Everton Transfer Thread 2016

[MartyMcFly]

I think we look pretty poor tbh...

GK -- Stek
RB - Holgate
RCB - Jagielka
LCB - Williams
LB - Baines

-- other than Holgate the rest will be gone in 2 years. Which usually means they are going downhill.

DM - Barry
DM - Gueye

-- Again Barry gone soon

LW - Bolasie
AM - Barkley
RW - Deulofeu
CF- Lukaku

Beyond these 4 we have mirallas and then no quality

We can add in others like Seamus (im just like baines as i cant defend) Coleman and some centre mids but overall nothing special.

We had:
Stones
Holgate
Galloway
Barkley
Deulofeu
Lukaku

And just needed to add the same quality but other than Gana (on first impressions) have failed to do so...Williams is a good signing but short term.

Overall a missed opportunity.

He's bought well for a season or 2 but year in a couple of years we will be faced with having to replace a lot of players like Jags, Williams, Baines and Barry. I hope Rom doesn't lose his value.

However hopefully as a club we will be in a much better position and well on the way to moving into a new stadium.

If we can get a couple more in this window at least we have a good squad for this year and after all fans should really only take one season at a time. e.g. The Martinez project went nowhere.

 

[BlueToff]

I wouldnt describe any of our signings as 'excellent'.

What a strange point of view.

Stekelenburg is proving to be a good signing. We still could do with a keeper but he's at least given us a solid base to build on in the meantime, and is a vast improvement on Howard or Joel.

Gueye has started excellently and looks a perfect fit for how Koeman wants to play (the most important thing when bringing a player into the club - it's the manager, not the fans, who set the style). Hopefully he carries it on. Either way at £7.8m it's already looking a bargain.

Williams - an excellent signing. Fans of other clubs and pundits all agree. We were in desperate need of a defender of his ilk and we've got one.

Bolasie - overpaid, maybe, but in relative terms when Troy Deeney is worth more than £30m, Bolasie at £22.5m is par for the course. Again, offers something different to what we had before and fits the style that Koeman wants to play.

It's not been excellent, but it's been good considering we've sold one player that mattered (but wanted to leave and had done for a year) for a record fee, and look likely to keep Lukaku.

If we add another few quality additions, it has been excellent.

 

[Ashtonian]

Wait and see....i am ultra confident that we will not see many players under 26 play regularly this season.

Lukaku Del Gueye Mori Barkely

half the first team is under 26?

 

[Thomasc]

i get the lack of business until then, especially if we have given players like boliasie ridiculous contracts to get them here. I even get the reset in transfer business after walsh was appointed.

Just things like the lucas deal. Ok we lost out, but if that was one of Walsh's targets and we can't get them over the line then genuinely, how badly are we struggling? At the very least if walsh is identifying some spanish striker that no-one out of the country has heard of before as a potential great signing then i would have hoped we would at least sign them, if we aren't convincing champions league players to join us.

Just kind of leaves us neither here nor there. Can't get the players we ideally want, and struggling to get the players that are meant to be under the radar as well.

Mate, a tad over dramatic for me!

We lost a player to Arsenal, they offer him CL football and he is probably more interested in living in London. I don't think that means we are struggling. There was only ever going to be one winner in that deal if we were both in for him.

Yes I'm aware we allegedly beat them to Mirallas too before you counter with that.

None of us know who we have even made an offer to, yet we are "struggling to get them over the line" in your words. This is pure fiction and you have no fact to back that statement up.

 

[ijjysmith]

Lukaku Del Gueye Mori Barkely

half the first team is under 26?

Gueye is 26 mate.

 

[BlueToff]

i get the lack of business until then, especially if we have given players like boliasie ridiculous contracts to get them here. I even get the reset in transfer business after walsh was appointed.

Just things like the lucas deal. Ok we lost out, but if that was one of Walsh's targets and we can't get them over the line then genuinely, how badly are we struggling? At the very least if walsh is identifying some spanish striker that no-one out of the country has heard of before as a potential great signing then i would have hoped we would at least sign them, if we aren't convincing champions league players to join us.

Just kind of leaves us neither here nor there. Can't get the players we ideally want, and struggling to get the players that are meant to be under the radar as well.

