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Everton must resist bid for AJ
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While I don't really think Johnson is worth £13M nevermind £18M, my intial feeling is that the potential disruption to Moyes's team-buildng plans would be substantial. However, with our two young stars Vaughan and Victor looking all set to be the real thing, perhaps one could argue we have sufficient cover for AJ, who, dare I say it, is just a bit too one-dimensional for my liking... This could be a really tough challenge (if real) and I could see the Blues selling to make that pretty substantial profit.
Michael Kenrick, Posted 04/06/2007 at 06:29:20
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£18M?
10M profit in a year!
Go for it! (As long as the 18M will be invested in new players)
10M profit in a year!
Go for it! (As long as the 18M will be invested in new players)
There is no way that Johnson is worth that, so I would not blame the club at all for selling him for $18 Million. Use it to buy Nugent to partner Vaughan up front, sign Fernandes with the rest of that money. Then use the funds we were already supposed to have to bring in Jakielka and Koumas. This would not be a step in the wrong direction for Everton, it would be excellent business. Take the money from the club if they are willing to just splash that kind of ridiculous money around. If Johnson does want to go, they can have him. Then I will laugh my ass off as the arbitrator rules that West Ham should be relegated and Johnson becomes the highest paid player ever to play in the Championship, and never gets a sniff of the England team again.
Only IF the hammers DO pay SILLY MONEY i.e. 15m+ for AJ should we sell. We shd have a word w Nuge n tell him to come for a small fee in Jan. Victor and Vaughan will then get the game time they need. Realistically, Vaughan is a better finisher than AJ and more complete striker already. Victor also has more to offer than BT.
Faddy n Nuge are different enough to be other great forward options. BT is too similar to Victor (but way slower) and AJ similar to Vaughan, so best to offload the higher cost AJ and BT. This way we can afford to buy e.g. Jag (MUST BUY), Matty T, Manny (MUST BUY), Scharner, Kightly (MUST BUY), plus hopefully a cherry or two on top, such as Healy or suchlike. Cheers WHU, I hope they’re not just forever blowing bubbles out their arse tho!
Faddy n Nuge are different enough to be other great forward options. BT is too similar to Victor (but way slower) and AJ similar to Vaughan, so best to offload the higher cost AJ and BT. This way we can afford to buy e.g. Jag (MUST BUY), Matty T, Manny (MUST BUY), Scharner, Kightly (MUST BUY), plus hopefully a cherry or two on top, such as Healy or suchlike. Cheers WHU, I hope they’re not just forever blowing bubbles out their arse tho!
£18 million? Only if we get the cash up front, I don’t want another Kenwright deal of 5 million if West Ham win the premiership, another 6 million if they win the champions league. Also can we have a gentlemen’s agreement that he doesn’t ever play against us?
An offer of 18 million would be difficult for all clubs outside of the top four to turn down (Carrick last year) but it does show that our team building plans can always be scuppered. I don’t think West Ham would be his prefered destination as they are not a big team and will not break into the champions league places in the forseeable future. However, if he wants to take teh reidiculous wages being suggested, you couldn’t blame him - All that said, if he wants to go we should let him go but hold out for top dollar.
I really like AJ and the way he works his ass off for the team, but we should definetly let him go for £18 mill. Then we could bring in Nugent to replace him and still have about £12 mill left.
Only thing is.. will West Ham bid £18 mill for AJ? I seriously doubt it!
Only thing is.. will West Ham bid £18 mill for AJ? I seriously doubt it!
Arteta plays to the rhythm of our hearts and I hope to God that we never sell. The truth is I love Arteta, but I like Andy. I know in my heart I should repay his loyalty with my own, but big teams make big sacrifices in the pursuit of success, and it now turns out that his greatest asset for us may well not be his goals but his value.
AJ is not the finished article. His positional play is one dimentional, he fails to read the game at times resulting in 90 minutes of headless chicken activity. Yes he has a good engine, an engine with one gear, making up for his lack of flair, guile, ball control, and ingenuity. Therefore the 11 goals a season forward can be replaced by a £5 Million Nugent or a £9 Million Farfan.
If this was the LSE, at 18 Million only a foolhardy broker wouldn’t sell AJ and buy £8 Million Fernandes!
