Fresh Everton bid expected after Zaha submits transfer request

Just a thought, Everton have until 12.00 lunch time to register any new players to play this weekend, if we sign Zaha after 12 then he cannot play against Palace.

May be wrong but would not be suprised if Palace accept an offer after the cut off time.

I keep my eye on the newsfeed though and Everton is certainly making others sit up and take notice. Here are some beaut comments on the BBC live transfer news page which made me chuckle:

"Is there any professional footballer, not being Linked with Everton FC?" - Anon

"Are Everton looking at signing the whole Premier League? Or do they not know who to sign?" - Peter

"I've got an old TV and a sofa I'm getting rid of if Everton are interested" - from Rich, Chester.

They are now in a position to thumb their noses at us. If we don't get a winger in (Walcott is not acceptable to me, I am sorry) and a centre-back by deadline, I have to say it will defo take a "shine" off the window for me.

(Sorry... couldn't resist that un. :)

If you believe even half the supposed offers, we would look rather daft.

I'm thinking there is still a more coherent plan bubbling under the surface.

Javairo Dilrosun - Hertha Berlin
Leon Bailey - Leverkusen
Steven Bergwijn - PSV Eindhoven
Ronny Lopes - AS Monaco
Mikel Oyarzabal - Real Sociedad

And not even mentioning the others already linked.

I desperately want Zaha. I think he'd completely change us from Top 6 maybe to Top 6 definitely overnight. But there's no way we should ever pay north of £60 million for him.

We had their valuation met with £60 million, Cenk, and James. It's that simple. They're playing hard ball, won't have any other suitors at that price, and never will again after this window.

Walk. Too much money.

And I've read a lot comments akin to, "It's not your money, so why do you care what we pay for a player?"

I care, and would argue everyone should care, because the financial health of a Club is arguably the most important statistic there is. If you love your Club, you certainly do not want them to overspend. Ask Leeds, Portsmouth, etc.

Anything north of £60 million, walk away.

I'm with you.

If he is going to sign, it will be after 12:00 tomorrow, so he can't play on Saturday.

Annoying but makes sense from a Palace perspective.

If we actually pay £100 million for Zaha, ridiculous is the only way to define that. Insanity might be another.

If Bramley-Moore Dock costs £500 million, that's 20 percent of the cost to build a new stadium.

I want Zaha. If we pay that much, I'll be pissed we did.

But won't be registered by 12:00 tomorrow, but I can live with that, if true.

They won't want to keep an unhappy player.

Can someone fix the "jump to last" button?

Fingers crossed all ends well come 5pm tomorrow

It's huge. This deal, no matter what you think of Zaha as a player, is massive. It improves our squad, and we'd land a player who was coveted by a few "Top 6" clubs.

I think this might be our gatecrash deal.

This is exciting.

Just think of all those penalties that Siggs can miss!

I have no information - but the sequence stands up.

No wonder he's furious.

Completely agree with Jamie, this is exactly the sort of player that puts us well in the mix for the Top 6

What do we reckon we need to cough up to get him?

£60m or less;
£60 - £80m;
£80m +

Also, can Zaha get more than a light blue colour on the Toffeeweb chart, I'd downgrade Doucouré though.

I love, and I mean love, a good conspiracy theory.

I actually have had the exact same thought.

Palace want to keep the money, an accepted offer is in place with Everton and has been for a while, and we're going through a Broadway production so Palace can say, "We didn't have enough time in the transfer window to replace Wilfred after he handed in the transfer request."

Hmmmmm .

The morons at Sky keep banging on about it as though leaving the mighty Crystal Palace for a move to EFC is a backwards step!

I'd love for this to happen just to see the Sky moron's heads explode at the temerity and audacity of EFC signing Zaha! How dare we spend huge sums and sign a player Sky morons want to go to an elite club!!

Note: the biggest Sky moron is 'Michael Bridges' (I think), who has taken particular umbridge with us potentially signing Zaha! I'd love to see his face if we sign him! Just love it!

I absolutely fucking love this.

Pickford
Coleman Mina Keane Digne
Gbamin Siggi Gomes
Richarlison Kean Zaha

Has to be one of our better line ups of recent years?

It'll be somewhere between 60 and 80 million is my guess.

It'll be reported as 80 million, but it'll be a hogwash 80 million with 50 million down and a bunch of add-ons and what not.

That's my guess.

This is Moshri's Big Dick Moment, better known as BDM. He's swinging his "club" and letting everyone know he means business. BDM indeed.

