They whazzed away 100s of millions under Hicks and Gillet that they didn’t have and when the banks came calling for it rather than being wound up like they should have been, they just got all their mates to cry in the media for weeks on end and got a load of friendly judges to effectively...
Is there anyone Liverpool won’t buy this summer. The irony of them calling Newcastle an oil club whilst they throw money round like it’s going out of fashion.
I wonder if Moyes sees Ndiaye as someone who can play any of the three positions behind the striker. He might be looking at 5 players for the three positions. Ndiaye Alcaraz McNeil Mcatee Kubo. Then picking any 3 from the 5 with Ndiaye Mcatee Kubo probably the first choice. That could even leave...
Anything but winning it is a failure for them given how much they’ve spent. They’ve gone all out to buy it. Chequebook fc. Anything less is failure for them after the money they’ve thrown around.
The point isn’t ’let’s do what we did in 04’. The point is that often you don’t know how effective a window is or isn’t until you see the results of the season that follows.
If we got a couple more in, kept all our players fit and had an absolute baller season then no one would care that we...
We only know that in retrospect though. In 04 we’d just finished 17th on 39 points, sold our best player for 27 mill, sold our second best attacking option, and replaced both of them with two players from the championship for absolute pittance. It only looks like a decent summer afterwards...
Probably true
But there’s also been times over the last few seasons where if you’d said to me Everton could put out:
Pickford
OBrien Tarkwoski Branthwaite Mykolenko
Garner Gueye Alcaraz
McNeil Barry Ndiaye
and be managed by David Moyes
Then I’d have empire bank account so I’m not...
Imagine this place back in 04.
Out Rooney for 27 mill, Radzinski 2 mill.
30 mill burning a hole in our pockets and we spent:
1.5 mill on a lad from Milwall in his mid 20s and Marcus Bent 26 from Ipswich for 500k. Absolutely zero pedigree between them.
Good times.
So far we’ve tied down our best player to a long term contract, bought a 30 mill striker, made permanent a number 10, and spent actual money on a backup keeper.
Yes it’s not the perfect window yet but some of you are acting like you’ve never evertoned before.
Remember selling Yakubu and Saha...
You’d have to think there’s something amiss with him if Sunderland are the only takers. If he’s still at the level he was when he left Arsenal for Leverkusen then surely there’s no way that Sunderland is his best offer.
Cardozo upfront as well. The next summer half of them went to Chelsea and half went to Madrid.
We really did run into some top teams under Moyes:
Villareal containing Riquelme Cazorla Senna Forlan Sorin
That Benfica team
Sporting Lisbon with Moutinho, Veloso, Izmailov
Standard Liege...