He got rid of James, Digne and Bernard who were 3 of our top 4 earners - I think Mina was the other 
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We needed cash. Villa paid up front and we paid in installments Previous Message
Guessing we came out of it with maybe 15-20m, compared to retaining Digne. You could argue we'd get some of it back by finishing further up the table, but for the situation we were in we really had no choice.
When you add to that a sell on value difference of say 15m, you are looking at 30m over 4 years. That was and still is a lot of money for us.
What we should do now is just let Moyes do his work for the next 5-10 years and we'll be more than fine. Anyone who loves Everton should argue for that outcome over everything else.
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Its part of fans discussion about signings now.....wat would the sell on value be, young enough that we should get a profit etc...
When we sold Digne for 25 million and bought Miko for 18, that was just the sort of deal we should be doing, it showed the club was doing good 'business'. Well maybe it was, but its 4 years on and Digne still plays, I would have rater watch him at left book for te last 4 years then Miko.
We are NEVER competing financially with the top 4 of 5 clubs, no amount of clever businee is changing that, so lets just look at a plyer in terms of, wil he improve us, will he be fiun to watch.
...and on expecatations for next year.....we were relegation regulars until this year, so a long way to catch up, even more tricky when the clubs you are trying to catch are still spending MORE than you.
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