I think it’s silly in the sense that when Everton next want to sign a player there’s little to then stop another club bumping the price up too.
How clubs behave in the market isn’t an isolated thing between potential buyer and seller. You’re getting a very public deal showing you over inflate the value of your players.
Onana at £50m is pretty much spot on, Branthwaite at £75m isn’t.
Maybe it’s just the case that you absolutely do not want to sell under any circumstances but do you believe you’d get that fee from any club in the future too? Do you also think the player wants to stay or would like to move at this point?
Being priced out of a move as a younger player then has a knock on when Everton want to sign younger talents with the view of being a step to the biggest clubs (I say this with utmost respect of Everton’s history)
I mean I've repeated this multiple times but if other clubs do that then that's up to them, they're selling after all and it all depends on if you want to sell, you're actively open to selling or you're trying to sell.
I've said we don't want to sell and Branthwaite is happy to stay at Everton. All the sources from our media and the club indicate this.
Onana has been flirting with moving for ages and we are happy to let him go, hence why his fee wasn't higher and we set it at a price were we thought his value was reflected in the market.
Branthwaite hasn't been flirting with moving and we don't want to let him go hence why there is a fee we have set that is our too good to turn down price where the benefits to the club begin to outweigh the benefits of keeping the player. I think every single club in the world begins to have that with every player in the squad. For example, you and United will categorically not want to sell Mainoo, but if someone offers a fee that's too good to turn down, then you're obviously going to accept it.
I don't think it will really. We've signed or had multiple young players over the years that have moved on to bigger clubs despite holding out for big fees.
- Stones was bought for 3.5m Euros and sold for 55m Euros.
- Lukaku bought for 35m Euros and sold for 84m Euros.
- Richy bought for 39m Euros and sold for 58m Euros.
- Onana bought for 35m Euros and about to be sold for around 60m Euros.
- Gordon sold for c. 55m Euros.
Yet we are still signing young players.
Yeah, i mean theres probably been a bit of back on forth on that on your part to be fair. Every plausible eventuality will be covered by someone, somewhere and some people will comment on that story.
I presume you'd sell him if we actually met the 70m price anyway? As far as rebuilding your team that would go a long way and would improve you surely?
Yep, as said above, I think that is the price to us where the benefit to the club begins to outweigh the benefit of keeping the player.
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