Player Watch: Pierre-Emile Højbjerg

[nedley]

Forget stats. If Mourinho has picked out a gettable player who wants to come in a desperately needed position, we should 100% do everything we can to bring him in.

JM has worked with quite a few of the very best DM's the world has seen. I think that is enough reason to trust his judgement if this is who he wants. Especially when it's not going to be breaking the bank to do so.

But is it who he wants?

I can do a deal for Charlie Adam?

 

[sausage]

Lot of talking about his passing. Scott Parker never did more than 3 yard pass. And I think no one would complain about having Scotty back.

Scotty was a last action hero. The guy would tackle with his face. His actual face. Gods know how he's still a dashing chap - he should look like Mike Tyndall.

There's a huge reason why he's adored despite having been a Charlton, Fulham and West Ham player twice as long as he was with us.

 

[Cornpattbuck]

no way near. Matic has loads about his game and is surprisingly skilful on the ball.

Okay.

 

[Croftwoodspurs]

Great post, he really ticks a load of the boxes.

Lol With all the green ticked boxes in his post, it did make me Smile..

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

The Guardian are fairly cautious about calling transfers so I’d say this could be moving along now

Everton battle with Tottenham over Southampton midfielder Højbjerg

Everton have bid £18m for the Southampton midfielder Pierre-Emile Højbjerg but Tottenham are also in negotiations

www.theguardian.com

 

[wrd]

The Guardian are fairly cautious about calling transfers so I’d say this could be moving along now

Everton battle with Tottenham over Southampton midfielder Højbjerg

Everton have bid £18m for the Southampton midfielder Pierre-Emile Højbjerg but Tottenham are also in negotiations

www.theguardian.com

It's really starting to sound like we're not going to be paying too much on top of this swap which is great.

 

[wrd]

I was also thinking, going back to Jose knowing a thing or two about signing DM's; another non typical destroyer type which Jose had was Khedira who you could argue was in a similar mould to Hojbjerg

 

[DiVaio]

The Guardian are fairly cautious about calling transfers so I’d say this could be moving along now

Everton battle with Tottenham over Southampton midfielder Højbjerg

Everton have bid £18m for the Southampton midfielder Pierre-Emile Højbjerg but Tottenham are also in negotiations

www.theguardian.com

I think Dave Hytner was the first journalist saying that we want Gedson Fernandes

 

[Japhet]

The Guardian are fairly cautious about calling transfers so I’d say this could be moving along now

Everton battle with Tottenham over Southampton midfielder Højbjerg

Everton have bid £18m for the Southampton midfielder Pierre-Emile Højbjerg but Tottenham are also in negotiations

www.theguardian.com

Hope we can get a buy back option in any deal for KWP - just in case.

 

[donny1013]

Just the type of player we need and one which doesn’t really effect the balance sheet if KWP is going the other way. Positive if we are getting things done at the start of the window for a change. Will be great to have a proper ball winner back in the side, as we haven’t really had that since Wanyama/Dembele.

 

[Snarfalicious]

Hope we can get a buy back option in any deal for KWP - just in case.

I think that's doubtful unless it's the right of first refusal or something of the sort. "Levy gonna Levy" and all, but the wise choice would be to make this as sweet a deal as possible to land PEH and avoid Sell-On %'s and pre-established buyback options.

 

[Cavehillspur]

Priority signing, good start to the window if we can get this done.

 

[Japhet]

I think that's doubtful unless it's the right of first refusal or something of the sort. "Levy gonna Levy" and all, but the wise choice would be to make this as sweet a deal as possible to land PEH and avoid Sell-On %'s and pre-established buyback options.

First refusal would work for me.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Happy with this.

 

[Snarfalicious]

Good, smart addition. Hope we can make it happen.

 

[Timberwolf]

It's really starting to sound like we're not going to be paying too much on top of this swap which is great.

Yeah. So'ton's initial valuation of £35m was way OTT, while KWP's value seems to be going up with each passing week.

I would guess we'll meet somewhere in the middle and pay something like 5-10 million on top of KWP.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

I doubt this transfer for one reason. Lyall was the first to report on it, back in January.

 

[JME-9]

Going to be a great signing that’s one weak area getting addressed onto right back now

 

[wrd]

Yeah. So'ton's initial valuation of £35m was way OTT, while KWP's value seems to be going up with each passing week.

I would guess we'll meet somewhere in the middle and pay something like 5-10 million on top of KWP.

On a side tangent, this is exactly why we shouldn't sell Foyth and instead loan him out. Best case scenario you get him some experience and he starts to get where he needs to be, worst case scenario he doesn't quite do it but is good enough to add some value. Selling players before you give them the chance to add some value is dumb imo.

 

[Univarn]

I think Dave Hytner was the first journalist saying that we want Gedson Fernandes

Every journalist gets things wrong - there is no full proof journo - but as track records go Hytner is one of the best. If he says it I rate it pretty highly.