Let's hope Zaha lives up to the price tag. I think, in the end, he will.

Jamie, I hope what you're saying is true, but we haven't signed him yet.

Except Seamus. Still the best £60k ever.

Up in my head, it's a done deal. ;0)

Amazing.

We can't expect to be hammering teams from the off though. Will take time for everything to come together. Patience is needed.

Zaha is a very good player but 80M should get you far better. I can only think "proven Premier League experience" is the difference between him and other, more promising wingers.

I don't think Zaha is worth the fees being bandied about, but Everton need a finisher and for a change players really want to join for Everton.

Brands is having a big impact and a lot are now starting to take notice.

I wonder too if we have a bid in for a CB somewhere that is not public knowledge but that the Smalling loan is also part of the "time is running out so make your mind up" strategy?

On another note, I also think the deal might be £60M in cash + Tosun.

I'm off to buy some 'Tena Man' just in case...

There will be missteps along the way but there will be no turning back. This is the future of our club and how we will operate. This transfer window is a hugely significant shift for the club and I am not sure that its longer term, deeper implications have been picked up yet by the commentariat.

And given that he's signed through 2023, they could easily tell him to stick his transfer request.

Competition for places will only improve everyone.

I think we are striking a good balance with quality and depth.

Kind of funny, Goffy (sp?) on TalkShite just said, “Everton are offering their whole squad and their new stadium for Wilfred Zaha.”

Yup.

Can’t stop thinking of The Shining Jack Nickolson quote, “Here’s Johnny!!”

And if that’s the case I’m deffo delaying McCarthy’s registration until after noon tomorrow.

Sure that Messrs. Brands and Silva know what they are doing but I really would feel easier if the centre half position was made the priority. If there is any merit on the interest in Nathan Ake - again not at the ridiculous amount quoted this morning, then I'd be pleased. I think that he would do well for us.
Keep the faith.

£70m should get you a guaranteed starter at Everton.

I would prefer we offer Lukaku another chance for £70m and then loan a centre back if zouma cannot be done. If lukaku isn't an option then go all in for zouma and a winger on loan with the option to buy.

Due to FFP, what Palace want is a cash injection which gives them more scope to increase the amount they are allowed to spend. It is a long way around a rule, but if we put £70M on paper then they give us £8M for Jimmy and £15M for Tosun on paper, this gives us more scope to do dealings.

If I am wrong, can somebody please enlighten me in the 'dumbed down' version of what I believe to be the case?

Nor would they likely perceive any potential loss of value in Zaha between now and January or next July, not the way transfer fees are exploding. He might be worth 20 million more next year just by staying at the same level of play.

Sky Sports News reported on Friday that the Eagles would need to up their bid after having £14m rejected for the 21-year-old over a week ago.

Maybe Palace looking for a replacement for Zaha...?

We've been in the hunt for Zaha all along, never mind Iwobi. It's a smokescreen. Now he's handed in a transfer request the day before deadline day, there's a surprise!

Sorry, I just thought this might help take peoples minds off things for a minute.

Palace saving that money and the money on offer to them it makes the value of the bid higher.

You cant blame them for holding out it's just the same we did with lukaku, john stones ect.

I hope this deal happens. fingers crossed.

Cant wait for the window to close all the refresh on my phone for the Kean deal now this deal is seriously damaging my marriage haha!

My productivity is absolute crap. I'm with ya.

Maybe there's another team waiting in the wings with an offer?

After everything Palace has done for him, they developed him into the big time, sold him to UTD, which was something he himself wanted and when it went wrong they took him back and showed him patience so he could gain his confidence back again.

He might come to us, have a good season and then throw his toys out the pram once more because Barca have blown kisses at him.

He's got no class whatsoever the way he's behaving towards Palace, he makes Lukaku look quite the gentleman.

And at the money that's being asked, no thanks.

Is it me or is anyone else seeing how unhappy Lukaku is at United and the fact they are looking for similar money to that of Zaha - should we be thinking of intervening here? I know he left under a cloud and I was at old trafford when he scored against us and his reaction was disrespectful to the away section, but you can't deny his influence in the blue shirt and what he done for us? Not sure how the TW faithful would respond to this?!?!?

I think they've told Mosh Top 4 will happen in the next two years.

It takes time to create familiarity on the pitch between players, learn the system, settle in, etc.

Two years would be my guess. But this absolutely puts the pressure on Marco and raises the bar.

