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'TEAMtalk understands that Everton are keen on a summer deal for Dibling' 'Sources have told TEAMtalk that Everton have already had two offers for the England Under-21 international turned down by the Saints' 'TEAMtalk understands that Southampton are demanding £50million for Dibling' 'Sources have told TEAMtalk’s transfer correspondent, Fraser Fletcher, that Dibling is training alone' Best keep an eye on TEAMtalk lads - high-quality ITK stuff like this that they've got from their sources is pretty hard to find. Apparently their sources have also heard a whisper that all may not be well at Sheffield Wednesday, but they've not shared that yet, so mum's the word yeah?

Yeah, it's a waste of a talent as it stands. But if City aren't going to compromise, there are only a handful of clubs who can realistically pay that sort of wage, and none of them want him. Saudi's probably his best bet at this stage. So unless Al-Nassr or someone comes in for him, or he's prepared to take a wage cut, he's screwed. Although he could drop his wages by a third and still be on £200k per week, which still isn't too shabby really is it.

Well, City have just told Everton that they’ll only let Grealish go there if 100% of his wages are covered. He’s on £300k a week 🤣 So if it’s one or the other, maybe just maybe the Dibling deal is starting to look more attractive again, even on our outrageous terms. Hold your nerve Spors, this lot have left it too late, they’ve fucked it, and they’ll end up paying what we want just to save face.

It is, so it's almost certainly bollocks - just someone on that clickbait site seeing that we're up for selling Dibling and pushing another RW name for clicks as it's obvious that we'll need a replacement if he goes. However, a lot of the Everton fans are getting in a right tizz about how we're playing them on the ever-increasing price for Dibling, think they should walk away (because apparently that would teach us a right lesson), and seem to think that Fellows is their next target if that happens. So what would be amusing would be if we fleece them for £50m + 25% sell-on for Dibling, replace him with Fellows for a quarter of that, and then Dibling flops and Fellows tears it up. Then accounting for inflation we can sell them Fellows for £150m next summer.

It’ll end up being Elyonoussi or Hoedt, really give the fans a boost

Gets a second. Rangers playing very well here, fair play.

Gassama scores again for Rangers. 3 in 3 since they signed him. He’s instantly become easily their best player, brilliant bit of business at £2.2m.

The chance to play alongside Michael Keane and Dwight McNeil, for a club whose fans abuse their own players in the street? I mean it’s once in a lifetime stuff isn’t it? And that’s before you even get to see the finest dugouts in Europe. Should be hearing confirmation in the press any minute now that Dibling’s transfer request has been handed in, surely. Once your head’s been turned by a giant like them, that’s it.

Nice. Going public with the price seems like a pretty transparent move to push whoever’s waiting in the wings to make their move. We’re basically saying first person to offer this gets him, knowing one of them will. Just a question of who now.

Was talking about Schneiderlin at Everton mate, in the context of how much we are looking to fleece them for Dibling

Or Morgan Schneiderlin They still haven’t forgiven us for how shit he was for them

I think you underestimate just how desperate the dugout pioneers are and how much we can fleece them for. They're coming back with £45m. Whether we take that or are just using them to flush out an even better offer (which is what the Guardian guy was hinting at) remains to be seen.

I suspect the club think that selling him gives us a better chance of getting both. Get £45m - £50m guaranteed into the coffers now for a player who doesn't want to stay, then reinvest some of that back into the squad for a couple of players to keep it strong overall for a good tilt at promotion, and keep a bit of profit in between (or pay off some of whatever our debts are). Guaranteed circa 50 mill now vs. possible £100m if we go up (which is far from guaranteed, with or without him), and the bird in the hand is probably more attractive than the much higher risk attached to going the other way.

I'm afraid I think that's wishful thinking mate. I think the club have known for a long time that he wasn't going to sign a new contract, which is why they started all the media noise about six months ago, bigging up how he was a £100m player and all that nonsense. They knew we'd have to sell this summer, so ever since then it's just been about inflating the asking price as much as possible.

We do need to sell Dibling this summer though, because he isn't signing a new contract and his value will drop off a cliff next summer. So it may not be to Everton, and it may not be for £40m, but he is going to go - the only question now is to whom and for how much. I think we've obviously just had a sniff from someone else, which is why we're feeling confident enough to reject Everton's £40m. We know there's a better offer coming.

