Conor Purcell

This is what football is all about....

Sitting with Watkins and Rogers whilst Grealish, KDH and Ndiaye light up the premier league feels criminal in my FPL team…

Jack Grealish needs to be in the England Team. He’s World Class…simple as.

Jack Grealish has 4 Assists all ready for Everton 🔥 That’s more than double he got in the last 2 seasons for Man City. Grealish + Everton = 🔥

I think Jordan Pickford might be the greatest penalty saver in history.

Everton fans right now:

Everton bid farewell to Goodison Park with a beautiful violin rendition of Z-Cars 💙 📺 @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK

Goodison Park. The noise, the blue smoke, the history. Hosted the most games in English Football. The place I made memories with my Dad. Hard to say goodbye. Thank you, Goodison. 💙

That’s gotta be the worst decision of the season. Absolutely nailed on penalty.

HOW IS THAT NOT A PENALTY.

@st1llryan 2-0 Liverpool - Unfortunately

1 more flight then am home sweet home 🏡 Working tomorrow with TNT sports covering the Derby. Straight back into it 💪🏼 I’ll give the first 2 people who guesses the correct score and team to win £50 For last ever Goodison derby 🔵🔴

Everton with back to back wins

Watching Everton under David Moyes again…

It’s time…

Who do I want as next Everton manger: Moyes 1. Did wonderful with Everton and exceptional with West Ham 2. Can provide stability and allow them to get up the table 3. Experienced and loves the club 4. Used to working with a small budget He’s a really solid option for me.

@EFCdaily_ @SkySportsNews Would love this!

There has been talk of David Moyes coming in with Lee Carsley as his assistant. [@SkySportsNews]

Grateful to Dyche but right decision in the long run to sack him. Did excellent last season and has to be praised. This season it’s been absolutely awful, that squad has some good players in and should be higher. Football was awful. Tough decision but probaly the right one.

Now is the perfect time to bring in Everton assets 🔵 #FPL 1. Dyche teams always start poor and improve 2. Had hard fixtures 3. Branthwaite is back - Huge! 4. 4th best defence last season 5. Excellent fixtures 6. Scoring goals My Top 3: 🥇 DCL 🥈 Mykolenko 🥉 McNeil

@CitizenSuburbia @UHTPodcast This is excellent 👏

If I were Everton, Villa, Chelsea & Newcastle, I would club together and attack this letter on the following grounds: 1. "Arms length". The principle has a clear definition in law which has been tested by cases: law.cornell.edu/wex/arm%27s_le… Summary: "An arm's-length transaction is "characterized by three elements: [(1)] it is voluntary, i.e., without compulsion or duress; [(2)] it generally takes place in an open market; and [(3)] the parties act in their own self-interest." Those clubs will be able to robustly apply those principles in a court of law. The PL also has its own definition, but its quite narrow and limited to 3 tests which should easily be passed: ✅️ Appropriate comparators; In Everton's case for Dobbin/Iroegbunum, definitely the case, see below. ✅️ No related parties involved - obvious. ✅️ appropriate commercial rationale. Everton/Villa wanted to acquire talented players with potential in key positions. Player swaps are not uncommon at all when 2 clubs have a mutual interest. Ironically - the latest media reports suggest Utd including Lindelof & Wan Bissaka as make weights in a deal for Jarrad! 😂 2. "Fair Market Value" Implementation. My reading of the rules is that FMV primarily applies to Associated Party Transactions (to stop the Saudi led transfer inflation) and was not meant to catch transfers between "Arms length" clubs (which I think can be proven). However, it does appear as if FMV may also apply to "Threshold Transactions" (a rule primarily designed to stop owner siphoning cash out, I think, as we saw in lower divisions). So assuming FMV regulations do apply here, attached below are some of the key factors that will be taken into consideration. I genuinely think Everton have a good case on Dobbin (and even stronger on DCL): ✅️ Nationality. Pretty clear the market for young English players carries a premium in the PL ✅️ Age. Dobbin/Iroegbunum arr obviously young with plenty of potential ✅️ Position. Dobbin is a forward. These positions carry a premium ✅️ Experience. Despite his youth, Dobbin has over 60 career appearances & 8 G/A, including a PL goal. Iroegbunum was a regular at QPR last season. ✅️ Precedent transaction: Tom Cannon, with less PL experience than Dobbin, but a high ceiling was sold for £7m to Leicester by Everton in 2023. These are amongst the factors 3. "Other Precedents": Besides the evidence Everton can produce on sale of academy players, there are plenty of precedent transactions and data generally that back the values in the Dobbin/Iroegbunum deal. Indeed this old article from data insights showed the most expensive age group for transfers in Europe was the 21-23 with the average transfer fee being paid already hitting €9m, i.e. not far off the values involved in Dobbin/Iroegbunum. Transfermarkt gave a valuation, but this is hard data of actual transfers: hubs.ly/Q01x9Wr50?trk=… (If link doesn't open, screen shot below) Genuinely we are headed for open revolt by clubs against Masters - he clearly does not have the skills to do his job, which includes ensuring a clutch of clubs does not become all powerful. This outrageous behaviour appears par for the course given the PL's ridiculous behaviour during Everton's PSR hearings - not least expecting the club to predict the Ukraine/Russia war 😂 As we all know, the problem is really the rules. Whilst the idea is right - ensure sustainability & affordable squad costs - the implementation has been awful. PSR is too complex & riddled with holes. Not fit for purpose, just like Masters. #EFC #NUFC #CFC #AVFC

You can’t blame Villa, Chelsea, Newcastle and Everton for doing clever deals to get round PSR. Blame lies with the Premier League for a system that encourages selling youth, hasn’t worked for years and protects big clubs. Stop giving out points deductions and fix the system.

3 wins in a row, 3rd best defence in the league, safe with 3 games to go and an 8 point deduction. Hold up…Sean Dyche is cooking.