Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[blue to the bone]

I have no idea. Just think Longstaff is crap and he is a sub at Newcastle. Ndidi rejected us before and is almost 29 and has regressed.

The Danish player could have one leg and be partially blind but he's the obvious choice

 

[PITA]

Ahh you are forgetting the interest they had earned on it!!!

That explains it.

 

[MACCA75]

Omg Jota

 

[riddick]

I know this is nothing to do with us directly but just saw this. [Poor language removed] awful.
Diego Jota passes away in car accident

 

[buskwhi2]

I have no idea. Just think Longstaff is crap and he is a sub at Newcastle. Ndidi rejected us before and is almost 29 and has regressed.

Ndidi has actually been very good the last 2 years. He was one of the only Leicester players who performed last season. I wouldn’t hate signing him for £8/9m but I’m not particularly excited by the prospect

 

[CielosGrises]

I know this is nothing to do with us directly but just saw this. [Poor language removed] awful.
Diego Jota passes away in car accident

a bit of perspective.

got to feel for his family, that's terrible.

 

[God Benfrey]

Yeah Digo and his brother, absolutely awful news

 

[Simon Buttle]

Newcastle have a fantastic midfield though, so being sub is no stick to beat him with, lad is a decent (not great but solid) player.

He isn't mate, his numbers are worse than Garners and he needs replacing. CM needs to be an upgrade not another sticking plaster/kick the can down the road type. CM and RW were always the key positions for me.

 

[Nyhus]

I know this is nothing to do with us directly but just saw this. [Poor language removed] awful.
Diego Jota passes away in car accident

Just saw this. Very, very sad.

 

[_jamlev]

Awful news about Jota. Got married two weeks ago, three kids.

 

[NikNak8]

Dave, hand on heart mate, do you honestly believe we, after all our financial issues, would drop £30m on a player just to loan him out? Come on you’re better than that

Buying and loaning could have same cost from a PSR perspective, difference is when you buy you have an asset available for a new contract or future sale, a loan is cost with no underlying asset. (i.e. the loan fee could be similar cost as the amortisation.)

 

[Jebus_lives]

Danish player from Serie A, you say?

That worked out great last season...

I presume you've seen a lot of Genoa to say he's the obvious choice?

A massive success with Kroldrup too.

 

[NikNak8]

One issue:we don’t have 30 million euro to spare.

Send on a copy of the budget when you get a chance, cheers

 

[caliblue]

Newcastle have a fantastic midfield though, so being sub is no stick to beat him with, lad is a decent (not great but solid) player.

The issue with Longstaff is that he is a little bit of everything. Box to box with lots of energy, not great on the ball but decent defensively.

The type of player it would make sense to look into if we played with a three man midfield. The number 8 position that suits Longstaff doesn't exist in Everton's team.

We have arguably the worst midfield in the league when it comes to technical quality on the ball. Playing a Longstaff instead of Garner would make it significantly worse.

That said, I expect the Longstaff's and Soucek's of this world to be looked at as 10's by Moyes. As Doucoure upgrades. He'll play them over Alcaraz every day of the week.

 

[davids]

I think its a good thing as they would only have been stop gaps and it shows we were unwilling to pay over the odds like we would have done previously. Quite refreshing really...

Suppose it depends on your pov. I just find it yet another in a long line of embarrassments.