Branthwaite talk heating up again as January approaches

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It's gonna happen in the build up to every transfer window until he's gone.
Best just ignoring it.

The fake news society is struggling for sensational news to bait people.

How the hell would they know what Amorim has asked for. He is hardly gonna tell a bunch of media misfits his thoughts before getting his feet under the table.

On the cusp of new ownership, new stadium and probably a new manager, we should be building for the future.

Holding on to our better players is a must – if we have any ambitions to resurrect.

I haven't read any of these reports, but if I did, I would expect the final sentence to read:

Everton, have struggled badly without having Branthwaithe, in the middle of their back four this season.

So I don't expect they would want to sell him in January unless the fee was around £100M.

It may happen at some point, but I hope we keep him for this season at least.

We do have quite a strong bargaining position given he's on contract until 2027.

If he goes, get the best price and replace.

Hopefully our new owners will have arrived before the window opens.

Why would they sell our best player when we're moving into a magnificent new stadium, and they want to put us back where we belong – at the top?

I read an article today in which Man Utd said that their new model was no more bingeing on expensive players and what this would mean… so we may not see them increasing the bidding.

Maybe Real Madrid… but perhaps we have seen a step change down in prices now due to FFP and, if so, it's long overdue.

For once, the PSR rules might work in our favour. Even the likes of Man Ud can't throw $100M on the table for whatever player they want without moving on some of their own dead wood. In turn, other clubs are in the same boat re buying the deadwood.

So the Premier League have once again demonstrated their own ineptitude by creating a system that will encourage clubs to do deals between each other as per Everton & Villa with Iroegbunam.

Meanwhile, the Premier League will no doubt now run around trying to plug holes of their own making, forever tweaking and changing their own rules.

Paul, as soon as Utd put a spade/ shovel for the political correct in the new ground, you can guarentee the rules will be changed so that a new ground build, interest rate is not included in yearly fianances.

Already allowed them to write a £35 million overspend off, and put it down to previous owner.

The new owners, if in before January will not want to sell Branthwaite, it’s obvious he will leave eventually, unless our fortunes on the pitch change, but I cannot see it happening in the January window, unless a bid close to £70 million comes in.

If we did get a ridiculous bid, I would go all out to get Victor Gyokores in, for our long term striker.

Brian W, we were interested in Gyökeres, and he was keen on joining us, with a deal possibly involving Ellis Simms. However, Coventry wanted either the straight fee (£20M) or the makeweight amount up front, which, because of reasons we all know, we couldn't meet that!

Hypothetically had we managed to get him, it would be interesting to know if he would have scored as many goals under the Dycheasaur, who would have possibly played him as a full-back. :-)

Of all our first-team squad, the three players I would least like to see leave are Branthwaite, Ndiaye and Pickford.

But if we were to part with, say, Branthwaite, or for that matter Beto to Juve, could we use our experience (expertise seems a jump too far) in reducing what is or was called "the Deadwood" to do deals with, say, the present interested parties, Man Utd and Juventus, at least one of whom seem to have their own problems with "surplus" players. I've also read that Man City are looking to improve their defence.

In this respect, would Man Utd consider something along the lines of £50M plus de Lihgt for Branthwaite and would Juve have anyone we might consider in part-ex for Beto, obviously they don't have a spare striker.

But as I opened with, if I could have what our American friends call their "druthers", I'd like us to improve those around our better players.

Absolutely fecking not, no way, but the fuckers would try:

'In this respect, would Man Utd consider something along the lines of £50M plus de Lihgt for Branthwaite'.

The longer Dyche stays, the more likely Branthwaite will leave.

Our only hope to keep him is if Friedkin takes over asap and tells Jarrad that he'll rebuild the squad around him.

Colin (14),

I think Branthwaite is an outstanding player with the potential to be a great one. Everton as we are will not be able to keep him.

