7. Nikica Jelavic - Ranging in on Goal

Everton have opened talks with Rangers in a bid to sign Nikica Jelavic before the transfer window closes on Tuesday.

West Ham had a £7m offer for the 26-year-old Croatian international striker rejected - now Everton boss David Moyes has made his move.

Rangers are understood to want £8m for Jelavic, who missed Saturday's 4-0 win against Hibernian because of illness

Everton have a limited transfer budget but sold Diniyar Bilyaletdinov to Spartak Moscow for £5m.

However, the Toffees are unlikely to meet Rangers' full asking price for Jelavic.

Talks are ongoing in an attempt to agree a deal, with Everton hoping Rangers may drop the price to what the Goodison Park club will regard as a more realistic valuation.

So is this a crap bid so they can say after that they tried ???

hairy cataract wrote:

Armchair Evertonian wrote:

Started career at Hajduk Split, scoring eight goals in 41 games
After five years he left for Belgian side S.V. Zulte Waregem where he scored three goals in 25 games in one season at the club
He then spent three seasons at Rapid Vienna, scoring 40 goals in 93 matches
In August 2010 he joined Rangers for £4m and has since netted 36 goals in 55 matches
Has 17 caps for Croatia and two goals

Not exactly inspiring is it? I hope Moyes knows what he is doing.

Can he be any worse than what we've got though? At least it gives us a glimmer of hope and excitement, which will probably be dashed into a million pieces when we see the useless cunt play....

But we know we haven't the money to spend on a Defoe or even a Bent (not Marcus!). So any signing in our limited budget is going to be a gamble. If they were a proven talent, they would already be in a top 6 team.

Watched a bit of Rangers v St Johnstone a week or two ago (for some reason we have ESPN on our telly at the moment) and he was being talked about as a possible transfer to the premier league. They asked the pundit if he thought he was up to it and he just said 'No' - Not a club in the top half anyways. I watched him and I can't say I saw anything worth more than about £1.5 million. But the standard of footy up there is probably the worst it's been in some years. It was awful to watch, and I do enjoy watching football. I hope we don't get him, we need another creative midfielder and we've got enough rubbish strikers who can't score as it is. - Too much of nothing.

twitter says initial fee of 3.5
and Nev has tweeted 'Fingers Crossed',

also Davie Wier was apparently at the game Friday. inside info?

hairy cataract wrote:

Armchair Evertonian wrote:

Started career at Hajduk Split, scoring eight goals in 41 games
After five years he left for Belgian side S.V. Zulte Waregem where he scored three goals in 25 games in one season at the club
He then spent three seasons at Rapid Vienna, scoring 40 goals in 93 matches
In August 2010 he joined Rangers for £4m and has since netted 36 goals in 55 matches
Has 17 caps for Croatia and two goals

Not exactly inspiring is it? I hope Moyes knows what he is doing.

Can he be any worse than what we've got though? At least it gives us a glimmer of hope and excitement, which will probably be dashed into a million pieces when we see the useless cunt play....

If he's half as good as Gibson he'll be pretty shit really.

mindyerho? wrote:twitter says initial fee of 3.5
and Nev has tweeted 'Fingers Crossed',

also Davie Wier was apparently at the game Friday. inside info?

Maybe we can pay £3.5m up front, falling by £250k for every game he doesn't score in? That way he'd be a free transfer

I've decided that I'm not very excited about his one.

Im not sure about this one either. I saw the youtube video as well and to be honest what caught my eye most was the shocking defending! For pretty much every goal he's scores he has no one anywhere near him. He simply wont get that time and space in the Premier League so Im not convinced he'll score many goals.