Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[NathDogg]

Corndogs, chlorinated chicken and cheese in a tube are far more exhilarating.

Slagging off Italian food is one way to engineer a transfer I suppose, especially being a yank.

 

[Bluewolf]

I know City fans who literally can't be bothered going to Wembley anymore. I mean lot of that might be cost but his lad is 14 and said he's been Wembley nearly 20 times. Nuts when you consider where they were 30 years ago.

What could of been eh?

Cheers kenwright...

 

[Thomasc]

I hereby predict a flurry of activity and 4 new arrivals in the first week of July.

Let it come to pass.

 

[Mr Happy]

What could of been eh?

Cheers kenwright...

Well that's long gone now. Look to future, don't fester in the past.

 

[Double Negative]

This is why if you sign a 6’5” striker who scores nearly all his goals with his head, you sign Tom Fellows.

Didn’t that Josh Maja score at Goodison for Fulham? He looks decent in that montage…

Edit, just looked. 2 on his debut during Covid…

 

[Bluewolf]

This is why if you sign a 6’5” striker who scores nearly all his goals with his head, you sign Tom Fellows.

Christ do they not defend in the championship?

I reckon about 80-90% of those assists dont happen in the PL imo

 

[Bluewolf]

Well that's long gone now. Look to future, don't fester in the past.

Dont try to take my favourite past time away from me

 

[mahermi1]

What could of been eh?

Cheers kenwright...

Yeah them City fans have no idea of "good times". Fools..

 

[RinkyDinker]

Is it just me or does he (weirdly) remind anyone of Phil Neville!? He’s got the same hunched over running style.. looks a one trick pony too.. not sure he’d cut the mustard in the prem. Great numbers though tbf

Reminds me a lot of McNeill at Burnley at that age (minus the step overs!). Get to the bye line and get your cross in. I’m sure there will be other facets to his game too. We have suffered Harrison hitting the 1st man for the past 2 years, so someone capable of putting a cross into the danger area shouldn’t be scoffed at!

 

[st.domingo]

It must be down to the Universe having it in for Everton Football Club, mate.

Personally, I don't think that the Universe is all that arsed about Everton. But I do believe that beliefs and attitudes, both conscious and unconscious, especially at a collective level, can influence reality. So I'm kind of against believing that the Universe has a vendetta against Everton, because if you believe it for long enough, it ends up becoming true!

So I'm someone that thinks we need to STOP acting like the Universe has put a hex on us, especially when the vast majority of the football league think we are extremely lucky/jammy.

Such negative and depressive magical thinking is actually maladaptive in the extreme. It doesn't help us, it hinders us.

I’m all for magical thinking, personally - with consciousness as the basis of reality, all really is possible.

But as you say, we need to believe in better first - on the off-chance that it might help, because there’s every chance that it might.

 

[Peter Leslie]

It must be down to the Universe having it in for Everton Football Club, mate.

Personally, I don't think that the Universe is all that arsed about Everton. But I do believe that beliefs and attitudes, both conscious and unconscious, especially at a collective level, can influence reality. So I'm kind of against believing that the Universe has a vendetta against Everton, because if you believe it for long enough, it ends up becoming true!

So I'm someone that thinks we need to STOP acting like the Universe has put a hex on us, especially when the vast majority of the football league think we are extremely lucky/jammy.

Such negative and depressive magical thinking is actually maladaptive in the extreme. It doesn't help us, it hinders us.

Take your logic and common sense somewhere else, before someone calls you a trumpet or similar

 

[ValBlue]

I’d be extremely disappointed if our main signing on the the right wing was Fellows. We’re crying out for goals. If you could get him as a depth guy then that’s totally different. But if he was the starter next season? Nah I’d be beyond disappointed.

We need to spread goals across the attack and midfield, not centralise them even more to a target man who may or may not even be ready to start next season. We have no clue how good Barry is or if he’ll even join.

Saw it too often when everything went through DCL, if the striker isn’t in good form, the team then isn’t built to compensate for his lack of goals. They just still spam crosses and hope.

Plus I doubt he gets a fraction of those assists in the PL. What can he do beyond cross the ball that would be a difference maker?

Need to stay focused on other targets, McAtee, Bakayoko are the names we need to aspire to. We want to replicate Ndiaye, not McNeil

 

[Dymak]

I’m all for magical thinking, personally - with consciousness as the basis of reality, all really is possible.

But as you say, we need to believe in better first - on the off-chance that it might help, because there’s every chance that it might.

If it's possible then it's not magical. What annoys me is when possible things are dismissed as impossible, and the reasoning behind the dismissal is magical thinking, such as believing in a non-existent hex.

Or worse, this idea that reality is subject to change once Everton becomes involved. This is what I was replying to initially: the idea that Fellows would be absolutely amazing if he signed for somebody else, but he'd be crap if he signed for Everton.

I'm not in love with Tom Fellows, and I don't have all that much insight into his footballing ability, but I do know that the Universe is not going to intervene and turn an otherwise good player crap just because he signed for Everton and not somebody else.

 

[MikeH72]

Our fanbase makes me tired man.

 

[Mrtallywacker]

Ben, it might be an age thing,and I was lucky enough to do Wembley,Bayern and see the wins in the 80’s,but I genuinely don’t want to be anything like them.
If honest I find the RS totally soulless. They are the media darlings, saw some fawning nonsense on the BBC sport website yesterday about the breaking up of the greatest full back pairing ever or some such. Didn’t bother reading it. But TAA always got shown up when picked for England, certainly never picked over Walker at right back.
I do think we need to be careful what we wish for. Mate of mine, old school Man City, with all his memories of play off finals, and way days in lower leagues,completely stopped watching them 3 seasons into the Arab takeover. Just became not for him and why he loved his club/ game.
We have been through some very tough, scary and almost criminally negligent times recently ,but a big part of this club, most clubs, is the community. The match going or watching experience.
Football has changed and will continue to change. Yes let’s hope for a few Wembley days out and a pot or 2, but also let’s hope we stay Everton.
If you know,you know as they say.
Pity the RS. Don’t envy them as they really don’t have what we have got. And let us keep, protect and cherish it.

Absolutely this! I’m surrounded by glory fans, each of them expecting to win every game. There’s no thrill, no risk, no real highs and lows, just plastic fans who have zero identity and are hated by everyone. I’d far rather support a team not knowing if we will win, lose or draw each game, than a team that you just expect to win every game it’s boring and soulless

I've lost count of the number of times I've told one of the sanctimonious gobs***** that I'd rather die with our history than live with theirs.
100% mean it as well, no trophy in the world could make we want to be like them.
Pricks!!

God bless.