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Two clubs make contact regarding Amadou Onana
Updated Following a suggestion by Alan Myers of Sky Sports that a Champions League club had made an enquiry about Everton's Amadou Onana, the Liverpool Echo claim that Arsenal have made an approach for the Belgian.
Since then, The Times have said that Aston Villa have also made made an enquiry about signing him.
Onana has been linked with the Gunners for a few months now, while the likes of Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Chelsea and Newcastle Utd have also been mentioned as possible suitors.
Arsenal or Villa making their move now could be an attempt to steal a march on any competition ahead of Euro 2024 where the midfielder had been hoping to put himself in the shop window.
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Everton signed Onana from LOSC Lille for £33m two years ago and are hoping to get between £50m and £60m for him in any deal this summer.
Lille are due 20% of any profit the Blues make on the player.
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2 Posted 14/06/2024 at 19:25:10
Apparently (BBC) we have rejected £35M from Man Utd for young Jarrad. Shocked I am!
3 Posted 14/06/2024 at 19:28:14
Hope he takes their pens.
4 Posted 14/06/2024 at 19:29:16
Yes, he's raw but watch him for Belgium when he has decent players around him. Different animal. A decent Euros and he'll be worth more than what's being quoted.
He's young and playing under so much pressure at Everton that I'm not surprised he's not amazing every game. But he has got unreal potential – I'd rather keep him for a couple of years and sell him for much more than make a £10-15M profit on him and have to give 20% to Lille.
Maybe with a new owner we can start changing the mindset from ‘who can we most afford to loose…' to ‘who should we bring in to make them better'?
5 Posted 14/06/2024 at 19:30:43
6 Posted 14/06/2024 at 19:43:41
7 Posted 14/06/2024 at 19:52:33
8 Posted 14/06/2024 at 19:58:24
I was thinking thinking about the Rooney transfer last night funnily enough.
How North West Tonight (a supposedly regional tv segment for our American cousins) devoted so much time to that young Manc during their live broadcast from Old Trafford. Not a single mention was made of all the kids on Merseyside who idolised Rooney or had his name emblazoned on the back of their (now defunct) replica shirts.
A completely insulting snub to so many of their (nominal) audience. Never forgive. Never forget.
9 Posted 14/06/2024 at 20:09:05
10 Posted 14/06/2024 at 20:12:14
Sorted.
11 Posted 14/06/2024 at 21:03:41
Big total over-rated waste of space. Be happy to see him move on and feel we will not miss him one bit.
12 Posted 14/06/2024 at 22:28:52
13 Posted 15/06/2024 at 01:04:18
Keep him as he has a long contract and his value will only increase next season.
14 Posted 15/06/2024 at 01:18:14
Meanwhile, clubs in much better positions, with much more recent success than Everton, are apparently lining up bids and he's about to start in midfield for a fantastic Belgium side in the Euros at 22.
Exactly the kind of player we should sell at minimal profit at the first opportunity to satisfy the bloodlust of the fans that presumably think there's another 22-year-old that's the envy of some of the biggest clubs in Europe that just can't wait to sign for Everton (we were boss in the '80s…)
Absolutely classic ToffeeWeb post.
15 Posted 15/06/2024 at 01:28:48
Here is my limited football IQ take: While Anthony makes a really good point about Onana building value, the chemistry is not there IMO and we could shop for a Gana replacement now rather than lose both Gana and Onana at the same time. It is a timing issue for rebuilding the squad. I would like to hear Robert's take now that we may have Friedkin at the helm.
16 Posted 15/06/2024 at 06:12:39
Agree with most here... Take the money and run. Hopefully, we make enough to make a tidy profit after PSR and the sell-on clause.
17 Posted 15/06/2024 at 07:52:39
He is still young though; if the ownership chance happens soon enough, might we not need to sell? Here's hoping.
How to grow and improve if the first thing to be done just before pre-season starts is cut some of the best quality from the squad.
PSR is not fit for purpose. It means aspirational clubs with wealthy owners can't break the glass ceiling. It's plain wrong and anti-competitive, it spoils the league and makes it a sham of a competition.
Man City are challenging it legally. Villa are challenging it legally. More clubs should stand up and fight to free us from the mess that Richard Masters and his like have made and get top-flight football back as a proper competition in England.
It's the national game after all. It's got ruined and we want it back.
18 Posted 15/06/2024 at 07:53:19
My take on transfers is that we will continue to sell under Friedkin – just as Roma have done – some very heavy cost cutting.
No massive difference; just greater short- to medium-term stability.
19 Posted 15/06/2024 at 07:59:27
Make it so, please.
20 Posted 15/06/2024 at 08:34:54
Surely those giving him the over-the-top criticism don't expect every player to adapt instantly?
I expect we'll sell him because we have to, but I think he's going to develop into a really good player over the next couple of years.
21 Posted 15/06/2024 at 08:49:42
As what, comic relief?
22 Posted 15/06/2024 at 11:04:03
Not that it means he will do so again.
23 Posted 15/06/2024 at 14:04:33
25 Posted 15/06/2024 at 20:27:43
26 Posted 15/06/2024 at 21:33:39
27 Posted 15/06/2024 at 23:57:45
No it's not, he's had 2 seasons with us, played 66 games and hasn't really kicked on from his 1st season.
While there's a player in there, we need to start turning profits on player sales and I don't hear any rumours of bids for Keane, Holgate et al.
28 Posted 16/06/2024 at 09:47:36
Maybe his talent isn't suited to our current style of play hence other (better) clubs think they can get something else out of him and so will to pay top dollar.
