26 Sep 2015 10:28:22
Eds. do you think robbie will go back in for yarmolenko in january?
{Ed002's Note - I don't know. Dynamo Kyiv managed to persuade Yarmolenko not to move this past summer and will continue to try and get him to sign a new contract. There has been interest over the past year from Roma, Spurs, Stoke, Fiorentina, Everton, Inter and Dortmund. Bayer Leverkusen, Valencia, Napoli and Manchester City all dropped their interest and PSG, who were considering Yarmolenko as a possible option to replace Lavezzi this past summer, seem to have done the same. Yarmolenko has expressed a desire to move to Barcelona or Chelsea - and there have been approached made directly to the Chelsea to gauge their interest. Right now it looks like Barcelona are considering their options for a January bid, but much will depend for them on an entirely separate matter.}
26 Sep 2015 20:40:48
He is Barca bound.
27 Sep 2015 01:57:15
He maybe a great talant, but do we realy want someone with that attitude?
27 Sep 2015 10:21:55
Stef, right now the word in Barcelona is that Barça are unlikely to go for him in January, largely because he would be asking for big wages and they are very close to the UEFA recommended limit of maximum 70% of income on players' wages. A much more likely (and cheaper) signing is another excellent player who we all know, Nolito from Celta. So if this is true it might improve our chances of Yarmolenko - though he certainly doesn't seem to be super-keen to join us.
01 Oct 2015 09:41:39
I agree JCW100. Who knows if we had signed him would we be doing as well as we are? He doesn't seem that keen on coming to Everton. I get the impression he thinks he's too good for us. We are getting by fine without him.
Also there are plenty of other players out there. Wouldn't be fixated on signing him. Seems to be all too complicated. I said on transfer deadline day I wouldn't be bothered if we didn't sign anyone. People were even predicting we were relegation candidates just because we didn't sign a lot of players. Martinez has to be complemented on his dealings in the transfer market.
Doesn't panic. I know its along way to May but at the moment it looks like last year was a blip and hopefully we just put it behind us now.