Good players have come and gone and the sky has not fallen, the walls have not crumbled and my LOVE for the club remains. AJ I do like you, but at £18 Million I just not sure how much!
AJ is not the finished article. His positional play is one dimentional, he fails to read the game at times resulting in 90 minutes of headless chicken activity. Yes he has a good engine, an engine with one gear, making up for his lack of flair, guile, ball control, and ingenuity. Therefore the 11 goals a season forward can be replaced by a £5 Million Nugent or a £9 Million Farfan.
If this was the LSE, at 18 Million only a foolhardy broker wouldn’t sell AJ and buy £8 Million Fernandes!
Good players have come and gone and the sky has not fallen, the walls have not crumbled and my LOVE for the club remains. AJ I do like you, but at £18 Million I just not sure how much!
Lets put this in perspective. AJ scored 11 goals last season. We need our main striker to be scoring 20+ goals a season, is AJ capable of that? I don’t think so, is Vaughny? Is Victor? Is Nugent. Even if we accept £13m thats £8m for Manny and £5m for Nuge. Between them they are worth way more than 11 goals a season.
Do you all not see the message in great neon lights that the sale of Johnson to WHU would send out? Everton are a selling club. They can’t keep their best players. What message would it send to other players in our attempts at building a team to compete in Europe regularly? Thay wouldn’t come for a single season !!! Sometimes it isn’t "all about the money"...
Interesting to read your comments and I hope that we don’t put an offer in for him. I’ve always regarded Man City, Everton and West Ham as being the peoples clubs with small budgets and passionate crowds. Good luck next season...... with AJ!
not a chance we can sell him...We are trying to build and move on...Europe has to be a key pull. We need to act now in transfer market though to keep likes of AJ and Arteta happy knowing we are making steps forward for next season
Agreed with Jay on the above. If we can get anything more than 15 Million, grab the $$$ & run!!! With the $$$, Kenwright, Wyness & Moyes should have no more excuse not buying Fernandes & at least 1 or 2 more young & speedy re-inforcement in Wings & Full backs. Johnson is valuable, but we are at least 3 or 4 pieces of puzzles away from being a Championship contender. So if selling AJ can get us closer, you have my blessing!
I say keep your hands off AJ nevermind the money. Do you really think that Moyes would use the money to by new players? NO!
Although I acually think that with that sort of money offered AJ and Moyes would find it hard to resist(not to mention Kenwright)!
Although I acually think that with that sort of money offered AJ and Moyes would find it hard to resist(not to mention Kenwright)!
I don’t know what West Ham are up to because I think they could still be in serious danger of going down after the arbitration panel and AJ is an ambitious player who wants to play in Europe. One things for certain nothing will happen until some sort of clarity has been reached which means its going to be a long summer!
It would be a very big mistake to sell Andy Johnson! We need to keep him and sign Fernandes(an absolute must) and four other top quality players. Remember what Harry Catterick said. "We think big, we buy big and we are big!" Please God don?t let us become a ?Mickey Mouse? club. We want to win things and the only way to do that is to keep players like AJ.
No.
As a visiting Hammer; I think this is ridiculous news. Johnson is a great player but not worth 18m and 90k a week so I assume you would let him go for that kind of silly money? As for the arbitration panel - That can’t relegate West Ham only refer it back to the original board who couldn’t go back on their original ruling as they’d look like imbeciles.
I think it would be a mistake to sell to West Ham. They are turning into a big club, a massive club. Why should we help them. The way things are going they’ll be breaking into the top 4 very soon. That’s no use to us.
Who on earth made West Ham Lords of the Manor. Throwing money around all over the place, stinks a bit of Newcastle style desperation. "Yes we had a stinking season but look we’ve got loads of money and are a great big club". Most of these stories are probably coming out of West Ham to up their status in the press, ala Kenwright with the Alan Smith nonesense a few seasons ago.
