Sandro flies in for Everton talks

If Keane, Sandro, Klaasen. Batshuayi etc come off it will be a great kick start to the Moshiri revolution.

Nothing has really changed... woppi doo – we finished 7th when 4th could have been achieved.. No wonder the lazy one wants out; even Diamond Boy is not happy.

Still, we dare to dream about turning the Red Shite over...

I'd be surprised if Batshuayi came though. If a team like Monaco want him, we have no chance. Even as an Evertonian, I'd be on the first plane out there!!!

I do believe in the new owner & management, let's see how things shake out.

Did you just win the lottery by any chance? *LOL*

He could turn out to be a quality signing and, if it doesn't work out, you'll get at least 㾶 million off someone back in Spain!!

The added bonus that Malaga is only 2 hours away is not too under estimated if he has any family ties and associations there and wants a quick visit in the future.

Add Sigurdsson, Maguire or Keane, Pickford, and the young lads from the U23s and we're set to challenge the top six. Which, unless we can get players like Sanchez, Coutinho or Van Dijk, is the best we can do next season.

That doesn't mean I don't want us to challenge for everything – it just means I watched us against Arsenal in our last game and realise how much we need.

As for Batshuayi, Chelsea should tell him he's coming to Everton if they want Lukaku.

Sandro, Keane, Brahimi and Batshuayi in would be a decent start!

I remember him reportedly saying to the Blue Union, "I'll be gone by the time I'm 70, my doctor won't let me continue". That's another lie for the list.

Is anyone else worried that the Red Shite will move for Keane now they've made a boo boo with the Van Dijk fiasco? It crossed my mind the other day and someone's posted the same story on NewsNow today. Let's hope knowing that he's our first choice will be make him pick us over them.

He's not that good ffs. Plus, he's an absolute bell-end.

Dave Whelan broke his leg?

FFS – why didn't he mention it before now?

Assuming a couple of the youngsters make the breakthrough into the squad, we could be looking at a season of continued improvement with promise of more to come. New goalkeeper, plus Keane, Klaassen, Sigurdsson, Sandro, Traore (if not Batshuayi), plus the lad from QPR would be a good window indeed!

The Lukaku situation may have to be resolved first.

Hopefully some of the other rumours may be true but don't hold your breath.

Apparently Steve Walsh was in there waiting for someone and he came in with a couple of guys.

Video on twitter of Walsh apparently waiting for Sandro in the Titanic Hotel. Make of it what you will but that lad on his phone looks a lot like Sandro.

https://twitter.com/Jackoefc27/status/874003508135170048?s=08

I would love this one to happen, it would appear to represent fantastic value in today's market, and let's not forget – if it weren't for the transfer ban, he would now be joining a team who have been in two Champions League finals in the last four seasons.

Some fans need to stop acting like Everton is some jumped up second rate plastic excuse for a football club because that is the biggest mistake and the least expensive to put right.

Look in the football columns at the daily tittle tattle and take note who gets linked with this and that player. It's predictable. Do they sign each and every possible target? Nope !

So try this strategy on for free. Everton get themselves linked with every hotshot who is highly fancied. We do it repeatedly. Our name keeps getting mentioned amongst the "chosen few". Over and over and over.

How much does this cost? Bugger all. Then, just like all the rest, who do we actually sign? We sign who we actually want. But in the process we alter the mindset, in fact we might snare one or two players that raise the eyebrows.

It's called "The Power of Positive Thinking", and we'd better get our heads around it again! Just because we abandoned it in the late eighties and became the experts at avoiding it like the plague in the previous decade doesn't mean that it doesn't exist and has no influence.

If we show no belief in us, then don't expect some big brand "Johnny Foreigner" to turn us around by signing for a club that has an apologist attitude. Time to stop tackling like Geoff Nulty and start thinking like Big Nev!

I am not too fussed on signing Batshuayi from Chelsea as some rumours say. He is far from the potential Lukaku was and I don't want to see us raise another player for a Champions League side. Signing him will show all Lukaku's critics just how good Lukaku was for us but its all rumours at this point.

Looks like Klaassen will be instead of Sigurdsson, maybe he represents better value. Let's see.

Sandro would be a no-brainer, just what we need, pace and power. I would trust Walsh a lot more than I would Koeman in the transfer market.

Good, they're getting him used to sinking ships!

The Recruitment team can only do their best with what they control. If a Champions League side come in we will lose.

If we offer a club the right process and the play and agent the right fees – we have no control when Arsenal or even stoke or West ham come in and ask the agent what it would take and they offer 30% more fees above the worth of the player.

However, we can have a positive attitude and then we will attract more than if we are negative.

If you are getting wet at the thought of signing Klaassen and your not a Barkley fan you need help. Barkley would score for fun in that dutch league. In fact, watch the goal where Klaassen goes around the keeper and try to tell me Barkley wouldn't be a sensation in Holland.

I have nothing against Klaassen by the way. I hope he signs and becomes a major player for us but if I see one more flog Barkley and get Klaassen shout, from fans who know nothing about Klaassen, I think i'll buy a gun.

I can't believe how many grown ups play reality Championship Manager every summer.

Paul (#60) well said. Barkley is head and shoulders better than Klaassen. Now don't get me wrong, he is a good player, but he plays in a very weak league. I would rather have Sigurdsson, and I'm not thrilled about him signing.

