Everton hold Mirallas talks

http://youtu.be/JaLk9MPnWrk

Look's like Fellaini's going to have some competition for my wife..

also who would you rather see DM sign Mirallas or M'baye Niang?

I'm wondering if we are being linked now so cos we have some money. Normally the links are a little vague, but this week its all been that we have made offers etc.

Graham, I would take Niang.

IMO that is how he got Earl and Green sucked in and some might say that is where the perrenial XX Millions per season in ' Operating costs' goes...but I couldn't possibley comment.

Long story short: wait until; a) the start of the season and ...b) the 1st Sept and see whats what when the dust has settled.

I'll let the Prozac gang extol the merits of spending all our cash on a utility bench warmer.

If it was in the Mail I wouldn't believe it but Guardian are usually on the ball.

Let's be real, until you see these players wearing a Blue shirt or anything official comes from the club, then I wouldn't be getting too excited

I'm happy we're reinvesting the money - fingers crossed he'll do the business for us.

Most importantly, it will be good to have a Kev in the team!

Whateve ryou think of Rodwell, the strategy of replacing a squad player with a first teamer HAS to be the correct one

Can we visit dream world and pretend we're gonna sign Mirallas AND Niang? :-)

But hey, here's hoping miracles do happen and we get both Miralles and Niang

Just a thought to a line up
Howard
Coleman Heitinga Distin Baines
Fellani Gibson
Miralles Naismith Pienaar
Jelavic

Maybe Moyes had turned over a new leaf?To be fair to him, he did take a chance of Drenthe last season, so maybe he's realised that the best way to defend is to attack! I know, I know - it sounds unlikely, but in theory it's possible...

Chris - that's good enough for me. I'm in. Not sure Jelavic is gonna get in the team next season, not with The Two Kevs leading the line!

Actually, I think we could do with a better GK. I like Howard I really do, but I don't think he's any better than "very good"

Don't be silly.

If we pull this guy off, it would be fantastic. As per previous prediction, about us having at least 8million of the 12million to spend, I expect we will bring someone else in (providing this story is valid). Hopefully we can add one or two on loan as well, preferably a creative mid to give us some depth.

Links like these is why there was optimism about selling Rodwell for a fee which could rise to 17million. He played in a person where we have Fellaini and Gibson, Osman and Neville (at a stretch), and Junior and Barkley coming through. But we have no natural right sided player at the club, and bringing someone who can play outwide and up top is the perfect scenario.

Could be three new signings before the season begins then...We are almost like a normal club.

As has been said before on here, the way we operate a manager can only do evolution not revolution here. The squad is slowly being turned over. For differing reasons it was the end for the Yak, Cahill and Saha.

We were very short and Cahill wasn't able to bail us out by playing lone striker as he had done a few years before in the season we took Jo on loan. We were very short then as well but we got away with it through Cahills tenacity and Fellaini doing a remarkable job of playing off him in his first season.

So we have eventually managed to get Jelavic in, at our price range and now it looks as if Moyes is trying to get us more quality options, depth and hopefully pace. Also seems a pre-requisite is to be young, with an ability to play up top and wide.

I'm getting ready for a little more flexibility this year.

On Hetinga we need to make decision.

Its too late to offer a new deal he's moving to 2 years and under on his deal already. He holds all the aces and we lose millions off a player by the next transfer window, a window when its difficult to shift players. Clubs will wait as by next summer he will only have a year left.

So we keep him, his value drops as Pienaars did and we lose out on an ability to move in the market and boost the squad, or......we get pragmatic, as we didn't originally with Pienaar, and sell Heitinga.

I don't want him to go I rate him highly, but I reckon he would do a Bosman if he could. Its his last big contract coming up.

We have shafted ourselves over the Gosling/Yak/Pienaar/Yobo deals costing the club millions and we just cant do it again.Theres no point in having a strategy of, largely, taking players 24/25 and under so they have sell on value and not selling them after they wind down their contracts!!

Hope we pick up at least one of the chaps we've been linked with... I'm not sure Moyes would know what to do if we got both Niang and Mirallas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BazTE8mStWU

Nah

I rent a room off Kev Johnson and can categorically deny Blue Bill has been round to see him.

However, Philip Green has been round a couple of times, we played darts and doms last night and had a few Hoffmeisters.

I’m not buying into this till it happens though.

Never trust YouTube.

Except with Mirallas who is the best player in the world.

Never mind that 336 is not that old for a keeper, and you have not even mentioned Jelavic. Hibbert more important than Jeli? Really?

I also give you Barkley, what? 17? Junior about the same, Fellaini, 24.

main 11:
Howard 33 (you can knock five years off for a keeper in terms of durability)
Neville 35 (need to buy a RB in the next 12 months; coleman not good enough there)
Heitinga 28
Distin 35 (will need to bring in a new CB in next 12 months)
Fellaini 24
Barkley 17
Naismith 25
Pienaar 30
Coleman/Junior 18-24 (use Rodwell money to get a young real winger)
Jelavic 26

http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/premier-league/transfer-rumours/120815/mirallas-agrees-join-everton-arsenal-lose-out-striker-178698?#jgA3ze2VQBDQGjJ4.02

Mirallas that is.............Sorry KJ!

In a nutshell..delighted if he signs, not the end of the world if he doesn't. Apart from Piennar who can make things happen with the ball, we haven't really got anybody who can dazzle. This lad looks to have all the tricks and a decent goal return, albeit in a weaker league. And for the price that is being touted then its a no brainer. I still have this sneaky feeling that another club will try and rock the boat with this transfer.