Back to the point though, 18m? If they are daft enough to offer that id take it for all the reasons mentioned above. Dont sell Arteta though, ever......ever
Back to the point though, 18m? If they are daft enough to offer that id take it for all the reasons mentioned above. Dont sell Arteta though, ever......ever
It goes to show the lunacy of a vastly inflated transfer market when Andrew Johnson can be regarded as a £13m transfer target, I wont even comment on the £18m mentioned. With the aformentioned £13m, add to that a fee for Cahill, Lescott and Arteta who have all been talked up by the media as possible targets for others and we could be talking serious money. As far as I am concerned though its all just paper talk filling otherwise redundant column inches, Moyes is building a team not dismantling one. I’m hopeful that the Rooney saga was the last time that Everton are seen as a selling club, the media however seem to have an agenda against us.
Let the man leave... he mirrors Michael Owen and personally i dont go to much for that one dimensional striker... either feed them or get them off the field and to be perfectly honest we are not that much a clinical side... 18mil plus what moyes has already got on his piggy bank could go a long way to strenghthen our European dreams... We need to seriously strengthen to stop a slide in the Prem with a succesful european run.... Nugent from what i have seen is not the answer!!
I can’t agree with supporter who say sell Johnson, in doing this Everton are bascically saying every player in our squad has there price. If this is he case the same supports who also say we should never sell Arteta could not complain if this nightmare was to ever happen. Selling Johnson send comletely the wrong signals most of all to players such as Arteta, who we all hope signs a new contract. He may not have scored as many goals as we all would have liked last season and £18 million is silly money but not as stupid as the detremetial effect selling AJ could have on Everton in the future.
In the words of Mr T. WE NEED TO GET SOME NUTS!
Are we so desperate and afraid of avoiding relegation that we are prepared to hold onto anything that resembles quality? Some forward thinking that is!
Spurs sold Carrick for £18 Million last season, one year on and they beat us to fifth, and now are viable challengers to the top 4.
Last season we were afraid to buy AJ for £8.6M, now we are afraid to sell him for £18M. As long as we remain gripped by fear then we will never be contenders.
In response to Andy... If Harry Catterick sold World Cup Winner, and soccer legend Alan Ball for £1 Million, what do you think he would have done with £9.4 Million pounds of profit!
I await your response!
Are we so desperate and afraid of avoiding relegation that we are prepared to hold onto anything that resembles quality? Some forward thinking that is!
Spurs sold Carrick for £18 Million last season, one year on and they beat us to fifth, and now are viable challengers to the top 4.
Last season we were afraid to buy AJ for £8.6M, now we are afraid to sell him for £18M. As long as we remain gripped by fear then we will never be contenders.
In response to Andy... If Harry Catterick sold World Cup Winner, and soccer legend Alan Ball for £1 Million, what do you think he would have done with £9.4 Million pounds of profit!
I await your response!
Selling Johnson, at whatever price would send out all the wrong signals about the club. Every player has his price, I would hope that Everton and Johnson set’s their really high!!!
If they do make a bid, please let me write the press statement. Repell the Boarders? I’d sink their damn ship!!!
If they do make a bid, please let me write the press statement. Repell the Boarders? I’d sink their damn ship!!!
There’s no mistaking it - the lad is good, otherwise why would the Hammers apparently want to fork out so much.
However, at 18 mil, it’s a damn good deal for us - in saying that though, going into europe, we should be consildating and building - so if we get 18 mil for AJ, will the entire stash go towwards buying players. I hope so.
My brain reckons it’s a good deal but my heart is wants AJ to stay.
Thanks goodness my brain rules the heart...!!!
For 18 mil, we could get d Bent, Nugent and possibly Mido.
However, at 18 mil, it’s a damn good deal for us - in saying that though, going into europe, we should be consildating and building - so if we get 18 mil for AJ, will the entire stash go towwards buying players. I hope so.
My brain reckons it’s a good deal but my heart is wants AJ to stay.
Thanks goodness my brain rules the heart...!!!
For 18 mil, we could get d Bent, Nugent and possibly Mido.
I agree 18mills a very tempting offer.
On the otherhand I find it inexplicable that just last yr we were all running on to the pitch to meet our new saviour and yet now loads of you are complaining he is too one dimensional!
He is a good player, our leading top scorer and you wouldn’t find that many strikers better outside of the top four plus spurs.
