Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[JobForTheMoyes]

One of the reasons we have to play in a low block is the lack of pace in the team. We can’t play in a high line, we don’t have the recovery speed for it. We’re not good at pressing either as we don’t have the legs so get played around. It leaves us with a low block and often ceding possession to most teams in the league.

There’s a logical flaw here. To play a low block you need fast players on the counter to make it effective:

Fact is, counter attacking football is one of the most effective styles around at the moment.

 

[Toffeepot]

We always seem to land in that weird middle ground where we are somehow used to encourage others to hurry up for good signings and simultaneously a potential destination for cast offs and deadwood

 

[HKContractDave]

This has got Guraissy, Boneface and Gykores written all over it. We were linked to all and they went elsewhere and preformed great. We'll end up with Callum Wilson or Mikal Antonio.

Feels like it, and can't we just "sound them out" in July?

 

[jazzy]

He’s their player of the year and highly rated, only signed last summer.

Signed for peanuts ( £2m from Plymouth as he's in the last year of his contract and had just recovered from a serious injury.)

There's a big sell on clause ( 25% I believe) and unlikely he would go somewhere as no2.

Good keeper though.

 

[Tipp blue]

Wolves had Neves and Moutinho as their two in the middle for a number of years and neither one had a yard of pace between them, they were just both very good players. Way too much is made of the pace thing at times imo.

You can carry a few players with a lack of pace. but you cant have 7-8 players without it, like we have.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

We always seem to land in that weird middle ground where we are somehow used to encourage others to hurry up for good signings and simultaneously a potential destination for cast offs and deadwood

Why us?

Of all the teams in Europe.

Not half odd.

 

[NeilMorepies]

Has Dithering Dave “run the rule” over anyone yet?
Or are we still at the “tracking” or “interested in” stage?

 

[Saint Domingo]

There’s a logical flaw here. To play a low block you need fast players on the counter to make it effective:

Fact is, counter attacking football is one of the most effective styles around at the moment.

Exactly, which we don’t have, hence the sight of Harrison et al botching 4 on 2 vs City.

So our tactical options are limited to playing our way slowly up the pitch (difficult as our players aren’t very good in the ball) or playing direct long ball and working set pieces. All of which results in us being a bottom half team.

More pace in more positions gives the manager more options.

 

[Tipp blue]

They pay him almost 15 million pounds a season in wages, so it would be a massive fee for a player on a rapid downwards trajectory who turns 30 at the start of the new season. Like Rashford and Sancho for United, I think he's stuck at City because nobody else comes close to matching his wages.

He's not stuck at City if he wants to play, he's only stuck at City if he's a greedy git who wont play for less than 300K a week, If he wants to play he can do that for 75K a week.

 

[Simon Buttle]

You can carry a few players with a lack of pace. but you cant have 7-8 players without it, like we have.

Oh I agree, just think people bang on a bit too much about it. It's useful for certain positions but not every player needs it imo.

 

[Toffeepot]

Why us?

Of all the teams in Europe.

Not half odd.

Must be because we are a big legacy club in an enduring bad patch

It has to change soon, surely.

One day we'll see 'Man Utd are desperate to hold onto player X as agent pushes big move to Everton'

I can feel it!

 

[caliblue]

One of the reasons we have to play in a low block is the lack of pace in the team. We can’t play in a high line, we don’t have the recovery speed for it. We’re not good at pressing either as we don’t have the legs so get played around. It leaves us with a low block and often ceding possession to most teams in the league.

None of this makes sense. Branthwaite has elite pace. Pickford is coached into having a much more defensive starting position and is a lot more offensive for the national team. Everton defending in a low block is a choice and no recruitment will change that.

Moyes tried and failed miserably when he tried to play modern football at West Ham. They spent a ton of money but had to reverse back to Moyes old style to avoid relegation. Their average possession numbers ended up being similar to Everton's this season.

I like Moyes and he has done well, but no one here can convince me that he his less of a dinosaur in 2025 than what Allardyce was in 2018.

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

Would you rather have a foot for a cock, or a cock for a foot?

Sign some players Everton.

 

[Toffeepot]

None of this makes sense. Branthwaite has elite pace. Pickford is coached into having a much more defensive starting position and is a lot more offensive for the national team. Everton defending in a low block is a choice and no recruitment will change that.

Moyes tried and failed miserably when he tried to play modern football at West Ham. They spent a ton of money but had to reverse back to Moyes old style to avoid relegation. Their average possession numbers ended up being similar to Everton's this season.

I like Moyes and he has done well, but no one here can convince me that he his less of a dinosaur in 2025 than what Allardyce was in 2018.

Moyes had West Ham playing some quality counter attacking football at times

I'm happy with us not being camped on the oppositions 18 yard box like some teams as long as we can make it count going the other direction.

Dyche and Allardyce comparison with Moyes begins and ends with possession. Moyes is a far better manager

 

[Bristol Blue]

Signed for peanuts ( £2m from Plymouth as he's in the last year of his contract and had just recovered from a serious injury.)

There's a big sell on clause ( 25% I believe) and unlikely he would go somewhere as no2.

Good keeper though.

Yeah looks a very good keeper from the times I saw him play last season. But agree, can’t see him leaving to be a back up keeper. If the Burnley keeper moves on, can see him going there.