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4.5 million for De Camargo is a fair price. 2.4 might not be enough for Mbokani (I thought he was property of Anderlecht and assumed Standard has to pay full price to sign anyone away from Anderlecht). Considering the price paid for De Camargo I'd still say no more than 7m at most for Mbokani though... but we'll see. There doesn't seem to be any more news, maybe the deals off.

I blame the language barrier .

OK. I get it now :| .

Oh OK .. thought it was because the Yak looks really really old.

News corporation as in Rupert Murdoch? Lol, he won't give a shit about that fine.

Got nothing against Fenway , only dislike the players that play there and the fans - especially - when they start singing that song. It comes off as so incredibly fake.

1 year 6 months and 1 day older than Yakubu to be exact .

Couple of things .. You're right that football wise he'd be better off at Everton, I think he prefers Anderlecht on a personal level (staying near his home) .. Secondly, he's got nothing in common with Fellaini that would make them seek each others company , culturally speaking you're either Flemish or Walloon - there is no Belgian identity (not that I think that is a problem) .. Finally, I don't see what the difference is between AZ, Ajax and Anderlecht; Ajax might have a better youth program but De Bruyne would play first team football for those clubs and right now Anderlecht are the better team.

So it's legal to conceive a child with a 16 year old if you're 30 yourself in the UK? (just wondering).

Might have to go a little further away than Spain get away from statutory rape charges . Actually hope the rumour -isn't- true.

He's going to be 29 soon and he's never played outside the MLS?

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It's not a good song but it's OK to sing in a stadium ... Worst song in that category : "Sweet Caroline" at Fenway Park.

And IF he does leave, it'll be for Anderlecht .. A little too soon for him to go to another league (except maybe the dutch league).

Came very close to saying that I'd rather have De Camargo at Everton but didn't want to turn the discussion into "which Standard striker is better" . (Any news on what the Germans paid for him?). What did Standard pay for Mbokani when he came over from Anderlecht? .. I'd say double that amount, whatever it was, and you got a fair price.

"[Moyes] is at a club that really suits him and sometimes a [manager] has to decide what is best for him. Everton has been good for [David]. If anybody wanted to leave, they'd be poorer for it."

Have a good one.

To be fair Mourinho already did that when he won the CL with Porto. I don't think he's looking to prove anything that way anymore. He just wants a big budget in a top club and show that out of all the big club managers he's the top dog.

Individual bonuses in a team sport seems like a dumb idea to me. 20k per goal? I know I wouldn't pass anymore . Maybe it would make a little more sense if you give bonuses at the end of the season if a player gets a total of 20 goals or something. That way he'll only be selfish for the last couple of games when he sees he's not gonna get there .

You can't judge any player by a couple of youtube clips .. he's been playing for a long time, bound to have done a couple of good things. ^ Fully agree with this. Attitude wise he's the kind of player I'd associate with Liverpool. 10m?? That would be 4m for current ability and another 6m for potential upside (which both Churinga and I think isn't there). At least with Felli you could see that at one point he would be worth 15m even though he wasn't when he came to Everton ... Mbokani just seems to get worse every year.

Fair enough. Just wanted to claim Defour as a KV product .

This is what happens if you make the mistake of celebrating a goal with fans from the other team . .

Maybe the winner of the Europa League should get a guaranteed spot in the CL for the following year . I want Everton to play in Europe every year. As Romey said, it increases the stature of the team and Europa football still attracts players.

I can never tell when you're being sarcastic . Is my opinion of Mbokani not retarded? Is Kevin De Bruyne really worth 10m ?

He's lazy in the sense that if something doesn't go his way, he just stops playing .. Also a bit of a dirty player. Last week he made a Witsel-tackle, luckily without the same result. Steve_E likes him so I might be overly critical but IMO he's not the kind of player we should be signing in our push for fourth. To be fair what does he do in that vid? A couple of misses, losing the ball and a bad cross? But you're right he could be bit a useful, everything depends on how Moyes can work with him like he did with the Yak. However I really hope Moyes isn't about the spend more than £4-5m because he's not worth it.