🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ross Barkley

[robsblubot 3,595]

Gareth Fucking Barry would be more useful in our midfield than Barkley right now. Give him 5 years of first team football at Everton and we'll see what the dealio is.

in 5 years Barkley will cost around 50m. That's what Arsenal have learned about English talent - gotta buy them young.

Barkley looks like the real deal as youngsters go. Predicting his development is obviously very difficult though.

[Pizy 18,907]

He'll be an excellent player soon enough. He's probably the young English player Jose alluded to at the close of the window.

United probably just ruined any shot we'd have had if we moved for him when they paid that ludicrous sum for Fellaini. Everton would probably demand £30m+ next summer if they'd even consider letting him go at all.

I see him as an awesome, super athletic box-to-box in the future like Ramires rather than an AM.

[communicate 2,703]

He'll be an excellent player soon enough. He's probably the young English player Jose alluded to at the close of the window.

United probably just ruined any shot we'd have had if we moved for him when they paid that ludicrous sum for Fellaini. Everton would probably demand £30m+ next summer if they'd even consider letting him go at all.

I see him as an awesome, super athletic box-to-box in the future like Ramires rather than an AM.

His game is far too uncontrolled for a cm. I can't predict the future but I think he will be a am.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

He's the Lukaku of AMs. Very young, big, strong, very direct but still raw. Everton will def be fun to watch this year. <br />You'd have to say though they should play counter attack instead of possession with the kind of attackers they have.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

@ChelsTransfer: Strong rumour going about that #EFCprice of a season long loan for Lukaku- Barkley or Baines to #CFC in 2014

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Barkley and Shaw would be soo nice to have english players in next years, but only if they get enough play time and proper development. If Barkley is typical Cam and not CM ala Wilshere, then he is not required as we already have plenty of Cams.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

@ChelsTransfer: Strong rumour going about that #EFCprice of a season long loan for Lukaku- Barkley or Baines to #CFC in 2014

haha. I wish people wouldn't quote random twitter crap where it's just some idiot fantasizing about nonsense. The price of any loan is never going to be 10M-30M pounds. Barkley looks like a good young attacking midfielder but we have chosen our attacking midfielders, don't need anymore and really we have too many as is. You can't buy everyone you think is going to be great.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

If we hadnt have enough CAMs alredy, Barkley would be great. English and quite talented. But we already have lot of CAMs and I see no point of getting him.

However I sense Mou will buy him sooner or later and sell half of Chelsea attackers because of that,including Mata, Kdb, Moses, Marin etc...just to have "next Lampard" in Barkley.

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

I remember Martinez saying he believes he could be as good as an 8 as he is as a 10 bu I don't know, he could probably but he'd be the box to box player as opposed to the one who controls the tempo. This ship sailed a while ago.

[kobematabryant 400]

If Everton don't sell him to us, I swear.....considering we gave them Lukaku for this season, one of the best strikers in EPL.

[haranr 485]

SIGN SIGN NOW IN JANUARY!!! THE KID IS BRILLIANT WE MUST SIGN. FANTASTIC PLAYER

[mediator 2,026]

The question is "Can he play in the pivot?"

[The Skipper 20,609]

SIGN SIGN NOW IN JANUARY!!! THE KID IS BRILLIANT WE MUST SIGN. FANTASTIC PLAYER

And play him ahead of Mata, Oscar, Willian and KDB?

[ZanSnake 1,211]

Kid is talented, but it's the same old problem if we signed him - another attacking midfielder vying with others for one spot behind a striker that doesn't do what they should.

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

SIGN SIGN NOW IN JANUARY!!! THE KID IS BRILLIANT WE MUST SIGN. FANTASTIC PLAYER

IKR!!! HES JUST WHAT OUR TEAM NEEDS AND PLUS HES ENGLISH SO THATS A DOUBLE WIN!!! lol

[Blue Gino 377]

I like Barkley a lot. Incredible work rate and movement off the ball. I'd take him over any of the other rumored transfer targets. He's young and some call unpredictable but so are most of Chelsea's loanees who are nowhere near making the impact Barkley could in midfield. Ake is with the youth squad and Chalobah is riding the bench. Who else is there? Loftus-Cheek who will need two or more seasons on loan just like Ake? Mata is most likely gone and probably Luiz so that'll help fund what will likely be a crazy price tag in the summer.

[Hamilton 2,120]

Are there any rumours?

[BlueLyon 9,359]

He has very good playmaking abilities, whenever I watched him, he was amazing with commanding Everton's attack. Something Mata, Oscar, Willian seem to struggle. He plays for the team, organizing attacks in very effective way.

But the main reason I like him is because he is english. Not many good english talent out there and we will lack some english quality as soon as Lamps, Cole and Terry retire.

My long term wish is that Caulker, Shaw and Barkley replace our legends, but that is a very long shot and will hardly come true due to all players we already have.

[Blue Warrior 109]

Inflated price and not consistent enough to make the grade. Always prefer English players, Everton are under no pressure to sell and they have all the advantages.