I'd honestly be surprised now if this doesn't happen.

Despite all the welcome midfield and striker additions, it will be irresponsible to start the season with just Keane and Mina - with only Holgate and Pennington as back up.

Hope we've not just been sitting there this summer believing we could get Zouma back, and not enough effort spent in seeking other options.

Its beginning to look like a stop gap CB on loan in the hope we can go and get Zouma in January after he's had a strop about not being picked with the Euros coming up next summer.

Finally Can we ask for a refund on Theo ! If Iwobi transfer happens ?

No wonder I have insomnia.

If we have this sort of money to spend I think we should spend it on a goalscorer.

Please, consider the above before swallowing hook-line-and-sinker the ten-a-penny approaching deadline media rumours created by journos who are sitting comfortably in the pub/winebar of their choice.

Also, consider how wisely MB & MS have traded this close season and last two windows.

Then, having measured what you hear/read against the above make a grown up "is it worth reacting ?".

Thanks.

Remember you heard it here first!!

I see Bournemouth have slapped a 75m price tag on Ake at the mere hint of an approach by us.

I just hope we don't get a Utd Reject as back up.

Cant get Zouma this window, don't see the point in spending £30-40m for a backup to Mina and Keane unless its Zouma.

Just loan someone as cover and hope Mina and Keane don't get injured, or use our own reserve defenders, if they don't get a chance they can't come good.

Maybe as an #8, where he doesn't have to shoot... hmmm.

Ridiculous?

There's nothing comical or hilarious about what I've said.

Everything I've said about Zaha at Palace is on the money, I'll bet the Palace fans agree.

Lukaku has/had no real emotional ties to EFC or ManU, I'm not suprised by his behaviour, but it's petulance more than anything.

Zaha on the other hand is biting the hand that fed him from youth, this is a special class of mercenary that Barkley also belongs to.

Martin, if you think this is ridiculous or ok, it's a free forum and you're entitled to your opinion.

I thought it was Leicester who had asked about Ake, not us, they earmarked him as a replacement for Maguire.

If we bid £40m for Doucore then it seems like a physical, athletic, central midfield ball carrier could be on the cards. Iwobi might just be that man.

Idle thought... Silva doesn't have daughters, does he?

We could very much look at over taking them in Top 6 this season, Lets get this deal done and a CB and I will look forward to this season with real optomisum (been so long I have forgotten how to spell it !!)

Arsenal have been pleading poverty for years, I'd be very surprised if they shelled out over £140m for two wingers in the same window.

Natalie Sawyer will be on TV tomorrow with Jim White.

TY God. My favorite color, for a day, surely will be yellow.

We are now attracting big players, each one that signs makes future players think of Everton as a decent destination.

That is why signing Zaha will be a big step forward for future signings.

Sky and the media are praying we do not sign Zaha.

As for M.Keans he has scored from corners so who are we to say what he may do as,a striker

I just heard on TalkSport that she's doing the show with Jim White tomorrow. Darren and Goff or whatever their names are, said she's on TV tomorrow.

She had left TV and she does a show on TS - she's on during my afternoon here, so I listen to her a lot.

I certainly hope they were not playing and talking truthfully!

On the CB front we could do worse than approach Barcelona for a loan deal for Umtiti- a proper solid block of a defender.

Yep, I can see why Zaha might be pissed off, that's if promises have been broken.

It's sad though that players have the power to make these "or else" demands, this broken promise does show though that he's been "at it" for a while now. Long live player power!!!

TalkSport is bigging up Arsenal like crazy to sign Zaha.

When I first came into this, I honestly, hand on heart, thought that the bias was most likely a sensitive fan base.

It's not. It's a real bias in my opinion. I hear it all the time on sat radio over here.

My emotion of anger and resentment wants me to see Everton sign Zaha even more. And I'm American! Can't imagine how much it pisses the locals off!

Juventus have also taken my Renault in part of the Lukaku deal. At least he eont have to drag his fat disloyal carcass to the fifteen years box.

We're reportedly already offered well north of £60 m. So your advice is walk away, no ifs, no buts

You are joking?

You have to care. As a fan, I'd argue you simply have to take interest on our "large" expenditures.

The last thing you want is to turn into a Leeds or Portsmouth. And if you see an expenditure that is just unjustifiable, you have to question it?

In the end it's not our money, and there's nothing you can do about it. But you surely care, and don't want to start chucking money around on a death-road to bankruptcy / administration.

