Ross Barkley

[dagraham]

It does appear that Everton may have a pre-Sigurdsson buy price for Barkley and once they get Siggy in will no how low they are willing to drop. We obviously are not prepared to meet that current price and Everton know this.

What happens if they fail to sign Sigurdson?

 

[THFCSPURS19]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/tottenham-warned-evertons-ross-barkley-10966132

Tottenham warned Everton's Ross Barkley will NOT be a Deadline Day bargain, by old foe Ronald Koeman

Goodison boss knows all about Spurs' brinkmanship from their attempts to sign his players when he was at Southampton

Ronald Koeman has told Tottenham to forget trying their usual transfer deadline-beating tricks over Ross Barkley.

The Everton boss said he will not fall for any attempt by Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to seal a cut-price deal for the England international in the final hours before the window closes on August 31.

Koeman has experience with Tottenham’s hard-nosed way of doing business — they tried to prise Morgan Schneiderlin and then fellow midfielder Victor Wanyama away from St Mary’s when he was Southampton manager.

“If there is a club thinking, 'We can wait until the last day and we put some money on the table and we get Ross Barkley', [then] sorry, you do not get Ross Barkley,” he said.

The 24-year-old has said he wants to leave Goodison and has just a year left on his contract.

Koeman added: “We have the experience of what we need to pay for players who came here and had one year of contract.

“With all the valuations we have seen the last few weeks about players, then if you want to buy Ross, it is a big (financial) deal.

“Still I believe he will make the move. But if there is an offer, maybe the club will not accept. And (then) he is a player of Everton and if he shows to me he is one of the best then it is possible he can start, like everyone.”

 

[BehindEnemyLines]

Koeman can say what he likes, but if Barkley is still on their books on deadline day with only hours left and no takers then they'll be panicking.......and that's the stupidity in letting contracts on good young players run short.

 

[SpartanSpur]

What happens if they fail to sign Sigurdson?

I heard the quotes from Clement's presser earlier, all about the clubs valuations needing to meet, not playing this weekend, can't see this falling through to be honest. Didn't even sound like keeping him was possible.

 

[the lad]

What happens if they fail to sign Sigurdson?

Meltdown

 

[Spriggan]

The Goat burped in the RO

 

[worcestersauce]

.Koeman getting tetchy!

 

[Tucker]

.Koeman getting tetchy!

As far as I can see, that's his default setting. He's a right misery guts.

 

[lukespurs7]

Koeman can say what he likes, but if Barkley is still on their books on deadline day with only hours left and no takers then they'll be panicking.......and that's the stupidity in letting contracts on good young players run short.

True but look what happened with berahino at the end of the day negotiating is about finding a middle ground, they want £50mil, we think £20 is reasonable for last year of contract you compromise somewhere in the middle, the issue is Daniel.L doesn't get to that middle, he'll then offer £22million with some add-ons and Everton who don't need the money as most clubs don't these days will just reject the offer and keep the player.

If we bid some low amount on the final day it will get rejected as will our minuscule increase of a 2nd and 3rd bid, sorry but based on past experience I'm not optimistic for the rest of this window.

Please Daniel prove me wrong but I doubt it.

 

[coy-spurs1882]

True but look what happened with berahino at the end of the day negotiating is about finding a middle ground, they want £50mil, we think £20 is reasonable for last year of contract you compromise somewhere in the middle, the issue is Daniel.L doesn't get to that middle, he'll then offer £22million with some add-ons and Everton who don't need the money as most clubs don't these days will just reject the offer and keep the player.

If we bid some low amount on the final day it will get rejected as will our minuscule increase of a 2nd and 3rd bid, sorry but based on past experience I'm not optimistic for the rest of this window.

Please Daniel prove me wrong but I doubt it.

well we had itk from Breezer last night that fee with everton and player personal terms were all agreed

 

[lukespurs7]

well we had itk from Breezer last night that fee with everton and player personal terms were all agreed

I'd love to believe that I really would. It baffles me that we won't bid/pay £30-40mil for Barkley, sure it's massively overinflated but we paid £30mil for sissoko as a last minute panic and look how that turned out.