Because Arsenal panicked mate. I'm sorry Ash but it's been well publicised.

The player would rather join Arsenal than us. End of story.

 

[Zatara]

He actually only started 4 games in Serie A, but appeared as a sub (mainly about the hour-mark) in 19 more.

So, in 23 games, he got 9 goals.

That's a goal every 2.5 games. Not bad all things considered for somebody who would primarily be a back-up striker and would offer something different to Lukaku.

And we absolutely aren't Zat, are we, losing ground?

Who have West Ham brought in that is so brilliant? What about S'ton, or Stoke, or the RS?

Even Chelsea have struggled, though Kante is a good signing and Batshuayi is a good player (albeit not a striker who is going to win them a title).

If you finished in the top 10 and dont sign anyone at all...and dont sell anyone...yet see Everton selling Stones and loaning Galloway then youre not going to be too fearful of us with the players we have signed...

 

[BlueToff]

Mate, a tad over dramatic for me!

We lost a player to Arsenal, they offer him CL football and he is probably more interested in living in London. I don't think that means we are struggling. There was only ever going to be one winner in that deal if we were both in for him.

Yes I'm aware we allegedly beat them to Mirallas too before you counter with that.

None of us know who we have even made an offer to, yet we are "struggling to get them over the line" in your words. This is pure fiction and you have no fact to back that statement up.

Thing is though mate and @Ashtonian, Kev came here over there because of the draw of first-team footy.

Perez was faced with being back-up at Everton, or back-up at Arsenal.

In his shoes I know which one he'd chose.

 

[Zatara]

Yes it is. And harsh. Most commentators think Gueye has been terrific Williams a steal Stek a revelation and Bolasie outstanding on his debut. But you who support the club don't like any of them

Its 2 games and yeovil mate

 

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

We'll sign one maximum two more players in the ilk of Williams/Bolasie/Gueye, i.e. marginally better than what we already have but still highly unlikely to move us up more than a place or two in the table.

 

[Durham Toffee]

I wouldnt describe any of our signings as 'excellent'.

What a strange point of view.

Really? Bolasie, Williams and Gueye are all excellent buys for me.

Gueye is even an outstanding purchase.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Stekelenburg is proving to be a good signing. We still could do with a keeper but he's at least given us a solid base to build on in the meantime, and is a vast improvement on Howard or Joel.

Gueye has started excellently and looks a perfect fit for how Koeman wants to play (the most important thing when bringing a player into the club - it's the manager, not the fans, who set the style). Hopefully he carries it on. Either way at £7.8m it's already looking a bargain.

Williams - an excellent signing. Fans of other clubs and pundits all agree. We were in desperate need of a defender of his ilk and we've got one.

Bolasie - overpaid, maybe, but in relative terms when Troy Deeney is worth more than £30m, Bolasie at £22.5m is par for the course. Again, offers something different to what we had before and fits the style that Koeman wants to play.

It's not been excellent, but it's been good considering we've sold one player that mattered (but wanted to leave and had done for a year) for a record fee, and look likely to keep Lukaku.

If we add another few quality additions, it has been excellent.

Actually I agree with this but that's a big IF. At this point I'm just crossing my fingers.

 

[Zatara]

He's bought well for a season or 2 but year in a couple of years we will be faced with having to replace a lot of players like Jags, Williams, Baines and Barry. I hope Rom doesn't lose his value.

However hopefully as a club we will be in a much better position and well on the way to moving into a new stadium.

If we can get a couple more in this window at least we have a good squad for this year and after all fans should really only take one season at a time. e.g. The Martinez project went nowhere.

What happens in 2 years though? Hope the kids come through or spend a fortune.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Thing is though mate and @Ashtonian, Kev came here over there because of the draw of first-team footy.

Perez was faced with being back-up at Everton, or back-up at Arsenal.

In his shoes I know which one he'd chose.

And honestly he probably looks at the player in front of him and says I have a much easier task beating out Giroud for playing time

 

[MartyMcFly]

Lukaku Del Gueye Mori Barkely

half the first team is under 26?

The problem is not the relative age of the players but the fact so many are over 30 and a good bit over 30 plus Mori is not part of the first team. At least I hope he isn't unless Koeman can coach his rashness out of him.