Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[bluesb1970]

Whatever signing we make will carry risk.

Ndiaye was underwhelming on paper and now he’s probably our best player.

If we bought Cahill now people would be asking why he hasn’t played at a higher level yet, Jagielka was a rubbish defensive midfielder for Sheffield United who got relegated, Baines was nowhere near the level he eventually turned into for us, Coleman had no pedigree whatsoever.

We’ll have good and bad signings sure but at the moment it feels like every name linked is instantly derided unless they happen to be one of the best players in Europe.

At the time the feeling was that we had really overpaid on jags and Baines.

 

[blueboy72]

It’s nice to have a day off from
Gus “Gullit” Hamer

 

[14_dollars]

Whatever signing we make will carry risk.

Ndiaye was underwhelming on paper and now he’s probably our best player.

If we bought Cahill now people would be asking why he hasn’t played at a higher level yet, Jagielka was a rubbish defensive midfielder for Sheffield United who got relegated, Baines was nowhere near the level he eventually turned into for us, Coleman had no pedigree whatsoever.

We’ll have good and bad signings sure but at the moment it feels like every name linked is instantly derided unless they happen to be one of the best players in Europe.

Disagree with NDiaye.

I wouldn’t mind, we probably aren’t even interested in Doak, Grealish, Stones etc. 99% of Everton transfer rumours will be nonsense.

 

[Vaughan]

Everyone is either too old, too young, not enough pedigree, or has a bad injury history, or is rubbish….apart from all these players in the latter stages of European competitions who shockingly end up at big clubs.

The only rumour that has had any sort of approval was Cherki who will probably end up being first choice number 10 for one of the best teams in the world.

We should judge players for what they do in blue rather than what has come before.

this is the thread we all come to let our insanity out after Sonia’s chirped ‘Happy Monday’ to us and that punter in IT has told us about his boring weekend with the in laws

we need to let our insanity out somewhere

 

[Vaughan]

Disagree with NDiaye.

I wouldn’t mind, we probably aren’t even interested in Doak, Grealish, Stones etc. 99% of Everton transfer rumours will be nonsense.

i think theres definite interest in Doak

Grealish and Stones more likely paper talk

 

[Vaughan]

I'll advocate any signing me.

Mitrovic? Yes
Doak? Yes
Habib Diarra? Yes
Julio Gomez? Yes

Except Ross Barkley. I'll lose my composure if we brought him back.

I’m not advocating it, but Barkley improves our midfield in a zip

 

[Librarian]

Mitrovic‘a family want to move back to England

 

[Papa Shango]

Everyone is either too old, too young, not enough pedigree, or has a bad injury history, or is rubbish….apart from all these players in the latter stages of European competitions who shockingly end up at big clubs.

The only rumour that has had any sort of approval was Cherki who will probably end up being first choice number 10 for one of the best teams in the world.

We should judge players for what they do in blue rather than what has come before.

We really need to sign boss players that nobody has ever heard of. That way nobody will ever moan.

 

[Saint Domingo]

I disagree about your Ndiaye underwhelming assessment as I rated him highly when he was at Sheffield United and wasn't put off by him having a bad season at Marseille. These are the types of players I'm happy to be linked with as they have points to prove and talent that needs fulfilling

Read the first few pages of his thread when the signing was confirmed. There’s all sorts in there. He’s turned out to be very good for us. Just shows my point that sometimes it’s worth just seeing how a player performs in blue.

I remember thinking Beattie would be sound for us and Johnson was the pace we’d been missing. Wrong on both counts. I also thought getting Kevin Campbell from Turkey was desperation for us as his best days were behind him. Wrong again.

 

[ToffeeScot]

We could be in a position where our only strikers are Beto and Chermiti. If Moyes wants to give Chermiti a loan we have one striker. We may need two or three additions in that position. Someone like a Mitrovic e.g experienced and available may make up a squad place but might not necessarily be a replacement for the star striker signing (which was clearly what Delap would have been).

The Delap signing is a good indicator though. He had one decent season at Ipswich in the prem and a CL club comes in for him. The squad size, five sub rule, and PSR calculations is making it harder and harder to get top players as the top clubs can hoover them up.

Mitrovic is in Saudi. He's not going to be cheap in terms of wages.

 

[Saint Domingo]

We really need to sign boss players that nobody has ever heard of. That way nobody will ever moan.

No pedigree, farmers league, didn’t go through an academy etc.taken your pick

 

[Furey1878]

I think it’s precisely because we need so many players that we shouldn’t be spending £40m on this 31 year old pudding mate.

No one is paying 40 mil to bring him back to the prem. Like I said, if it could be done on the cheap or on loan then I think it's a decent option.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Buying an over-the-hill, over-paid player for big-money FROM a Saudi club... Only Everton...!

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Mitrovic‘a family want to move back to England

Mitrovic is in Saudi. He's not going to be cheap in terms of wages.

Seems like he'd be willing to make a sacrifice when it comes down to wages, no?

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

Everyone loves Big Dunc until its time to sign the better Serbian version of him smh