We also paid £17 mil for Jansen and £9mil for n'koudu when we could've just combined that and tried to get Batsuhai.

I'd like to believe the club know what they're doing but from the outside it looks like a very poor strategy. This window is now HUGE for us. We need new signings to kick on and give the current group confidence. If we can bring in a good RB,CM/AM and wide player day for example : Perreira, Barkely and Zaha we could well compete for the title fa cup and latter stages of CL, if we fail to bring any in and lose any more players we could end up 7th and crash out of everything as our squad is just too thin.

Hope the ITK is right I really do.

 

[cookiemonster]

Haha the little baldy is still unable to fathom that the market has changed and clubs are not going to panic sell on the last day of the window

He is like those ww2 japanese soldiers holed up in some bunker in Borneo with no idea that the war is over

 

[Blackrat1299]

True but look what happened with berahino at the end of the day negotiating is about finding a middle ground, they want £50mil, we think £20 is reasonable for last year of contract you compromise somewhere in the middle, the issue is Daniel.L doesn't get to that middle, he'll then offer £22million with some add-ons and Everton who don't need the money as most clubs don't these days will just reject the offer and keep the player.

If we bid some low amount on the final day it will get rejected as will our minuscule increase of a 2nd and 3rd bid, sorry but based on past experience I'm not optimistic for the rest of this window.

Please Daniel prove me wrong but I doubt it.

Berahino wasn't in the last year of his contract and at the end of the day it was Pearce who suffered the loss.

 

[Spurs 1961]

If we pay £30mill in the current market that is probably £30 million less than he would be worth signed up for four years. We buy him, sign him up and double his value. Can't see that is a bad move. The days of picking up a player for little near the end of a contract are gone. Besides which Everton want a top six spot and if they can hamper a rival by not selling cheaply then that makes sense for them.

So I hope it is just Everton stalling until they wrap up the Siggy deal as ITK suggests and not us holding back to save 5-10 million - writing that sounds crazy but in the Monopoly money world of football that is loose change

 

[allatsea]

Levy's playing the usual stupid ass dangerous game. We'll bid low a day or 2 before the window shuts and then when that's laughed at bid a bit more on transfer deadline day in the hope Everton will be super desperate for anything.

Your relentless negativity does you proud. Why though do you choose to ignore top ITK info who all say the problem is caused by Everton and not us ?

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

Your relentless negativity does you proud. Why though do you choose to ignore top ITK info who all say the problem is caused by Everton and not us ?

To be fair, history will do that to people. And, lets not confuse "ITK" with unbiased reporting...ITK sources are presumably Spurs-based, so may look at this from Spurs perspective, not Everton's. The truth is probably somewhere in between...

 

[allatsea]

To be fair, history will do that to people. And, lets not confuse "ITK" with unbiased reporting...ITK sources are presumably Spurs-based, so may look at this from Spurs perspective, not Everton's. The truth is probably somewhere in between...

The post criticizing once again Levy was not 'somewhere in-between' it was down right negative and completely ignored the info we have from more than one respected ITK. It was just a personal rant not based on fact.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

I see people are talking about squad numbers and #8 as a Barkley hint. Isn't it just as simple as #8 not being occupied after Mason left? Paulinho, Parker, Jenas, Murphy, Mendes, Postiga, Sherwood, Saib, Nielsen and Dumitrescu all held #8, too. Maybe we should retire it?

 

[spursfan77]

I bet these transfers not being done is about the 10% sell on fee. We've been asked to drop it on the sigurdsson transfer and said no, Everton won't accept our bid until we do. It's a game of roulette.

 

[RJR1949]

I bet these transfers not being done is about the 10% sell on fee. We've been asked to drop it on the sigurdsson transfer and said no, Everton won't accept our bid until we do. It's a game of roulette.

A dispute about the sell-on fee is an argument over £5m. Worth arguing about.