Kevin Antonio Mirallas (born 5 October 1987) is a Belgian footballer who plays football for Everton FC and has previously played for Lille,Saint-Étienne and Olympiacos.He has been capped by Belgium at international level.

Why not Castaignos as well, not forgetting the modern myth that is Kev 'Custard Cream' Johnson! (JK will do as long as he promises not to sing or dance).

Seamus Coleman will be a future right back for Ireland and given a run in the position can do the same for Everton. He is a good player with a good attitude and has been very unfairly criticised lately.

Out: Cahill (burnt out) Rodwell (stagnating) Drenthe (attitude problem) Strac (love him but he wasn't good enough) and Yobo (hasn't played for us in two years.)

In: Naismith (great quality if his knees hold up) Mirallas (pace, technical ability) Pienaar (we all know what he brings) Niang (excellent young player.)

That's a massive improvement from our squad last year. There is no reason we shouldn't be pushing for fourth this year... except that it's Everton. We'll find a reason.

Cautious optimism, folks, cautious.

Anyone know how to translate this entire page? http://www.voetbalnieuws.be/news/33696/Mirallas:_Zeg_zeker_niet_nee_tegen_Everton

The headline apparently says Mirallas "Certainly not say no to Everton"

The Red Devil, who currently plays for the Greek Olympiakos Piraeus would stand very close to a transition to the English Premier League. "I definitely say no to Everton but not so. There are clubs interested in me. Those who have already been mentioned (Arsenal and Everton, ed), but also other," he says in the newspaper.

According to the Flemish newspaper would be the coach of Everton, David Moyes, Wednesday at the King Baudouin Stadium have been present. "I did not know. The advantage of a team like Everton is that you might have more playing opportunities. Playing together with Marouane would be fun. But for now I leave it up to my agent," he concludes.

But he seems to be inviting others to get involved before it's too late.

Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice; I'm never playing again

http://yfrog.com/j6ohgzmfwgpufqaclgtcqjbez

No offence mate but just because he will be right back for Ireland doesn't mean he will be good enough for Everton in that position. Don't forgot up until recently Kilbane was Ireland's left back, should we re-sign him too?

We saw just how good Coleman was at defending with his headless chicken needless tackle in the semi final which set up the shite's winner. Hibbo over Coleman at rightback all day for me.

I looked at that possibility from another angle i.e 'Wow they have given Moyes all of the Rodwell money to spend by the looks of things, that's an unexpected and pleasant surprise.....'

Now I'm not sure what it means.

How much do you think we would have had to pay for Fellaini had he been English, or we had not bought him 30 seconds before the deadline.

I'll believe it when I see him wearing the shirt.

Expect a Sisssokokokoko moment, 10 minutes before signing old turkey face Wenger decides he does want him after all and offers half a mill more.

As above, if we spend the £11m, we will sell someone else

I saw the video, and lots of the same clips from different camera angles. I saw lots of skill, but also Beagrie-esque tendencies to beat the man, go back and beat him again etc. Wonder if he has a motorbike?

I should imagine we would only need to offer £2m up front for each one; with the rest in installments over the next three transfer windows - giving us plenty of time to raise the cash.

I rate the guy though, seems pacy, tricky winger with an eye for goal, would be a very useful addition. Saw him earlier in the year at Wembley vs England and he was a handful that day. And for the reported £5.3 million must be worth the gamble. Ok he has been playing in the greek superleague, but he scored 20 in 24 apps and won player of the season. Not bad?

I don't believe a word about any proposed transfers- just because it is in a newspaper , that doesn't give it credibility.

I reckon Moyes will have to settle for the usual last minute Royston type loans.

Why do the media fall over themselves to report "signings" such as this?

Niang works out, well let's hope Rodwell triggers a few risers otherwise .....

Normally I would agree with you, there's so much bollocks and speculation written and talked about in the media!! But the reason people are excited about this one is that the player himself has said there has been an offer and he wants to come to Everton.

However I don't think any of us will believe it until we see him running out to the Z Cars.

Cahill was reputedly on £75k a week, nearly £4m a year. Now off our wage bill.

In the last year we have sold players thus

Yak. £2m and £60k a week
Beckford . £4m and £30k a week
Arteta. £10m and £80k a week
Cahill. £1m and £75k a week
Rodwell £17m and £50k a week
Baxter. Zero and £15k a a week

Various loan players have come and gone.

We have brought in or hopefully will bring in

Gibson £1.5m and £45k a week
Jelavic. £5m and £60k a week
Pienaar. £4.5m and £55k a week
Mirallas. £5.5m and £50k a week
Ning. £6m and £45k a week

£34m sold against £22.5m spent
£310k a week off the wage bill and £255k a week on it equals £2.8m a year saved in wages. Throwing that we have lost £5m in that time and in the br oadest terms the club is still ahead by 9.3m with a lower wage bill going forward. I would think the Bank Manager would be happy with that.

I appreciate fees are staggered etc, and wages are only an informed guess, but I still see our financial situation as much better than twelve months ago so hopefully no more enforced sales.

A 17 year old on 45k a week?! Remember we're skint!

Doubt Gibson and Jelavic are on wages that high as well.

Karl, I think your wages are a bit off mate. Jelavic is not on 60,000 a week, and there are a few others seem inaccurate.

I am a bit worried about Mirallas...he is extremely cheap for someone with his record, and both Spurs and Arsenal can offer bigger wages and better prospects for Champions League football. I'm really hopeful, but I am a tad worried that Modric and Van P's sales may affect us negatively.

Arshavin?

Joao Moutinho?

We were interested, they were interested, look what happened.

Those transfers may or may not have worked out admittedly but that's not the point.