Obviously if we need to sell for PSR I'd rather Onana went and not Branthwaite. I'm not sure however how you get a transfer done if a player's at the Euros. Contracts can be sorted but a medical?
We presumably need to sell before 30 June and Man U can smell our desperation with that derisory opening bid of £35m.
29 Posted 16/06/2024 at 16:35:06
30 Posted 16/06/2024 at 17:25:40
I've never said he's shit or not good enough - au Cointreau Rodney, I think he's a good player who's going to be great.
BUT he's not leaving his all on the pitch for us which is what we need.
He's nursing his stats with safe balls rather than driving us forward, as he probably wool with better sides.
God luck to him, not a scapegoat at all for me, just worth a lot more in the coffers than on the pitch. For Is.
31 Posted 16/06/2024 at 17:30:55
32 Posted 16/06/2024 at 20:27:58
I keep seeing Man Utd not willing to be held to ransom, Tara then.
33 Posted 17/06/2024 at 05:40:16
34 Posted 17/06/2024 at 18:24:12
Blooming fagott.
35 Posted 17/06/2024 at 18:29:38
36 Posted 17/06/2024 at 19:03:10
37 Posted 17/06/2024 at 19:11:48
Just get rid,really stood out in Belgium's starting game...NOT.
38 Posted 17/06/2024 at 19:15:58
Denis Richardson 28: I honestly don't see the fuss with Onana but admittedly have not seen him play for Belgium.
Denis, did you just watch the Slovakia game? Apart from an excellent header for the first disallowed goal he was quite frankly awful, plodding around, short little passes etc.
39 Posted 17/06/2024 at 19:51:01
His main strength appears to be getting a foot in to win the ball and then pass it backwards or to the opposition.
He's the most expendable of our, so called, star players so if we had to sell one of them I'd sell him. We could get a much cheaper replacement who could kiss the badge and feign injury just as well!
40 Posted 17/06/2024 at 19:55:22
41 Posted 17/06/2024 at 21:21:27
Again, can't see what the fuss is with him and top clubs supposedly after him. I've get to see his initial £33m fee justified with us. Any profit on sale, or even just our £33m back, would be a good deal imo.
42 Posted 17/06/2024 at 22:07:12
If as Onana believes that he's in the shop window looking for a bigger club whilst at the Euro's hopefully he actually puts in better shifts and performances than he did today against Slovakia.
Hopefully another team is mug enough and pays £50-60m for him and if that helps satisfy PSR compliance and make a profit at the same time then no loss for what he has offered to date.
43 Posted 17/06/2024 at 22:49:17
If it's not the manager then who is it ?
Perhaps some younger players think their position is a shoe-in every week and then realize they have to step up their game but cannot get focused enough to do it after being dropped.
They then sulk a bit and want away, mostly for more money after being coerced by their agents and if that doesn't happen quickly then we have to suffer their presence in the squad to justify their wages at Everton.
44 Posted 17/06/2024 at 23:07:32
45 Posted 17/06/2024 at 23:31:20
46 Posted 17/06/2024 at 00:06:55
One good pass into the box showed some vision, one good run with the ball, a couple of dives but nothing as he said, put him in the shop window, maybe as Lyndon said, as a tailors dummy.20% goes to the frogs if he does go, oh and make him put in a transfer request. Rumania put in a good show against Ukraine, and could pose a threat to England if they meet.
47 Posted 17/06/2024 at 00:06:56
One good pass into the box showed some vision, one good run with the ball, a couple of dives but nothing as he said, put him in the shop window, maybe as Lyndon said, as a tailors dummy.20% goes to the frogs if he does go, oh and make him put in a transfer request. Rumania put in a good show against Ukraine, and could pose a threat to England if they meet.
48 Posted 18/06/2024 at 00:09:55
49 Posted 18/06/2024 at 00:17:28
Ed Davey: easy—Mo Salah, always diving
Sunak: nobody will pass to him, looks lost on the right wing: who knows?
Farage: on the Right so far up the pitch he's goal-hanging. Screaming for the ball
Starmer: nominally on the Left but hacks down his own players from behind (eg Corbyn) plotting an outrageous lobb to the right side of the net
And so on….
50 Posted 18/06/2024 at 00:18:49
How many games do you watch and the first thing you see is how many times missed passes are made when not under pressure. So any decent player gets dragged down hence why we buy players who are decent at other clubs but fall in a heap when they come to Everton.
51 Posted 18/06/2024 at 00:30:57
52 Posted 18/06/2024 at 00:35:06
53 Posted 18/06/2024 at 16:36:01
54 Posted 18/06/2024 at 16:46:04
55 Posted 18/06/2024 at 17:09:49
50-60 Million ? Well we can only hope whoever will do the negotiating for the Gooners was born yesterday
56 Posted 18/06/2024 at 17:24:59
57 Posted 18/06/2024 at 17:30:45
58 Posted 18/06/2024 at 17:50:01
A good move for all concerned provided the price is right.
59 Posted 22/06/2024 at 10:33:28
Our midfield is beginning to resemble a gaping hole but this doesn't seem to occur to the TITS. However if anything north of £50m comes in, we may have to sell to satisfy financial regulations, if not we should keep him. TITS, please in future let us know who your potential replacements are when you are recommending a sale of one of our best players.
60 Posted 24/06/2024 at 17:04:10
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1 Posted 14/06/2024 at 19:20:11
Who knows, we might even be able to hold on to Jarrad. Onana has not impressed me at all and making a healthy profit on him together with today's Friedkin news is relative sunshine for us.
I'd prefer a bidding war but will top clubs be doing serious business while the Euros are in full swing?