Plundering Everton?

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I have watched a fair bit of Everton this season and suffice to say they have been absolute gash. That said, just like Southampton last year - there are a lot of good young players there, and if they end up in the bottom half of the table (or worse!) I can see a few players getting itchy feet.

I reckon the main candidates for any potential Everton exodus could be;

Barkley
McCarthy
Stones
Coleman
Garbutt
Besic
Mirallas
Lukaku


Now I am not suggesting we sign all these players or that they will all leave, but there are some good players in there for sure. Personally I would be looking at Stones for sure, and perhaps Garbutt.
 
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For the amount you'd pay for Stones you may as well try and get a more experienced (not to mentioned talented) youth CB like Marquinhos and Laporte.

You also left out the only one I'd probably take - Coleman.
 
This forum is weird.

Most want us to sell our most productive players while at the same time wanting to plunder teams battling relegation.
 
akash02 said:
This forum is weird.

Most want us to sell our most productive players while at the same time wanting to plunder teams battling relegation.
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Not to mention that foreigners always are more talented than young, english players.

Stones over Marquinhos every day of the week.
 
Stones -> Evans straight swap. McCarthy -> Cleverley straight swap.
 
None of them apart from Stones are interesting, the English transfer tax would probably put his price through the roof though. Other than that trying to improve by signing players from a team struggling against relegation isn't the sharpest idea.

Barkley seems to be as raw as he ever was. Not convinced he will ever live up to his potential. McCarthy is decent but we have decent already, if we invest in the middle it should be top class only.
 
Coleman is a bit older than I assumed (26) but yeh I'd take him. Stones would be great if we already had a commanding leader at the back.
 
andersj said:
Not to mention that foreigners always are more talented than young, english players.

Stones over Marquinhos every day of the week.
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Yup, also glad we signed Young over Sanchez and Jones over Varane in 2011.
 
Barkley is an option although I'm still holding out hope for a strootman pogba double swoop this summer.. doubn't know if barkleys is LVGs type of player
 
McCarthy is probably the only realistic one that I would take, possibly Barkley but not sure how he would fit in here.
 
I'd prefer Coleman over Clyne personally. Would be interested in Stones, but I'd expect him to be poor value for money compared to some of the other alternatives being thrown around.
 
Crashoutcassius said:
Barkley is an option although I'm still holding out hope for a strootman pogba double swoop this summer.. doubn't know if barkleys is LVGs type of player
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This is a rather uneducated question but couldn't Barkley be pretty close to what you'd get by purchasing Strootman?

Two complete physical box-to-box midfielders with good technique, drive and passing. The perhaps only clear edge strootman would hold over Barkley that comes to mind would be tactical knowledge and intelligence.
 
DWelbz19 said:
For the amount you'd pay for Stones you may as well try and get a more experienced (not to mentioned talented) youth CB like Marquinhos and Laporte.

You also left out the only one I'd probably take - Coleman.
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Marquinhos and Laporte would probably cost more than Stones would. And I think Stones is on their level.
 
Keeps It tidy said:
Marquinhos and Laporte would probably cost more than Stones would. And I think Stones is on their level.
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It would be pretty marginal in price, in my opinion. Marquinhos isn't the happiest at PSG and Laporte has a release clause of €42m, which I believe is around £31m. Marquinhos would cost a similar fee. Considering Everton were looking at £20~m for Baines, it wouldn't be out of the realms of plausibility to see them ask a sizable chunk higher for their most marketable commodity, especially now Woodward has a need for spirited flamboyance in the market. Stones is nowhere near such a level, but that's a different point.
 
Lukaku and McCarthy IF we had the chance to buy them.. though I doubt any Everton we might look to buy would be cheap.. atleast 30 mill regardless of whether they're English or not..
 
McCarthy in a heartbeat. Coleman would be decent too. Better than Valencia or Rafael who's permanently injured.
 
Wouldn't buy anyone off them, for actually not fighting hard enough to keep David Moyes and fleecing us for Fellaini. There are better more talented options elsewhere.
 
DWelbz19 said:
It would be pretty marginal in price, in my opinion. Marquinhos isn't the happiest at PSG and Laporte has a release clause of €42m, which I believe is around £31m. Marquinhos would cost a similar fee. Considering Everton were looking at £20~m for Baines, it wouldn't be out of the realms of plausibility to see them ask a sizable chunk higher for their most marketable commodity, especially now Woodward has a need for spirited flamboyance in the market. Stones is nowhere near such a level, but that's a different point.
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Marquinhos iis already like the third most expensive defender ever. They would probably want Luiz type money for him.
 
No thanx, we have enough average Joes in the team already.
 
I'd take James McCarthy in a heartbeat. If he didn't make it here as a first teamer, he'd definitely be a excellent squad player to have.
 
Shark said:
I'd take James McCarthy in a heartbeat. If he didn't make it here as a first teamer, he'd definitely be a excellent squad player to have.
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He might be the only one. I do not want to be sucker punched into buying so called potential world class young English CB's again.
 
Not particularly keen on any of them. Wouldn't complain regarding Stones, McCarthy or Coleman though.

Also, not sure why you'd look at Garbutt. Shaw is considerably better than him and a couple of years younger too. If we'e to sign a back up, would rather it be someone with more experience.
 
Pexbo said:
Yup, also glad we signed Young over Sanchez and Jones over Varane in 2011.
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If reports are correct, they chose Madrid and barca over us so the comparison isn't vlid
 
Also if they sell their best players I sure as hell wouldn't trust Roberto Martinez buying replacements, especially defenders. That would see Everton relegated for sure.
 
NM said:
If reports are correct, they chose Madrid and barca over us so the comparison isn't vlid
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Of course, but our determination in signing the two was obviously quashed by our interest in those English counterparts.
 
Would take Barkley in an heartbeat. Supremely talented and would be relatively cheap due to the fact that his stock has fallen in last year or so.
 
Not sure I'd actually want any of them.

Stones looks good but he's far too inexperienced for the sort we're after.

Coleman is decent, but probably not worth the money they'd need. The gamble involved in spunking money on Barkley or Lukaku would be massive.
 
mufcwarm92 said:
Not sure I'd actually want any of them.

Stones looks good but he's far too inexperienced for the sort we're after.

Coleman is decent, but probably not worth the money they'd need. The gamble involved in spunking money on Barkley or Lukaku would be massive.
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He does but if we do buy a young up and coming CB they have to have some kind of CL/EL experience. Lukaku would cost a fortune. Everton would want their money back and more and they massively overpaid for him.
 
DWelbz19 said:
Of course, but our determination in signing the two was obviously quashed by our interest in those English counterparts.
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No. Varane went because of Zidane and madrid. It's been well documented.
 
DomesticTadpole said:
That's the signing we needed to make. Zidane. He seems to have amazing persuasive powers.
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Yeah well If a countryman and one of the greatest modern players told me to join the club he played at and was still involved with... I'd probably listen too. Best career decision as he would have somebody looking out for him
 
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