Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Doom and gloom merchants out in force today.

Not at all.
Hopefully we'll improve and he will stick around.

 

[DanB90]

Just to confirm we’re talking about Jarrad Branthwaite here right?

I thought we were talking about mikky keg. But I’m also lost now.

 

[ToffeeScot]

4th choice is a myth when there’s two CB positions. He’s one maybe two injuries suspensions away from playing in the first team. He’s effectively first or second reserve at best. That means he will be playing, and when Keane plays mistakes happen and points are lost.

If Branthwaite or Tarkwoski get a major injury early doors, Keane will be in and that is a major major problem for Everton. He’s absolutely conned yet another Everton manager into a deal by playing a couple of decent games at the end of the season when there was zero pressure and Moyes has absolutely fallen for it.

I’ve watched Keane torpedo manager after manager turning in absolute garbage under Silva Ancelotti Lampard and Dyche. I hoped that Dyche binning him was the end of his time here but even last season he managed to pop back up and turn out 4 of the worst performances I’ve ever seen at the start of the season to leave us in the mud for half a season. All of that to then stroll around at the end of the season in the sunshine paying attention because his contract was up. He’s an absolute plague on this team and I’ll confidently predict now that he’ll undermine any progress we look to make next season in some way.

So you've just used a different way of saying 4th choice to try and get across your narrative. If we sign a RB then we will be fine as JOB can slot in. There are far more concerns in the squad than Michael Keane as a 4th choice CB.

 

[davids]

Not sure what ambition you can show in your choice of 4th choice centre half. Any exciting young talent would be completely wasted filling the role.

If we want to move forward we need young hungry players,there must be another Jake out there who can play in a couple of positions in the back line. Yet we lack the ambition to find one and take the lazy choice of resigning a player we know to be a liability.

 

[ToffeeScot]

If we want to move forward we need young hungry players,there must be another Jake out there who can play in a couple of positions in the back line. Yet we lack the ambition to find one and take the lazy choice of resigning a player we know to be a liability.

Not really. We just have far more pressing concerns than at CB i.e the forward positions and fullback.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

If he signs, it will be on reduced terms.

£12.21 an hour?

 

[MikeH72]

I thought we were talking about mikky keg. But I’m also lost now.

The “elite pay” bit led me to the Branthwaite conclusion.

 

[DanB90]

£12.21 an hour?

Yes.

 

[davids]

I don't really think it shows a lack of ambition at all. We can't fix everything in one window. We just signed our biggest talent on a 5 year deal today.

Re-signing a know liability doesn't show lack of ambition?

 

[DanB90]

The “elite pay” bit led me to the Branthwaite conclusion.

I don’t know why anyone would moan about Branthwaites contract though, which led me to think he was talking about Keane.

But now my heads fell off.

 

[MikeH72]

I don’t know why anyone would moan about Branthwaites contract though, which led me to think he was talking about Keane.

But now my heads fell off.

Me neither and so has mine.

 

[cronullasharks]

No worries mate. You can watch us save test cricket again afterwards as well.

Up the BCCI

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

4th choice is a myth when there’s two CB positions. He’s one maybe two injuries suspensions away from playing in the first team. He’s effectively first or second reserve at best. That means he will be playing, and when Keane plays mistakes happen and points are lost.

If Branthwaite or Tarkwoski get a major injury early doors, Keane will be in and that is a major major problem for Everton. He’s absolutely conned yet another Everton manager into a deal by playing a couple of decent games at the end of the season when there was zero pressure and Moyes has absolutely fallen for it.

I’ve watched Keane torpedo manager after manager turning in absolute garbage under Silva Ancelotti Lampard and Dyche. I hoped that Dyche binning him was the end of his time here but even last season he managed to pop back up and turn out 4 of the worst performances I’ve ever seen at the start of the season to leave us in the mud for half a season. All of that to then stroll around at the end of the season in the sunshine paying attention because his contract was up. He’s an absolute plague on this team and I’ll confidently predict now that he’ll undermine any progress we look to make next season in some way.

EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING you say in here is absolutely 100% correct.

He will cost us points next season and those idiots supporters who are talking reduced terms and we can't get better and reduced wages will be crying into their beer.

It will be an absolute travesty of justice if he signs an extension, but hey, what do we know.

 

[DanB90]

Get the contract out, put it on the table. Let him sign it, let him write whatever numbers he wants to put on there, given what he's done since he's come in.

 

[ToffeeScot]

Re-signing a know liability doesn't show lack of ambition?

Nope, if you put things into perspective.

- we have far more concerns in the squad than a 4th choice CB.
- we signed our vest prospect who is a CB on a 5 year deal today.
- we are actively pursuing young talents in position we seriously need investment in i.e Barry.

We are showing ambition but unlike silly fans, the club recognises that we can't fix everything at once at the club and is prioritising what needs to be done first and foremost.