joe_fishfish

That's why Everton aren't in the Champions League you know. Because 13 years ago we had Robbie Keane for half a season and he was shit.

Varane's got a mistake in him, but he's better than Gomez for sure. I mean hopefully he's left it too long to move to the Premier League and he's not quite up to it physically, but I don't see it myself.

If we can't trust the word of a random Scotsman in a supermarket, then who can we trust?

We're never going anywhere near him at that price, but imagine how happy it would make @aRdja if we got him.

I don't think FSG are cooking the books at all, if they wanted to take money out of the club they could do so much more easily (and legally!) than by defrauding their own business. I would like to see a more detailed breakdown of our wage bill though. It's astonishingly high. Are we paying Salah like £400k a week or something? The last Swiss Ramble thread on us had our total wage bill at £326m per season, second only to City. Where's all that going?

To be fair, Barca went really big on Ibrahimovic after winning everything under Guardiola the previous season. Probably not the best example though.

Bit of a shame Wilson never really kicked on. Doesn't have a great deal to his game other than that cannon of a left foot.

So, given Gomez's injury record, it looks like we'll see a fair bit of Bradley in the first team next season. Hope he's better than Neco. I like Neco, he's quick, he's got a good cross on him, he seems like a good lad, but he's not at the level we need.

Don't think it's worthwhile comparing Bowen to players we already have that we know aren't very good. Compare him to the players who we'd miss out on by spending £35m on him. Also you have to assess how much a player can actually impact the team on the pitch. There's no point spending £35m on an attacker who plays 700 minutes + cup games when you could have put the money towards a £50m midfielder who plays 3000 minutes with crucial contributions in late stage CL games. Look at how Edwards and Klopp worked to improve the squad over his first few seasons here, it wasn't a big overhaul, it was a gradual evolution based around bringing in the absolute best player we could get. Basically if Bowen is the best forward we can attract right now for whatever reason, save the cash and buy Camavinga instead.

Total conjecture here but I reckon Konate was signed because we got top four. Everything else will be sell to buy.

There is no way we are in for Bowen. Absolutely no chance. Championship player.

Brighton absolutely love massive grock centre backs. They were playing one at left wing back last season. Nat fits the ball on the defensive side, not sure he passes the ball well enough for Potter, but he was certainly improving that part of his game last season, especially the short stuff. Really hope we're the other team in for Camavinga. From what I've seen from youtube and Stacksy's posts he is everything we need in a midfielder.

Hopefully Brighton have decided Divock Origi for £20m is the answer to their finishing woes. Bit of a long shot though. They will likely prefer someone who can be arsed to play football. What we need is Eddie Howe to get back into management really.

Beefy mate are you really struggling to understand why selling an item for tens of pounds means we cannot buy a different item for tens of millions of pounds? All feelings on the value for money of replica kits aside, do you understand how many would have to be sold for us to be able to fund even one player purchase?

Honestly they are just utterly shameless. Pretty sure they could train an AI to write a Liverpool transfer story at this point.