....firstly, what a player! World Class imo. A few things puzzle me; 1) Why did Mourinho never give him a chance? 2) Why let him go when he was good enough to lead the line for Chelsea (at £18m) and instead bring in Costa (for £32m) and Drogba (who is Lukaku but 15 years older and past it)? 3) Why did none of the big 6 come in and buy him?...too me he would walk into Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs' first XI (would stand a good chance of getting in at Man Utd and Man City actually). 4) Where did Everton get all of that money from? I thought £28m to be way out of their price range, spent £5m on our target, Besic, already too...are they risking the stability of the club? (Don't know enough about their situation to be honest.) What this makes clear is the top 7 are; Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs and Everton....the rest of us are playing for 8th place.
Some interesting points Terror - but I'm just glad that that's another avenue for Bony to go to firmly closed
Agree PGF. This also increases Bony's price tag significantly as Bony scored 9 goals more than Lukaku last season. He really is now priced at over £30 million for me.
And the papers still quoting 15m for Bony, taking the piss as usual. Hope HJ puts his price up to over what was paid foe Lukaku
"Swansea have admitted that Bony could leave this summer but reports suggest that Spurs will have to pay over £15m for the 25-year-old striker who scored 25 goals last season." http://hotspurhq.com/2014/07/31/transfers-wilfried-bony-tottenham-roberto-soldado-go/ "It seems Huw Jenkins' comments earlier in the week have put several big clubs on red alert for the FREE scoring Ivorian. The Daily Star are today reporting Liverpool, Tottenham and Arsenal are now in a three-way tug-of-war for the Swansea star." http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/live-swansea-city-cardiff-city-7538530 The quote that has worried me most was from Ash ""I don't make any decisions at the club, but as players we want him to stay and we have told him that." http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Ashley-Williams-Swansea-City-players-desperate/story-22044163-detail/story.html
There is a limit to what Bony would sell for though. Too much and you'd have him squealing that the club is ruining his career. It's laughable that some of the media are quoting 15 million,when 25-30 million would now be a fair price when compared to the Lukaku deal,and especially for a player that scored 26 goals last season. It's amazing where Everton have found that kind of money when they've been penny pinching and pleading poverty all these years. However the Bony affair turns out,I hope we do not sell ourselves short again,as in the Ben Davies transfer and the Michu loan. Palace already had a bid of 8 million accepted for Gylfi,then a few days later he was swopped with Ben in a deal supposedly worth 10 million?
Welcome Keith. That's exactly how I see the Davies deal, we were ripped off. I will be fuming if we let Bony go for less than £25m. IF Bony went that would mean the following Laudrup signings will have been jettisoned; Bony, Michu, Hernandez, De Guzman, Pozuelo, Canas, plus Ben Davies who was brought through by Laudrup, plus the likes of Vazquez and Lamah weren't invited back. The only 3 left would be Chico, Amat and Tiendalli...unless you count Ki, which I don't (I reckon he was a board signing) Coincidence?
Maybe, but it's Ash's quote that makes me think Bony has grumbled (or his bestie has let something slip!)
Thats the part that interests me. Everton have always been very frugal with there signings over the years, so it only goes to show how much the Sky money is filtering through to higher transfer fees.
That's what pisses me off. It would be nice if some of that money "filtered" through to the fans by way of reduced admission charges. Instead, the fat cat players and their parasitic agents grab the lot whilst trotting out the usual crap about it being a short career. I hope I live to see the day when one of the "big" clubs get totally wiped out beyond recall. That would be a wake up call to the rest.
