They can and we will pay £40 million.
Edit: Sorry, that's for the pair. Agreed 25-£30 million is way too expensive for Fellaini
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They can and we will pay £40 million.
Edit: Sorry, that's for the pair. Agreed 25-£30 million is way too expensive for Fellaini
Problem is we announced to the world that we have money and would spend it for the players we want, so yes they could. £20 bid at the most for me.
After the names we have gone after this summer I can't get excited about this one.
Will we feck, we didn't offer that much for Fábregas. Paying 18-20m for Fellaini is still a bit steep and overpriced but that's about acceptable. If he's a target at all which I'm not sure about.
Yeah that won't happen. Literally every club does business like this in the world. Chelsea are doing the same with Rooney with their low bids. Still doesn't make it right.
I believe that our club think that the other clubs are lead by retards.
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We've had a bid rejected according to SSN which also correlates with the Liverpool Echo's story. It's looking extremely likely we are resorting to Fellaini now.
Indeed.
Just listened to an Everton fan in Sydney on Talksport, he is going ballistic, and I don't blame him. He was saying how Moyes went mad at City over the Lescott deal and now he is doing the same to his old club. He said £25m for Fellaini and around £15 for Baines.
The caf: Vehemently protests the potential signing of Fellaini and declares him rip-off at anywhere near to £23m - is overcome with embarrassment when we bid £16m.
We'll sign Fellaini for around £20m. Everton won't sell us Baines though.
Lets bid 17m for Ronaldo and see how that develops up.
£16m is too much imo.
The disappointing thing is that it would appear even Moyes doesn't fully trust Fellaini as the man to go for. He's worked with him for 5 years, will know him and his game completely and was aware of his release clause, yet the season has already started and finally we're offering £1 million more than Moyes paid for him when he was a youngster from a smaller league .
We have made a rod for our own back, they have been throwing money at Barca, which although rejected, shows the money is there. Although Fellaini isn't a Fabregas, Everton won't sell a PL proven, international for peanuts, especially not to us and David Moyes.
Probably not the same people say these things, cider. I was vehemently opposed to the signing of Fellaini as I don't think he's anything more than decent; I also think that 16m is a fair opening bid and going any higher than 20m would be stupid. And if there was any other CM on the horizon I'd still say we should forget about the annoying micheaded fecker but it looks like it was Fábregas or bust.
That's what I'm beginning to think. Time to show other clubs some respect. We have always had a good working relationship with other teams but Ed is going to lose that quickly if we're not careful.
30m for Fab is like 16m for Felliani or 2m for Fabio. They wont get you the player.
We weren't really throwing money at Barca though, we offered them £25m and then £30m for a Spanish international who was the best midfielder in the country when he was at Arsenal. If anything we were really tight back then and we still are.
No chance Everton are going to accept anything below £20m and possibly even £25m.
I'm not sure what we're doing here, but £16m is an insult to Everton IMHO all things considered and very much looks like 'player must force a move' tactic... that's more like Real Madrid than us. If we want to sign him just bid £20-25m and get it done, no point in waiting until deadline day.
We haven't been throwing money at Barca. 26m and 30m bids don't constitute throwing money at them when trying to sign a Fábregas. Now THOSE bids were derisory indeed and they show nothing about how much money we've got because we never had a chance of doing a deal at that price.
It seems that the club prefers rejection then actually signing the players. I wont be surprised if this season ends up with the usual 'no value' lullaby.
£25M for Fellaini is poor business tbh, considering we paid less for Robin van God.
Why? He had a £23m release clause and pretty much everyone agreed they wouldn't be letting him go for less than that only a few days ago. They paid £15m for him back when he was a random talented player from a Belgian league, selling him for roughly around the same given the inflation right now would be odd.
Another key factor here is that everyone knows how much United need a midfielder and will try to squeeze every penny out of it.
What we think he true value is is irrelevant. There's is no way Everton are going to sell us Fellaini and Baines for £28m and everybody in the world knows it. That's what is embarrassing. We should have opened with something reasonable to start with as Everton are just gonna be pissed off now and negotiations will be difficult. It's terrible tactics from Woodward.
Everton need the cash. Our bid of 16m was ridiculous but we'll get him for lower than his release clause. No way we're bidding clsoer to 25m for him.
Yes, exactly. I just don't see what we are doing. I know you go in lower, hoping you get a bargain, but not derogatively low.
No more than £20M in my opinion, I think they need the cash more than we need Fellaini.
I said somewhere that I thought Ed looks a bit of a drip and now he is behaving like a drip. He is acting like he thinks he is some wheeler dealer, a latter day Del Boy.
Please don't let us sign Baines.
Ed's young n learnin. He'll come good next season, no doubt about that
How exactly was that a fair price for Fellaini?
Ed Woodward is currently striding round his big office singing "We're Man Utd...we'll bid what we want!"
DITTO!!!
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