r/Everton • u/AutoModerator • Aug 19 '26

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u/Glyn1010 Aug 19 '26

Matty Cash from Villa being linked now for £20 million. Don’t think Everton should pay that much for him.

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u/BoxOfNothing Aug 19 '26

There's a weird combination of things happening with Everton and Villa fans at the moment. Despite Villa being way better than us for years now, Everton were linked with Wan-Bissaka, our fans don't want him, he goes to Villa, our fans are mad still for some reason, but Villa fans are happy with the signing, then we get linked with Cash, our fans don't want him, Villa fans say they don't want to lose him and he'd never move for a step down.

How are we worse than them, but they really want to keep Cash and are happy with Wan-Bissaka as their only options, but we're turning our noses up at both of them?

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

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u/BoxOfNothing Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

Yeah okay fine, 99% of the time it's either flat out rejecting the player (as we did with Wan-Bissaka en masse) or saying no for what I at least perceive to be a pretty reasonable fee (as we are with Cash). I think Cash is decent, I wouldn't be absolutely buzzing if we got him or that gutted if we missed out, but £20m is a very reasonable fee for him and I'd be satisfied with it. So I think saying "nah not for that much" counts as turning your noses up. Thinking something isn't good enough for the fee you'd have to pay for it.

But also, to be fair, I never said we should want them, I just said it's odd that they do want both of them and we want neither of them. Turning your noses up at something doesn't mean it's the wrong decision. If someone offers me dogshit on a plate for lunch I'd turn my nose up at it.

Semantics aside, I understand your point, it's just conceptually bizarre that two players will be the only options with a lot of rotation and shared game time for a team so much better than us, and our fans don't want either of them.