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*Shakes head* Everton again.

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Babb'sBurstNad Grand Master

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It is glorious isn't it? 

 

He wasn't alone, yet here we are. 10 points clear by December. 

 

Never forget this classic either:

 

 

 

So how to make us Sexy...

 

Raise the profile of the club through a statement signing, or several of these, various names have been bandied about, most of whom whilst very good footballers will not exactly have the likes of Nike and such rushing to throw big fat deals at us, to a football purest they may make sense, Scneiderlein, Witsel etc are all very good footballers, but are they a 'statement' - the short answer is no, they will improve the team, they will move us up the league, but they won't change a thing on the grander scale of how we are perceived.

 

So what type of big name signing can we make, what is a realistic 'statement' - who can we attract, and why would they come? and who would make a difference on a global scale - which is what Moshiri is aiming for.

Before getting into naming names, we have to think about the finances of the club right at this minute and make a few assumntions on what we have and what will happen shortly

 

As @The Esk has stated in several other threads, we will look to raise our wage structure by at least 35-40m this season over the currently allowed amount of 7m allowed by the premiership FPP rules, and we are in a situation that the money is their for whatever we can attract to us, so say a estimate of a 150m transfer budget (high end estimate), to allow us to move the wage structure of the club up sevral notches, we will need to sell Stones for example, so overall the budget will be more in the region of 200m to spend, and with a 47m increase in the wages we pay per season allowed - which tarnslates to a 904k increase in wages across the club.

 

So here we are, sat with 200m to spend and with 900k pw we can spend on incoming players, let's add to this total with players already departed or who are likely to depart in the near future (yet more assumptions i know), Osman, Hibbert, Pienaar, Howard - 160k pw, Stones, Cleverley, McGeady, Kone and Naisse (loan) - frees up another 200k pw and liklely brings in about 10m in added fees on top of Stones.

 

So we are left with 210m and 1.26m per week in wages we can offer incoming players now, when you look at those figures they are mind blowing, but by all accounts they are what we will be dealing with this summer in all likelihood shoudl Moshiri manage to do what he has set out to do (and given his record so far - we shouldn't doubt he will manage what he sets out for)

 

Say Lukaku and Ross resign for massive improved deals, and across the squad in general a fair few new and improved contracts are given out, which wipes out 260k pw and in doing so sets the bar for wages at a massively higher total - 140k pw for Lukaku, 100-110k pw for Barkley etc

and now let's say we get a few of the players we have been linked with in - the likes of Strootman (20m), Witsel (25m) and we go for Butland (30m) and VVD (30m), we buy Milik or Janssen for 15m thats 120m spent, and probably looking at around 500k in wages (again a generous estimate) leaves the club with 90m and 500k in wages still burning a hole in our lovely Iranians pocket, but no statement signing, just some very good ones that will make the team very competitive, say we then blow a 30m bid on Perisic (current flavour of the month after his Euro exploits and also a position we depserately need sorting) and we give him parity with rom on wages - so another 140k and 30m gone

 

we are then left with a 60m and 360 pw situation, to go out their and target a 'statement' signing for the club to propel us into the spotlight, go throw that at Madrid, offer them their asking price for James Rodriguez and see what they actually say when we slap the money on the table, and see what his agent says when we offer to double his current 110k pw wages.

 

Honestly it sounds mental even typing this out, but money talks in football, and if we are serious in making a statement then we couldn't make a bigger on than this.

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Could be Allardyce, they frothed at the mouth the other week at very suggestion of it. Now after a little longer with Unsy at the helm, they're practically begging him to take charge. 

 

 

You just know he will have doubled his contract length and salary. Desperate times.

 

(he went from 17/1 to 5/6 in less than a few hours)

 

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The red that ‘came out’ on GOT last week quoted that ‘slapping the money on the table’ post from above, stating it was one the funniest posts he’s ever read. Here’s a reply to that post. 80% of it has come true!!!!

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/next-everton-manager.99329/page-861

 

 

The thing is, reading back that post, the majority of what Steve has said has come true. We have tried for the big name but haven't got that over the line, most of us would accept that wow moment hasn't come (I imagine Steve has too).

 

The rest has though, he has even stated lads we've signed 6 months before the papers did with Schneiderlin. He's also accurately identified the amount of money we'd spend, (150-200 million) and how much the wages will increase by.

 

If this is an example of "tub thumping" when 80% of it has come true, maybe you need to re-evaluate your perceptions of Moshiri? Or maybe we accept money was spent badly? Or was spent well but utilised badly?

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The red that ‘came out’ on GOT last week quoted that ‘slapping the money on the table’ post from above, stating it was one the funniest posts he’s ever read. Here’s a reply to that post. 80% of it has come true!!!!

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/next-everton-manager.99329/page-861

 

 

The thing is, reading back that post, the majority of what Steve has said has come true. We have tried for the big name but haven't got that over the line, most of us would accept that wow moment hasn't come (I imagine Steve has too).

 

The rest has though, he has even stated lads we've signed 6 months before the papers did with Schneiderlin. He's also accurately identified the amount of money we'd spend, (150-200 million) and how much the wages will increase by.

 

If this is an example of "tub thumping" when 80% of it has come true, maybe you need to re-evaluate your perceptions of Moshiri? Or maybe we accept money was spent badly? Or was spent well but utilised badly?

catcherintherye, Friday at 3:24 PM #12912

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 80% of the first 5 words of the last paragraph were certainly true

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