His agent is Italian. I have no doubt Raiola is touting him around, most likely to us cause he know we can afford it.
Almost certain he will push for a move next summer.
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His agent is Italian. I have no doubt Raiola is touting him around, most likely to us cause he know we can afford it.
Almost certain he will push for a move next summer.
I think you might be the hipster in this case. Nobody would like that. He's bang average. Not very young, either.
He has spoken earlier about Everton being a stepping stone to a bigger club. Continue in this vein of form and we'll spank 50mil in the summer.
Kane Lukaku and Mane for £175m and we should be able to guarantee 3rd place for the next 5 years. Sign them up
Realistically we can't get the 'top level' strikers such as Aguero, Suarez, Benzema etc. So you have to look at players that are reaching their potential and I can't think of many other strikers in their early 20's that fit that bill along with EPL experience to boot. It's probably between Lukaku and Kane and I'd prefer Lukaku as Daniel Levy is a cnut.
I mean I would want lukaku, but not for 50 mil.
but when you look at his stats, age and consider the market for strikers today you realise that the valuation isn't even far off.
If we're going all out for someone in Jan it should be mahrez imo.
but when you look at his stats, age and consider the market for strikers today you realise that the valuation isn't even far off.
If we're going all out for someone in Jan it should be mahrez imo.
Should also be noted that benzema might be available this summer too.
And should be avoided like the plague.
An excellent player but he has all sorts of buffoon-like baggage.
Yeah they might be better out there but them actually being attainable is unlikely.
He might also be in jail.
This is it really. There's a ton of money floating around, there's going to be even more, and player valuations are going to reflect that. If a team needs Lukaku and can afford £50m to get him then they'll spend it.
Two different players, which we could go for both.
Also Griezmann won't move in January especially after the draw Atletico got in the champions league.
Having watched him many times this season, he's improved his first touch and link up play tenfold. Would cost a fortune, but would be worth it imo. One of the best young strikers in the world.
If we could manage to give them Rooney in the deal then it could be a very good deal.
To cover off all points
The fee - the bidding would start at £50m and go up from there depending on who else is interested - like all EPL sides Everton have a bucketful of TV money due next season so don't 'need to sell'
Can we get him? - if he wants to come, yes - he would have to force a move
Will he want to come? - from a financial / status point of view, yes. The doubts are (i) coming to a club where the manager is short term at best and (ii) coming to play in a system where his goals output is likely to be reduced, reducing his own further career prospects is it doesn't work out at United. On balance I think there are clubs he would prefer, but will they be as interested?
Would he be a good signing? - yes, fits the profile of what we need - goals (in the right system), all round play (in any system), right age, still improving
What about Martial? Two things - (i) we should not (yet) be relying on a player of Martial's age to start every game and this would enable Lukaku to be kept fresh (ii) we could play Martial to the left of Lukaku - arguably his best position at this point
Rooney in "part exchange" - unlikely due to his eye-watering wages that Everton couldn't pay - unless we subsidise these in some way
The fee - the bidding would start at £50m and go up from there depending on who else is interested - like all EPL sides Everton have a bucketful of TV money due next season so don't 'need to sell'
Can we get him? - if he wants to come, yes - he would have to force a move
Will he want to come? - from a financial / status point of view, yes. The doubts are (i) coming to a club where the manager is short term at best and (ii) coming to play in a system where his goals output is likely to be reduced, reducing his own further career prospects is it doesn't work out at United. On balance I think there are clubs he would prefer, but will they be as interested?
Would he be a good signing? - yes, fits the profile of what we need - goals (in the right system), all round play (in any system), right age, still improving
What about Martial? Two things - (i) we should not (yet) be relying on a player of Martial's age to start every game and this would enable Lukaku to be kept fresh (ii) we could play Martial to the left of Lukaku - arguably his best position at this point
Rooney in "part exchange" - unlikely due to his eye-watering wages that Everton couldn't pay - unless we subsidise these in some way
feck it, if we could just manage to give them Rooney, regardless of whether Lukaku comes in the opposite direction, it'd be a very good deal.
If he likes Lukaku then why didnt we just go for Benteke. Lukaku is a good player, but he's not great. He has an awful first touch at times and im not terribly convinced he would be lethal enough to win us games on his own.
He's definitely an upgrade on what we have already and he really is a fine player on form. But we will end up hoofing it again like we do to Fellaini and we would definitely have to pay minimum £45-50m for him for Everton to even think about selling him. His price tag should really be what they bought him for which I can't see them accepting.
I would be happy if we bought him but i think we should be looking for proven quality with better technique.
He's definitely an upgrade on what we have already and he really is a fine player on form. But we will end up hoofing it again like we do to Fellaini and we would definitely have to pay minimum £45-50m for him for Everton to even think about selling him. His price tag should really be what they bought him for which I can't see them accepting.
I would be happy if we bought him but i think we should be looking for proven quality with better technique.