For the record, I don't think Zaha hits that criteria, as Marcel has done a really good job of saving on wages and recouping some money for our "deadweight", which will go a long way to offsetting the wages and cost of a player like Zaha.

Showing that EFC mean business in this window and the club is looking to strengthen its position in the EPL.

Sometimes, I go out with the Mrs. thinking to myself, "I'll have one drink, and then home to bed at a reasonable hour."

A few friends show up to where we go out, we end up at their house or ours, and 10 drinks later at 3 a.m. I call it a night.

Zaha, and the cost to get him, has a lot of parallels mate!

I'm blind drunk on Zaha. I don't know what my ceiling is anymore. Maybe I'll be hurting Friday morning, or maybe I'll think Thursday was one of the best days of my life. I'll letcha know soon enough, but I'm going to keep pushing it! It's too much fun.

I often listen to 606 call-in on podcast.

If I have a dollar for every time a caller started with, "I didn't see the game, but.. . . "

I then went on an Arsenal fansite and half of them feel that Iwobi will be better than Zaha in 2-3 years time, and the other half think he'll be as bad as Walcott. Very much divided in their opinion, but the more reasonable sounding posters spoke very highly of him. The typically impatient/curt and less rational sounding posters think he's shit. An Evertonian has gatecrashed the site and it makes it all the more interesting.

Humor, not serious!

The only title I don't capitalize is red shite.

American, not american. Greatest country in the world, and Land of the Free, deserves capitalization! ;0)

COYB

Too true.

Very good Steve, too funny.

It's too late for any Arbitration by then. I believe this will go to the vinegar stroke of 16.49pm tomorrow.

Watch this space...……………… or Loony Tunes!

If they sell us Zaha they could probably buy about 12 Camarasa's.

#Progress

Earlier today I came across a source that stated Luiz was of interest to Everton. There was no mention of Arsenal and Arsenal have not made any offer yet.

I think the Esk put something on twitter about our finances and FFP earlier.

Personally, I don’t want Zaha at that price as the money remaining should be allocated to other priorities.

We have a Board in place that is intent on success. Tomorrow may or may not be a step in that direction. We may need to wait until January, or next summer, to make that impactful signing.

But they've clearly sent a message - they're not going to stop until we see success. And that's what I'll take away from this, signing Zaha or not.

Palace will have one unhappy player on their hands.

If you've got it, flaunt it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2312956/Manchester-United-accused-over-Howard.html

Thank God my wife isn't in charge of Everton!

If he’s not registered by 12.00 he can’t play for us on Saturday.

Football Insider: Mills on Brands

I also don't think Zouma was going anywhere anyway - clearly that IS the case since they're flogging Luiz so what does it matter?

Not sure where you’re coming from?

What’s physical characteristics got to do with a players ability.

I’ve got a finger missing, but I don’t go around asking for a 10% discount as and when I buy gloves😇

Glass half full.

No big deal about the finger, it was 47 years ago.
But commenting on people’s physical characteristics is of little concern to me, especially if they produce the goods.
Perhaps I could get a 10% discount on my season ticket, ha ha ha!

I think this will be sealed tomorrow.

70m + Cenk Tosun looks like the deal, but there is rumour that Palace want another of our players. Who? Besic, Tom ?

Perhaps Palace can offer better wages... but no CL football. I'd of gone up north if l had that choice.

As for Macca, you're spot on about the wages.

For example.instead of them paying £10m for JM like we wanted, they paid £3m

£7m comes off the £80m they wanted bringing it down to a £73m bid which is £80m if you included the full asking price of JM.

means united get 25% of £7m less. £1.25m extra in CP pocket.

Speculation I know, would seem mad to give CP JM for £3m when they offered £8m only last week, and Newcastle supposedly bid £5m.

With CP messing us around with Zaha I'm surprised we sent JM the other way instead of gift wrapping him to Newcastle for £2m more!

It's all smokes and mirrors I think CP just trying to bleed this transfer for as much as they possible can, and I cant blame them for that. Hopeful the Zaha deal will happen tomorrow, probably after 12 so he cant be selected for the return to CP on saturday afternoon.

But I would walk away from Zaha if Palace insist on £100M. He is good but he isn't £100M good

92 Football League clubs x 11 players per team = 1012 players.

With 1,333 Seamus Coleman's we could have 92 clubs full of Seamus's [what's he like in goal]. There would even be some Seamus's left over to make the giant pot of half time tea.