Everton Rumours Archive August 23 2015

23 Aug 2015 23:14:52
Ok just to clear few things up, first of all Bernard rumours are made up 100%, now onto yarmolenko, I have some connections in East European football due to my wife being Lithuanian her brother lives there but spends a lot of time working between there and Ukraine and is a massive football fan and loves the prem league, so I asked him 2 days ago to find out if there is any news if we are interested and how much is just rumour.
He told me that although he is not sure if a deal was done he did say that it is massive story there at moment the biggest sports story over there he did a few translations for me has to what have been said and one of the big ones was when Yarmolenko was interviewed after the match yesterday and reporter said to him now what is happening with talk of a big move to premier league England with Everton "he smiled and said I need to go now" basically avoiding the question,
Now I'm not saying he will come but my brother in law said it seems like a deal is being done and the player wants the move. Please don't shoot me down if this does not happen but thought I would give my fellow blue boys a bit of an insight rather than just UK paper talk

23 Aug 2015 23:45:43
Good stuff! Just to add to this: Viktor Vatsko, a well respected journalist/commentator in Ukraine, says that Bernard won't happen, its just a way of trying to pressure Kiev in to giving a quick answer; big rivalry between Kiev and Shakthar apparently, both owners want to prove that their players are good enough for the big time (Costa to Bayern). Also said that €25 is a lot to turn down for a Ukranian player. Just passing on some info and what I've made of it!

24 Aug 2015 04:27:20
The match happened yesterday so how could he tell you all that 2 days ago?

24 Aug 2015 07:38:06
Seems to me that yet again Everton are being taken for a ride by negotiators that are in a different league (ala Levy Spuds). We are going to end up paying 9 mill for Lennon or our illustrious Manager will come out with 'I am very excited to see the progression of McGeady'. Currently 7th in the League, the Bill/RM game plan for Evertons mini Prem competition (3rd tier) is coming together.

24 Aug 2015 09:28:24
I asked him to find out a couple days ago he got back to me yesterday evening, any more details do I need to provide an alibi for where I was yesterday or you up to speed yet

24 Aug 2015 10:54:27
Come on Dunc, these Kiev people are a law unto themselves. They have messed around other teams when they have activated his get out clause, can't blame either RM or BK for that really. Levy always plays hard ball when selling his players but this time he will lose out on what he actually wants for Lennon. I think some team, possibly us, will buy AL in the final hours of transfer deadline day for less than the 9m you say. Even Levy will take a lesser fee rather than lose a player for nothing next summer

24 Aug 2015 11:03:32
great research Trueblue and Hugo, thx for the update, I think its going to happen, we are just putting some pressuer on them as they have probably asked for 67 million or something stupid

24 Aug 2015 11:23:58
Fair enough spudv, just an opinion mate.

24 Aug 2015 11:46:38
No worries Dunc, wasn't having a pop just trying to gee you up on a Monday morning :) Got a feeling this could be a decent week for us all, few deals could be sorted in the next couple of days. Have faith!

24 Aug 2015 12:29:29
Not getting into anything with spudv and dunc but I think if we can get Lennon for anything less than 6m it would be good business. Levy is a bluffer and will get every penny out of you for his players if enough interest is shown. I'd call his bluff if he was looking for any more than 6. Team improved a lot last season after Lennon arrived

23 Aug 2015 21:28:31
Roma have now entered the running to sign this Russian that is why we pulled out.

24 Aug 2015 08:37:27
I would believe we could compete with Roma!

23 Aug 2015 20:24:05
Apparently Everton have more there attention to Brazilian forward Bernard after yarmolenko deal has slown down

23 Aug 2015 20:16:08
everton have pulled out of sigining yarmelnko because kiev where proving difficult to deal with so according to the Liverpool echo we are moving for Brazilian play maker Bernard from shaktar Donetsk

23 Aug 2015 21:03:26
We knew that is knew that this guy had been touted all over the place, we also knew what a helmet head his chairman is and yet normal naivety of our brilliant negotiating Team still held sway. RM may have the gob but his ability is in the Prem bottom half and in the Championship is really where his obvious talent needs to be.

23 Aug 2015 19:46:09
50m for stones loaned back for the season plus victor moses

{Ed025's Note - or £40m and no moses.. :)

23 Aug 2015 18:51:09
looks like we won't be getting yarmolenko then!

23 Aug 2015 18:44:40
Hi ed's you hearing anything about yarmolenko? Hope these rumours of it being off are false! Cheers lads

{Ed025's Note - its being reported that we have pulled out of negotiations speke, now i dont know if its true but them beetroot eating ukranians are notoriously hard to deal with mate..

