Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[bitterbloo157]

There should be a Football player / agent version on Tinder that DoF and Managers - could filter and search on:

For example CM looking to move - Moyes could swipe right on Dougie Luiz.

It could be faster and save all the heartache of the chess games currently involved for an ultimate heartbreak

 

[allen]

We want to sign good players not just bodies. Expectations are irrelevant to whether competency. No surgeon expects their patient to die in surgery but they sometimes do and it isn’t always a result of incompetence.

Terrible analogy!

It's more that would-be patients don't trust us to operate on them.

We're not killing them!

 

[hetion]

It is darkly quite funny that Moyes is so well suited to Everton in so many ways, but we have such a pessimistic fanbase and he is also probably the single most outwardly pessimistic top level manager around. He's always been like this and will never change but it still never fails to send us all into fits

 

[danny147]

Terrible analogy!

It's more that would-be patients don't trust us to operate on them.

We're not killing them!

The club usually kills my spirit within about 30 mins of our first league game if that counts mate

 

[Curtis]

Im probably the biggest Moyes fan boy on here over the years - but i think his comments over the state of play in the transfer window are really unhelpful for the club - im really disappointed in him.

There are headline stories this morning titled:

Moyes: Really good players have turned Everton down this summer.​

If you are a good player and deciding whether to join us or not and manager is saying really good players dont want to or havent decided - are you more or less likely to join.

If i was the recruitment team id be livid.

Its poor, very poor and im surprised and disappointed at him.

I definitely understand why you took affront to the comments as it appears to lend to the old plucky underdog Everton narrative, but there's further context to his comments where In my opinion it doesn't sound as bad. As he highlighting the advantage that clubs participating in European tournaments have over others

"The club are trying really hard to get the players I want and I’ve found it really difficult because in my last few years (in his previous job at West Ham United), I’ve been involved in European competition. It’s a bit easier when you’re a club in Europe. You get a better chance of attracting a lot of players. We’ve been in for a lot of really good players. Unfortunately, a lot them have said no at the moment.”

“We’re up against it,” Moyes says. “If we’re going for players, we’re not going for bad players. Our attraction is maybe to some younger ones who are up and coming, or also those from lower leagues. In those cases, it is not a problem. But if you’re trying to take players who have had European experience or playing at the top end, they’re the ones where the ones we will find it harder to attract.

“We need them to want to come. They have to come and buy in a wee bit to what Everton have got, the culture here. There’s a strong, hard-working ethic and we want to build on it and bring in more quality.

 

[MACCA75]

There should be a Football player / agent version on Tinder that DoF and Managers - could filter and search on:

For example CM looking to move - Moyes could swipe right on Dougie Luiz.

It could be faster and save all the heartache of the chess games currently involved for an ultimate heartbreak

Just logged on to the Everton account;

‘You have no new matches’

 

[Harryflashman]

Just logged on to the Everton account;

‘You have no new matches’

Knowing our luck we’ll get catfished by some bot with an isak profile pic

 

[bluestevon]

Just logged on to the Everton account;

‘You have no new matches’

How'd we have written our bio.

Old lady, looked good 40 years ago,

 

[Neiler]

I definitely understand why you took affront to the comments as it appears to lend to the old plucky underdog Everton narrative, but there's further context to his comments where In my opinion it doesn't sound as bad. As he highlighting the advantage that clubs in Europe have over others

"The club are trying really hard to get the players I want and I’ve found it really difficult because in my last few years (in his previous job at West Ham United), I’ve been involved in European competition. It’s a bit easier when you’re a club in Europe. You get a better chance of attracting a lot of players. We’ve been in for a lot of really good players. Unfortunately, a lot them have said no at the moment.”

I read the whole peice mate, I’m not personally affronted, indeed I’ve been saying exactly what he said to the media on here for weeks. I’m not bothered by plucky Everton or anything like that. The job at hand is recruitment and has he helped or hindered that here - for me hindered!

What I’m saying is what he said was unnessecary and unhelpful to do it publicly. Moyes didn’t come down in the last shower, he knows 90% of an interview is bumpf and journos are looking for the headline and not the context. If he’s let this slip it’s poor attention to detail.

He gave the headline “Good players don’t want to sign for Everton”.

It’s just not helpful or necessary.

 

[toffee82]

Im probably the biggest Moyes fan boy on here over the years - but i think his comments over the state of play in the transfer window are really unhelpful for the club - im really disappointed in him.

