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Eagles set to land as Pienaar takes flight?
Various news outlets are today reporting that Burnley’s former Manchester United wideman, 25-year-old Chris Eagles, is set to arrive at Goodison over the coming days as a replacement for the outgoing Steven Pienaar.
With Chelsea’s Carlo Ancelotti apparently having been given transfer funds following meetings with owner Roman
Abramovic – the Blues currently facing up to something of a ‘mini-crisis’ as they sit 5th in the Premiership – rumours suggest that the Italian has targeted Pienaar as a low-value addition to his attacking ranks, with the obvious added benefit of Pienaar’s Champions League availability seen as a real attraction.
Whilst a fee of £3m has been touted as enough to take Pienaar to Stamford Bridge, other sources are claiming that Chelsea’s interest will only serve to strengthen Tottenham Hotspur’s resolve to recruit the diminutive South African, with the North Londoners also reported to be set to meet Everton’s valuation to take the player immediately as opposed to waiting until Pienaar’s contract expires in the summer.
Whichever club Pienaar ends up at, it now seems certain that the bargain £2m recruit from Borussia Dortmund will be bringing his Everton career to a close in the January window, and with the current perilous financial predicament at Goodison Park – rumours suggesting that David Moyes wasn’t even afforded a loan fee by his Chairman before selling – then with 6 months left on his current deal, it has to be viewed as good business.
The reported fee to secure the perma-tanned Eagles is £1.5m, and with Yakubu’s exit to Leicester leaving the Toffees woefully short of attacking options, it may well be that the balance of any fee received for Pienaar is used to recruit a forward on a short-term basis.
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funny little chart over there to the right. Pienaar, one assist and one goal. If we get 3 mil for him, we should laugh our arses off. Over-rated, can’t pass, can’t shoot. Runs around a LOT though. A grafter, but a shithouse one (imho)
funny he signed a new contract at burnley in the summer and turned down a £3million move to glasgow rangers now burnley will accept £1.5 million….dont think so
Most of the reports I have seen Chris say Rangers agreed a fee of between £1.5m and £2m.
Without wishing to sound like I’ve got a bunch of sour grapes in my gob, I have to agree a bit with Danny Dee.
For all Pienaar’s hard work, we rarely got to see enough end product from him. His most effective skill was drawing the full back inside so Baines could overlap, he just always seemed to lack the final ball or a decent shot and when we did see them, they were few and far between.
Fair play to him, he is a hard working player with energy, pace, quick feet and trickery and he’s probably been one of our most consistent players this season (which isn’t saying alot), but I’m not going to shed any tears, provided his replacement knows how to run inside and give it out wide to Bainesy we haven’t lost anything, if his replacement has a decent final ball and can shoot then it’ll be an improvement.
Looks like SP is off to Italy. I guess he’ll be with us for the rest of the season.
Anyone know much about this Adam Hamill (other than being a RS reject)?