Broadhead leaves Everton for Ipswich

I'm not sure what wages he's on but at 24 it's been obvious for years he's never going to be our first-team striker.

Even if he's on £10k a week, a transfer fee of £1 million means we have lost money on this fellow by “developing” him hoping to get a fee versus just cutting him loose at 19 or 20.

I know this sounds desperate, but we are in a very desperate position, and struggle to get 5 subs on, even when most of our players are struggling. Broadhead will definitely put a shift in, and his work rate might help us with our intensity, if he comes on to play in a five-man midfield.

For sure he has some skills, just never a Premier League level athlete.

Good luck.

I haven't got a clue what wages Broadhead is on but I'd be very surprised if he was on half of what you suggest.

With the state of our present strikers, assuming we are not signing another one this month, I'd be inclined to keep him on ‘til the summer.

If Broadhead is on £10k a week, it's not affordable for any League One Club, even a desperate one like Ipswich. Also, he is already playing Championship football on his current contract, why would he take a pay-cut and drop down a level with a chance of promotion that might not materialise?

I hope the sale would go through, as his contract extension was a rescue attempt by Thelwell to try and extract as much return as possible: A sum as close to £2 Million with future add-ons would be a heck of a better return than what we got on Joe Williams, whom we sold to Wigan for a meager £1 Million & Wigan flipped him to Bristol City for £2.5 Million 12 months later.

This is what pisses me off with Everton. We have some really good lads, maybe just not quite good enough for regular first-team duty. Everton generally let them go for peanuts... make them pay as much as we can get, but I like that lad Nathan Broadhead, he has always scored goals everywhere he goes.

Of course we have an embarrassment of goal scorers in our set up, don't we?

Strewth!

If he's on more than 3K per week, it would be a surprise.

Our club has been so badly run since Moyes left. I've started to come around to bringing him back for a few years just to right the ship.

Broadhead is a good player, a good Championship player, but if these players never get a chance at the very top you never know if they will make the next big step up a develop to their full potential.

We never seem to give our 'potential' players a proper chance in the first team to see if they might be capable of hacking it with a step up and then we moan that none of our Academy players make it, so the Academy is a waste of time, money and effort. One young prospect at a time is not going to make any difference to the balance and productiveness of the whole team even if you smuggled in a complete duffer to this lot.

Wrong again I'm afraid. It is a management problem once more. Nobody is prepared to take an extended chance on a young prospect to see if he can hack it and save the club a potential fortune.

If he had an LFC training top, Bournemouth or Sheff Utd would be paying £15M right now.

If it were, and I have no clue, presumably a number of the fringe players are on a similar contract. Tot that up and it's an awful lot of money for players who are considered "not good enough". Even at £2k per week, the maths are crazy. The money paid for and paid to players is utterly obscene.

Perhaps they could use their spare time after training to work as part-time carers and nurses. Actually, not a great idea as that requires skill, commitment and dedication.

All-in-all, it raises more questions about the Everton youth system, transfer policy... everything. It makes you wonder, What's it all about?

The Board, and its operating policy in matters football on and off the park need to address this amongst the whole running of EFC. What's their aim, what's their criteria for success, business plan in Opex, Capex, youth development, overseas recruitment, etc.

Faulty Towers on steroids..

Seeing Everton on its knees, year-in & year-out, is not acceptable and, in the last few years being on permanent relegation standby is not good enough.

Hope eternal.

After Dave's remark, I found two sites offering conflicting info on his salary. One said £6,200 a week, the other said £2,500. No idea if either is accurate. If the latter, then we made a bit of money on him presumably over time.

Nothing against Nathan, but hopefully he's the last of our youth players who aren't good enough for the First Team, yet are kept around until 24-25 years old.

It's a testament of Ipswich's American owners to commit a relatively large amount for a League One Team to chase Promotion.

Similarly, what he was paid previously appears in the accounts for those years while this year's accounts have just had £1.5M added to the income and the P&S rules are either over a 3-year accounting period or perhaps some allowance is made if it can be shown they are moving in the right direction.

I think that the accounts over a 3-year period must not show a loss over £105M or sanctions may be imposed.

He's done nothing to merit the sort of fee the RS got for Brewster and Solanke, both of whom had much better international credentials and had hit good form at Swansea and Vitesse respectively at young ages

In fact the mooted fee is much more than that paid by Fiorentina for Bobby Duncan a few years ago.

The RS do sell youth well but it's usually off the back of good form on loan at a decent level and strong international performances.

Broadhead has never been in that league.

I was thinking when I read the Headline (somewhere) that we had received a 7 figure fee for Nathan, I expected around £5/6/7M, not £1.5M, but I suppose it all counts into the Dingle's Pot !

The Premier league standard of player has improved a lot over the last 10 years hence you see very few teenagers becoming regularly Premier league players at any club.

Most of the best young u21 players appear to have come from other club academy's or were already at 1 of the 3 better teams, Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool.

The chances of bringing through youth players is getting slimmer. But they all do it, just like millions play the lottery, in the hope of the next BIG thing.

Good luck, he's a decent player and a few million now with a possibility of a few more sounds a little low, but we have very little to bargain with.

Out of interest, I'd estimate he was on at least at £5k per week.

Of course EFC dithered and dallied and he went to Leicester. History has dictated that it didn't work out for him there, but I believe with the right tutelage, he still has the ability to be a major player both at Everton and in the Premiership as a whole.

I still have fingers crossed that he becomes more consistent and the others round him too, because he does try these moves where no-one else seems to be going along with him. If we get him to be more consistent and played in the right position, we may just have an absolute asset on our hands.

Money can be used towards a loan fee. I doubt we'll buy or loan anyone in until the last minute as it saves on wages; otherwise, what is the excuse?

Hoping for some goodish times when the new players arrive.