Any club could pick off our star assets and there is nothing we can do about it. The speculation has already started and I for one can?t wait for the end of August. If we just manage to keep the squad together I think that will be a major achievement.
I?ve read articles linking us with a few players, and everyone sums up with the fact we?ll never afford them. The recent article regarding N?Zgobia really highlights the point ? the vast majority of fans want him, think he?ll add something to the team, but at £10million it?s never going to happen.
I think this is the summer we must speculate to accumulate. Borrow the money to invest in players to take this club forward. We can probably generate £4 ? 5 mill in sales (Yakubu, Yobo, Vaughan) and need to raise maybe £20 ? 25 million in loans to bring three players in. I?d be happy with N?Zgobia, a forward is an absolute essential and a left footed-defender (if Baines is injured, we are fucked).
We know the club isn?t really for sale, and people keep citing the fact that we need a new stadium as the stumbling block. It's not... or Liverpool wouldn?t have been sold twice in the last three years. A new stadium would be nice, and it would generate extra income, but football has moved a long way from gate receipts ? money comes from TV & more importantly the Champions League. I seem to remember Destination Kirkby promising an extra £5 ? 10 million income... the Champions league is £30 mill plus.
In my opinion, we have to gamble on qualifying and we have to gamble now. This has probably been the worst Premier League season for a while, Man Utd just scraping over the line with a pathetic 77 points & only 5 away wins. Man City, for all the money they?ve spent, looked very average; we beat them twice & they looked far from convincing against Stoke on Saturday.
We have the core of a great team, but we have to take the next step. It is a massive gamble ? all six teams currently above us will think they have a right to the Champions League before us ? and if we fail to qualify, we?ve just added 50% to our overall debt and are no further on.
But if we don?t go for it, we?ll continue to be a nothing team. Maybe the odd cup run here and there. Our top players being picked off ? Rodwell, Baines, The Big Fella ? and not being able to do anything about it. I just hope somebody at the club has the balls to carry this off but I?m not holding my breath.
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"What now for Everton?" I've become slightly more hardline and less inclined to do nothing. Scarves, protests, bombarding his facebook page... doing anything possible to get this odious, phoney, two-faced, money-grabbing, slimy impostor out of our club.
This means we are probably 4-6 Top 4 quality players short. A top 4 team needs a core of 8 -10 top players supported by another 8 - 12 players ? normally including 3-4 up and coming youngsters, and 3-4 older experienced lads.How can we possibly afford another 4-6 top players (full back, centre half, wide left man and at least 2 forwards) ? costing at least £50m? We'll be lucky to get 2-3 of these and that will be on the back of selling Fellaini or Rodwell or Baines or two of them to bring in £30m or so.So it's a never-ending vicious circle: we need more players but can only fund it by selling our best current crop. There is no way Bill & Co will ever get anything more than a couple of million, and that's absolutely useless.As someone has stated above, the best news we can hope for is for a buy-out to happen. There is no other way this club will be able to compete again at the top table.
I see it written in the stars that, while the RS talks about refurbishing Mordoc, Kenwright backed by new found gazillions stakes a claim on Stanley Park. Construction of our new ultra modern 65,000 seat stadium begins in less than 40 days.
The RS ownership that by now includes Baseball, Basketball, Grid Iron, and Ice Hockey players plus Popcorn makers, Film stars and snake oil merchants, make enquiries about a ground share. Dear old Blue Bill tells them all to get stuffed.
What really gets up their noses is our new stadium's name is Dixieland.
The only fly in the ointment is Moyes gets a transfer budget of £100 mil and uses it to sign four backs, half dozen defensive midfielders and a striker from the Conference.
And I fully agree with the author ? a new stadium won't get us the necessary money; a successful team will.
'We might hang on to 7th'.... yeah, if we lose and Stoke win away at City who are going for 3rd and if they get it will bypass the qualifying round of the CL
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We know Fellaini's best position is just in front of the back four, he had a really good half season, last year, but this year in the advanced roll... sorry, but Moyes needs to get him back to his best position, and try to work our some sort of strategy to keep him as injury-free as possible.
Until he is back in his natural good position and can last a season, then he will never be able to deliver at the top end (key word is consistency, which this season, compared to last and out of position has been mediocre to say the least).
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