Koné transfer in limbo

Unlike many others on here I am excited by the new faces. Hopefully I will be able to watch a game without excessive stress levels once we get a 2-0 lead.

I'm not being funny, but if 㾾m cant seal that deal then I would look else were.

They paid ٣m six months ago, holding us to ransom now.

Keep Rom, move out some dead wood, McGeady, Kone, Niasse (loan).

Too many Africans anyway... we'll have no team come the ACON.

£18m!!!

'Aye nae problem, ye can have th' big grock, am no gonnae pay whit he wants anywa'. But hear this, ye want th' boy, yez'll fuckin' pay fer him. I'll make sure if yuze want him, we charge you like a wounded fuckin' Rhino. And before yuz ask 'why?', just think back tae aw that booin' and slaggin' yuz give me at Goodison when ah came wi United. An that guy dressed as the Grim Reaper, aye fuckin' hilarious, yuz were aw fallin' aboot laffin at that wan. Well laff the noo y' complete shower o' shit-hooses!'

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I would love us to pick up Ziyech who seems to be tops and still young. He is a crowd pleaser and seems to have great vision and dribbling ability. We have not had a player who can lift the crowd off their seats for ages apart from Lukaku in patches.

Bolasie is an exciting player if he is played correctly. He is very strong, fast and direct and could be a great foil for Lukaku and whoever else we have playing up front.

I just want to see a few more quality signings.

I'm looking forward to seeing Funes Mori progress this season and score some points for my fantasy football team.

Moyes on sticky ground here surely...

Let them go! Moyes urges Everton to allow Baines and Fellaini to leave for United.

David Moyes raised the stakes in his battle with Everton for Leighton Baines and Marouane Fellaini by hinting his old club should sell the pair for the good of their careers'.

Coming for you: David Moyes is desperate to land his former players Leighton Baines and Marouane Fellaini
Coming for you: David Moyes is desperate to land his former players Leighton Baines and Marouane Fellaini
Asked on Friday if he had sympathy for Martinez, Moyes said: ‘I definitely do. But I also know that if I was the Everton manager and Sir Alex had come asking for Baines and Fellaini, I would have found it very difficult to keep them.

'I always felt the right thing to do was what was right for the players.

‘All we can do is our job here. Roberto is in a new job and I am sure he will get to understand how Everton work. I know exactly how Everton work. I signed every player at Everton.

‘I respect Everton greatly and I don't want to do anything that would in turn affect them.

‘Of course, taking their players would affect them but I am certainly only doing what I have to do in my job.'

If it will help to seal the deal, we can give you twenty quid in cash and some players. The players are a most fabulous winger called Aiden McGeady, a super creative central midfielder called Darren Gibson and a defensive rock of a midfielder called Gareth Barry. (Now fair enough, one is complete rubbish, one is permanently injured and one is older than my dad. But still, we'll give you all three for your proper quality centre half, no questions asked.)

As an add-on clause, apparently their all the rage now and just supercool, we will give the Sunderland fan of the year, and their plus one, a season ticket to Goodison to make them feel better for losing Kone. (Now, they will be obstructed view seats, the half time pie will be God awful and the beer on offer, Chang it's called, will be luke warm and will most likely dissolve their insides. But, it is still a superb offer. We're bending over backwards here to accommodate you)

I know what you're going to say Geoff, you'll drive Kone here yourself. I'm right, I am, you know I'm right.

Why should we have made it easy for City to buy Stones? Why should Swansea have made it easy for us to buy one of their best players, Williams, in recent seasons?

Moyes has gone to an absolute mess of a club. Like him or loathe him, he has had to hit the ground running considering how late he was appointed manager with the new season looming. Anyway, if you were a Sunderland fan would you expect him to go all soft when his old club comes asking for one of your best players?

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I think that deal is just not one that will be accepted. To really make it unresistable then we should also offer a Russian Player of the Year from 2015 season and a Senegalise International.

You won't get anywhere near 50M for Kone irrespective of whether or not he is a much better defender than Stones.

The reasons being a) that he hasn't been hyped up beyond belief by Sky and the red tops as the greatest English defender since Bobby Moore, and b) he sticks to keeping the ball out of the net rather than doing Cruyff turns in his own six yard box