Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[lieneverton]

Hopefully with a monotonous droning beat, a computer generated click or two and some voice synth.
Talentless, imagination deprived ear shizz

Sounds like the dream. Sign them up.

 

[dixienormous]

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I don't want this Bug anywhere near this great institution.

He's absolutely everything that's wrong with modern day football....The first interview he gave last night after their defeat all he proceeded to do was to talk about himself.

Wasp

Looks like Private Ghoul from Hacksaw Ridge

 

[COYBL25]

Mate that looks like exactly the same person

Not long to go now, before we have someone who is an " expert " on facial mapping popping up.

Let`s face it, we`ve got "experts " on body language, fitness and conditioning, stadium design and build, public transport infrastructure, managing a football club, running a football club, financing a football club, transfers and contracts, marketing, advertising and promotion.

Have I missed anything out ?

 

[Rich1878]

If that really is a picture of him in Liverpool then the most likely explanation is that was the day we played Ipswich - but he looks pretty different to how he looked when he was spotted on Goodison Road.

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I think it's him.

His moles are in the correct place also

 

[allen]

I think it's him. View attachment 309500

Yes, I know it's him!

I'm not saying it isn't!

I was just trying to figure out if it was the day Ipswich played Everton.

 

[davids]

Not long to go now, before we have someone who is an " expert " on facial mapping popping up.

Let`s face it, we`ve got "experts " on body language, fitness and conditioning, stadium design and build, public transport infrastructure, managing a football club, running a football club, financing a football club, transfers and contracts, marketing, advertising and promotion.

Have I missed anything out ?

Clinical psychologist?

 

[Clarky cat]

Not long to go now, before we have someone who is an " expert " on facial mapping popping up.

Let`s face it, we`ve got "experts " on body language, fitness and conditioning, stadium design and build, public transport infrastructure, managing a football club, running a football club, financing a football club, transfers and contracts, marketing, advertising and promotion.

Have I missed anything out ?

PSR…
Spiritualism…
Housewives…

 

[Rich1878]

Yes, I know it's him!

I'm not saying it isn't!

I was just trying to figure out if it was the day Ipswich played Everton.

Sorry, didn't read that properly

 

[allen]

Sorry, didn't read that properly

Don’t worry, I don’t think anyone did.

 

[SpiritOfTheBloos]

Think it could be a goer this one. Saw him at Goodison on Sunday with Coleman and Tarks doing Delap of honour

 

[davids]

I haven’t come in here to discuss David Moyes’ appalling away record to some of the top/media obsessed teams! I’ve come to hear all the brilliant suggestions for signing new players who are of a similar ability to the dross we need to fire into the sun at the end of June.
Preferably I’d like a little montage or YouTube video so I can make up my mind. Many thanks.

Exotic name that won't fit on the back of the shirt from one of the European farmers leagues and I'm in. Videos of them scoring outlandish goals against lower division clubs in cups that I've never heard of are the icing on the cake.

 

[Saint Domingo]

I think that's a slightly different argument. Obviously if you're midtable then by definition your results are going to be mixed, but I don't think it's necessarily as clear cut as the style of play suiting one type of game but not another.

Both Everton as a club and Moyes as a manager do seem to have a real problem going away to the 'big' clubs. It's weird, I can't explain it, but it's undoubtedly a thing. Moyes has won 0 out of 20 visits to Stamford Bridge in the league, and we as a club haven't won there for 33 years, but Brentford under Thomas Frank have beaten them 3 times in 4 years since they came up. That's just bonkers and we desperately need to find a way to change those patterns. Hopefully this transfer window can be the start of doing that.

I’ve thought about this as well and I think it’s a mix of factors: the fan base, the financial position of the club (and therefore the managers it hires), and to a lesser extent our standing as a rival to one of these teams (in decreasing order of importance)

Take Frank for example at Brentford, some of the results his teams get would not be tolerated by Everton fans. He can lose 6 games in 7 and round it off by losing 4-1 at home to Wolves and the Brentford faithful barely stir. If an Everton manager does that he’s close to getting fired. Managers of some of these teams like Bournemouth Brentford Brighton Palace Leeds know that they can play gung-ho football and lose 5 in a row and no one in the media will care and then they’ll win at Stamford Bridge or Old Trafford on the 6th game playing this way and they’re on match of the day saying what a job they’ve done. Sean Dyche was under pressure from fans for his team selection against Brighton before a ball had even been kicked this season. Some fans wanted him fired for losing to Southampton. There’s a lot of results that occur that people don’t notice. Everton have had some bad ones undoubtedly but we do not regularly get punted heavily at home. Some of these teams do, a lot, and especially to Liverpool, which would practically be a firing offence at Everton if we got trampled by a heavy score line at home to them. Everton managers know this so play defensively. They’re not going to open up at these grounds because when they do (as Sean Dyche did at Chelsea and get battered, or as Martinez did at Anfield) then it comes close to costing them their job

The second is the financial position. Some of these other teams are yo yo clubs. Southampton can come up, win at Anfield, and go back down and the club survives. Leeds does the same going fund ho with Bielsa then Marsch. If Everton went down in recent times it would probably have been curtains. So instead of hiring the type of streaky manager who might win at one of these grounds like Hassenhuttl Bielsa Marsch Rodgers etc., we hire managers who are defensively solid to ensure we stay in the league and these managers tend to target a point away from home. Moyes, Koeman Allardyce Benitez Dyche.

Third, but to a much lesser extent than the first two is the local rivalry. Quite simply we will never ever catch an unbothered Liverpool team. Leeds or Palace can win at Anfield and it barely ripples, if Everton did the Liverpool manager’s job is in question, therefore they are always super switched on. It doesn’t count for the other five teams of course.

For Moyes I think he has been unlucky at times. We should have won at Emirates when Pienaar lobbed the keeper and Rosicky shot deflected in the last minute. We also outplayed Liverpool home and away in either 07/08 or 08/09 and ended up losing both after absolutely battering them both times. But overall the record isn’t good enough and even if it had been broken by the odd win it wouldn’t really change that fact.


I come back to my main point for most things though which is give the Everton manager a better squad than these teams and that record would soon change.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Mate that looks like exactly the same person

Hard disagree.

No sign of the hi-vis or sunglasses in that second picture.

 

[Caso01]

Not long to go now, before we have someone who is an " expert " on facial mapping popping up.

Let`s face it, we`ve got "experts " on body language, fitness and conditioning, stadium design and build, public transport infrastructure, managing a football club, running a football club, financing a football club, transfers and contracts, marketing, advertising and promotion.

Have I missed anything out ?

You’ve missed out walking distance time mate

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

Yes, I know it's him!

I'm not saying it isn't!

I was just trying to figure out if it was the day Ipswich played Everton.

It's definitely him @allen Not sure why you say otherwise