23 Aug 2015 19:07:02
Sad times. The excitement that we may be signing him was unreal. No doubt we'll emd up with Lennon and that'll be that.

23 Aug 2015 20:05:26
I hope not,

23 Aug 2015 15:54:37
.you can bet your bottom dollar that Terry got sent off on purpose on orders of Mourinhio knowing an impending 3 game ban would make Abramovich dig that bit deeper to offer a bid large enough to attract John Stones away.just remember Jose will do anything to get his man.I just hope the Everton board are strong enough to resist!

23 Aug 2015 17:00:22
That's just absurd. Put the glass down and order a coffee.

{Ed025's Note - nice to hear from you pod..

23 Aug 2015 19:48:21
Don't come much dafter than this. Never saw Terry as the kind of guy who would get sent off just to help get his replacement in. That said, the consequences are likely that Chelsea will put a bigger bid as the last two games have shown Terry as vulnerable to pace and no longer able to rely upon his positional play.

24 Aug 2015 11:55:22
offs please tell me this is a joke how does one even come up with such a silly story come on zackiii think before you type :)

23 Aug 2015 15:51:49
Echo saying Yarmolenko deal is off. Our club's great.

23 Aug 2015 16:57:57
Hang on, you don't even know 1) if it's true or 2) if it is true, why.

Too many Evertonians ready to slag the club before they know the facts!

23 Aug 2015 17:22:44
Rumour site this, mate. Posted a rumour.

23 Aug 2015 20:40:29
You posted a rumour then a comment to suggest you were blaming the club!!! No body knows what's gone on so let's just see what happens before blame gets thrown around.

{Ed025's Note - thats fair leicester..

24 Aug 2015 12:49:01
took the words straight from my mouth leicster actually getting a bit boring now how many on here listen to stupid rumours and then jump at any chance to knock the team some fans behaviour at our club of late is shocking

23 Aug 2015 14:43:53
Terry three match ban now!

23 Aug 2015 15:51:56
Only one I think, two yellows.

23 Aug 2015 10:36:22
. Yarmalenko is flying into Merseyside later on & expected to complete a medical some time on Monday! C.o.y.b!! (Source: the peoples page, everton football club)

23 Aug 2015 13:36:20
Please be right

23 Aug 2015 13:52:34
Just had a message off a friend who works at Manchester airport, they've been told to standby to put a bit of extra security on as there's a footballer arriving on the 21:35 flight from Amsterdam.
When I went to Kiev the other season I went via Amsterdam from Manchester.
They weren't able to elaborate any further I'm afraid so could just be wishful thinking on my behalf or complete load of bullocks.

23 Aug 2015 08:57:27
We better get this yarmelenko deal done quickly as it looks like United are now interested, source from Kievs managers press talk

23 Aug 2015 10:45:40
It was a nothing comment from him to state the importance of Yarmolenko to Kyiv. Like he doesn't care if the biggest Club in England want him he still needs/wants him at Kyiv.

23 Aug 2015 11:27:49
Ed 002 has said we are contention to complete s deal this week so that is good enough for me now.

{Ed025's Note - he also said it is not certain to happen stef, so although it looks promising lets not count our chickens mate..

23 Aug 2015 07:20:22
Afraid RM walked straight into press trap over stones.
'He wouldn't be allowed to leave' comment has brought this mornings, 'Stones to appeal to Kenright' crap.
Expect exclusive tomorrow, 'Stones was
held captive in Dingle flat and forced at gun point to play against City.

23 Aug 2015 08:12:50
What he said was he hasn't handed in the reported transfer request and even if he did we still would t sell him. I have a go at Martinez somwtimes but I think he the club and stones have been brilliant about this whole thing

23 Aug 2015 08:46:59
Have to agree to disagree Kingy.
The comment 'hints' that we would try to force a player to stay and no club can do that.
Media jackals love those scraps!0

23 Aug 2015 09:50:37
A player's contract should be binding if committed to long term. Should be managers call if he wants to sell within that time not the players decision.

