'Fellaini to Chelsea' stories start up again

The funny thing is, no one will get as good as we are getting from him now, as the top sides will not play it up to him in the same we do.

If he goes to Chelsea, I can't see how he will fit into their system to be honest. Just imagine what Moyes would do with £20 million. Some of our best periods of winning streaks were when Fellaini was out injured. Of course the lad has been first class this year but, for me, he is not a top top-notch player.

The team is really good at the moment but I am sure you would all agree we need another centre back (with Distin ageing), another striker, and would obviously need another centre midfielder. That would pad out the squad nicely for an imminent Euro campaign and for the long-term health of it as I still feel we have a few creaking joints to replace.

Fellaini might just be the last major sale we have to make to step into the big time.

he's in his prime (mid 20's)
proven international
proven in the PL
under contract
"unplayable" game-changer at his best
versatile - defensive midfielder - centre forward

Based on that - opening bid circa 37m with a couple of squad enhancing makeweights.

When you compare his potential value to the likes of Torres, Carrol, Robinho then that has to be the minimum ball-park figure. Of course, it's all market dependent and we all know the market can vary from year to year and situation to situation (how do you compare 25m for Rooney with 5m for Jelavic, 6m for Beattie, 9m for Bilyaletdinov and 10m for Frannie Jeffers?)

As I said, I hope he stays but perhaps the best we can hope for is a bidding war between Man City, Chelsea and PSG.

Perhaps we'll be so far clear in the top 4 that CL is guaranteed and he'll stay!

Sucks... £50M and not a penny less.

Oh no! We were doing so well and everything was going great and then a nasty newspaper wrote a story based on absolutely nothing and now our season is over and we won't get a penny because the money will go to the bank and...stop talking crap!

Can't see him going to Chelsea. I surprisingly can see him at Barca because he can play decent football and Barca are crying out for some height in their team. However, not sure if they have the money.

Therefore, looks like it's going to be Man Shitty again!

I would just love to know how you work that out? Fellaini might just be the last major sale since Rodwell, and until the next one would me more accurate.

Fellaini had some cracking games this year... He's also had some stinkers. Until he gets the consistency then I think the some of the adjectives being used to describe him are a little over the top.

Who exactly would he replace in that Chelsea team? Mata? Hazard? Oscar?

I personally think he's at an appropriate level at Everton.

Pienaar syndrome.

He has ages on his contract, this Jan we do nothing, we wait until June and see how the season has panned out

If nobody comes in for him, as has happened the last 2(?) times his Dad/Agent has tried to push him to Chelsea. We review the position.

Now? hangfire.

A January exit seems extremely unlikely. We're not going to sell our best player when we're pushing for a European place unless we get a stratospheric offer. A summer exit - yes it's possible. But much could depend on Fellaini. And Fellaini's stance will depend at least in part on where we finish in May.

Past history suggests that, if Fellaini wants to go, he'll go. To be fair, Bill said he wouldn't sell Rooney for £50m - and he didn't...

"Everyone knows where Felli is, they know where to come and watch him and they also know that it will be a big price if they are interested," he said.

"I'm not in the mood to keep the fight going all the time because I've lost a few players now, but the ones we've lost, we have got good money for.

"We sold Lescott, we sold Arteta and we all felt really down when we lost those players, but we've had to pick ourselves up and go and find other ones.

"The club will always be bigger than any player, any manager, and the players we've brought in are showing that."

Moyes insists he is loathe to part with Fellaini, but accepts that a lack of success could lead to the player looking elsewhere.

"I was dead against losing any player at one stage and still am," he said. "Don't think I'm saying people can come and just take my players because that's not what I'm saying, but I've a bit more experience, and a bit more perspective.

"I realise that if I have top players and can't give them trophies, cup finals, European football, I might have to accept that's what they're thinking.

"I hope Felli knows what I think of him and more than anything, I know he'd love to take Everton into the Champions League, which is what we are trying and achieve this season."

Do you guys realise that there have only ever been 6 transfer fee's >£50 million (and that's inflation adjusted too...) in the entire history of world football? Fellaini is a good player, no doubt – but you are going to have a hard time convincing me that he is even in the top 6 of players in the Premier League, let alone the world, ever....

Personally I don't think a transfer fee >£25 million would be likely.

I am divided on your opinions, Fellaini will not command a £50M transfer fee, you are spot in there, but he's worth more than £25M, he's worth £30M of anyone's money, as for not being in the top 6 players in the Prem, could you please divulge the names you rate higher? I can name only maybe 3, Silva, Hazard, Van Persie. On current form he's better than Rooney, certainly no one across the park could lace his boots, who else is there to choose from? Tevez? No, Mata? Maybe, Kagawa? Nope, I'm really scratching my head now.

Point being — if we sell him, Moyes should get a transfer kitty of £20 million. That can bring in 3 or 4 good players or a couple of top quality ones. That could be what we need to sustain a challenge to the Top 4 for a couple of seasons. If, and admittedly that is a big 'if', we were to do that, our TV money would rocket and we'd be an attractive club to players across the globe. In that position my logic would be that we no longer have to sell our best players.

If we sell, the bank is likely to see the money... I would much prefer he stays and let's see if we can win the FA Cup or get into the Champions League – or both!