Maddison's injury means Spurs are going to need to replace some creativity, so I wonder if we've had a sniff from them which means we can be a bit bolshier over the price, although circa £50m on a teenager would be rather un-Levy-like.

Guardian reporting that the latest (third) offer is a package worth up to £40m, but that we're holding out for nearer £50m and think that other clubs might be about to get involved. It's Ben Fisher who has reported on Saints for a fair while and is usually fairly reliable: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/aug/04/everton-tyler-dibling-kiernan-dewsbury-hall-chelsea-transfer-news If we take them for £50m, then that's us all square for that little twat Adrian Heath as far as I'm concerned. Go on Spors, rinse those dugout-bothering gimps, they're desperate.

Yeah they're different players, I was just wondering out loud if dropping the thick end of £30m on him means they have less to spend on Dibling from a PSR perspective or whatever.

Everton agree £28m deal for Dewsbury-Hall: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c7vlzjd3nero I wonder if that impacts how high they are prepared to go for Dibbers

I see the Rangers fans have already started referring to Max Aarons playing at inverted LB as ‘shoehorn’. You have to laugh really

Why are people going on as though Still obviously already has some misplaced loyalty to Armstrong? Where’s that perception come from, have I missed something?

To cross-post what I said on the general transfer thread: He's not going to sign the contract so literally the only option the club has now is to get much as we can for him this summer, before his value drops off a cliff next year. It's the same situation as it was with Livramento, Ings, JWP. His agent will be telling interested clubs that that's the situation, and encouraging them to bid, knowing that it will mean the agent gets his payday as we'll have to accept something. Everton have started the bidding at £27m, now it's just a question of how far we can push them up, or whether that acts as a trigger for any other interested parties to put in a better bid. He's basically gone at this point. Fortunately, Moyes has done us a massive favour by coming out in the press yesterday and saying how badly they need to get players in and how desperate they are for a winger having been turned down by their top targets, so we should be able to squeeze another £7-10m out of them as a distress purchase now he's shown their hand. Still think someone like Spurs/ Villa/ Fulham might enter the fray though, so we get a nice little bidding war. I think he'll go for a package worth £40m all-in, but couldn't give a fuck who it's to, to be honest. He's not the finished article, I honestly think it would be better for his development if he played a season in the Championship, but he doesn't want to and with the money he can make from a move, who can blame him. So it's so long, thanks for the money and he'd better hope it works out better for him than the six weeks he lasted at Chelsea.

Yeah, plays on the other side but Robinson has consistently looked one of our best players whenever I've seen him in pre-season. Definitely looks like the next cab off the rank, and us being in the Championship could end up being perfect timing for him to get proper first team game time, and also potentially to boss it and make a name for himself if he's as good as he looks like he might be. I look forward to us selling him to Burnley in January.

Their wide options are Dwight McNeill and Illiman Ndiaye, either side of Beto or Youssef Chermiti. He'd improve them instantly, that's why they want to buy him.

Exactly. He's not going to sign the contract so literally the only option the club has now is to get much as we can for him this summer, before his value drops off a cliff next year. It's the same situation as it was with Livramento, Ings, JWP. His agent will be telling interested clubs that that's the situation, and encouraging them to bid, knowing that it will mean the agent gets his payday as we'll have to accept something. Everton have started the bidding at £27m, now it's just a question of how far we can push them up, or whether that acts as a trigger for any other interested parties to put in a better bid. He's basically gone at this point. Fortunately, Moyes has done us a massive favour by coming out in the press yesterday and saying how badly they need to get players in and how desperate they are for a winger having been turned down by their top targets, so we should be able to squeeze another £7-10m out of them as a distress purchase now he's shown their hand. Still think someone like Spurs/ Villa/ Fulham might enter the fray though, so we get a nice little bidding war. I think he'll go for a package worth £40m all-in, but couldn't give a fuck who it's to, to be honest. He's not the finished article, I honestly think it would be better for his development if he played a season in the Championship, but he doesn't want to and with the money he can make from a move, who can blame him. So it's so long, thanks for the money and he'd better hope it works out better for him than the six weeks he lasted at Chelsea.