Lukaku links up with new agent

Seriously, didn’t Wayne change agents just before he left? Of course, it might not come to that with Romelu but the runes don’t look positive from an Everton point of view.

Clubs like us are goosed these days, no chance of becoming a top team unless you’re paying top wages!

Talk about drumming up business for yourself...

Agents = Scum

He’s got years left on his contract with us.

㿙m!

Why not? Unlike us, they’ve probably only seen his Europa goals.

Imagine screwing a load of cash out of them, knowing a month later their fans will be angrily screaming: "Merda, egli è offside ancora una volta" (’Shit, he’s offside again’... or something along those lines.)

I’d say to possible suitors look at his domestic return this season: 7 from open play. Hardly the return of a class act, is it? There’s better players in the Championship if you ask me, who’d cost a fraction of the price. Oh... but I forgot; he’s only 21, isn’t he... Yawn.

No-one is going to want to come to a club fighting relegation and not playing in Europe, except maybe a has-been or a Championship player.

Thanks, Roberto!!!!

Mr 10% will want him to move asap.

He was being heckled by someone in the audience and he shouted:

"You should get yourself a fucking agent, pal. Why sit there in the dark handling yourself?"

You most certainly would never have attracted this profile had you stayed in Chelsea reserves. Good luck, I expect Mr Mirallas will also follow you out of the door, I just hope it all comes to pass as soon as possible after season-end so we can look to rebuild with a bit of money in the pot.... provided the proceeds are made available to our manager, be it Roberto or AN Other.

Maybe he was also a divisive influence in the dressing room too – the catch-all that shields the phenomenal Roberto from his woeful mismanagement.

Wonder where the goals will cone from if he departs?

4-2-3-1, the numbers of the devil!

This game is getting so polluted, I’m beginning to think it doesn’t need my dosh any more.

"proceeds are made available to our manager,... Roberto..."

Funniest phrase on this thread:

"...this current good run..."

What’s selling Lukaku compared to that?

It’s Stones announcing a new agent I’d worry about.

The lad is a phenomenal talent facing goal and a phenomenal waste of talent with his back to goal.

Roberto will freeze him out in favour of Kone next season.

If they wouldn’t pay 㿈 million for him 8 months ago, why would they pay it now?

What did we ever do to deserve this pairing?

Where it would leave us and what it says about us as a club are to me more important matters.

Who can we get that will replace our goals after such a crap season and being a selling club again, a harbour on the way to bigger dreams is demoralising.

I’d say, this FFP doesn’t seem to be slowing the money clubs down much if at all, does it! I’m seriously thinking of giving next season a miss, I’ve had enough of disappointments, supporting a team with little realistic chance of a trophy.

Martinez is taking all the flack, and while some of it is warranted, our main problem is lack of spending power. As it is, no manager can make us a trophy winning side.

We need a takeover, and the sooner the better.

If I were BK I would sack Bobby end of the season. Then be looking for 㾻 mill for Kev and 㿔 mill for Barkley, who frankly we don’t have the luxury to "wait" to come good. We should be looking to cash in on the prima donnas and reinvest the money in solid 8/10 every week performers. Let the new manager build a foundation that has been decimated by Mr Phenomenal. Buy a solid Keeper and organize a solid defence. Make us hard to beat for a season and then systematically and diligently inject the money on shrewd transfers over the next 3 years.

No need to spend it all at once. If we have money with the mentality of having no money we should be able to get the most out of our situation. Think how close we came with Moyes. We were often only a player away but we didn’t have the money to get the right winger or striker we so desperately needed. I’d say sell the assets, bank the money, build without making massive purchases (over ٦ mill) & wait.

So who in their right mind would want to buy Everton? And therein lies the answer to our problem. To buy Everton, you need to fund a new ground first then start pumping money into the playing staff.

While there is West Ham shortly to move to another state-of-the-art stadium paid for by the taxpayers, what a mouthwatering prospect that is for a new owner. Then there is Crystal Palace who look like they may have a new billionaire owner, and again itÂ’s the lure of London. So be prepared to be under resourced for decades to come which at some point will mean relegation.

Him, Bainsey and Jags seem to have been the only players to give a shit recently.

Maybe they are all fed up with Señor Phenomenal.

I love your ambition 㿔M for Lukaku? ...and 㾻M for his Belgium team mate?

Why do so many of our fans think the chairman of other clubs are complete mugs?

Assuming ownership form holds, Roberto will have to sell in order to have a decent transfer wedge.

