Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

[hallamblue]

Delap is a proper Everton number 9...

Would love it to happen but I think that would be very hard to get that one over the line.

City have a buy back clause, which is no doubt about £40 million. They'll probably exercise it and then offer him out for £70 million and Chelsea will buy him!

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

Given our tiny squad for next season it wouldn't surprise me one bit if he came in. Tidy enough player and a decent work ethic.

Filling the squad and inflating the wage bill with second rate players just to fill a hole is how we fail to progress upwards in the first place.

 

[Verbal Kint]

The pressure is definitely eased as regards incomings now.... Might not be popular opinion but I think we see very little incomings now. No need to push the panic button.

 

[hallamblue]

Filling the squad and inflating the wage bill with second rate players just to fill a hole is how we fail to progress upwards in the first place.

Josh Brownhill won't be inflating the wage bill, we'd pay him about half of what we're paying most of our out of contract players.

 

[Tramps_mate]

Seems to be a lot of players we were linked to are now going elsewhere..

Gotta agree with @davek on this one. I think now relegation is all but staved off, they may have taken the foot off the transfer accelerator!

Save the money for the summers rebuild job!

 

[PhilRegan]

I'm more concerned about Moyes getting injured.

I've seen weirder things to be fair.

 

[CielosGrises]

'could consider' - I guess we could...and then consider somebody else.

 

[dixienormous]

He made his money from a massive pyramid scheme.



I’ll get me coat…

Mate stop with the crappy puns. You're making an Asp of yourself

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

Josh Brownhill won't be inflating the wage bill, we'd pay him about half of what we're paying most of our out of contract players.

He would still be absorbing a portion of our available finance.
Being a ‘tidy’ player with a good ‘work ethic’ is usually indicative of a second rate player who neither improves nor advances the team.
We really need to stop filling the squad with such limited players or we will never progress.

 

[hallamblue]

'could consider' - I guess we could...and then consider somebody else.

The issue we have is that we can pay someone like Brownhill £40k a week to come in and fill a squad position, or we can try and renew the contract of somebody on £80k a week and tell them to take a 50% wage cut. They'll either tell us where to get off and leave, or stay and be demotivated. It's a really difficult situation for the DOF and manager in the summer.

 

[14_dollars]

Given our tiny squad for next season it wouldn't surprise me one bit if he came in. Tidy enough player and a decent work ethic.

The last thing we should do is fill the squad with journeymen.

We can now afford to be thoughtful in the market after the recent results and not buy dross just to increase the numbers.

 

[CairnsToffee]

Josh Brownhill was a Dyche target from the Burnley connection, file under utter garbage, wasting everyone’s time!

 

[hallamblue]

He would still be absorbing a portion of our available finance.
Being a ‘tidy’ player with a good ‘work ethic’ is usually indicative of a second rate player who neither improves nor advances the team.
We really need to stop filling the squad with such limited players or we will never progress.

We need to fill the squad with someone, we've only got about 8 players left at the end of the season.

 

[hallamblue]

The last thing we should do is fill the squad with journeymen.

We can now afford to be thoughtful in the market after the recent results and not buy dross just to increase the numbers.

He's free we wouldn't be buying him. We can afford to buy 3 or 4 good players, and then we either need to get free transfers in or try and renegotiate lower wages with existing players.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Alcaraz came from utterly nowhere, so I’m expecting something else to come out the blue either tonight or as the day goes on tomorrow