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  Brendan McLaughlin in “Just play well... they will love you”: Yakubu’s advice as Hayden Hackney signs five-year Everton deal
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  Brendan McLaughlin in “Just play well... they will love you”: Yakubu’s advice as Hayden Hackney signs five-year Everton deal
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  Paul Murray in “Just play well... they will love you”: Yakubu’s advice as Hayden Hackney signs five-year Everton deal
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  Brendan McLaughlin in “It was always going to be Everton”: Hackney signs five-year deal as Moyes lands first summer coup
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• Turns out the Hackney deal was anything but easy. rnrnFrom The Athletic:rnrn\"There were many times, during month-long negotiations mediated by the player’s agency SEG, when the two positions were hard to reconcile. Everton kept upping the ante, but did not seem willing to commit the guaranteed £25m that would move the dial.rnrnPalace were waiting in the wings in case a deal could not be agreed, and Everton were pursuing other options in parallel.rnrnIt was only late last week that things started to shift. Everton, through head of trading Nick Hammond, proposed a deal that could, if all clauses were met, rise to close to Boro’s valuation.rnrnIt was a take-it-or-leave-it final offer, with the Merseyside club keen to make progress on deals before the squad starts pre-season testing on Friday. And while it may not have been £25m up front — the guaranteed fee is an initial £16.5m — the total package, which also includes a sell-on bas...
  Mike Gaynes in “It was always going to be Everton”: Hackney signs five-year deal as Moyes lands first summer coup