We have more chance of success through the bubble bursting for everyone than finding a billionaire who wants to burn his money investing in a new ground and players.

If heÂ’s sold to a CL club, as is likely, we will 100% get our money back and probably a healthy profit. Only issue is whoÂ’s going to then get the opportunity to spend it....

I now expect Rom, Mirallas, Distin and Alcaraz to def go in the summer. So our two top goal scorers... itÂ’s going to be interesting replacing those two but we should be able to get 㿔m+ for the two (although most of the Rom money will go to Chelsea).

Summer is going to be interesting at least.

This is how it is, get over it.

We will hopefully turn a profit and maybe even get a better balanced squad into the bargin.

No to both for me.

Lukaku (and his colleagues) has been shite = we have dropped down the league = he wants to move to a CL club.. What's wrong with this formula?

Quality players that join clubs down the league usually only do so because they have been offered extortionate wages, that's something we won't do obviously.

We will become a mid to bottom club if we start selling players.

It started a bad cycle in the 1990's when we began losing our better players such as Kanchelskis, Stuart, people were happy to let them leave expecting good players to come in as replacements.
It didn't happen and we ended up with a few years the likes of Tiler, Mitch Ward, Danny Williamson.

I notice Fellini was comparing LVG to Moyes, saying he was stronger manager – where does that leave Roberto? Weak as piss, I'd say.

The trouble is who spends it? Under Moyes I usually felt assured that he would buy players for good value (though he was much better with players who cost ٣m and under than above); Martinez I worry does not have as good a judgement or scouting team.

One thing is for sure and that is that selling Lukaku will have not nearly as detrimental effect as Spurs selling bale did for example. As pointed out his league goals return has been very mediocre and I think we could find someone strong and athletic for much less money who could do a similar job...

Here's another formula:

Our Goalkeeper and defence have been piss-poor all season. Add that to an industrious midfield with no creativity and the Result is = No Service to your only fucking striker capable of scoring.
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A - We get more than the 㿈 million we paid;

B - The first thing the money is used for is to pay off Martinez;

C - The first player our new manager gets is a goalkeeper (preferably Petr Cech);

D - We sign another decent striker.

What worries me a lot more is that regardless of which players we bring in, if we carry on playing the slow sideways passing tactics then it really won't matter anyway as the attacking players won't get decent service. Add the fact that our defensive play is now one of the worst in the league as well.

I just don't trust RM to be able to build a decent balanced squad. These Cleverly rumours still won't go away! If Rom and Mirallas both leave for 㿔m+, would you trust RM to spend the money wisely?

The sooner Martinez is shown the door, the sooner we can try to build our great club into the best in Europe - where it belongs. Of course, 'corner-shop' Kenwright would have to go for that to happen.

With Martinez and Kenwright, we are being run by soft soap, small minds and sentimentality. These frauds should be ousted and individuals like Lukaku, Mirallas, Barkley, Besic, Garbutt and some others can come to the fore. these are all top players who can compete at the very highest level.

I cannot begin to say and elaborate on how inappropriate a captain Jags is. The club is simply run badly at many important levels. We need a strong-minded, intelligent manager, not a smiling charmer with lees-than-moderate ability and a dubious CV.

It really does all break my heart.

If/When Rom moves on, we will most likely make back our investment (I can't see anyone paying above that, tbh) but I shudder to think what will be done (or not!) to replace him. We know how the Board thinks and acts. This team and manager have significantly underperformed this season and the more likely scenario is a sell-off of our better player assets, contract extensions to our aging/floundering ones, and maybe the addition of one or two cast-offs from the-called bigger clubs. The goal will be to get the wage bill down for next season and then see how it goes.

Every offseason is a painful one for Everton. This upcoming one may be a waterboarding experience considering our current situation. I do not expect an imminent change in manager which makes the prospect of this summer's business even more unnerving.

This is Everton FFS! I despair if we can't aim higher than both of them put together.

To put things into perspective, an Everton player has only managed to score 15 or more league goals a season 3 times in the last 20 years! He's managed more league goals than the likes of Giroud, Dzeko, Bony, Rooney, Falcao and Van Persie this season.

As for Ings, he may not be a world beater but you get 110% committment, grit and goals and he's only 22 so will only get better. Imagine also what he could do with better players around him. He's also out of contract this summer so won't cost much.

They may not have the potential of a Lukaku but you get committment and goals at least and neither will cost anywhere near 28m. I'd take either over Naismith anyday.

Only issue is, even if we signed Messy I couldn't get excited with Martinez still in charge.

