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good luck with thatI'd like to see us make an offer well before January.
good luck with thatI'd like to see us make an offer well before January.
If Barkley got a call from us asking him to wait until January then I would imagine there is a Gentleman's agreement this will be done early window.
Barkley walking away from that medical was a "game changer" but do Everton understand that?
If they have got the hump with Levy...there are reports they were refusing to deal with us...you would expect them to do the same again in January
Except they can't now...not now they know Barkley has got an independent mind and is prepared to say no to any alternative offers they might want to accept.
Deal could potentially be done very early in January...except...except I wouldn't put it past Levy to spin it out even more to save a few more pennies
He doesn't have to go to the highest bidder. Everton have painted themselves into a corner. The only thing they can do is turn us down in which case Barkley most likely comes to us for free 6 months later.
Uh oh...a Levy 'Gentlemen's Agreement'... ...Modric fell for that one once
I know circumstances can change and anything can happen between now and January. I'd hope we were leading the hunt in Jan assuming we still want/need him then and he still wants us.
Time will tell.
Therein lies my concern. Barkley needs to be playing regularly with a World Cup on the horizon. If Everton don't accept whatever we offer, and continue to freeze him out, will he feel forced to take another move?
If we are aiming for zero net spend to keep the banks happy, it would mean we have just around £25m to go back in for him in jan. Which should be enough.
I don't believe we have to maintain a zero net spend to keep the banks happy.
At 10:56pm.which means Levy will offer 10M on 31-Jan
Maybe not, it was one of the itk's that said it.
We do seem to try to keep a net spend around zero anyway since we started building the stadium (a little bit either way each year but over 5-6 years roughly zero).
Yes, we do. But I don't believe it's the banks who insist on it. I think (in fact I believe very strongly) it's the way DL has decided to operate, and he would happily and readily change if the right opportunity arose.
You can't negotiate a pre contract in January with domestic clubs. Only foreign leagues
You think it's reasonable to assume that everyone has read all of the preceding 4796 posts in this thread?Doesn't seem to matter how many times this is mentioned, people just can't seem to read or understand it!
Him and Chris Camera. The pair of them are supposed to be ITK pundits, but they clearly had not one Scooby about what was going on. All they needed to do was read their own ticker which said that the Gomes deal had fallen down, just before Barkley said "stuff this" to Chelsea.What a brave act. Watched that piss head Merson on SS, his face when the news broke about Ross Barkley walking away from his medical ......Classic.
If we do sign him he deserves a fucking hero's welcome