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Demands for David Moyes to be spending upwards of £20M on new signings this summer are not only unrealistic given the existing strength of the side but also indicative of how little some fans are aware of football finance.
With the Kirkby move becoming ever more likely, the joint venturers will be required to each post a bond ? probably in the order of £25M ? before work can start on the new stadium. This will be the principal investment of the Club over the next twelve months and given how much hand-wringing there still is after the failure to secure King's Dock, there is no way they can skip the down-payment this time round.
I feel the usual stealth of Mr Moyes will result in two or three signings for an investment of, perhaps, £10M max and that this will be sufficient to guarantee another worry-free season.
Richard Dodd,
Formby Posted 13/06/2007 at 15:16:45
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Lyndon
Another worry-free season? Is that the summit of your ambition for next season ? to avoid relegation? That's the insinuation anyway and that also affects your qualification of "the existing strength of the side". I would say that if, like the majority of Blues, we want to have a good run in the Uefa Cup and at least qualify for that competition by virtue of league position again next season, then £20m is very realistic given "the existing strength of the side". We need more players ? quite apart from needing to add quality, we need sheer numbers to cover injury and suspension. It may or not be realistic given the club's finances... we just don't know enough on that score.
To add to a further piece written on here David Moyes’ main recruits will come from the Under 21 sides.
Leighton Baines - £3.5m
Kieran Richardson - £4m
Dave Nugent- £5.5m
Nigel Reo-Coker - £6m
Manuel Fernandes - Loan
Moyes is also said to be looking at Curtis Davis from West Brom and also Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink for experienced cover.
Don’t you see Richard that another "worry free" season, if that is the limit of your ambition, will totally piss off the more capable, ambitious players such as Arteta, Cahill and Lescott, further disillusion the crowd and bring about the very thing that we all dread most - i.e. years of battling relegation.
We’ve a chance to move on. Let’s seize the opportunity - unlike at the end of 2005.
Richard, if Everton fail to back Moyes with some serious funding to strengthen the squad in terms of both numbers and more importantly quality the only person seriously worrying next season will be Bill Kenwright as he handles a mutiny and revolt from the fans. To even suggest that funds are redirected to a project that most fans remain wholeheartedly unconvinced by that will jeopardize our progress seriously shows your naivity in terms of what supporters will tolerate. Get your head out of your arse fella, your smug and trite manner seriously undermines your credibility.
steve green, southampton
Posted 14/06/2007 at 11:16:34
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Re Doddie’s comments, don’t know if it’s just me being very stupid but I thought that there was something Lyndon never picked up on in his response. What is this £25m contribution all about! I thought that those nice municipal chaps at Knowsley Council were providing / donating the land to us in return for the job creation / wealth stimulation of a national employer and a premiership football club within their voting catchment area. I, maybe naively, thought that this was part of a package with Tesco /Sir Terry picking up the construction tab as part of the concession to build on that site.
Have I got something wrong there ? Have I missed out on something fundamental these last 18 months or so, or have Bill, Bully or the club got a spare 25 big ones ring fenced for this?
"Given the current strength of the squad " and "Moyes stealth",please go on holiday and give us all a break from the pure shite that you espouse.
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