Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[The Littlest Yobo]

Wow. Potentially Michael Keane AND Jack Harrison both in within days of each other. What is Friedkin cooking here? Looking forward to seeing what these guys can do.

 

[Curtis]

That explains a lot.

Yeah all they do is translate stories or provide recaps of footy websites and papers from outside the UK.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Something about giving Branthwaite a 5 year deal and giving Keane an extension suggests to me we're not in the market for a centre back.

 

[Curtis]

Re-signing Michael Keane isn't ideal but if Moyes wants him to provide additional squad depth for one more season is okay with me, along as we either obtain a younger player with intent of them acclimating this season or see a possible youth player that could be introduced to the first team, so by the end of season Keane would be a 5th choice central defender

 

[Neiler]

But, to play devil's advocate, would you be saying the same if that £5-6m went toward the £7m we are supposedly looking to spend on Jack Harrison? Bad players are bad players mate, however you dress it up.

I look at it this way i look at a back up keeper mate, you need them, but you dont want to spend to much on them.

I dont think its one of the other - its more how much does Keane cost and how much would his replacement cost, without amoritsation Keane is compelling from a business point of view - if he's willing to play for want of a better words a" back up keeper" role.

The value alternative to my mind is someone like Craig Dawson, Coady or Jonny Evans and id prefer Keane.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Something about giving Branthwaite a 5 year deal and giving Keane an extension suggests to me we're not in the market for a centre back.

I don't think we've got a tier system low enough for Sean Lunt.

 

[Curtis]

I don't think we've got a tier system low enough for Sean Lunt.

He just translates and provides summaries of papers/websites from other countries

 

[McCallsVolley]

Sean Lunt is a translator of foreign stories regarding Everton. I think people probably need to understand that. He isnt a source. He evaluates the stories sometimes.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

Yeah I laughed at that myself. Let’s hope it’s just baiting garbage .

Moyes did say that though. He's made it clear he is a big Harrison fan.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

He just translates and provides summaries of papers/websites from other countries

Good work if you can get it!

Wonder what it pays.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Sean Lunt is a translator of foreign stories regarding Everton. I think people probably need to understand that. He isnt a source. He evaluates the stories sometimes.

I also heard he's translating the Dead Sea Scrolls.

 

[Daytripper]

Moyes did say that though. He's made it clear he is a big Harrison fan.

One of our major issues is goals and end product, players like him are not the solution. A sad state of affairs if he comes back.

People will justify it though, even if it’s in the hope they can annoy supposed fellow fans .

 

[Curtis]

Good work if you can get it!

Wonder what it pays.

Good question he's been doing for over a decade it seems it be enough to sustain some form of livelihood

 

[Root66]

Something about giving Branthwaite a 5 year deal and giving Keane an extension suggests to me we're not in the market for a centre back.

Keano is our new CF

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

I look at it this way i look at a back up keeper mate, you need them, but you dont want to spend to much on them.

I dont think its one of the other - its more how much does Keane cost and how much would his replacement cost, without amoritsation Keane is compelling from a business point of view - if he's willing to play for want of a better words a" back up keeper" role.

The value alternative to my mind is someone like Craig Dawson, Coady or Jonny Evans and id prefer Keane.

Keane is genuinely the worst defender of the ones you mentioned there - and I wouldn't want any of them either. I really think people forget just how much of a liability Keane is. If he wasn't so good at scoring, he wouldn't get away with it.

He is Antolin Alcaraz bad. An absolute catastrophe, who will have one okay game in 5 and people will refer to him as steady. But it’s never that he is a bit off it in the other 4, at least 2 of them will be absolute disaster classes.