Summer 2018 Transfer Window

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Neiler said:
It’s not like people enjoy saying there are significant limits on spending or there will be a modest outlay, if people look at the most basic figures in the accounts, turnover, liabilities and wage projections there is no cash flow. That’s all lads are pointing out. Many have pointed out before the season ended and illustrated the figures early doors. It’s just the reality.

There will be a limited spend based on creative accounting in my opinion, if we have a net spend of 15-25 mill we are doing very well, anymore and I’d be worried, without issuing more shares.

No one enjoys the above, but there is little point fooling yourself that we’re going to drop 80 mill net on new players as someone predicted today.

There is very little cash in the buisness.
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This really.

I mean I spent the start of the window dreaming that we had proper dough still, but the more you dig into things the bleaker it gets.

We got a massive cash injection last Summer which we pretty much spent on paying off Managers and the rest probably on Agents fees.

The Sky money increase has pretty much been eaten up by wages and the business makes very little money elsewhere, we are still a club with a massive turnover, but sadly we pushed close to our limit last summer and now we have to walk a little carefully.

All is not lost at all, we have "assets" to sell, we have players we can loan out to offset the wage bill and we clearly have un-ideal lines of credit if we so desire, but the most important thing is to fix the most basic thing in business and thats to make the business profitable and sustainable or at the very least make it a little healthier.

So whilst we are not cap in hand praying that United win trophies so we can get more from the add ons, the heady days of last summer are very much over, basically we banged the brass, we got the 3 for fiddys and now its time to look at our bank statement and promise you will stay in for a few weeks.
 
davek said:
The club's skint.

It's AUSTERITY EVERTON.

Stop trying to muddy the waters. The club had cash last summer because we sold off the family silver. That was burnt by Koeman. He's left us immovable tat that we'll struggle to get rid of, so we are where we are: doing no business.

Why are you attempting to prop up this carpet bagger?
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Screw you dave, im sticking with this :

Just under 100m, sales will help, but overall we will spend more this window than we did last summer.
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/marco-silva.103709/page-315#post-6334131

And this :

Im going for 6 Ins, a mixture of ballers and yoots, 18 Out, a mixture of loans, sales and some yoots released.
 

MarcelsGoat said:
This really.

I mean I spent the start of the window dreaming that we had proper dough still, but the more you dig into things the bleaker it gets.

We got a massive cash injection last Summer which we pretty much spent on paying off Managers and the rest probably on Agents fees.

The Sky money increase has pretty much been eaten up by wages and the business makes very little money elsewhere, we are still a club with a massive turnover, but sadly we pushed close to our limit last summer and now we have to walk a little carefully.

All is not lost at all, we have "assets" to sell, we have players we can loan out to offset the wage bill and we clearly have un-ideal lines of credit if we so desire, but the most important thing is to fix the most basic thing in business and thats to make the business profitable and sustainable or at the very least make it a little healthier.

So whilst we are not cap in hand praying that United win trophies so we can get more from the add ons, the heady days of last summer are very much over, basically we banged the brass, we got the 3 for fiddys and now its time to look at our bank statement and promise you will stay in for a few weeks.
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Wow that makes for grim reading.

I’d actually prefer us not to spend money after seeing that.
 

If a genie popped out of a lamp, telling you that you could wipe THREE from the current squad off the book with no financial penalty... Which three would you choose?
 
MarcelsGoat said:
but the most important thing is to fix the most basic thing in business and thats to make the business profitable and sustainable or at the very least make it a little healthier.
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This, but we should have been doing it for years, and we're only just now catching on. How many Yanks have we had, never once capitalised on them. Tim Cahill is a legend Down Under, bet you'd struggle to pick up a kit in a store with his name on though, in his day, as you would in Birmingham, or Manchester, or wherever. We're just discovering all of this, which is hugely disappointing considering Bob from Bootle, and Shaz from Sheil road 'kin know it.
 
You don't become a perennial UCL contender or Premier League challenger in two transfer windows. Everton have, through their own choices of hiring and firing, dug themselves a deeper hole to climb out of to become a challenger. Bidness is bidness. Brands has proven he can do good business. Silva? TBD. Moshiri is a money man so he's all about fixing the bottom line ASAP.

Even Man City, with all their oil money billions, took a few years to win a title. Look for progress. If you don't see it by the end of the year, then complain away. As for now, why not just enjoy a new regime and some actual hope?
 

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