BrotherEstapol

Wouldn't be too upset if our trade period ended as thus: OUT: Pienaar, Yobo IN: Donovan, Petrov

Hopefully part of the reason he signed up was due to us have a good home kit this coming season! I'm being cautiously optimistic about the home kit and mildly pessimistic about the away. Still hoping that the leaked kit is either a training top, or a keeper's kit.

That makes more sense, then...didn't realise that Lescott had 4 years left. In that case, 15m sounds good...though as it's been said, I'd rather him not go, and just as importantly, want to stay.

15m isn't much compared to what we got from City for Lescott...surely Lescott's not thought to be better than Pienaar? I do understand that Lescott's price was inflated, but still!

Has anyone heard any rumours of what the home jersey is going to look like?

Pienaar's agent is certainly doing his job in trying to get him some publicity and to try and get him better wages...but FFS, have you seen how well off Pienaar is? I saw a video on youtube the other day and he was on some TV show showing off his house and expensive cars. When someone who can afford an Aston Martin Crossfire is asking for more money, you have to question their ethics... But what am I saying? This is the world of footballers! Not at Club level anyway.

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2010/05/24/blues-thanks-for-ireland-doc Any word on how this happened!? A slide tackle gone wrong? Also, sorry if there's already a thread on this...I couldn't find one.

Donno bout you guys, but I'd much rather we NOT sell Arteta...

looks like a training kit! DO NOT WANT! After last season's away kit I was hoping for something just as classy but this is shithouse. Hopefully the home kit is better!

I ended up going "fuck it" and went with the gold tickets at the Brisbane game... Good seats though! Row 15 behind the Everton bench.

Any word on when the new kit will be revealed? I remember hearing June?

Gah! No more Everton section tickets left in Brisy! Oh well, gonna get tickets anyways, just in another section.

just to make matters worse...the Sydney game is on my sister's 18th birthday and the Melbourne game is on my girlfriend's mum's birthday. How fuck am I gonna pull this one off.

I'd put my money on it being the A-League clubs that put that price on there. They are all a bit strapped for cash, but they clearly don't get the whole supply/demand thing...hell, if they had the Melbourne game at the MCG(100k capacity) instead of Docklands(50k) and halved the ticket prices they'd have a full house MCG instead of an echoing Docklands with a pitch that rivals Wembley. Bit of a joke really...

Whoa! That's pricey! For perspective, the tickets I bought for the Australia vs New Zealand friendly next week(the socceroos fairwell match), and they were $65 AUD for the 2nd tier tickets... I most certainly won't be paying $140 for my ticket... Cheers for posting that Louis!

The only reason this is in the news, is because it sounds like Cahill has agreed to it. I'm sure that if Pienaar had agreed to his offer, then we'd be hearing about it asap. To imply that the club is only concentrating on Cahill when Pienaar and Rodders need to be signed up is a bit daft...you can't seriously believe that the club aren't in talks? Give them more credit than that! It's not like they can't multi-task!

I remember hearing a while back that Timmy was on a modest wage for an EPL player? I know he certainly would be getting endorsement moneys for his Adidas/Weetbix/Qantas deals...not to mention his Socceroos wages. Perhaps Peanut is a bit more greedy?

Doesn't seem that silly to me...means that it's effectively the same as a shared stadium cept both teams will get more revenue from the naming rights. That said, if you're not keen on a shared stadium, you'd be unlikely to be sold on this.

Forgot about the Jersey thing...the club would make a killing! Hell, I'm in Australia and one of my mates has US heritage and the first thing he said when I told him Landycakes(lol!) was potentially coming in on a loan, was that if it was true, he'd buy an Everton shirt. And this guy's a Blackburn supporter! In other news, I am now considering buying a no.9 jersey with LANDYCAKES on the back!

Look mate, Jags is cleary a top player...he's an international for pete's sake. In terms of his current form; he's just recovered from an injury that's had him out for a good part the past year. Not everyone can come back from an injury like that and starting playing like they were pre-injury. I suspect if Arteta wasn't playing as good as he is now that you'd be saying we should drop him as well? You're taking the piss mate.

Correction... Link That appears to DURING the World Cup.

I really think he'd be worth the supposed 6mil pounds that was being brandied about ealrier this year...hell I reckon we'd at least be in Europe if he'd stayed this season.

Also, I find it strange that they decided to choose the docklands stadium over the new rectangular stadium...I guess they wanted to get the extra 15k seats filled up!

I wonder how many World Cup players will end up making the trip? I imagine Pienaar will be staying at home since SA's the host and all. Players going to SA with their National team(some potenially); Tim Cahill Tim Howard Yakubu Yobo Johnny H Anichebe Jags Baines Saha Did I miss anyone? Anyways, I guess the above players would only make the trip here if they got knocked out early. I'm thinking that really, England and Holland would be the ones to last longest. Can't imagine the USA or Australia getting too far past the group stages unfortunately. Got no idea what Nigeria are like to be honest!

awesome! Definately going to drive up to sydney and will probably fly in to melbourne...might give brisbane a miss though. I predict that tickets will be massively overpriced, but I'm gonna go anyway!