There are headline stories this morning titled:

Moyes: Really good players have turned Everton down this summer.​

If you are a good player and deciding whether to join us or not and manager is saying really good players dont want to or havent decided - are you more or less likely to join.

If i was the recruitment team id be livid.

Its poor, very poor and im surprised and disappointed at him.

It's like going up to a girl at 10 to 2 and saying "all the fit birds have knocked me back. You'll do and I'll even buy you half a snakebite"

 

[GoldenToffee]

Everton have traditionally been against paying agents what they believe to be excessive fees. While laudable (because nobody likes seeing those utter snakes get rich for the next-to-nothing work they do), I can't help but think of how many quality players we've lost out on over the years.

As the days pass, Everton's transfer strategy is clearly going to have to change.

You've got Moyes and even senior players publicly saying the squad is in no fit state and they need a handful of new players at a minimum to even be ready to start the season, then you have the CEO Kinnear stating everything is going to plan and judge the transfers at the end of the window.

It's clear we're getting rejected right, left and centre by our first options—Tete, Delap, Fofana just three that immediately spring to mind.

Three weeks until the first game and the manager isn't even able to field a proper starting XI in friendly games.

Nobody wants to see the club get ripped off or overspending, but the season is clearly is huge jeopardy right now because obviously they can't send this squad into the opening games and just hope that the market opens up for us in the final few weeks (which is what Kinnear is indicating will happen), not when we not only need squad options but also several players to come directly into the starting XI.

The window has been a shambles so far and I can only imagine how Moyes, his coaching staff and likely most of the players are feeling: Three consecutive seasons of abysmal football and several tight relegation battles, and now they've seen a load of their teammates leave and a decimated squad left behind. Morale is probably shot behind the scenes.

Now is the time to get serious and make offers that still actually lead to players joining us. Look how quickly the likes of Liverpool are moving. Sunderland, Leeds, they've both dramatically improved their squads with loads of decent players.

I cannot believe what has (or rather, hasn't) happened this window when it should have been out with the old (both in terms of players and directors), and in with the new.

 

[bluestevon]

It's like going up to a girl at 10 to 2 and saying "all the fit birds have knocked me back. You'll do and I'll even buy you half a snakebite"

We aren't even shelling out for a shot of black in it....

 

[Curtis]

I read the whole peice mate, I’m not personally affronted, indeed I’ve been saying exactly what he said to the media on here for weeks. I’m not bothered by plucky Everton or anything like that. The job at hand is recruitment has he helped or hindered that here - for
Me hindered!

What I’m saying is what he said was unnessecary and unhelpful to do it publicly. Moyes didn’t come down in the last shower, he knows 90% of an interview is bumpf and journos are looking for the headline and not the context. If he’s let this slip it’s poor attention to detail.

He gave the headline “Good players don’t want to sign for Everton”.

It’s just lot helpful or necessary.

I Agree that line isn't the best for optics ,a little sloppy on his part , he should be a little more media savvy . Thanks for the clarification.

 

[NorthernBlue]

I’ll say it again. It’s been disappointing in terms of results but that doesn’t imply lack of effort, poor strategy or incompetence. You’re behaving like a spoilt child who doesn’t get his way.

No im not I’m calling out a crap performance so far from those involved. You are getting all upset by my opinion like a little club shill. Each to their own.

 

[stretford blue]

I definitely understand why you took affront to the comments as it appears to lend to the old plucky underdog Everton narrative, but there's further context to his comments where In my opinion it doesn't sound as bad. As he highlighting the advantage that clubs participating in European tournaments have over others

"The club are trying really hard to get the players I want and I’ve found it really difficult because in my last few years (in his previous job at West Ham United), I’ve been involved in European competition. It’s a bit easier when you’re a club in Europe. You get a better chance of attracting a lot of players. We’ve been in for a lot of really good players. Unfortunately, a lot them have said no at the moment.”

“We’re up against it,” Moyes says. “If we’re going for players, we’re not going for bad players. Our attraction is maybe to some younger ones who are up and coming, or also those from lower leagues. In those cases, it is not a problem. But if you’re trying to take players who have had European experience or playing at the top end, they’re the ones where the ones we will find it harder to attract.

“We need them to want to come. They have to come and buy in a wee bit to what Everton have got, the culture here. There’s a strong, hard-working ethic and we want to build on it and bring in more quality.

I think it's a pretty honest and realistic summary of the current position we are in regarding recruitment it's probably we don't have Europe but we will pay stupid money to compensate for no Europe which is definitely not want we want to be doing again .