Ronald Koeman has told Ross Barkley’s suitors – including Tottenham Hotspur – that Everton will not accept a below-market offer
Esa Lindell Jersey for the England international towards the end of the transfer window. Everton have yet to receive any bids for their homegrown midfielder despite him entering the final year of his contract and refusing to sign a new deal. However Spurs are expected to move for the 23-year-old, who has also been linked with Chelsea, with reports this week claiming their chairman, Daniel Levy, is prepared to pay ?25m. Koeman believes Barkley will leave Goodison Park this summer but insists Everton will not be hostage to a deliberately late, undervalued offer for the midfielder. Everton paid a club-record equalling ?30m to sign Michael Keane from Burnley, when the England defender had 12 months remaining on his contract at Turf Moor, and their manager has indicated that is the going rate for a player in Barkley’s position. The Recap: sign up for the best of the Guardian's sport coverage Read more “We won’t let him go cheap, of course not,” said Koeman, who has seen Swansea City hold out for ?50m for Gylfi Sigurdsson all summer. “We have the experience of what we need to pay for players who came here and had one year of contract. If there is a club
http://www.officialdallasstars.com/Adidas-Gump-Worsley-Jersey thinking we can wait until the last day and we put some money on the table and we get Ross Barkley, sorry, you do not get Ross Barkley.” He added: “If there is an offer, maybe the club will not accept. He is a really good player; a young player, an English player. With all the valuations we have seen the last few weeks about players, then if you want to buy Ross it is a big [financial] deal.” Asked whether he thought Levy’s strategy is to sign Barkley with a cut-price offer late in the window, the Everton manager replied: “I do not know. I am not sure. I have some experience. When I was in Southampton we lost some players [including Victor Wanyama to Spurs] but I am mentioning the name of no club.” Barkley has resumed training at Everton following minor groin surgery but will not be considered for the Premier League opener against Stoke City on Saturday having had only two sessions. Koeman said: “I still believe he will make the move. If not, he is a player of Everton and if he shows to me he is one of the best then it is possible he can start, like everyone else.” The Everton manager believes an end is in sight to Sigurdsson’s protracted move from the Liberty Stadium with his Swansea counterpart, Paul Clement, calling on both clubs to compromise over a fee. Everton have had deals worth up to ?40m and ?45m rejected for the Iceland midfielder this summer but Koeman said: “We are close. Let’s hope we get an agreement as soon as possible. I heard some rumours that the talks broke
http://www.officialsstlouisblues.com/Adidas-Joe-Mullen-Jerseydown but we are still in negotiations with Swansea. “I have heard the comments of Paul Clement, the manager of Swansea. Of course everyone would like news, that it is better for us and it is better for them.” That sentiment is shared by Clement, who will not consider Sigurdsson for Swansea’s opener at Southampton on Saturday and needs a resolution to finalise his plans for the new season. The Swansea manager said: “I think the way it’s going there needs to be more than likely a compromise on both sides and that’s very often how a deal is made. Normally when both deals are done it’s a win-win situation for both sidesPaul Clement is confident Fernando Llorente will remain a Swansea City player and not follow Gylfi Sigurdsson out of the door. The Iceland midfielder is set to join Everton, with the clubs finally edging closer to reaching an agreement, and there has been persistent speculation linking Llorente with Chelsea, who were interested in signing the striker in January. Clement, however, firmly believes Llorente will stay put. “He’s got a year to go on his deal and we’d like him to stay for this year and longer,” said the Swansea manager, who will be without the Spaniard for at least the first two matches of the season after the forward broke an arm in a cycling accident in the close-season. Premier League 2017-18 preview No16: Swansea City Read more “He’s a really good player and it’s a shame with the injury he got in the summer – it’s a freak one. He did finish off the season strongly. His goals were vital and we want to have him as an option. When he’s fit, to have him, Tammy [Abraham] and Jordan [Ayew] available is a good thing for me.” Asked why he is so sure Llorente, who scored 15 league goals for Swansea last season, would remain at the Liberty Stadium, Clement said: “I’m confident because of the conversations I’ve had with Fernando. “He’s happy here, he likes the work we’re doing and he likes the way we play. I’m confident he will be here.” Clement believes Llorente and Abraham, who is on a season-long loan from Chelsea, could play together up front – they are both 6ft 4in – although that partnership will not be seen for at least a couple of weeks because of the Spaniard’s injury problem. “It would be interesting to see those two come up against two centre-halves,” Clement said. “Tammy likes to play off the last shoulder and get in behind. We’re working on him going the other way a little bit more and getting him more involved in the build-up play. But I think that would potentially be a good
Amos Youth Jersey partnership.” As for Sigurdsson, Clement expects a replacement or two – Wilfried Bony and Nacer Chadli are on the club’s shortlist – to arrive swiftly once a fee with Everton is agreed. “I’m as confident as I can be from my talks with the owners and the chairman that if this goes through, that we’re ready to go,” Clement said. “But what you can’t do is control the decision-making of the other club. We’ve got a good idea of what players are going to cost. So we’re as ready as we can be
