lewis Gibson?? Why are we selling someone so highly valued? I think he hasn't actually signed a pro-contract yet so I'm suprised we're getting that much. I guess it would go to a FA tribunal if we didn't agree something ourselves with Everton though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 To be fair, how often would someone from our academy fetch a fee like that without even being near the first team squad? If Rafa is happy to sell and gets to spend the money... then fine. He might even turn out to be shite, who knows Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Brilliant fee that. If he turns out to be a first-team player for Everton then how? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 If the lad is being valued at £6 million at 16 then he should be being kept, not flogged. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 If the lad is being valued at £6 million at 16 then he should be being kept, not flogged. Sissoko was valued at £30m like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Brilliant fee that. If he turns out to be a first-team player for Everton then how? Then good on him and Everton. He'd never do that here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
healthyaddiction Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Brilliant fee that. If he turns out to be a first-team player for Everton then how? Then good on him and Everton. He'd never do that here. I have some faith we'd be able to develop him. Based purely that I think Rafa will be making improvements there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Brilliant fee that. If he turns out to be a first-team player for Everton then how? Then good on him and Everton. He'd never do that here. Why not? Carroll did, and we then got a crazy fee for him - which probably would have been even more in 2017 figures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Brilliant fee that. If he turns out to be a first-team player for Everton then how? Then good on him and Everton. He'd never do that here. Why not? Carroll did, and we then got a crazy fee for him - which probably would have been even more in 2017 figures. Exception rather than the rule, though. How many other academy 'graduates' have fetched a fee anything above a nominal one? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Liverpool Echo reckons Spurs and Southampton are also interested. Feels like a mistake to sell tbh, even though I've never even seen him play. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Brilliant fee that. If he turns out to be a first-team player for Everton then how? Then good on him and Everton. He'd never do that here. Why not? Carroll did, and we then got a crazy fee for him - which probably would have been even more in 2017 figures. Exception rather than the rule, though. How many other academy 'graduates' have fetched a fee anything above a nominal one? Well maybe because we've had fuck all decent come through? How many of our bairns even play for England youth set-ups? Not many. If we've finally got one coming through who at 17 (happy birthday to him) is being targeting for £6 million bids from other PL clubs then we should not be selling him. Pure small-time mentality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Agree in principle that we should be holding on our best prospects like. Wouldn't be surprised in if this instance there's nowt we can do. Heads gone, flog the traitor to one of the super 7 twats. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Brilliant fee that. If he turns out to be a first-team player for Everton then how? Then good on him and Everton. He'd never do that here. Why not? Carroll did, and we then got a crazy fee for him - which probably would have been even more in 2017 figures. Exception rather than the rule, though. How many other academy 'graduates' have fetched a fee anything above a nominal one? Fuck all cos we never give them a chance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Clearly he wouldn't be leaving if he didn't want to. He is apparently one of our best prospects. He has had his head turned. 6m is a nice fee for that are a player annoying he doesn't have the trust in our system and the club to stick around. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Everton signed John Stones for £3 million as a 19 year old and 3 years later had sold him for £50 million. Even ignoring the penny wise, pound foolish mentality of doing so - it's more than that. It sets an extremely negative image of the club and is pretty disgraceful IMO. The exact kind of thing that simply should not be happening with Rafa here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Even ignoring the penny wise, pound foolish mentality of doing so - it's more than that. It sets an extremely negative image of the club and is pretty disgraceful IMO. The exact kind of thing that simply should not be happening with Rafa here. Indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 I wonder who will be next in after Mankini? Any "concrete" rumours? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Even ignoring the penny wise, pound foolish mentality of doing so - it's more than that. It sets an extremely negative image of the club and is pretty disgraceful IMO. The exact kind of thing that simply should not be happening with Rafa here. Indeed. Even with Rafa, it's clear we're lightyears behind the top 7 in terms of resources and pulling power. Extremely sad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Rolan maybe. Seems like lazy journalism though with Fulham already talking to him. Think if we were serious we would have jumped on that already. Real Betis LB maybe. Still hope we go for Gibbs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Everton signed John Stones for £3 million as a 19 year old and 3 years later had sold him for £50 million. Even ignoring the penny wise, pound foolish mentality of doing so - it's more than that. It sets an extremely negative image of the club and is pretty disgraceful IMO. The exact kind of thing that simply should not be happening with Rafa here. Yep - agreed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Even ignoring the penny wise, pound foolish mentality of doing so - it's more than that. It sets an extremely negative image of the club and is pretty disgraceful IMO. The exact kind of thing that simply should not be happening with Rafa here. Indeed. Even with Rafa, it's clear we're lightyears behind the top 7 in terms of resources and pulling power. Extremely sad. And more importantly, we're absolutely shite at developing players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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