Sadly doesn’t even show the sales. There’s huge fees in there received for Lukaku Stones Gueye and even decent fees for Barkley and Kean.
We are just nowhere near the numbers required to consistently challenge the top 6.
I believe weve spent about £250mil net in 6 summer windows. Thats about £41.6mil a year on average.
There is no way you can catch the top 4 spending that kind of money -- unless you sign players whose values double after a couple of years.
With arsenal spurs having moved for rbduring the window anyone think arrons will be looked at again at the end of the season. Also other targets we had for rb having moved
Im surpised we didnt go for someone like Singo from Torino near the end of the window.
My guess is that they will 'monitor' Patterson at Rangers and see if hes worth a higher offer and also check with Norwich if they will take a lower fee in Jan.
There may also be a wildcard of course but id say it will be in the media about those two in Jan.
Nice patronising tone fella, cheers.
It is highly likely Richarlison goes, DCL is speculation on my part that he will seek to go on the back of a bad season. At his age wouldn't you want to try and win something/play in Europe?
The other things are statement of fact re contract lengths.
I think Richarlison next summer and DCL the year after once Ronaldo and Cavani drop out of United.
Only good things there are that Richarlison may be a good profile for a top side like PSG so we may squeeze £100mil if he has an amazing season.
DCL on penalties and if he can slot 20 league goals for the next 2 seasons and get more England caps then he could be another £100mil+ windfall.
With the new stadium on the horizon and no doubt a lot of investment into the team as we move into it there is a chance DCL may stay of course.
Next year's budget will be based on Richarlison bringing in £80m (give or take) and that will be able to be reinvested.
We'll also have James' £7,000,000 per-minute wages off the books, as well as Tosun's £120k a week (see, that's the actual issue!), Delph's £90-100k p/wk and Sigurdsson (as it stands) and his £100kish off. That's the guarantees, I think.
We actually recouped something like £400k in weekly wages leaving the club this summer (when you include Kean), we just got nothing in the way of fees.
£400k this summer brought in (as you say) and for new players, all but Gray's wages off the books in 2 seasons time...plus our loan fees from Kean, Nkounkou and one or two kids.
Next summer another £450-500k off the books as well.
I expect that next summer involves a very low (if any) net spend again with summer 2023 being a large investment to have players in the year before
As much as that piece from Joyce just backs up what I've been thinking about the recruitment, I am also feeling a bit queezey.
He couldn't be any further up Benitez's arse and there is no doubt Benitez's camp has fed him that information.
Apart from the things you mentioned above and in other posts, its a bit of a weird one to be praising a manager for signing 2 of his former players who were either in China or who had been released.
On top of that the calibre of players doesnt particularly point to a masterstroke akin to signing a French player from Ligue 2 who has come in and lit up the team.
I quite liked having both Townsend and Begovic for a season (not sure how Townsend got 2), Lonergan is a non-entity really and Gray looks like hes having a similar start to at Leverkusen (lets hope he keeps up this form!).
As for the right back mistakes, it seems weird that AMN isnt a Benitez player...Patterson we bid for of course and Dumfries he says Brands was fixated on.
It didnt mention which or who Benitez wanted at right back.
All it does is suck up to Benitez and tell the fans that he didnt want AMN who is rapid, lots of experience, young, can cross/pass and is a good man marker.
If Joyce had put an alternative name forward that Benitez wanted that Brands didnt get then there would have been a reason to write something.
Neither Benitez nor Joyce come out of this well and it looks like the knives are out for Brands.
Everton's permanent signings in the Farhad Moshiri era.
Funnily enough, next summer if we moved on Pickford, DCL, Keane, Tosun, Gibson and Sigurdsson then the -£60mil would probably be breakeven.
To be fair to Brands we may be about £75mil in the positive on his signings if we moved them all on next summer.