It looks like all paper talk nonsense, but if West Ham were to offer 15m+ then I would seriousley consider it as we should take advantage of their stupidity in paying over the top inflated prices for a player who is not yet the finished article or maybe he will never really get that much better, who knows, and last season he was decent at best and so 3-5 years down the line it could be the greatest bit of business ever made.
Also it depends just how big moyes budget is for this season, some reports are suggesting he is struggling to raise the 5m to get Jagielka? If so where the hell is all our money from the new mega money TV deals???? If he has a decent budget already, for example he will have no problem in buying fernandes, jag, nugent/smith, koumas and a few other quality players to push on in the prem and europe then we should keep him.
It all depends on what the board are willing to give moyes to strengthen his squad. BUT....WE MUST KEEP ARTETA, HE IS A MUST TO STAY AT EFC!!!!
Also it depends just how big moyes budget is for this season, some reports are suggesting he is struggling to raise the 5m to get Jagielka? If so where the hell is all our money from the new mega money TV deals???? If he has a decent budget already, for example he will have no problem in buying fernandes, jag, nugent/smith, koumas and a few other quality players to push on in the prem and europe then we should keep him.
It all depends on what the board are willing to give moyes to strengthen his squad. BUT....WE MUST KEEP ARTETA, HE IS A MUST TO STAY AT EFC!!!!
What sort of message will selling AJ send to the likes of Arteta & Fernandes???? are we trying to tie up these blokes by showing them that Everton is an ambitious club by allowing Johnson, undoubtedly one player largely influential in the Blues’ success in qualifying for European competition, to walk away????? bollocks to those advocating such a fatuous outcome !!
Such a transpiration will show outsiders that the Everton hierarchy has no ambition beyond the bottom pound, in turn, making it that much harder to get much needed investment into the joint ! If AJ or anyone else of quality’s permitted to leave, Kenwright MUST resign post haste !!
Such a transpiration will show outsiders that the Everton hierarchy has no ambition beyond the bottom pound, in turn, making it that much harder to get much needed investment into the joint ! If AJ or anyone else of quality’s permitted to leave, Kenwright MUST resign post haste !!
I agree with Brian Williams. Whether or not AJ is worth £18 million, Everton should not be selling their better players to a club like West Ham. It completely undermines our position in the transfer market when trying to convince good players that Everton are a big club moving forward. Last summer AJ himself turned down bigger wage offers from smaller clubs because he saw Everton as a bigger club with bigger prospects and bigger ambitions.
Energumen... Firstly, we cannot afford to buy Fernandes.
Secondly, selling a good striker in AJ and buying a great one for 9 Million (ie Farfan... Arsenals direct, potential replacement for Henry) and possibly Fernandes would be a demontration of true business acumen and ambition.
What message would that send to Arteta!
We did not want to sell Rooney, however had we not sold him we may not have attracted Arteta.
I don’t want to sell him but progress comes through limited opportunities. This my friend is one of them!
Secondly, selling a good striker in AJ and buying a great one for 9 Million (ie Farfan... Arsenals direct, potential replacement for Henry) and possibly Fernandes would be a demontration of true business acumen and ambition.
What message would that send to Arteta!
We did not want to sell Rooney, however had we not sold him we may not have attracted Arteta.
I don’t want to sell him but progress comes through limited opportunities. This my friend is one of them!
If West Ham offers 13m+ we have to accept the offer. AJ is good for us, key player but our record without him is not bad, he scored only 11 goals; add the penalties make it 15 - its still not worth 13m+. I said it countless times and I will say it again the English market is very,very inflated. For this kind of money we can buy 2-3 very good Europeans. McCarthy was bought for 2.5m and scored 24 goals ;Rosicky for 6m; Diego for 4m; Rvd Vaart for 4m and IMHO these are players that for 16.5m would have added more than 11 goals + 3-4 pen.
I would argue that selling AJ will send wrong signals, it all depends on how will we spend - if we invest the money in our squad - fine but if we have to pay our debt...
All in all I do think that 13m+ is too much for AJ but if we can keep him and add 3-4 new players I will be happy as well. The important thing is to build on the season we had and bring in 3-4 fresh faces, which - up to that point is not the case
I would argue that selling AJ will send wrong signals, it all depends on how will we spend - if we invest the money in our squad - fine but if we have to pay our debt...
