Any defender I can think of may cost more is better and there are several cost far less possiblyare.He is decent, ould become very good...but £70m thinking of several other options for me would be another poor deal from us
Jarrad Branthwaite
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The rumoured prices are ridiculous.
Hes not a 70m defender yet. If they want to chuck in Onana we can pay that.
Hes not a 70m defender yet. If they want to chuck in Onana we can pay that.
Need the benny hill or curb music over that clip.
Aside from the goal he was a beast tonight.
I'd take a £30m + £10-15m add ons punt for him.
What is that defending
It's like that version of football where they all wear helmets and have to play looking at themselves in birds eye view.
What is that defending
We're bad at defending. That was worse
Sign him up.
Yea I'm actually sold now
Bring him on
If we don't move quickly, he will end up likely at city or arsenal
He’s obviously class. Dunno about the fees.
One of those I think will go on and do great things at a rival and we'll be wondering why we didn't sign him.
That would only happen if we don't get our signings right and are still floundering otherwise it would just become an afterthought .
yea reminds me of the Stones and Rice transfers.
The two teams in the league that won't be looking at a CB.
Arsenal definitely not but City I can see making a move for a CB soonish. Akanji, Ake and Stones are all 28 or 29 and nearing 30 and they don't have any qualms usually about selling good players if there is a younger player on the market they can refresh them with.
The rumoured fee is just very off putting. If he was french you'd value him at 30-40m. The whole being english, marketing value spiel would be more convincing if he was getting games for the national side. Not sure how much value Wan Bisakka being english gives us when hes a million miles from the team for instance.
Frankly under normal circumstances i'd say staying at everton a couple of years would make sense for him.
He's been one of the best defensive performers in the league this year, particularly impressive as it is his debut season, his value is not spiked up so much due to his nationality, albeit that helps. As it is, our value may have to drop due to our financial situation but I guarantee if he were at Palace, Brighton etc., they'd be wanting a 50m+ fee also.
If we do end up buying him, is it because hes very good at what he does or is this part of a 'buy British players' policy the SJR wants to pursue at the club?
The handful of times I've seen him play, he hasn't stood out as being particularly great.
My fear is we miss out on great foreign talent, if nationality becomes the priority over ability.
The handful of times I've seen him play, he hasn't stood out as being particularly great.
My fear is we miss out on great foreign talent, if nationality becomes the priority over ability.
I dare to say Piero Hincapie looks more talented, more versatile, more available and more affordable.
They’d send you his left leg
He is left footed?
I didn’t say the foot though, they will send that later
It seems like they'll be safe even if 10 pts are docked but let's see.. maybe they still get relegated and have to sell.
Theyd want double that and in full. No add-ons
Who is the great foreign talent you speak of?
The dog on the street can see this guy is the real deal. Sign him up! I remember years of people on this forum saying 30/40/50m was too much for Rice, some even suggested McTominay was better. Get him now before someone else does
Another overpriced English player. And yes I still believe that Arsenal paid too much for Rice despite how good he is.
I dont think Brighton or Palace would want to sell and they'd charge a premium for him. At which point we'd move on to one of a half dozen other good options who seem to be available this summer. Your situation makes a transfer plausible and if we somehow sell Lindelof, Maguire and a dozen other players he'd be tempting, even at a premium fee. But that wont mix well with your accounting deadline.
Our situation in the summer is hard to call though really. Its hard to know which injured players we should and shouldn't rely on going forward, particularly from the outside.
They have Dias and Gvardiol. As usual they are stacked at CB but are missing full backs. They have a young Spaniard, Rico Lewis and Walker who just looks bad this year and is turning 34 this month.
You also have to wonder about the lad finishing his 3rd season on a loan in the Championship. Recently turned 22, has played with every youth setup at England and has now accumulated 150 first team apperances.
City don't cling to their players like we do, they have form for moving on players whilst their stock is still high and replacing them with a long term upgrade
Not sure how people can watch this kid and not see the huge potential. He's a 21 year old centre back, he will improve a lot.
City's success is built on a stable back 4. They might not cling to players but they hold on to defenders that stay fit. They sold Otamendi at 32 (also not a very good Pep player) and Laporte who was a crock because they were given the gift of Arab money.
They don't have the luxury anymore of throwing endless money at defenders until it works like they used to.
If he'd played for us this season then probably would have.
I'd hardly say Braithwaite looks like an obvious one for us right now, but maybe I haven't been watching hard enough.
I don’t really see it with him. He looks…ok. Admittedly I don’t watch Everton that often but whenever I have they play so direct it’s hard to tell how good he is on the ball, and on the occasions I’ve seen him I don’t see line breaking passes or technical quality that would justify a 70m fee
Is he incredibly weak? He seems to be on his arse constantly.