Everton Transfer Thread 2016

[dholliday]

To be fair though mate, you can't blame people for starting to question the situation.

We are 26 days, yes 26 days from hosting Spurs in the Premier League and we're one of the very few clubs who haven't made a single signing of note.

We were led to believe (not just yourself but plenty of reliable journalists) that we now have the biggest "war chest" in the clubs history, and again, with 26 days to go we've brought a second rate back up goalkeeper.

Now I'm not saying we won't suddenly start spending big and be in good shape by the season's start, but the clock is ticking and I think it's fair enough to say we all expected a lot more by now?

Until we actually make those big signings, people are going to get ever more twitchy and calls of foul play will grow louder.

Things just seem to be taking forever to get anything done. The Martinez sacking took far far too long to come and IMO only eventually happened before the final game due to fan pressure.

It then took an age to get a new manager in which dragged on for weeks on end (I appreciate that Koeman was the one we wanted and we got what we wanted in the end?), we've been hunting for a DOF for god knows how long and to date still haven't managed to fill the position, and at the risk of repeating myself, with only 26 days to go we still haven't made a move in the transfer market bar a back up goalie.

Not great is it?

good post, phooey...obviously the less time new players have time to settle the less they'll (potentially) be ready for the new season.

We've often started seasons poorly and one reason why is because we've often done our transfers in a last-minute panic. Or we haven't done anything of significance at all. Granted this came off once for us in Bobby's first summer, but that appears to be an exception (which proves the rule).

We never learn: doesn't seem to matter if it's Moshiri/Koeman or Moyes/Bobby/Bill.

 

[Westland]

On paper, at the start of last season, our squad was comparable with Liverpool's and much better than Leicester's.

It's got nothing to do with blue tinted specs.

We've had an underperfroming squad, that's a fact. By that, I'm not saying that the team would have been in the top four, or even top six, but we should have finished higher than 11th.

We have got a quality foundation to build on, and that's why we only need a few top-quality additions to take us to where we want to be.

On paper at the start of the season. Was it any different to the end of the season?

Or is it just a case that you didn't know very much about their players and overestimated ours. I think you might be doing the same this year.

8th or 9th. That's were we should have finished.

 

[KUEFC09U2]

It's looking increasingly likely that nothing will be happening until we have the Stones money in. Worrying.

It's not looking like that at all

 

[BlueToff]

This, i dont think we need a back up right back at all with Kenny, Holgate & Browning at the club.
Back up for Rom, playmaker, centre mid, goalkeeper, and replacement for Stones is all we need.
Plus we need to lose Kone, a midfielder or 2, one of either oviedo or garbutt & if we are lucky niasse

I'd say we need to get rid of:

- McGeady
- Kone
- Niasse
- One midfielder, I'd like to say Gibbo but d'you know what if RK thinks he can do a job then that's fine by me. Peopel bang on about Jimmy Mac not being good enough but he very much is, if utilised right. It would also require the player himself to get back to the level we know he can play at though, and if he can't do that then I do think he may be moved on for the right price. A fully fit and raring McCarthy would be a real boost though, IMO.

Then as you say, we may need to ship out one of Garbutt or Oviedo on loan or for a decent fee if there are buyers, but again if RK wants them in the squad it's fine with me.

We've already 'got rid of' four players from the playing staff, though granted three of them had not had any use in the last season, so the last thing we need IMO is a massive overhaul. Just tweaks here and there to ensure that the first-team improves, instead of bringing in squad players, I think that's the key.

And it's pleasing that of all the players we've been linked with so far, the only 'squad' player has been Stekelenburg - a keeper that RK knows and trusts to come in and provide competition. Witsel, Mata etc. would all go straight into the first team, and somebody like Rolan (I know the link was tenuous at best) would be very good back up.

 

[TheHumbleEgg]

And failed at most of those clubs....the Spainish team as you rightly state was at that time one of the biggest in Spain and he would have relegated them. He also failed at Benfica.

Not sure why youre using them as examples.

...dear, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear me.

Find the light Zat, it seems SO very dark where you are.

 

[bluestevon]

I understand that we lack quality striker options behind big Rom but do we actually need another striker? We've got Arouna Kone, Oumar Niasse and Shani Tarashaj. We still have Leandro Rodriguez and Conor McAleny who are on the books but will hopefully be sold this summer.

I can't see the club moving on Niasse just six months after we paid 13.5m for him, we'd have to move on Kone but I understand Tarashaj will have to work his way up into the first team set up through the U/21's.

Yes we do need one as besides lukaku every other option is utterly terrible mate

 

[dholliday]

Fans and officials of other clubs in the Premiership are looking over their shoulders, we're competing with the "big boys" once more.

Frankly Mr Esk, this sounds rather fanciful.

 

[BlueToff]

On paper at the start of the season. Was it any different to the end of the season?

Or is it just a case that you didn't know very much about their players and overestimated ours. I think you might be doing the same this year.

8th or 9th. That's were we should have finished.

No, I'm very realistic.

Our squad last year was good enough to be challenging for top six. We didn't and it's down to bad management and poor form from the players.

We've got a new manager whose main job it is is to get the players we have back to their best, while also ensuring that we get the quality additions that have been needed for a while to make us a permanent fixture in the top six, which we haven't been since 2009.

And on your first point, of course it is different. Nobody expected Leicester to do what they did. At the start of last season, who would you have rather had on the wings? Deulofeu and Mirallas or Mahrez and Albrighton???

 

[willo30]

It's looking increasingly likely that nothing will be happening until we have the Stones money in. Worrying.

I'd agree but not because we have no money, more to do with not getting desperate to sell him.

If we sign a load of players before Stones goes then we will need to sell to balance the books and that will weaken our position.

 

[GerryandthePaceMerchants]

It's not looking like that at all

It's the only explanation I can see for our lack of activity when clubs around us are sealing deals left right and centre.

 

[Zatara]

Your vendetta is becoming increasingly boring to read mate.

Why not actually get your facts straight instead of peddling lies.

Honestly @Westland has had you off on here and yet you come up with tosh to defend your position.

Quite amusing.

 

[BlueToff]

I'd agree but not because we have no money, more to do with not getting desperate to sell him.

If we sign a load of players before Stones goes then we will need to sell to balance the books and that will weaken our position.

Can we also point out that today is the first time RK will have a full squad (bar I think Rom, who is still away for a few days) to assess.

He'll know what he wants, but at this stage bar the obvious (Witsel as a central midfielder and Mata as a playmaker it seems have been our early moves) there's been no rush.

On that note, will be interesting to see how Tarashaj does in pre-season. I think if we ship both Kone and Niasse off (I imagine that's the plan) then we'll only get the one back up striker in, and Tarashaj will provide cover as the third - while I think Rodriguez is also gonna be given a go.

We haven't got European football, so to me that's the best policy to go with. No need to sign shed loads of players who aren't going to play

 

[ijjysmith]

It's not looking like that at all

It is a little bit.

But it could be purely coincidence.

 

[mightymoyes]

Martinez was talked about as a future manager of Barca. There's is some rubbish that is spouted by fans, media and more likely agents.

He would have to win the Europa League and get us into the top 4 to have any chance of managing a top European club. He may just be here for the money. Only time will tell.

by anyone other than himself?

 

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

Looks like no one wants to sign for us.