All in all I do think that 13m+ is too much for AJ but if we can keep him and add 3-4 new players I will be happy as well. The important thing is to build on the season we had and bring in 3-4 fresh faces, which - up to that point is not the case
I totally agree with Michael, Everton must resist any bid for AJ. While I agree he is very one dimensional, if we are to send out an statement of intent, he must be part of the future here. But I can see Everton selling him, and that is the problem. Everton, like the fans saying we should sell AJ, have no ambition. We desperately need to show we are bigger than West Ham and must stand our ground. Can you imagine West Ham trying to sign Rooney from Man U? No!
why sell the player thats made a huge positive impact on the club. this is the man who scored 2 past the shite, the winner at spurs for the 1st time in 20years, our leading scorer, he works his socks off, wins lots of pens, never gives defenders a seconds peace. i dont care how much whu wanna spend we should be keeping our main players. if we sell now the likes of lescott, arteta and cahill will wanna move on. im not sure if jagielka is good enough for us, fernandes needs to signed perm, koumas is a good player and would be welcomed, maybe even baines from wigan. we dont need huge changes as the core of the team is there and is young enough to be there for next 5 years. money isnt everything.
If he is offered £90k-a-week, he'll go. Let's be honest with ourselves, players always want more of the silly money that's on offer. And there is no way we should offer him £90k-a-week. We can't afford it and others (Arteta, Cahill, Yobo etc) would want big rises as a consequence, too.
This topic came up last week when someone posted a piece about wage capping. If it doesn't happen, there is going to be a few clubs getting burned.
Still, it's not a cert that West Ham will be in the Prem next year. As they have suddenly become so extravagantly rich, any whiff of backhanders or at least a cynical but valid reason for investigation?
Hope such a question cannot be libellous. But they should've been docked points.
£18mil for Johnson it's just paper talk. If there is any truth behind it, I'd take the money. I've never been convinced with Johnson: no first touch, no technique, and misses far to many chances. With £18mil you can buy Darren Bent and Nugent. How about Defoe and Nugent? Defoe is a better finisher then Johnson. Defoe scored 22 goals last season mainly as a sub. Moyes should also try sell Beattie and Mcfadden to raise more cash, if there are any takers for them.
Personaly I think Moyes doesn't have that much money to spend on new players. Ic liverpool are reporting there will be no incoming transfer activity this week. To all you fellow blues don't get your hopes up. They won't be any world class players coming through the doors this summer. Any one else get the feeling of deja vu from two seasons ago?
I’d be devestated if he left. Aren’t we trying to build? Selling your best players is not the way to go about that. Never mind acumen .. it doesn’t matter how much money we get we’d not be able to compete with the big 4 when it comes to bringing in truly top class players
I honestly can’t see the point in selling any of our big game players regardless of the sums involved. In my opinion we missed a massive opportunity at the start of the 2005-06 season by not making additions to the squad to augment our team. It would seem lunancy to not only fail to make additions but sell off the better players in a wafer-thin squad. If we are to even dream about competing at the top end of the Premier League , we must keep adding quality to the squad , not fritter away what progress has been made to make the balance sheet look better. I always hated Monopoly as a child and preferred Wembley, as an adult I havent’t changed enough to get excited about selling a player to a rival club for the sake of a few extra bob in the coffers. By the way if AJ fully recovers from his ankle problems and gets the rub of the green from referees, how many goals will he gain us next season? Goals for and against should be the only stats that interest supporters , leave the accounts to the accountants.
Oh My God!
James Beattie was Everton’s top scorer last season with 11 goals(sound familiar). I can’t help thinking that if West Ham had bid 10M for Beattie last season, I would be reading the same unambitious nonsense!
I hope AJ is reading all of this, because if we turn down 18Million - minimum for him and he turns out to be shite next season I am gonna be waiting with my keyboard in the tall grass for you lot.
James Beattie was Everton’s top scorer last season with 11 goals(sound familiar). I can’t help thinking that if West Ham had bid 10M for Beattie last season, I would be reading the same unambitious nonsense!
