Fulham and Everton are bartering over wantaway winger Demarai Gray, according to the Sun’s Alan Nixon.
The Whites are keen on bringing the Birmingham-born wide man to Craven Cottage but believe Everton’s £10m valuation is far too high – especially with the 27 year-old now in the final year of his current contract at Goodison Park. The former Leicester winger played a pivotal role in ensuring Everton survived under Sean Dyche last term but is not considered to be a part of Dyche’s long-term plans on Merseyside.
Gray is keen to reignite his career elsewhere but Everton are reluctant to let him leave without securing the services of a replacement. Everton have rejected offers from Besiktas and Fulham, but the Jamaican international wants his future resolved swiftly. The two sides will go head-to-head at Goodison Park on the first day of the new Premier League campaign but it remains to be seen whom Gray will be playing for then.
How is £10m “far too high”? Yeah sure, he’s in his last year, but are we that out of tune with the current market? Maybe we’re reacting to other teams blatantly low-balling us with offers (Mitro, Pahlinha, Tosin) and think that’s the way to do it right now?
To Tony Khan and his recruitment team. You don’t know what you’re doing!!
If we continue to haggle over everyone we want sign we will end up with nobody
I have said this since they been in charge, low balling every offer trying to get a deal rather than giving Marco time to work his magic.
Absolute joke waiting so long to get players in the door.
This is not a middle Eastern market where you have to haggle and lose out to someone else who is prepared to pay the asking price. Stop turning Fulham into a cheap joke, pay the fee, get the quality players before we end up back in the championship!!!
Pay up or shut up it’s a bloody joke Tony Khan does this all the time we should have signed all the players we need weeks ago, we are a laughing stock we are being linked with every one and now we don’t have enough time for new players to get settled in, you only get what you pay for and I can’t see us getting much for the money TK wants to pay.
I guess I’m the only one who thinks $10 m plus is a bit steep. At 27 he’s not really set the world alight with his performances has he? He’s arguably a backup option in the current Fulham team and he’s in the last year of his contract too. If tosin is worth $5-7 mil, how is this guy worth double that?