If we sign any 18 year old player and he plays for us three full seasons he counts has an homegrown player. He can be from any country. Doesn’t need to be English.
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Jack Clarke is a great talent.
They are going to ask for 100M if he has another year like this one - he has long enough on his contract.
There are loads of players I would be spending the money on before him.
Of course.... Yet as we know, some PAY for such shite.
Heaton as second choice?
www.theguardian.com
Probably have 3 years in him - (I am not sold on Gazzaniga and at least Heaton is HG).
Everton set to land £22m Gomes but Burnley hit by Heaton contract blow
Everton are close to the permanent signing of André Gomes after agreeing a fee of £22m plus add-ons for the Barcelona midfielder
www.theguardian.com
Probably have 3 years in him - (I am not sold on Gazzaniga and at least Heaton is HG).
Balls. Llorente would have been an excellent addition for us. Very different to Ceballos.
Both Barcelona and Real Madrid bought players from mid level Spanish clubs (Valencia and Real Betis) but found they really are not good enough at that level, even though Spanish/Portugese internationals and were not getting playing time.
Both Gomez to Everton from Barcelona and Fornals to West Ham from Villareal priced at around £25m.
Ceballos has only made around 30 appearances (including off the bench) for Madrid over 3 seasons (ie average 10 a season) so hasn't developed from the 18m euro acquisition they made from Real Betis.
Spurs beat Real Madrid 2 seasons ago - Id hate to buy Ceballos and find that due to injury we had to play him v Madrid this season - not good enough for Madrid so we'd lose. Would need a lot of coaching to bring him up to standard.
Better CM's available - beside which Poch prefers players who can play multiple roles so for preference he'd go for a CM/AM. Then there is the home grown problem......
Heaton as second choice?
Everton set to land £22m Gomes but Burnley hit by Heaton contract blow
Everton are close to the permanent signing of André Gomes after agreeing a fee of £22m plus add-ons for the Barcelona midfielder
Probably have 3 years in him - (I am not sold on Gazzaniga and at least Heaton is HG).
Decent back up, even might give Gazaniga decent competition for no 2 place, and agree he needs it !
Seeing as we get a bit of stick for not completing certain deals I had a little think at lunch about who we were apparently close to that didn't sign who ended up being a bit shit after the deal apparently collapsed.
Saido Berahino, Yann M'Vila, Keita Balde, Pape Cheikh Diop, Jay Rodriguez instantly came to mind. Who else did we nearly sign only to not get them and it turn out to be a decent decision not to? There's a few that I'm going to kick myself over but I know there definitely has been a fair old amount we looked at that would have been poor deals looking back on them.
Saido Berahino, Yann M'Vila, Keita Balde, Pape Cheikh Diop, Jay Rodriguez instantly came to mind. Who else did we nearly sign only to not get them and it turn out to be a decent decision not to? There's a few that I'm going to kick myself over but I know there definitely has been a fair old amount we looked at that would have been poor deals looking back on them.
Hense 60m+ for N'D & GLC....
I was just working on the 170k per week for 5 years plus 10m sign on. Even if you add 16m agent fee that still makes 70m total cost for the deal.
They'd probably get that back if the sell him in 3 years time. Great deal IMO.
What makes you think he's a prima donna? He was highly critical of some of the prima donna's at PSG.
From the deal they've just done his mum hasn't made extortionate demands.
I'd be wary of believing everything we read. PSG have a much more powerful media machine than Rabiot and his mum.
Seems like a cheap fee for young English talent to me, certainly worth a punt now rather than waiting for next summer when he could be worth 40-50 million. 'We need to brave and take risks'.
Bolasi, Ings, Schneiderlin
Woule we have a problem with selling Wanyama to Woolwich for a decent fee?
Nowhere near as good a business - in pure value terms- as Rabiot.
If reports are true, they are paying 28yo Ramsey 400k pw over 4 years. That means 83m and they end up with a 32yo worth what ? - With his injury record....
Hard to see how we'd lose money on him.
A few seasons back we paid £9m for Foyth when he'd only played 8 matches, and £9m then was worth as much if not more than £14m is now with PL fee inflation.
Probably is a good deal - I like him as a player but no doubt he does come with baggage.
I am always weary of signings on bosman and sell on in the future, if they have done it once they are more likely to do it again IMO. I know Rabiot is a special case due to the way PSG went about it but wouldn't count on the sell on fee.