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Everybody wants him. 15 mil then.

Red and Blue Army!

Watching McCarthy run around, break up play and play the simple pass suggests he'd be perfect in the role of feeding the better player a la Graham Roberts and Glenn Hoddle, i.e the minder for the play maker. He played best at Everton acc to some of their fans when he was supporting Gareth Barry, McCarthy's form declined before his injury when Barry went. I reckon it's why Villa want him - to look after Jack Grealish. But it looks like we can get nearer ten than 5 mil if all these others are interested as well. If he thrives elsewhere it might be another Sorloth scenario!

he does have a good range of passing, but he tends to do the worldy crossfield pass better than he does the well-weighted through ball - I like him and a lot of his work can go unnoticed, but he usually does one utterly crap thing per game, an over hit pass when someone is clean through or his charging into one of his own defenders to set up Wolves's second goal in the recent 0-2 - could be a bit of rustiness, but I think some aspects of his technical play are a bit lacking.

we can only sell players other teams actually want to bid for, if we are bringing in new players some will have to move on.

£5m & (prob) 70k a week into the wage budget aint to be sniffed at, especially when kouyate is just as good as him.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

I was not that impressed with him to be honest but I agree that MacArthur is on his last legs and so if really good money comes in then he should go - if not we keep him and offload others.

A player that’s never recovered from the near career ending injury at Everton. Personally don’t rate him at all ....if we can get somebody to take him there is much better about.