Home » For Once, A Levy Masterclass

For Once, A Levy Masterclass

By The Boy -

The Ross Barkley thing was destined to deteriorate into a debacle.

Everton are looking to cash in on a player who thinks he’s too big for his toffee boots.

Levy doesn’t get a sense that the competition for young Ross is particularly heated. And he’s entirely correct.

For all the huff and puff from Barkley’s many advisors, agents, sub-agents and handlers, there isn’t a queue around the block.

Lyall Thomas at Sky says: Tottenham are prepared to wait for Everton to lower their asking price for Ross Barkley as the transfer window progresses, according to Sky sources

It doesn’t matter how much Barkley is worth or isn’t worth. It’s what the market will stand. There are no other extenuating factors. What is the going rate for a Barkley?

The right answer isn’t £50million and that’s the end of the ‘ticket price’ part of the conversation. The onus of responsibility isn’t upon Levy to dance the dance and pluck Barkley from Everton’s crown.

It is Everton‘s job to offload this guy before the milk turns sour. The 23 year old’s contract has just a year/just less than year whatever it is to run. There is no leverage value in this respect worth discussing.

THFC and EFC have a decent enough working relationship. The two clubs understand each other.

However, this situation smacks of Everton rather naively imagining that they can hoover up most if not all of Kyle Walker’s fee when he joins City.

Again, Spurs are under no pressure to sell Bonzo.

Whilst skirting around the detail, its not Daniel’s fault (for once) our frisbee chasing right-back wants out.

This is a rare thing we’re witnessing is Levy doing the right thing.

Now I have to add the caveat that he doesn’t truly realise he’s doing the right thing here, and we know this because he ALWAYS negotiates as if he has the upper hand. When routinely he doesn’t and hence the fact that he normally blows most deals that he touches.

Whilst Flat Earthers will lap this praise up, the intelligent amongst you will be asking, ‘so who do we sign then, because the squad is impossibly light’?

 

Tags NewsNow
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

202 Comments
newest
oldest
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Follow Us
Latest Newsletter Posts