I've resigned myself to believe he will eventually leave the Blues sooner or later. The later he goes will benefit us on the field but we will lose out financially as his contract winds down. I doubt he will sign a new one.

If we do lose Jarrad then it's imperative we replace him with a CB with pace and not another sluggish one like De Ligt.

He's awfully slow for a young player and has the turning circle of a '70s Volvo. We have enough of those already.

That’s true Derek k, makes you also wonder had the swap deal gone through with Newcastle, would we have addressed the striker problem, would Beto got more game time or brought a fit striker in onloan, surely it could not have been any worse.

No one can deny Calvert-Lewin can hold a ball up, but with no one near him, what is the point, his one on ones is up there with Stuart Barlow, scrap the long punts to Dom, bench him and start Beto, he might have the skills of bambi on ice at times, but one on ones I would fancy Beto over Dom to put it away.

How many times has Dom been the slight favourite to run onto a ball before the keeper, but he shits out and pulls up, instead of trying to get the ball or draw a penalty.

With Beto he charges towards the goalkeeper and at least tries to win the ball or close the goalkeeper down.

Liam, I'm pretty convinced that's why we bought O'Brien.

Brian, betcha Calvert-Lewin scores 15-20 a season for his next club.

We'll miss them both when they're gone.

The January transfer window is a slow one.
United are unlikely to offer market value for Branthwaite, Everton shouldn’t consider losing a key player, central to PL survival, mid season. Maybe business in the Summer.

Similarly, DCL, there will be suitors in January who will offer derisory fees, knowing he’s available on a free in the Summer. We shouldn’t sell now, at a low fee, better value to us if he sees out the season.
Why would we want to send Beto to Italy on loan in January? He is our back up striker. Makes no sense. Summer business more likely.

So, in my view, Everton should be seeing little or no outgoings in January. We should ( like the teams around us) be looking to strengthen the squad, principally around full backs and for me we have no pacey tricky wide man. Harrison and Lindstrom don’t cut it.
Richarlison out of favour at Spurs, little game time, doesn’t seem to fit their style.
Loan with option to buy…?
I don’t see much business in January, notoriously difficult.

Mark, I will double your bet:

If Beto gets a run of games, or Broja, they will end up scoring more than Dom this season. :-)

I'd be very surprised if Man Utd bid for Branthwaite given recent spending on DeLigt and Yoro. If Amorim wants a left footer (in addition to Martinez) then he's much more likely to go for the highly rated Ignacio who he's worked with at Sporting.

Similarly, Man City and Arsenal don't need Branthwaite - they are already well stocked with quality CBs including left footers in Ake and Gvardiol, and Calafiori, Maghaeles and Kiwior.

Branthwaite doesn't seem a likely contender for a move abroad either. With the price likely to be around the £70M mark, there's very, very few clubs who could afford him.

I would have thought his likeliest next destinations are either of Chelsea (he's better than Colwill and Badiashile as a left-footed centre-back) and – sadly – Liverpool.

Unless of course we keep him.

If we had any insight into Jake O'Brien, it would cushion the blow – the lad might be a juggernaut but we haven't a clue…

And to the comments above, I am also willing to bet that, with 11 games in a row, Broja would score more than 2 bloody goals!!…

We should absolutely fuck Dom off and go all out to get Richy back. The lad seems like he puts his own well-being above accolades and he was Brazil's Number 9 when he was with us. Get him up top next season – it would be boss!!!

I think he's already gone, since he's come back hasn't been the same.

Don't get me wrong: the lad will always give 100% when he plays but to me he has his mind elsewhere. Maybe he's still pissed at the manager preferring Keane over him.

I wouldn't be surprised at interest over Pickford and Ndiaye; if we have a shit run over Christmas and the new owners haven't taken over yet, they might be tempted.

Calvert-Lewin? Forget him, he will do another Barkley, get paid more than he will anywhere else for the rest of the season, leave on a free, and we will get jack shit.