Not the time to sell AJ
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With DM now conceding that neither Cahill nor Vaughn will be fit for the start of the season and young Vic off to Beijing, I believe it would be reckless in the extreme to offload AJ before we have a replacement, if we have replace him at all. All we need is the Yak to have an off-spell and we're stuffed mightily.
Guy Hastings,
East Sussex Posted 17/07/2008 at 16:02:46
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It makes sense to me as well. And isn’t it also DM’s point of view, as far as we know - not letting AJ go (if he wants to) without already having a replacement. And who would that be anyway? Nobody available in the PL would be worth the money we would get for AJ, as far as I can see.
I don’t want AJ sold full stop!!
I thought the aim was strengthening in midfield.
And shore up our defence - in midfield and right back?
AJ no wants to go. Sick of all this paper dribble!!
The subtext of my point is that, whatever the fate of DK, the board cannot insist on offloading anyone - let alone AJ, of whom I am deeply fond - to reinforce a lightweight midfield.
There’s still four weeks to go before the season starts and six before the window closes.I suspect that AJ WILL be on his way and the £10M fee used to buy a replacement and a midfielder.
If he doesn’t go then expect just the odd loan signing.Money is tight, believe me.
Without AJ being able to win penaltys he is half the threat of the player we signed for 8mill if offered ten i would take it. There are plenty of strikers available that can score 10 goals a year in the prem. Would AJ get on the bench for a top four side?
I think you may well be right, Sid, but I?m not too worried. We finished fifth last season and have effectively lost only Carsley. Moysey will bring in a replacement even if it is on loan and let?s remember only 11 can be on the field at the same time.
The manager has always favoured a small tightly-knit squad so why should he change now. With or without AJ, we?re in good shape. IMWT!
Ken Miller can you tell us all how you make eleven with Arteta just coming back from injury, and Cahill and Hibbert and Vaughan not available for the start of the season? Yeah we are in great shape if you bury your head in the sand and hope beyond everything that no one gets injured or suspended. FFS we couldn’t even scrape together a second eleven for a friendly; that’s a disgrace.
Early doors yet to be picking a team but if we have to go into the Blackburn game with this squad I?d fancy us big time.
Howard; Neville, Jagielka, Lescott,
Baines; Arteta, New Signing, Pienaar, Osman, Fernandes;
Yakubu.
Subs; Turner; Valente, Yobo, Rodwell, Vaughan, Van der Meyde, Gosling.
What?s the panic????
I read somewhere they are about to pay Moyes £60k a week to sort it out. So why the fuck are we all worrying?
Gavin I agree with you, after last season I was hoping to see top class players arriving when we were linked with Arshavin, Jo etc... now it's the other end of the scale where we appear to be looking.
Terry, it’s all very well picking 11 players but 1 or 2 injuries and we’re stuffed. It seems every summer instead of building a squad we’re becoming more and more depleted with fewer and fewer options to change a game.
Terry, in case you weren?t aware, half the players in your 18 either haven?t yet signed, are in the early stages of rehab or are still in a foreign country. How the fuck we can go into the season with just that squad defeats me!
Don?t panic! I?ve read today that Tommy G is having second thoughts about going to Stoke, Hull might let Dean Windass go and John Oster has left Reading. Oh,and Spurs say we can keep Gardner for just £2M!
It all seems odd to me that a club who have had 4 or 5 good seasons on the bounce should be so poverty stricken.
The performance and TV money is generous and we don’t pay mega wages so where is it going?
It just seems that the better we do the poorer we get!
Dennis and Darren
thanks to the highly competent and thoroughly Blue Bill we are now £60 million in debt and losing over £10 million a year a large part of which is wages and a part is interest on loans.
Wyness gave the merchandising to JJB (No doubt for 30 pieces of silver - Although there is no proof so its only an opinion before the poor chinese bloke gets sued again) based on the theory its better to lose operations that are not making money rather than manage them better so our commercial income is amongst the lowest in the prem.
Here is the makeup for last year:
Gate receipts: £17.0m
TV money: £27.5m
Sponsorship: £4.5m
Merchandising: £1.0m
Other: £1.0m
Total receipts: £51m
loss: £9.5m
Spurs by comparison with a maximum capacity at WHL of only 36000 get income of £104million.
Conclusion: After 6 years we must have the most incompetent board in the country.
Let’s face some reality here. AJ is not very good. He is a striker who offers very little goal threat. I think he is mentally weak, after all after some slight criticism from a renowned gobshite likr Neil Warnock he went on a barren run of about 15 games without a goal while looking like he was about to burst into tears at the slightest hint of bad publicity. His goal ratio is shit, next to a genuine goal scorer like Yakubu he looks amatuerish. In an ideal world I would rather we kept him & added to the squad however this is unlikely so I would say that £10 mill for him is good business although I fully agree that a replacement must be found immediately.
So we should keep AJ, not because he’s a goalscorer but because we need bodies (yawn). So if the Yak get’s injured with or without AJ were still stuffed!
Logic suggests that if a prolific goalscorer can be found then AJ should leave... what’s all the fuss about?
It would do AJ & Everton the world of good to part ways. AJ is not Champions league material (and that’s our chief aim).
It is not Everton’s job to mould itself around AJ but visa versa. If he cannot make the grade he should step aside for someone who can.
AJ is a grown-up. A multi-millionaire who has made a mint out of the working class faithful. Holding the club back because we like him isn’t good enough anymore. I like AJ, but I love Everton. Thanks for the memories... time to move on.
Another point. If a replacement is to be bought prior to AJ’s sale then money must already exist to pull this off. Round has arrived and Moyes is about to tie himself to us for another 5 years.
Moyes is playing silly buggers again, and this time I am not fooled!
It's just like when we sold McFadden, we let him go when we couldn't really afford to cos we didn't have enough back-up and that became obvious after he left. If we sell AJ with or without a replacement then we're nutters cos (1) he's really quite good when we don't play long balls to the corner flag for him to chase; (2) we have one of the smallest squads in the prem and we are in no position to sell anyone let alone one of our better palyers; and (3) would we really have the power to sign anyone better than him? I very much doubt it.
Chris
1) Why would you want to see Everton play long balls to the corner flag
2) AJ has no ability to take it round anyone so when he gets to the cornerflag he just loses it anyway
3) £6 Million for McFadden is a great deal; he hardly set the world alight and his scoring record for us was apalling
4) You could sign a better player for half that amount
I wonder sometimes if people watch the matches or just read the match report on the official Everton propaganda website.
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