Everton - Make us an offer

[SharkyMcShark]

Wouldn't have minded a cheeky bid on Arteta a few years back

 

[gooDevil]

Stoke are a club built financially on the realities of the Championship, though are bringing in premier league television revenues.

It is an odd situation at Everton, for a club that fills over 40,000 seats and sells all of its season tickets and gets big revenues from television for finishing relatively highly every year. Their commercial activity must be awful, for a profound club in a big city for many years amongst the best sides in England they have a very low profile.

I can only assume most of it is being eaten up in wages, though that seems a sad conclusion, because they have a small squad and no one you would think was a huge earner.

Wages are going up all over football, teams are desperate to hold onto their best players, borrowing money just to pay wages they can't afford. Debt is just as destructive to a team's success as it is to your average adult's budget.

Maybe it's just the journos, but it often sounds like teams put themselves in precarious positions by spending right up to the limit. If income goes down for any reason it's a potential disaster.

I want to say most businesses are run more sensibly than football clubs, who act like drunken teenagers quite often, but I'm not sure that's really true!

 

[buckooo1978]

arsenal should stick in a 30 million bid for Jagielka and Baines

 

[Urbanned]

Have never understood why a team never comes in for Arteta. Good player.

 

[rcoobc]

Could you combine Everton and Arsenal to make a side that can challenge for the title?

 

[MrMarcello]

It depends if you see his future in midfield or central defence. If it's at centre-back then I'm not sure we need him, even if he does turn out good.

He's a central midfielder. Wenger could certainly use him. Figure Spurs will bid for him seeing as they're short on midfield cover.

 

[Eugenius]

Could you combine Everton and Arsenal to make a side that can challenge for the title?

---------------Howard-------------
Sagna--Jagielka--Vermaelen--Baines
---------------Song---------------
--------Cahill------Wilshere--------
-Van Persie-----Saha-----Gervinho-

You've obviously got Arteta and Walcott you could swap for that front 5 somewhere and maybe Neville in the holding role occassionally for his experience and mentality.

 

[CassiusClaymore]

---------------Howard-------------
Sagna--Jagielka--Vermaelen--Baines
---------------Song---------------
--------Cahill------Wilshere--------
-Van Persie-----Saha-----Gervinho-

You've obviously got Arteta and Walcott you could swap for that front 5 somewhere and maybe Neville in the holding role occassionally for his experience and mentality.

So the answer is no then.

 

[Irwin]

Jagielka's the only one worth it for Arsenal

 

[MikeUpNorth]

Jagielka's the only one worth it for Arsenal

Rodwell might be a decent backup for Song.

 

[Irwin]

Rodwell might be a decent backup for Song.

Rodwell's injury history makes him too much of a gamble now for how much he would cost. Arsenal need reliability as much as quality.

 

[Xander45]

If they'd beaten Villareal in 2005 history would be so different.

They didn't really have much of a chance, that was a bloody good Villareal team.

 

[Claymore]

I like the way people are mentioning swap deals when what they need is money. They need another Rooney and have done for years.

They potentially have one, Rodwell, not the same type of player but he's young and English with good potential. They need to keep him fit and play him regularly, see his stock rise and sell big, could sort of a fair chunk of their cash issues.

Chelsea were bigger at home and abroad with a bigger and better squad, who had just rebuilt their stadium.

Everton on the otherhand have not bought expensive players, have a fairly utilitarian squad, have not invested anything in their ground for who knows how long and have been getting crowds north of 40,000 for years and years. This besides not being close to challenging for anything.

Yeah maybe but don't forget Chelsea had the Matthew Harding etc money investment a bit before Abromovich as well, which helped with the old graveyard big names like Zola, Vialli, Desailly and the like, which brought them the UEFA cup, was it?

Still, even with that before Roman came in and took spending to a new level it was Everton 8 league titles, Chelsea 1 and I think they had more FA cups as well. Basically if a they get an owner with a big of cash, upgrade the stadium a bit, get in the running for trophies again for a few years and improve the commercial side then they have a case for being bigger than Chelsea IMO. They don't need a Roman or arabs, just someone like Villa's owner first was, Moyes could probably do the rest.

 

[SharkyMcShark]

---------------Howard-------------
Sagna--Jagielka--Vermaelen--Baines
---------------Song---------------
--------Cahill------Wilshere--------
-Van Persie-----Saha-----Gervinho-

You've obviously got Arteta and Walcott you could swap for that front 5 somewhere and maybe Neville in the holding role occassionally for his experience and mentality.

I'd have Arteta over Cahill in this formation.

 

[Suedesi]

We should take Baines.

 

[ricky-romeo]

we probably should sign Barkley now..he could be the one who is too good to miss. just like rooney and jones.

 

[Number7]

They should take Macheda on loan as a cheap option

 

[davisjw]

Fellaini is the only one that would really make a difference for Wenger - adds steel, height, and power. Cahill always seems to box above his weight. I don't rate the others very high. Baines I suppose does a tidy job.