The deal is £23.5 million or £24 million. Fellaini apparently forfeited £4 million, though according to Tony Barret, it's £2 million. Everton obviously added the "forfeited" amount to overall fee.
Marouane Fellaini | 2013/14 Performances
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Nani, Kagawa, Carrick, Cleverley, Zaha, Rooney, Young, Anderson. Even the youngsters. What we've missed more than anything was someone to stop us from been overpowered.
Nani, Rooney and Kag are the only players I'd class in our team as full on creative.
RvP used to be but he plays so high up now that it's basically been drilled out of him.
RvP used to be but he plays so high up now that it's basically been drilled out of him.
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Anyone already got one of these?
Their has to be a guy somewhere in Manchester who bought around 5000 of them before the transfer went through absolutely bricking it on Monday night.
Silly Man Utd.
The story about United only paying 23.5M seems not to be true. According to Everton's director of communications, the club is paying the full 27.5M
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For those asking: No Felli did NOT pay £4M of the transfer fee! The buying Club will pay £27.5M
ALAN MYERS
For those asking: No Felli did NOT pay £4M of the transfer fee! The buying Club will pay £27.5M
United trying to save face or press making stuff up?
No ones saying that he paid anything, anyway 
Everton are so fecking small time, possibly the least professional club I can ever remember us dealing with. Not that we've been saints either, but jesus.
Everton are so fecking small time, possibly the least professional club I can ever remember us dealing with. Not that we've been saints either, but jesus.
Aye, they've been saying a lot of things on this purely out of spite really.
Kenwright, who expressed his outrage and disappointment over Moyes going in for his old players, also said our bid for Baines and Fellaini was "derisory". Martinez then proceeded to bid for McCarthy, one of his old players, at a valuation which Whelan said was "staggering". Nice one Everton.
No ones saying that he paid anything, anyway
Everton are so fecking small time, possibly the least professional club I can ever remember us dealing with. Not that we've been saints either, but jesus.
That's a bit harsh, they were just trying to get the best deal for their player and want to clarify the deal that they got. The reality is that they were professional enough to sell Fellaini for an excessive fee and managed to get a potentially more talented midfielder, bolstered their squad and got a brilliantly gifted striker on loan while making a significant profit.
They weren't really 'professional', basically everything they did was unprofessional. It worked for them, of course, but I don't really like seeing any clubs doing business by slagging people off in public, which they did constantly.
It's like a reverse Real Madrid, they get players by being massive dicks about it and Everton get them by doing the same thing. Spurs probably provided the best example of a club being professional about selling a player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marouane_Fellaini
An Everton fan at work pointed out something very interesting on here:
"In November 2011 he signed a new five-year contract with the club He finished the season having won the most tackles, aerial duels and made more passes than anyone else at the club. He won the second highest number of tackles in the league and won possession of the ball 190 times, the most out of any player."
"Fellaini was banned for three matches by the Football Association on 17 December 2012 after headbutting Ryan Shawcross during a game against Stoke, an incident missed by the match officials at the time. The same month he was ranked as number 60 in The 100 best footballers in the world by The Guardian."
This could truly be an underrated signing! Career goals 44 in 261, a decent return 1 in 6. A reasonable midfielder return is typically considered 1 in 10.
I've not watched enough of him, but it feels like he'll be very useful to us, breaking up play giving our wingers and strikers a chance to shine. Getting in a few goals when we are struggling to break through. His strength and height will cause a huge distraction in the box and provide cover in defence.
I'm looking forward to him playing for us.
An Everton fan at work pointed out something very interesting on here:
"In November 2011 he signed a new five-year contract with the club He finished the season having won the most tackles, aerial duels and made more passes than anyone else at the club. He won the second highest number of tackles in the league and won possession of the ball 190 times, the most out of any player."
"Fellaini was banned for three matches by the Football Association on 17 December 2012 after headbutting Ryan Shawcross during a game against Stoke, an incident missed by the match officials at the time. The same month he was ranked as number 60 in The 100 best footballers in the world by The Guardian."
This could truly be an underrated signing! Career goals 44 in 261, a decent return 1 in 6. A reasonable midfielder return is typically considered 1 in 10.
I've not watched enough of him, but it feels like he'll be very useful to us, breaking up play giving our wingers and strikers a chance to shine. Getting in a few goals when we are struggling to break through. His strength and height will cause a huge distraction in the box and provide cover in defence.
I'm looking forward to him playing for us.
So essentially Everton are £8m better off? £4m bonus waived. £4m on top of the original release clause.
I hope to god United didnt give him a £4m signing on fee!
I hope to god United didnt give him a £4m signing on fee!
Fellaini edited the page himself.
Depends. There are a few ways you can be creative and if you include them all we have more than that, Valencia for example has been getting more assists than Nani and when hes on form he creates chance after chance fizzing the ball across the box, despite not being what most would call a 'creative' player
No one said he is paying it. The fact he placed a transfer request in showed he wavered his 4m of bonus'.
The deal is worth 27.5m to Everton
According to that, it's worth 27.5m because we're paying them 27.5m.
I wouldn't pay too much attention. Just trying to make United look silly. The deal only happened when Fellaini waved his fees and placed a transfer request. Why else would that have been the case. United and Everton couldn't agree so he took it into his own hands.
I know what the papers are saying, but this is Everton categorically stating that Manchester United paid them £27.5m, whether Fellaini also gave up £4m in loyalty bonuses in addition to us paying the £27.5m I have no idea.
When?
It's the most reliable source we've got. If United want to quit it with the "undisclosed" nonsense we might be able to get their side, but right now it seems that we paid the full whack.
Really, really excited to have him on board
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Please don't tell me that the player next to Fellaini is meant to be Ozil?
Edit: Number seems to be wrong on Fellaini's shorts too.
Edit: Number seems to be wrong on Fellaini's shorts too.
Kagawa Rooney and Fellaini on the same pitch? That's just not realistic. There's only room for one number 10.
He is basically Makelele, not a number ten.
He will play the no 10 role for us the odd time. When the squad is rotated and when we are playing tricky away fixtures. I can see Fellaini starting in the No10 in difficult Euros away.
Moyes even said that he is an option for us further up the pitch on Monday.
If my theory is right we will see it against the likes of City. I predict Moyes will start him their.
Fake, Kagawa is playing.
David Moyes knows him inside out. If he think he can do a job in central midfield or occasionally behind the striker then that's what will happen. Anyway, it's a long season and he's not going to pull on a United shirt for at least 10 days.
It's just speculation at the moment, we can't really say what he will and won't do.
All I can say is based on last seasons numbers, we have four players who scored at least 10 PL goals on their own last season (RVP, Rooney, Hernandez and Fellaini). If we can play him next to Carrick and still get 7 or 8 goals from him, it'll be massive as it'll take the burden off RVP.
It's just speculation at the moment, we can't really say what he will and won't do.
All I can say is based on last seasons numbers, we have four players who scored at least 10 PL goals on their own last season (RVP, Rooney, Hernandez and Fellaini). If we can play him next to Carrick and still get 7 or 8 goals from him, it'll be massive as it'll take the burden off RVP.
And where the feck is Sagna going in the middle of the pitch?
Just don't play him as a no.10. Please.
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