I hope AJ is reading all of this, because if we turn down 18Million - minimum for him and he turns out to be shite next season I am gonna be waiting with my keyboard in the tall grass for you lot.
Luq... I can imagine West Ham trying to buy Rooney... but they already have one sausage looking, granny groping deserter, so the chairman doesn’t want any competition now does he!
Christ, lets hope AJ doesn’t log onto this site, he’ll be thinking fuck you everton bastards i’m off! This lads never been anything but exactly what we want out of a player, he’s told us how highly he regards our magnificent club, he’s told us how high he regards its fantastic fans, he’s already said show me a longer contract i’ll sign it, lets face it he’s the best striker we’ve had for a long time, its not easy to find someone who gets you double figures in goals, we havn’t had one since cottee have we? Some wanker in a shit rag made up some bullshit rumour, which you actually believe and are succeeding only in unsettling a player who can only be good for us. I bet he feels really valued at this great club and can’t wait to sign for the next team rumoured to be interested. There’s no gaurantee nugent will make the grade, vic n vaughan may not develop how we want (remember cadamarteri) I think a bird in the hand is worth more than two in a bush! I like you aj your a good larker and I hope you stay for a long time.
it is summer,the back pages are rife with conjecture,yet the majority of correspondents appear to have resigned us to a rosy future in which everton takes whatever lunatic fee is currently being bandied about for johnson. admittedly, the £18m would be a great asset to a club like ours,it could strengthen in so many areas, but aj must stay or a pattern will emerge and we WILL become the club we feared we never would be: a selling club, unable to keep our hands on our most valuable commoditites. it’s then only a small step from footballing oblivion in the style of leeds, citeh and newcastle. we are way above all that and money really isn’t everything. also, we’re in european competition next season and could do with all the supprt we can get, both physically and spiritually. the signals we need to be sending out is that we are a strong determined club who are working towards challenging for the top honours not a simpering, directionless mess who will bow to whatever the highest bidder has to offer. today johnson, then what price atreta, cahill. then victor, then vaughan. what’s our name for heaven sake?
sell johnson. Buy fernandes? Anyone in their right mind would see that this is the right choice! From a business perspective this is awesome business. £10m in a season! Do it.
how can west ham cum up with that kind of money they are dead crap alan
curbishly needs a good kick in the head aj is worth more than 18m all it is to everton is nothing now if it was chealse den maybe but not everton
he needs to boost his squad not sell good players ie johnson he doesnt want 2 play in championship he has just come out of it if he does he needs his head sortin out n another thing he wants 2 play in europe not the championship were they get fuck all cause there rubish everton fc 4 lfe
curbishly needs a good kick in the head aj is worth more than 18m all it is to everton is nothing now if it was chealse den maybe but not everton
he needs to boost his squad not sell good players ie johnson he doesnt want 2 play in championship he has just come out of it if he does he needs his head sortin out n another thing he wants 2 play in europe not the championship were they get fuck all cause there rubish everton fc 4 lfe
how can west ham cum up with that kind of money they are dead crap alan
curbishly needs a good kick in the head aj is worth more than 18m all it is to everton is nothing now if it was chealse den maybe but not everton
he needs to boost his squad not sell good players ie johnson he doesnt want 2 play in championship he has just come out of it if he does he needs his head sortin out n another thing he wants 2 play in europe not the championship were they get fuck all cause there rubish everton fc 4 lfe
n weed need to buy fernandes as well he is shit hot im
curbishly needs a good kick in the head aj is worth more than 18m all it is to everton is nothing now if it was chealse den maybe but not everton
he needs to boost his squad not sell good players ie johnson he doesnt want 2 play in championship he has just come out of it if he does he needs his head sortin out n another thing he wants 2 play in europe not the championship were they get fuck all cause there rubish everton fc 4 lfe
n weed need to buy fernandes as well he is shit hot im
I’d be very disappointed and somewhat surprised if AJ left. Great to see Everton say something clear to refute this. It is some years since we had a player who scored regularly and also contributed so much to the team. Andrei Kanchelskis was the last player I recall who scored twice against Liverpool. Be good to hold on to AJ for longer than we managed to keep Andrei. The money (if true) must be tempting but Joey Barton (or probably his agent) said the other day that players are remembered for what they did rather than what they earned. West Ham are a minor club with no real history but some new money to flash about. They’re not about to enter the higher echelons as a small time Chelski. Tevez will be off and that will probably be it. Loadsamoney lasted a few weeks too. If the world was a fairer place they’d have been relegated for cheating and maybe that will still happen.
