Isaiah

I love what Richie said in his post-match interview about Silva being a father figure for him. It sounds like he'd run through a brick wall for him, and we need that passion and determination. He was also openly delighted to be given the MOTM award for the first time in his career. I already love this player.

Richie of course.

And sure enough, 17 minutes into the game and the BBC's headline on their live text page is: £50m signing Richarlison scores on Everton debut

Speaking of Allardyce, here's his take on our transfer window... https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/sam-allardyce-say-evertons-transfer-15010802

Has there been any 'official' word at all that we're even in for this guy? Just seems a bit premature to have moved this thread to the General Everton forum.

I love how in the BBC's chart of most expensive summer transfers they have finally, after 2 weeks of trying to push the bullshit '50 million' figure, had to admit that we bought him for 35 million. Less than West Ham paid for some guy from Lazio. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45133957 I guarantee though that in their write-up of our Wolves game on Saturday, and in every write-up of every game after it, they will go back to calling him "Richarlison, a 50 million pound summer signing from Watford".

Alan Myers is one hell of a trooper, we should do what City are doing for Joe Hart and name one of the smaller training pitches after him.

That's an unofficial account. And I find it weird that they are preparing to announce it "in the coming hours" (i.e the middle of the night).

A bit off-topic and sorry in advance for that but I was wondering earlier whatever happened to that guy we had on loan for what seemed like a week last season, Mangala. Man what a complete clusterfuck of a signing he turned out to be for City: https://www.mcfcwatch.com/2018/07/18/eliaquim-mangala-transfer-update-as-manchester-city-man-continues-to-recover-from-injury/

Everyone is. Which is why it's strange that news of him having (and presumably passing) his medical today is not being reported or even rumoured anywhere on the internet.

Fine, I'm not doubting you, but could you at least tell us how you know this?

Source on this? Can't find anything on the net.

Really, really want this to be true but the Debbie Downer in me keeps reminding myself that this time yesterday many of these same sources were adamant Mina was done and dusted and that he'd be announced today. We'll see I guess. Not good for the nervous system all this.

Talk Sport (and a host of others) saying it's done and dusted, 32 million euros and a 5 year contract to be announced tomorrow.

Does seem a very weird one this. Hyped to the rafters just last summer yet now it looks like only Crystal Palace are even making him an offer. Maybe word's got around that his attitude really is that bad. If those wage demands are accurate then it's certainly not a good sign, someone who has achieved nothing in the game other than having "potential" asking for huge wages. I kind of hope Palace sign him just to get a look at what all the fuss was about.

Very strange 'career' this kid's had. Just a year ago he was hyped as being one of the next big things to come out of Germany. Now at the age of 22 he's been released from Shalke and is a free agent. What went wrong? edit, never mind, I found the story: http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11443137/max-meyer-former-schalke-wonderkid-without-a-club

And sold him, for a relatively small fee. And in his time at United he's done nothing at all to impress anyone, yet that MEN article says United are set to double their money on him?? Hopefully this is just very lazy journalism, with papers now reduced to seeing what defenders Silva used to manage and making wild speculations based on that.

30 million pounds for a permanently injured flop who, as that article puts it, "was embarrassed by Kylian Mbappe in their knockout defeat to France"? No thanks. Tired of being the club United dump their rejects onto (and in this case, for TWICE what they paid for him!).

For fuck's sake, the BBC are STILL referring to Richarlison as a "£50 million signing" in the headline of their write-up of the Rennes game. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44995201 This is pissing me off way more than it should, but it's so annoying how they're hell-bent on making us out to be little upstarts tossing money away. In one of their 'Have Your Say' sections a United fan wrote "Richarlison cost only 25 million less than Lukaku lol". Wait, so when calcualting Richarlison's fee we add on every conceivable bonus and add-on we can dream up, but for Lukaku's we list only the initial outlay?

Abramovich has stopped bankrolling Chelsea since he realised he can't hope to outspend City, so I can't see Chelsea tossing away close to 100 million on a goalkeeper. Chelsea's money now comes from doing ridiculously dodgy deals with other oil-doping clubs (an over-the-hill David Luiz to PSG for 50 million for example). They are nowhere near the financial force they were 15 years ago when he took over. Plus, the British government is looking to clamp down on him and his ilk (they refused to continue his visa; last I heard he was exiled in Israel and became a citizen). None of that will stop the media from trying to unsettle Jordan of course, but if his World Cup heroics showed me anything it's that the lad's very focused and won't let tabloid bullshit get to him.

Literally every other transfer this summer the media have made zero mention of all the various add-ons and bouses and whatnot, and they certainly haven't taken wild guesses at how much those will all finally amount to. But now Everton have signed someone for 35 million and all I'm seeing is "Everton Sign Watford Forward For 50 Million", trying to make us look like we're pissing money away. I don't remember any "Liverpool Sign Average Goalkeeper For Sum That Could Rise to 80 Million" headlines when they signed that Roma guy who barely anyone had heard of until 2 months ago. Anyway, that rant aside, I'm happy with the signing. Now for Mina and Digne.

David Henan released? I remember what a long and complicated process it was to sign that guy, I was hoping he'd have ended up worth all the effort.

He's not on that list (correctly, because he's not yet a manager) but I'd take Arteta above most of the people there. He's been studying under perhaps the world's greatest manager right now. It'll be a risk (any appointment in this league is a risk, you never know what the hell you're going to end up with, look at the De Boer debacle at Palace), but I wouldn't be unhappy if we gave him the gig. Failing that, Silva would be my prefered option. There are bigger names there, but I don't think the likes of Blanc or Enrique would have their heart in the job, and we need our next manager to dig in for the long overhaul of this Frankenstein's monster of a squad.

http://sportwitness.co.uk/oh-mess-everton-transfer-situation-increasingly-complicated/