Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[SuperKev91]

Everyone would want referral commission, and rightly so. You’d think scouts etc would want info from every possible source, but if you earn a living from it, you probably shouldn’t need suggestions from Tommo in Bootle.

That said, whilst DoFs and recruitment specialists may be different and more scientific, I know a bloke who worked in scouting/recruitment (UK based too) for Fulham then Arsenal, and he did sod all work, and knew less about football and players than most people on here. It was just a job.

You would be surprised….

Although my work did bring me into contact with the club, the scouting stuff was non-work related at all .

 

[SuperKev91]

You would be surprised….

Although my work did bring me into contact with the club, the scouting stuff was non-work related at all .

That was Victor Boniface as well .

 

[Simon Buttle]

Let’s buy all the tacklers

If we stick with 2 in the middle we need to be breaking it up as much as possible imo.

 

[NikNak8]

Perhaps, but in the crazy mixed up world where Mason Holgate trots out onto the pitch at Hill Dickinson Stadium in the 99th minute and heads in the winner, you’ll say, “that mad [Poor language removed] was right!”

I suspect its more likely that they just forgot about him, him and Maupay

 

[Peter Leslie]

Would you offer Gana a two year contract, if that was the only way to keep him? The Saudi clubs would be happy to do that, but would we.

Yes. Absolutely. Second year terms contingent on games played in year 1. And I would 100% put him on a coaching / recruitment pathway as well, if he wanted it. So many players of the future will come from francophone Africa, there is no better role model for them in the world.

 

[Peter Leslie]

Everyone would want referral commission, and rightly so. You’d think scouts etc would want info from every possible source, but if you earn a living from it, you probably shouldn’t need suggestions from Tommo in Bootle.

That said, whilst DoFs and recruitment specialists may be different and more scientific, I know a bloke who worked in scouting/recruitment (UK based too) for Fulham then Arsenal, and he did sod all work, and knew less about football and players than most people on here. It was just a job.

Doubt Tommo from Bootle, or Philly from Wallasey would have spotted Salah at El Mokawloon FC in Egypt at age 15. But I bet there was an Evertonian there who knew how good he could be, long before FC Basel saw him. It costs nothing to put a system in place, and it only has to work once.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

Would you offer Gana a two year contract, if that was the only way to keep him? The Saudi clubs would be happy to do that, but would we.

Absolutely should do

 

[SuperKev91]

You would be surprised….

Although my work did bring me into contact with the club, the scouting stuff was non-work related at all .

Doubt Tommo from Bootle, or Philly from Wallasey would have spotted Salah at El Mokawloon FC in Egypt at age 15. But I bet there was an Evertonian there who knew how good he could be, long before FC Basel saw him. It costs nothing to put a system in place, and it only has to work once.

I sent them Boniface years before he went to Leverkusen and they didn’t fancy him in Norway….

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

Doubt Tommo from Bootle, or Philly from Wallasey would have spotted Salah at El Mokawloon FC in Egypt at age 15. But I bet there was an Evertonian there who knew how good he could be, long before FC Basel saw him. It costs nothing to put a system in place, and it only has to work once.

We can't bring over any U18s anymore and it wouldn't get actioned anyway. Anyone who thinks a PL club is going to operate a tip line anyone can use is in cuckoo land

 

[West Side Charlie]

Jason Knight links last week - someone posted his stats. I've never watched him but the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw them was that they indicate he'd do the job Gana does.

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That's impressive in any league, won the under 18 premier league too I just read. Put him in the very interesting pile.

 

[bullybeef]

Securing a young talent like Delap this week would set us up nicely and send out a positive message to all of our other targets that Everton is the place to be.

I hope the club doesn’t ‘cash in’ on Branthwaite. He is our future along with the likes of Delap etc.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Jason Knight links last week - someone posted his stats. I've never watched him but the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw them was that they indicate he'd do the job Gana does.

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Knight in shining Gana.

 

[blue to the bone]

Remember when we signed Gana originally the majority thought it was a poor signing from a terrible Villa team

 

[Saint Domingo]

Maybe if our midfielders could keep possession more they wouldn’t have to make so many tackles. We shouldn’t be getting hung up on one stat.

 

[DaChunk]

Gana is sensational and I remember a lot of weirdos didn't rate him when he left the first time...