Other clubs' transfers

[Sibierski]

Would not want Onana at the base  

 

If Villa go with diamond, you’d want him on the right side of the diamond. Do not want him deep, being the central point for all play to go through. 

[janpawel]

7 minutes ago, aussiemag said:

Is Onana press resistant with the ball? Always looked clumsy to me under pressure. 

Not anywhere close to our Bruno, but that's why I was saying he'd be brilliant paired next to someone to help with the distribution and retaining possession 

 

Tbf they sold Luiz, I think he'd be great with him

[gdm]

Just now, The Prophet said:

Jim in the mud.

and this right here blows the ‘purposely start with low bids to start negotiations’ strategy out the water. They’ve wasted time with those ridiculous low bids and now Everton have no need to sell as they’ve just got £50m for a player they knew was leaving. 
 

Froggy in the mud 

[TBG]

First Emery. Then Diaby, and now Onana.

 

Can't see PIF being happy with being made a mug again given how ruthless they are.

[gdm]

Did we even entertain the idea of going for Onana? We are fine for midfielders and certainly not one for £50m. Also seems we dodged a bullet with Diaby 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 11:19 by gdm

[aussiemag]

4 minutes ago, gdm said:

Did we even entertain the idea of going for Onana? We are fine for midfielders and certainly not one for £50m. Also seems we dodged a bullet with Diaby 

 

 

 

I think we did when it looked like Joelinton was leaving. But now he’s signed up. No. We have Tonali, Joelinton, Willock and Longstaff that can play that number 8 role. 

[Matt1892]

Onana isn’t as imposing as he should be but he still has a lot of potential, Villa have a good midfield for him to develop in.

[gjohnson]

Are we still looking at Willock as an option going forward? Seems like hes yesterdays forgotton injured man who wasnt really good enough in the first place?

 

Surely someone like Palace would drop 40-45m on him if we can get 35 for Amderson

[Conjo]

2 minutes ago, gjohnson said:

Are we still looking at Willock as an option going forward? Seems like hes yesterdays forgotton injured man who wasnt really good enough in the first place?

 

Surely someone like Palace would drop 40-45m on him if we can get 35 for Amderson

 

We only got 35m for Anderson because we bought Vlachodimos for 12-13m. 

[aussiemag]

6 minutes ago, gjohnson said:

Are we still looking at Willock as an option going forward? Seems like hes yesterdays forgotton injured man who wasnt really good enough in the first place?

 

Surely someone like Palace would drop 40-45m on him if we can get 35 for Amderson

His stats in 22/23 were comparable to Bellinghams at Dortmund. When’s he’s fit and at his best he’s definitely a key part of the squad. He creates chances, drives forward with the ball and gets some great chances to score. He needs to improve at finishing  his chances. 

[KingArthur]

50 million is a mad price. He is good player but we have no need for him at the moment. 

[brummie]

31 minutes ago, TBG said:

First Emery. Then Diaby, and now Onana.

 

Can't see PIF being happy with being made a mug again given how ruthless they are.

We sold 30m worth of home grown a few weeks ago. Then Luiz and got two cheaper players in for him plus another 20m. 
 

When people raise an eyebrow at our spending, they rarely think of the clever selling stuff. Monchi is a demon. 
 

Look at Cameron Archer. Home grown and sold to Sheffield United last year for 19m. Under that deal they paid us 9m as a first instalment with the agreement that if they got relegated they’d send him back and just not pay the rest. 
 

So we booked 9m for lending them a player who had barely featured in the PL for one season. 
 

And now we will sell him again. You have to be good at this nonsense, and the off pitch management of the club they have put in is absolutely top notch. 

[brummie]

Actually Kellyman isn’t home grown. We paid Derby 600k to bring him into to our academy and then two years later we sold him for £19m. 
 

Football is like Ultimate Team these days. God I used to love the buying and selling in that. 

[Froggy]

1 hour ago, joeyt said:

@Froggy seems cheap for someone pretty highly rated? 

 

He did OK but made a good few mistakes. He's refused a new deal. Only a year left on the contract. Happy with £8m to be honest given that he wouldn't have played barring a similar injury situation to last year. Happy to keep Evans for the year and shift Kambwala to raise some funds. 

 

52 minutes ago, gdm said:

and this right here blows the ‘purposely start with low bids to start negotiations’ strategy out the water. They’ve wasted time with those ridiculous low bids and now Everton have no need to sell as they’ve just got £50m for a player they knew was leaving. 
 

Froggy in the mud 

 

Glad we're not paying £70m for him. Well hopefully anyway. Seems like we've learned our lesson.

 

De Ligt for £42m is the sort of business we should be doing. 

[gjohnson]

16 minutes ago, aussiemag said:

His stats in 22/23 were comparable to Bellinghams at Dortmund. When’s he’s fit and at his best he’s definitely a key part of the squad. He creates chances, drives forward with the ball and gets some great chances to score. He needs to improve at finishing  his chances. 

All well and good...when he's available 

[WilliamPS]

Might end any chance of DCL moving, if Everton have done the sales they need to do

[Keegans Export]

3 minutes ago, WilliamPS said:

Might end any chance of DCL moving, if Everton have done the sales they need to do

The DCL thing is more about him being in the last year of his contract isn't it? Rather than Everton needing to sell for PSR

[GeordieDazzler]

I know he’s a good player (Onana) but my main memory of him is getting muscled off the ball by Almiron two seasons back in the build up to a Miggy wonder goal

[Nucasol]

9 minutes ago, WilliamPS said:

Might end any chance of DCL moving, if Everton have done the sales they need to do

More Branthwaite if you think about it. Strengthens their hand vs. Man Utd’s interest.

[Fezzle]

2 hours ago, aussiemag said:

Its not easy to look good as a midfielder in that Everton side. 

Apparently that's irrelevant when it comes to the poor bloke toiling around on his lonesome up front though

[joeyt]

 

 

 

[LRD]

Buy Trafford then loan him back to Burnley for a season.

[Jackie Broon]

1 hour ago, brummie said:

We sold 30m worth of home grown a few weeks ago. Then Luiz and got two cheaper players in for him plus another 20m. 
 

When people raise an eyebrow at our spending, they rarely think of the clever selling stuff. Monchi is a demon. 
 

Look at Cameron Archer. Home grown and sold to Sheffield United last year for 19m. Under that deal they paid us 9m as a first instalment with the agreement that if they got relegated they’d send him back and just not pay the rest. 
 

So we booked 9m for lending them a player who had barely featured in the PL for one season. 
 

And now we will sell him again. You have to be good at this nonsense, and the off pitch management of the club they have put in is absolutely top notch. 

 

You lost £120m in your last published accounts and had a wage to turnover ratio near to 100%. The "clever selling stuff" is just putting the consequences off for a season or two, gambling on you continuing to get into the ECL.

 

 

Edited Saturday at 12:52 by Jackie Broon

[Ikon]

Hopefully that means us not going for Trafford. 

[Joelinton7]

29 minutes ago, LRD said:

Buy Trafford then loan him back to Burnley for a season.

Might be an idea and could encourage Burnley to knock the fee down a bit. We need to get rid of Dubravka first I think. Atm Odysseas seems to be no2. They might be really unwilling to do a deal now if they are selling Muric though. Parker might want his own gk though and I know he likes Travers when he was at Bournemouth so maybe he’d go in for him and let Trafford go.