23 Aug 2015 09:59:54
Clubs can force them to stay it's having the balls to do it remember when Suarez wanted to go to arsenal and even branded Rodgers a liar! They said your tough shit your staying and he was the best player in Europe that season (as much as it hurts me to admit it)

23 Aug 2015 10:23:00
Kenwright and Martinez took a lot of stick lately, the majority of it justified. However, they have stood firm over the Stones situation first saying he's not for sale and then by saying even if he hands in transfer request he's not for sale. Yet still they get stick over it.

Why can't we force him to stay, he's under a lengthy contract with us. Maybe it's about time clubs start standing up to players (more so their agents) by saying you have a legal binding contract with us and we don't want to sell you. Clubs need to take some of the power back at the end of the day their paying the wages not the agent.

This isn't a go at Stones as we don't know his stance on the matter and he has carried on in a professional manner for us, unlike others in the past.

I really hope we keep hold of him to one as he's a great player and future player and two because it's about time clubs stand firm against the so called bigger clubs (I call them richer not bigger) and stop them cherry picking the youngest we develop and give a chance on the big stage.

23 Aug 2015 11:44:31
Kingy and Kipper both spot on

22 Aug 2015 23:30:15
Hi Ed. what's the latest on yarmolenko. So many unfounded rumours flying about. Are you able to tell us exactly what's going on or do you have to keep a lid on some of it? Very frustrated, very impatient with it all and just want to know if anythings actually going to happen? Thanks.

{Ed002's Note - Everton are well positioned to complete a deal for Yarmolenko in the coming week - but it is certainly not completed at this time.}

23 Aug 2015 00:47:51
Thank you Ed!

23 Aug 2015 02:57:00
the more I think about it the less I feel we don't need yarmolenko

with Delboy, Barkley, Mirallas and Lukaku are all flare players and should be getting regular game time

yarmolenko just might make it too many cooks and all that

I'd take someone like Jamie Vardy instead

23 Aug 2015 06:36:42
BackoftheNet. You can never have too many quality players mate, for me it is about what positions they play in and not whether they are flair players or not. Yarmolenko would be the number 10 that we need, we have no one who can play there, Naismith isn't a number 10, Osman, Barkley and Cleverley have been tried in that role (Clevs with other clubs) and none of them are good enough at what a number 10 needs. He would also give us another option as a winger, Mirallas, Deulofeu and Pienaar are all right footed, all very predictable for me. Mirallas will look for an inside pass if he is on the right and will cut inside if he is on the left. Pienaar is too slow but offers a lot of creativity but can only cut inside, he cannot play on the right and cannot run on the outside and whip a ball in. Deulofeu will always try and beat his man and put a cross in or run through the middle and take everyone on. Yarmolenko has a rocket shot, offers us the same creativity as Pienaar, the same pace as Mirallas (not as quick as Doofy Loofy) and can take people on like Deulofeu. He would be the number 10 Martinez wants and the number 10 that we need. Not to mention added depth out wide, McGeady will hopefully never play for us again, take him away hopefully, Pienaar is always injured and neither Mirallas or Deulofeu are reliable for a full season due to their hamstrings. Over a full season each of them will get injured at different points, Pienaar is never fit so we need the extra man there. It's also worth noting he also gives us another optiom for corners and free kicks. I understand where you are coming from mate but I hope what I have said will make signing him a but more appealing to you mate, if not then fair enough. Would be brilliant business for me.

23 Aug 2015 07:51:20
Agree swanny, an attacking 3 of barkley, deulofeu and Yarmolenko would be deadly

23 Aug 2015 08:23:28
Yarmolenko can play up top on his tod if needed as well, great goal per game ratio (admittedly in a weak league) but he tore us a new one when we played Kiev last season. He's just class. "New Everton player Andriy Yarmolenko" sounds good don't it 😀

{Ed025's Note - it does steve..

23 Aug 2015 08:50:46
Spot on that Swan.

23 Aug 2015 09:26:32
Vardy over yarmolenko, are you having a laugh lad

23 Aug 2015 10:03:51
He's not a genuine #10 he's a winger. Sure, he can play there but if we're buying a square peg for a round hole then we already have a load of them for the #10 role.
I do think we need a left winger but I'm on the fence with this guy. I have fears, perhaps unfounded ones, of Billy II.

23 Aug 2015 13:37:54
Pod, I think something what seperates him from Bily is that Yarmolenko has pace and has shown many times what he can do against English teams but again, I do understand your concerns, they need to be out out there and it is a genuine worry.