I can only see PSG competing for him & I think he'd favour staying in the premier league.
LVG shouldn't be given a single penny, save the funds for our next manager.
Misleading thread title. It's not according to the Telegraph but reports in Italy. They don't even give a source, most likely the usual rubbish gossip sites.
I have been sceptical about Lukaku as when I've watched him in the past his touch has looked particularly terrible.
On the other hand, can't argue with his goalscoring record and I think he is exactly the kind of forward we need to make life difficult for centre halves
On the other hand, can't argue with his goalscoring record and I think he is exactly the kind of forward we need to make life difficult for centre halves
That transfer suggestion doesn't help us at CB where we're playing a midfielder, or CM where 2 of our 3 starters are well over 30!
at least we wont have to bring fellaini on up front before we can start lumping long hopeful balls upfield!
On a serious note though I like Lukaku and I could envisage Depay and Martial alongside him - but i cant see Everton selling in Jan - possibly in the summer but by then we will be too busy loosing out on Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar, Muller, Lewondowski and Zlatan to even try for him
Isnt Schneiderlin a starter?
Yes... 2 out of 3...
This is the bullshit we need to steer well clear of if we are serious about building the team - we'll just waste valuable time being led on by the agents. Lukaku + a RW with potential to reach world class levels will get us competing better than we have in the past three years, we need to accept the fact that we aren't going to be poaching the likes of Muller or Neymar from their teams and start to seriously look at the tier just below and allow the team to grow organically because in a couple of years Memphis, Martial and/or Januzaj will be reaching WC levels. So for now we need to find players that are complimentary to them (like Lukaku and Mahrez) and strengthen the defense further - a strong defense is critical in any trophy run.
That's exactly what we did in the summer and everybody's moaning now.
We also dumped 2 credible goal threats. One of which is having a stellar season while we struggle to score.
In the summer we offloaded about 3 wingers and two strikers and brought in just one winger and a 19 yr old striker - I think this is why everyone is moaning because left ourselves vulnerable to injuries and loss of form.
-----------------------Schneiderlin-------------------
-----------Herrera----------------Gundogun---------
---Mahrez---------------Lukaku-----------Martial---
as a front 6 in front of this season's initial backline won't win the CL but I'd back it to effectively challenge for the league and we should work towards winning that first post-Ferguson title.
The idea was this:
Di Maria - Memphis
Januzaj - Lingard
RvP - Martial
Falcao - Fellaini
Fellaini - Schneiderlin
Cleverley - Schweinsteiger
We didn't really lose any depth, compared to last season. If every departing player is replaced with an incoming one we'd never promote any youth players. We chose to give Lingard a chance, instead of signing a replacement for Januzaj. We offloaded Nani and Hernandez in 2014, as far as I'm concerned. They weren't a part of the team last season.
Edit: This is clearly not the place for this discussion. Sorry. I just realized it's the Lukaku thread
I like the look of that, but would consider Isco rather than Gundogan
Bingo "lets create the next best player not spends millions trying to buy them" all of a sudden that narrative has lead us to where we are now. Fecked.
Hernandez fine but fans couldn't wait to see the back of rvp after his performances over the last 2 seasons, all of a sudden he's a credible goal threat ?
He wasn't when we were screaming for him to be dropped and accusing LVG of fanboyism when he continued to play him last season has to be noted that RVP wanted to be 1st choice, that is why he left.
several reports linking Lukaku coming to us in Jan. Don't believe Everton will sell even in summer.
Would you rather a proven BPL striker in Lukaku for that sort of cash or somebody like Aubameyang or Griezmann for the same amount if you had the choice? taking in mind Lukaku is only 22
If we can get any of the 3 in January regardless of price, then we should do it - we are that desperate. In the long term, i'd like both Griezmann and Lukaku actually. Since we have a bit of versatility with Griezmann we could play them both (and quite possibly Martial at the same time), and will add some much needed pace. Lukaku then adds something we lack completely in the form of some presence up front.
I think he'll force his way out this coming summer or next. He must want to play CL football again at some point.
I like the look of this. Memphis would still get a lot of time on the left but Martial would definitely be dangerous there.
The summer would look like this: Lukaku, Mahrez, Gundogan and presumably an LCB. Seems plausible enough, if optimistic. Mahrez would basically be the Schneiderlin buy in the sense of a 20-30M pound player from the mid-table in his mid20s, Lukaku the massive Martial buy, Gundogan would probably cost around what Memphis did and the CB wouldn't cost much more than Darmian + Schweinsteiger did, so financially it could be doable.
Like with Lewandowski for anyone, Raiola's players will always be short term options for their clubs. 2-3 years and off we go. That's why Everton won't even make more than £10m profit on him, he will force his way out.
He admitted recently it hurts him when Chelsea loose... I think he's wanting to go back, Chelsea shouldn't have sold him IMO..
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