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Hm, the price I saw was between 15 and 20 million.

That's obviously wrong. Rooney at 160k per week was highest paid player last season, by some margin.

Mirallas has also put in the effort in preseason...

What about the sidestep?

Liability. Even in preseason matches goes studs first into tackles. He's good for two or three red cards per season plus a few bans from yellows.

How do you say it in French.. "Fuck off lad" in that case.

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What do you base your opinion on? Have the bottom half clubs from both leagues played each other and I just haven't heard?

I'm tempted to show you wrong but how many times does that actually happen in the PL? How many matches and against who did City lose last season? Barca lost to Levante and drew against Las Palmas, Getafe, Celta Vigo (twice), Real Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia and Atletico Madrid. That's one loss and nine draws. City lost twice and drew four times so they lost less points than Barca.

Well, so is PL in that case. By how many points did City win it this season? And so you honestly think the bottom half of Premier is any good?

So how else do you objectively compare teams if not with the matches where they play each other? Transfermarkt values are complete hogwash. They are basically updated when someone feels like it. I could show countless ridiculous values. Some players' values might not have been updated for a year. But there are other issues even if those values were accurate. First they consider potential. But potential has nothing to do with how good the team is *now*. So a 30+ year old, much better player could be valued less than a potential 20-year old. On top of that, PL prices are obviously inflated. Very few clubs outside of PL can pay the same kind of sums for PL players as the clubs pay for intra-league transfers. Single games are a bit of lottery but Spanish teams have done better over a number of years. Number of games is significant when you consider UEFA coefficients are calculated from something like seven teams over five years. Coefficients for the top leagues are calculated over tens of matches. Can't be bothered to count but much more than 38 matches anyways.

We were discussing whether we should sign Richarlison And Vlasic is actually a central player. Otherwise you could include Sigurdsson as well.

He's better than anything we have for that position so yes.

Bolasie and Mirallas are off if someone takes them and then what?

At least we have central players. We are very limited with wide players.

You really think Keane was worth 30 million? Yes, we paid 30 million for him but if you buy an old banger for twenty grand it doesn't actually make the car worth that much. It just means you are a mug.

We seem to be linked with every Arsenal reject this summer.

He's a bit Andy Townsendish about his shooting, though. Shoots from everywhere. As opposed to Townsend he actually hit the goal a few times so great footage for his tube video.

That came straight from the middle.

What Twitter sources are these? I follow several Everton related ones and not a peep.

No-one is expecting. And there is definitely a big risk involved, but the money is rather meagre (5 or so million pound transfer + 40kpw). He looks like the type of player we don't really have right now which probably explains the interest. We don't really have a ball-carrier in central midfield at the moment, Davies needs to improve his technique to turn into one but since Barkley left we haven't had anyone who can do those penetrating runs.

Think he had something. Five games in the national team & 20 million transfer. Don't think that happens if there's nothing. But I repeat, I gather you know a lot about him as you are so certain he's no good?

I take it you know this player well then? Been following him for long?

The bigger the stadium, the more the extra seats tend to cost (structural requirements alone grow). 5k seats @ £330 is £1,650,000 per year. The stadium will cost in the region of half a billion pounds, so financially 5000 extra seats won't make a difference to club's finances. It would increase the risk that income is lower, though, because those seats will have to be paid whether someone sits on them or not. And this payment will go on for decades. Way beyond the current owners or their successors. Many of us will be long dead and still the club will be paying for the stadium. Whether the stadium has 55k or 60k has absolutely no effect on the sponsorship deals. The only thing that matters in that case is how well the team does on the pitch. Two million extra per year will not help (and remember, this assumes every game is sold out) when you consider our revenue is over 150 million already, and will be, IIRC, about 180 million with the new TV deal. You can pay wages for a reserve with that (£40kpw). The real money in the stadium comes from corporate boxes on matchdays unless the club raises ticket prices. I think that would have a detrimental effect, though. Overseas fans would be also good as they buy more merchandise but the number of Everton overseas fans is dwarfed by the bigger clubs. So this won't help either, unless the club first becomes very successful and stays like that for a decade at least. To me this all "we want this big stadium" is more about wanting a bigger one than the neighbours which is just stupid. Stadium size should be based on facts and figures because that's the only way to actually build a stadium that benefits the club.

Apparently he wasn't fully fit when he joined Barca in January.