In saying that we might have cooled interest in him. Leicester are supposedly offering 㿊m for him.

I'm excited about Sandro and at ٣M, he is far less a risk than the 㿊m we were quoted for Slimani last summer.

As for Davy Klaassen, I'll trust Koeman's judgement, but he's not really impressed me. The big Dane upfront, Kasper Dolberg, looks a better signing, and can bring the physicality that Sandro lacks.

As for Klaassen, I don't know much other than the fact he is the first Ajax man to captain them in a major European final for years. He doesn't look like a playmaker but an attacking midfielder who makes runs into the box to get on the end of moves. He could be the new Cahill who didn't score many screamers but was often in the right place and the right time.

Hopefully we get these two in and add a real playmaker, two centre-halves, goalie and a winger who can play on both sides and can chip in and a new dynamic left-back.

That was his 50th game of the year. He was probably knackered.

That's not a lie. It's an inaccurate prediction by a human being that wasn't born with a working crystal ball attached to his hands.

"We finished 7th when 4th could have been achieved... "

Yeah, right. Can't wait to have you tell us where we could have picked up 16 more points and flown past three teams who were better than we were. News bulletin: We finished behind those three red teams because we didn't have enough talent to finish ahead of them. 4th was never a possibility. Period.

And the rumoured Klaasen and Sigurdsson interest, or Michael Keane, certainly do not meet Beattie money requirements. Nor, for that matter, do the 25mil deals made for Bolasie and Schneiderlin in the past year. We comfortably surpassed the highest gross spend in our history during the past year, despite the hiring of a new manager, director of football, and the transition of a new owner. I'm confident that we will do the same again over the next 12 months. There are far more reasons to believe in Moshiri than to decry him, and I haven't seen an argument on here that has made me think otherwise.

Let's hope the business over the summer convinces all of us.

Bring it on I say! :)

To add to your point regarding Mark (#3), I believe that this season Arsenal secured the the highest points total in Premier League history for a team that did not finish at least 4th. They had 3 more points than Bobby's team did when we finish 5th. The idea that we somehow fluffed a chance to make 4th is misguided, or overly simplistic.

I have read on this site that Arsenal are a shambles, Man Utd are no great shakes, and Liverpool are shit. Yet last season 75 points would have been comfortably 2nd place, 3rd the year before.

Regards Sandro, all I have to go on is YouTube. But at €6 million or so, he could be steal.

It's been said he wants his future sorted before the U21 Euro's, which start on Friday. He's in line to play his first game on Saturday.

I'm HOPING the fact he's taken the time out to fly to Liverpool means it's as good as sorted!

I think it's Roberto Martinez, Bobby has clearly has been hitting the gym, getting some tattooes and is planning a sneaky comeback as a striker either that or Sandro is Martinez's secret love child. This guy looks older than the Yak does now!

He was later seen in Hope Street, talking to Jeremy Corbyn. He was holding the Jammie Dodgers.

Del Boy could be a factor in Sandro coming to Everton if they did play together at Barcelona.

For once, let's see some decisive action and real determination to push this deal over the line and have it all in place ready for him to sign on the dotted line on the day the window opens. That would put down a marker and show we really do mean business this summer.

Same goes for Klaassen. He is a goalscorer and club captain. Most of the Ajax team had a bad night against Man Utd. You can't judge a player on one game and Koeman has been watching his progress for 3 years. He knows where the goal is, which is more than can be said for Barkley.

The window opened on June 9th...

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/12691/10862752/when-does-the-transfer-window-open

He'd certainly be up for it every game.

I'd have thought if we'd been successful we'd have announced something, and you'd thing he'd have made his mind up one way or the other with the player himself allegedly wanting things settled before the end of the week.

Fingers still crossed!

A possible front three of Bacca, Sandro and Niang next season though, that could get me salivating!

As for Banega, he is past it now.

As for the Italy trip, this has loan deals written all over it. Good business sense too as we use them for a VERY busy year without the ongoing financial issues if they fail and it also frees up cash for permanent signings. It's a win-win.

We don't need to haggle over price because of the release clause, and Sandro himself seems keen to get his future sorted out before The European U21s begin tomorrow. So, you'd expect to hear something positive today?

With such a small release clause the concern is always going to be that some other club has swooped in and confused the issue. Of course it could always be something like image rights or shirt number that's holding up the deal. Not to mention his impression of Liverpool when he visited (not a slight on the City, it just may not have felt right for him).

A quick Google search indicates no news whatsoever regarding Sandro for a couple of days. Good or bad thing?

Kind of feels the same to me until it isn't, until then it will be same.

Am I right in thinking that, although deals can be done from the 9th June, contracts and fees cannot be registered until 1st July?

Considering Davey Moyes only had around ٤ million to spend each year, this really shows that Moshiri is the real deal.

I say go for Andre Gray and Niang with a cheeky bid for Aguero.

Realistically we should demand two or three players from Chelsea as part of the Lukaku deal. Batshuayi, Traore and/or Tammy Abrahams would be a nice coup. I would even offer to drive the egotistical maniac there myself.

And part-exchanges almost never happen.

WTF about McGeady, Deulofeu, Mirallas et al – they are no different but we bought them!!! :)

I think it's easy to underestimate what a massive decision it is to leave your home country and move to another. It's very easy to take for granted with footballers, but it's a big ask.

We will need to be offering a huge contract to prise him away from home comforts.