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Probably not but we would have been spanked by the RS and Chelsea.

If I'm reading his stats right he has played in a grand total of two Premier League matches for a total of 88 minutes. So saying he's played in the PL is a bit misleading.

Dutch league is way, way better than the Scottish league. And we've got some great players from the Dutch league, haven't we? Just check how well Scottish clubs except Celtic do in Europe. So he's basically playing in the one club in a one-club league and not being the first choice and we should pay 27 million for him? Plenty of shite forwards score plenty in Scotland.

I'm not quite convinced he's the best option either. There's plenty of promising young strikers especially in that price bracket.

SPL is a shite league, though. If he was banging goals in, say, the Finnish league would you still want him at that price? Moreno banged them there and moved to Scotland and hasn’t done too badly.

27 million for a completely untried youngster? What price DCL, at least double that then?

They want to sell him for 27 million because he’s not first choice. Why should we buy him, especially for that price?

It does say "Everton". But apart from that part looking like the back of a scifi spaceship it's hard to see much else. But just how old does Elstone look in that picture? It's like he has aged 20 years in a year.

It still remains to be seen if Bolasie really can get over his injury properly. Mirallas is as good as gone. Onyekuru hasn't exactly set the Belgium league on fire and Lookman is far from the finished article, if he ever will. I also think Onyekuru is predominantly seen as a CF while Lookman can play on the right as well.

Erm, no?

I'm honestly not sure if they would be such improvements over DCL that they'd be worth paying the kind of money their clubs are after.

You sure you want to put Werner into the same company with the other two? Dolberg has managed all of three goals in Eredivision this season. Dembele plays in a shite league. Werner, meanwhile, has 8 in 14 in Bundesliga. But we have less chance of getting him than Aubameyang.

He was also very good under Allardyce and turned shite after he left.

We won't sign a 25-million player for every position that needs strenghtening. That would be 100+ million pound outlay which is not going to happen in 2018 unless a substantial amount is made from sales.

He was rock as long as Allardyce was there.

Makes perfect sense. He was very good under Allardyce, the type of player we lack and would be available at a cut-price.

Arsenal agree a deal with him? https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/arsenal/transfer-talk/news/arsenal-agree-35m-nzonzi-deal_313915.html

United got a golden generation, but they did make some big signings to complement it. They wouldn't have won all that silverware without Schmeichel, Keane, Cantona, Irwin, Pallister and many others, like the strikers they signed (Cole for instance). And on top of that they had the greatest manager ever in PL and arguably at least one of the top three in the history of English football.

Sergio Aguero, Alexis Sanchez, Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas, Mesut Ozil, Juan Mata, David de Gea, Yaya Toure, Toby Alderweireld and David Silva? And more. I don't think you can say La Liga players flop in the PL unless you have a very selective memory. What other league has supplied as many match winners as La Liga for the PL?

So, the site is effectively saying that Everton don't know what kind of player he is or if he's worth signing? Absolutely ridiculous click baiting.

As far I can gather, Allardyce was not sacked from the England job because he was crooked but because what he said about the big wigs at the FA. What exactly did he do in that interview? Tell how to circumvent some rules but he also said you'd get caught doing it. The main problem was seemingly his other comments and frankly a disgusting quip toward Hodgson. If he had done something illegal why didn't he end up in court? Now, this doesn't prove he's clean as a whistle either, but so far there has been no concrete evidence to prove otherwise. I think Allardyce is underrated as a manager. There are managers who have done about as much or less and are regarded more highly. He's not the top manager we all hoped for and his teams don't play exciting football but why is someone like Dyche a more preferrable choice? What has he done? Both have won promotion from the Championship. Dyche plays an even more defensive style. For getting the club out of this mess, Allardyce is probably the safest bet. He's not considered to be a long-term solution as his 18 month contract suggests. The managers seen as being both able to fix the current situation and being able to stay long-term were not available (although Silva has not been at any club for long). Villa tried to solve a crisis with a foreign manager and that didn't end well. The critical thing is how he and Walsh gets on with the job. The very first thing is to steady the ship. Wednesday's win should help. I expect two or three important signings in January and looking at Allardyce's last two appointments when he needed to make signings that help immediately he didn't make stop-gap signings. Out of the total of eight signings he has done during the last two January windows, only one was over 30. And they were not bad signings, being instrumental in saving the clubs from relegation. He didn't have the best of times at West Ham in the latter stages of his stay there including some questionable signings, but his work at Bolton was superb. He basically had no transfer budget and had to juggle with loanees. At Blackburn he had to balance the books but on hindsight he could spot a player then, too. Kalinic didn't work out then but now he's highly regarded. N'Zonzi has been excellent at Sevilla.

You are happy with Martina at LB?

Yep, the board & owners have really f*ked this up.

Because Allardyce knows he has the clubs's balls in a grip. The club is running out of candidates and the owners are desperate for someone to get them out of this mess.

Wouldn't be too surprised if Jeffers was sold to appease the banks. Besides, in hindsight it was a good deal. We got a lot of money for someone who ended up spending more time in the physio room than on the pitch.