Seriously, domestic Italian football still has a hell of a lot of shame to shed, Juve in particular. We have the only major league in which there is a serious top 4-6 fight. The Italian league is a sedative compared to the EPL.

But hey, it's a game of different opinions. I also thought Andy Gray was a terrible buy back in the 80s...

Austin and Ings are young (22 & 25 I think), and both play hard. They don't stop and have both managed to outscore Big Rom this season. Why is this a step back?

Even if they come in and play two seasons scoring 10+ goals each season, that would either help us get back to where we should be or at the very least turn another huge profit.

Also, without European football, I'd rather take a gamble on 1 or 2 proven PL strikers than blow the whole wad on a Euro striker that fails like Soldado and Falcao have for Spurs and Man Utd.

But as you said, difference of opinion, and I respect yours, brother.

However, we don't need superstars of today, we should be looking for the superstars of tomorrow who are a bit rough around the edges today. Austin and Ings have already cut their teeth in the Premier League and a club like us can at least offer them regular first team football and a step up from their current clubs, whereas the big money clubs are basically offering a seat on the bench.

In saying that, and as has been mentioned above a few times, all the chat about players is basically a waste of time if the management doesn't change.

If he leaves for about 㿏M, expect Martinez to get about 㿀M of it. To get Cleverley and someone like Di Santo. Wasn't he ex-Wigan?

I think these two would just add to the 'Plucky Everton' nonsense that's regularly thrown about by the media. I'm not saying they are poor but but they're definitely not "Nil satis nisi optimum". Home grown players also; their wages would be obscene.

We've some fine young players; coveted by the money teams; who won't stick around for plucky midtable mediocrity.

Selling Rom is a backward step. If we can't buy the right players; then build a team around the Garbutt's, Barkely's, McCarthy's that we do have. New Goalkeeper, Centre-back, attacking midfielder; hold onto Rom and give it a real go to break that glass season.

If Juve or anyone else wanted him why didn't they sign him last summer? Answer they would not take the risk and pay the price. Now he has done well in Europe that want him.

I'm sorry but if he wants to go sell him for 㿔 million and they can have his Belgium mate as well.I think the fans will not be as welcoming as they once were now, it fits in with his comments some months ago about going to a bigger club.

I'll be surprised if the manager does not get all the dosh to get another striker in as Everton have really increased their income this season from the TV deals and will be in the even bigger money trough next season with the new Sky deal.

I was listening to 606 a few weeks ago and Robby Savage had it in a nutshell. Apart from 4 maybe 5 teams, the rest have no chance of winning the league and are there to simply provide the opposition. How depressing is that?

Personally I wouldn't put a brass farthing into modern football. The thought of even giving 20p to an agent "you give me 𧴜k before I talk to you" would kill me.

The day football rids itself from these cockroaches will be the best day since on EPL was launched

Lukaku shouldn't be allowed to leave for less than double what we paid. There is no replacement out there for him. In fact, I'd want the cost of a new stadium. I still can't believe some blues not appreciating what a player we've got.

I’ve supported him from Day 1 so my conscience is clear.

I've certainly had my doubts about Lukaku and would glad have taken 㿀M for him a few months ago but his form has definitely picked up and his all-round play with it. Finally there have been signs of him using his physique and athleticism to actually assert himself on defenders. And that gives me hope that he could become as good as some would have us believe.

Ultimately I don't think we would make much profit if we sold him this Summer and it would all depend on who the replacement was. Not sure there are that many top strikers out there at the moment who would want to come to us...

Since when did 8 out of 10 performances, every single week, equals simply 'solid'?

I guess since I've only been a supporter for 4 years I shouldn't complain, but come on man. RM should have an inside track to Spain, he is Mr Barca right?

I agree that all these young players are buying into the media hype machine and think they can just dominate a game. It's crazy.

Now Liverpool is going after Vietto, why can't we target him if, IF, Rom leaves.

Lukaku has been playing for a move the past month, plain for us all to see.

Now, why would a player with four years left on his contract suddenly need a top agent like Raiola? I may be adding two and two and making five, but I now think Lukaku won't be playing for Everton FC next season.

By the time we pay Chelsea and the tax man we won't have a lot of change out of a figure like 㿏M. To make any real money, we would need to be getting at least 㿔M for Lukaku. What clubs abroad are going to pay that money? The big two in Spain maybe but they would look for the finished article, which Lukaku isn't. Maybe the top couple of clubs in Germany but they don't spend that big that often. Does Italian football have that kind of money?