Selling AJ is a no-go for me. EFC should not be selling their best players, we are supposed to be building a side for Europe and trying to get nearer the top 4. If we sell AJ, it might put other players off coming too. Go for Jags and Mando and lets go forward.
21 mill for AJ bye AJ 21MILLON
23 mill for Arteta bye 23MILLION
5 mill for beattie bye 5million
2 mill for naysmith bye 2million
3 mill for mcfadden bye 3million
22 mill from club easy 22million TOTAL=76 million/>NUGENT = 4 MILL NOW 4MILL OR 2 MILL IN JAN OR
FERNANDEZ 9 MILL SCARNER BAINES 6 MILL FOR 3 MORE PLAYERS 15 MILL TOTAL 48 MILLION LOT OF DOSH OVER
23 mill for Arteta bye 23MILLION
5 mill for beattie bye 5million
2 mill for naysmith bye 2million
3 mill for mcfadden bye 3million
22 mill from club easy 22million TOTAL=76 million/>NUGENT = 4 MILL NOW 4MILL OR 2 MILL IN JAN OR
FERNANDEZ 9 MILL SCARNER BAINES 6 MILL FOR 3 MORE PLAYERS 15 MILL TOTAL 48 MILLION LOT OF DOSH OVER
you missed
jagaliki 4 m
bent 8 m
cook 6 m
scarner 4 m
nugent 4 m
baines 6 m
fernandez 9 m
plus 3more 15 m
total = 56 million= 20 mill left
jagaliki 4 m
bent 8 m
cook 6 m
scarner 4 m
nugent 4 m
baines 6 m
fernandez 9 m
plus 3more 15 m
total = 56 million= 20 mill left
AJ doesnt just offer us goals, its his overall work rate and what he does for the team. i cant think of any players who we could sign who would be able to provide that as well as score the goals AJ does.
if he left i think wed end up realising just how good he actually was and regret it.
arteta, cahill and aj are our top men, and we cant afford to be selling any of them. These are the players that fernandes, nugent etc all want to come to everton to play with. and if one of them goes, how long will it be before cahill goes? or arteta?
we need to build on what weve got already, not kick our own foundations out from under us.
west ham are shitty little tinpot club who are never gona amount to anything, we shouldnt be even talking about selling our better players to them.
btw, im a student in sheffield and ive seen quite a bit of them. jagielka is not good enough for us. especially not for £4m?!! spending cash like that on him is probably whats gona scupper us out of fernandes.
if he left i think wed end up realising just how good he actually was and regret it.
arteta, cahill and aj are our top men, and we cant afford to be selling any of them. These are the players that fernandes, nugent etc all want to come to everton to play with. and if one of them goes, how long will it be before cahill goes? or arteta?
we need to build on what weve got already, not kick our own foundations out from under us.
west ham are shitty little tinpot club who are never gona amount to anything, we shouldnt be even talking about selling our better players to them.
btw, im a student in sheffield and ive seen quite a bit of them. jagielka is not good enough for us. especially not for £4m?!! spending cash like that on him is probably whats gona scupper us out of fernandes.
If the rumour is true and there offering 18m I think the club should take it. As long as the money is for players they could then buy Nugent and get the european qualifiers top scorer Healy for a 1 or 2 million!!. Koumas would be nice as well.
We cannot sell AJ. He is one of the best english strikers around. A far better goal scorer than the likes of Nugent, lets put it that way. To get 30+ goals a season we need to play him in the right way. We need a playmaker to thread the balls to him. Fernandes is the key along with Arteta to help him bang them in next season.
Just watch him score.
Just watch him score.
How can anyone say take the £18m can youfor AJ? whats wrong with you lot? what a statement that would be,NO Ambition,sell our top striker to a smaller club,that would just prove that benitez had a point about us being a small club would'n it?
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