100m joint bid for DCL and Branthwaite incoming? 
Jarrad Branthwaite
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If we could land Yoro him and de ligt are more than enough.
When is he handing in a transfer request? After the third bid?
Why go back for him IF we want Yoro? 3 first choice defenders for 2 spots is great but 4 is too much. 3 first choice, one who is fine with being backup (Lindelof or Harry) and one young as 5th option (Kambwala) is perfect balance.
Yes, yes, i know; injuries. But what about those periods when all are fit? You can't rotate defenders every game.
Yes, yes, i know; injuries. But what about those periods when all are fit? You can't rotate defenders every game.
How? same shit. They will get what they want. We started at 35 m, will end up paying 60-70 for a player is not worth half that.
we’re most likely not getting yoro
When we offer 60. He gets transfer, Everton get money and we can say that we didn't need to spend 70 mil.
You don't have to accept transfer requests.
You pony up and pay or you move on, hopefully this is done either way in the next week or two.
I agree. Hopelessly lowballing is not the way to approach transfers, despite most fans being obsessed with it. Branthwaite is worth more than 45m.
If you think he isn't even worth 30m then that's your problem, but he's worth way more than that. I can also guarantee you that we won't pay 70m as several reliable journalists have indicated we won't meet that asking price. A 3rd bid after Everton rejected 45m doesn't mean we'll immediately jump to 70.
If not Yoro then all good. But if we get Yoro (and rumors are that we did bid for him) then this transfer surely is off.
According to who?
Can’t win obviously
Just because you keep saying this doesn’t make it true.
100m joint bid for DCL and Branthwaite incoming?
£50m joint bid and then we can bid £70m for just Branthwaite out of desperation on deadline day.
According to what we see with our own eyes. He had one OK season in the EPL, his team in a relegation battle, and his individual numbers are worse than his teammate Tarkowski. English center backs lacks quality at the moment and their best defenders are Stones and Maguire not even automatic starters in their respective PL teams.
How do Everton justify £70m for Branthwaite if Bayern are valuing De Ligt at c. £40m.
£55m - 60m is a more than fair offer if we go back in.
£55m - 60m is a more than fair offer if we go back in.
That makes no sense to be honest. De Ligt is clearly a signing regardless, not a back up to Yoro.
It does make sense, what you are saying though is that you disagree with that scenario.
Well, Bayern wants to sell and Everton don't.
Forget about him. Yoro and De ligt will do. He can get relegated with them next year and then we’ll sign him cheaper.
It doesn't though. Do you honestly think if Yoro said yes, we'd just feck off De Ligt? Not to mention in what world is De Ligt a back up option to an 18 year old from Ligue 1?
Appreciate you letting me know mate, cheers
We'll offer our last and best at 50.' Don't forget he's bipedal
Womp.
Womp.
Chuckled at this I have to admit.
Whilst we did have the Yoro bid accepted, I can't help but believe we knew he was holding out for Madrid, so we are now hedging. We hope the Yoro bid pressures Everton (as De Ligt is all but announced), and if it doesn't then we are hoping Madrid doesn't want to come in for Yoro at this price when he's on a free in a year's time.
Instead of the Murtough approach of obsessing on one target and just caving after 15 rounds of bidding, we are pressuring Everton and lille at the same time to advantage us in negotiations.
Basic fecking competence is like a soothing tonic for this fanbase, we've been hurt and abused for too long by idiots.
Instead of the Murtough approach of obsessing on one target and just caving after 15 rounds of bidding, we are pressuring Everton and lille at the same time to advantage us in negotiations.
Basic fecking competence is like a soothing tonic for this fanbase, we've been hurt and abused for too long by idiots.
Nothing I've seen of Branthwaite makes me feel he is worth anything north of £50 million, if that. I think we're going to end up paying stupid money here.
Why are we insisting and wasting our time on a player who's clearly overpriced when we can get say Calafiori for a lower price?
I hate Arsenal having a free run at that guy when he could be a great option for us at both LCB & LB when you take Shaw, Malacia & Martinez's injury records into account. It makes too much sense for us I suppose.
I don't want to moan about the new management yet but this feels like a mistake we would have done a couple of years ago under Woodward & Murtough. Going for overpriced British players when there are much better and cheaper options out there.
I hate Arsenal having a free run at that guy when he could be a great option for us at both LCB & LB when you take Shaw, Malacia & Martinez's injury records into account. It makes too much sense for us I suppose.
I don't want to moan about the new management yet but this feels like a mistake we would have done a couple of years ago under Woodward & Murtough. Going for overpriced British players when there are much better and cheaper options out there.
You want to complain about the injury records of Shaw, Malacia and Martinez yet not of Calafiori? Or did you just not know he is also injury prone?
I know he did his ACL 6 years ago but didn't miss too many games in the last 2 years as far as I know. I definitely prefer him to Branthwaite.
Aye. Players only get better if they play. Especially centre backs.
Rude of me. But if he could go to Ipswich and get a game that would be ideal.
The tweet you quoted is just some random’s opinion though. Fair to say De Ligt is happening independent of Yoro
I don’t think we will. We’ll have a Yoro kind of limit with him. €50-55m max. Anything more and we look elsewhere. Already hearing that we’re looking at David Hancko who is a similar profile albeit 26 and does pretty much everything Brantwaite does.
Dutch connection with Feyenoord
45+5 is a fair offer, that makes him at least in the top 10 of most expensive CBs in the history, I really hope we do not go beyond and look for alternatives
I don’t see an issue in lining up multiple potential targets at once to then ultimately pick which one you want. Think that is quite common to be honest but because it’s us it’s more scrutinised and exposed in the media. Similar happened with Todibo, everyone accepted that he was the backup option if we failed to get our top target. It’s certainly better than how we usually do things when we went from player to player and looked desperate.
As far as Yoro being a top target, just look at the numbers. He’s got a year left on his contract and they’re willing to fork out €50-60 million on him. It’s obvious they think he is the guy to go after. De Ligt is just a seemingly easy signing to make so maybe they just have that on the back burner ready. Not anywhere near as implausible as your making out.