Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Brett Angell Delight]

Not sure how popular this opinion is but I`d take Onana back over McGinn... as long as we pay less than what we sold him for.

I think Onana would be significantly better in a Moyes side, didn`t he want him at West Ham aswell?

Mate, Onana thinks he's destined for Barca or Real. Not a chance in hell he'd ever entertain coming back here.

 

[ForeverEverton]

Mate, Onana thinks he's destined for Barca or Real. Not a chance in hell he'd ever entertain coming back here.

He might not have a choice if Villa decide he is the sacrificial lamb for their spending this summer... Still only 23.

 

[NikNak8]

Not sure in this case. He could have put in a transfer request, has no release clause, we are in no position to throw him into the kids teams and diminish his value. Would have been incredibly easy for him to force a move this summer.

Think it’s more a combination of the massive pay rise as you say, but also a rare dose of sanity from a young player knowing that he is still far too young and inexperienced to go and sit on Madrid’s bench or destroy his life by going to United. Very sensible decision by him and his family and great for us.

100% agree with that, some seem to think he sat down with Davey to chat transfers which I think is fanciful.

 

[Mashtray]

didnt know much about him, just watched a youtube vid now I fully want him ha

Haha I know what you mean. I watched his video and now the success of the transfer window hinges on his transfer

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Perhaps the plan is taking a risk on someone exciting like Kubo or Hutchinson plus playing it safe with Harrison as relatively cheap cover for multiple positions? That would be quite a Moyes way of doing things as his track record with us was a mix of clever, risky signings and experienced hole pluggers. For every Fellaini, Pienaar, Arteta, Cahill there was a Neville, Carsley, Kilbane.

I just don’t see Harrison as being good enough, or indeed cheap enough, to be that safe, cheap option. I’d say a “safe” option needs to be able to give you a 5 or 6 out of 10 each week and I don’t think he even gave us that.

In terms of cost- let’s say for talking sake we pay 6m and take over his remaining contract (3 years at c. 4.5m a year). That’s 6.5m annual amortisation + wage on the books each year. Not cheap.

Instead you could buy a younger 17.5m player on 3m a year over 5 years and the annual cost would be the same. A Fellows, say, or someone from abroad. The financial upside of course being potential sale value which Harrison doesn’t have.

Is this the more “risky” option? I don’t think so- maybe this player would give you a 7 or 8 some weeks and a 3 some others if they are younger and rawer. The *low* end of this is still comparable to what JH gives you most weeks.

Generally speaking I can see the argument for some less glamorous squad filler players, but Harrison I just don’t think is anywhere near good enough to justify the cost of bringing him back in.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Tagliofico (can’t be arsed to google spelling ) a strong possibility according to my 60% man

He did say Gueye was a 2 year deal though
So, as always … a pinch of salt required

 

[NikNak8]

I wonder why we (and I'm not including myself) don't just be thankful he's signed a new deal and move on, rather then to figure out why he signed. Are there any psychiatrists in the room?

True...... but then why do we talk about anything really, maybe we should just leave the forum and wait patiently until Everton announce all the signings and then have a little quite applause to ourselves but dont talk about them and definitely dont post on a forum about them

 

[blue to the bone]

Gueye done and Barry
Still need minimum
Right midfielder
Right back
Centre midfielder
Left back
Goalkeeper.

 

[DualityNSNO]

But they’re just buzz words. How do you know that negotiations weren’t happening at that point? Something must have been going on for Joyce to report it.

Because we take a cosmic age to finish up any signing, unlike the other 19 teams in the league.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

I just don’t see Harrison as being good enough, or indeed cheap enough, to be that safe, cheap option. I’d say a “safe” option needs to be able to give you a 5 or 6 out of 10 each week and I don’t think he even gave us that.

In terms of cost- let’s say for talking sake we pay 6m and take over his remaining contract (3 years at c. 4.5m a year). That’s 6.5m annual amortisation + wage on the books each year. Not cheap.

Instead you could buy a younger 17.5m player on 3m a year over 5 years and the annual cost would be the same. A Fellows, say, or someone from abroad. The financial upside of course being potential sale value which Harrison doesn’t have.

Is this the more “risky” option? I don’t think so- maybe this player would give you a 7 or 8 some weeks and a 3 some others if they are younger and rawer. The *low* end of this is still comparable to what JH gives you most weeks.

Generally speaking I can see the argument for some less glamorous squad filler players, but Harrison I just don’t think is anywhere near good enough to justify the cost of bringing him back in.

At the risk of hyperbole, which I know is frowned upon in this thread, if we were to sign Harrison after 2 years of seeing him in training, matches, watching videos back, etc, it would undermine everything else we did in the window for me. There can be absolutely nothing about his spell here that compels us to look at buying him, beyond weird, Stockholm Syndrome-like comfort.

He wasn't good enough for what we were, let alone what we hope to be.

 

[NeilMorepies]

Mate, Onana thinks he's destined for Barca or Real. Not a chance in hell he'd ever entertain coming back here.

Yup, we also couldn’t afford to buy him, or pay his wage demands.

 

[NikNak8]

The reality is that nobody has shown any inclination to pay anything like what we're looking for to buy him, so actually it probably wouldn't have been that easy for him to force a move. For all we as fans talk about Real Madrid and all that, the only proper interest that's been reported has been from United and Spurs, who have both finished just above the relegation zone. Him signing a new contract is a positive, but I think it's right to say that it probably isn't anything to do with us showing more ambition or convincing him of anything, it's just something he's decided he's content to do.

Just fixed a little error for you, we finished in the bottom half too but I prefer to call it mid-table

 

[Pabbers]

I would love Sergej Milinković-Savić.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Yup, we also couldn’t afford to buy him, or pay his wage demands.

Yeah, 100%. Even if Villa were so in the muck that they would accept £30m (what I assume his present value is in their accounts), that's still too much of a risk, not to mention I'm sure he'd want well north of £100k a week to do us the courtesy of playing for us again.

None of this is shade on the lad, btw; I admire anyone with that kind of belief in themself, but it wasn't the right time for him to be here then, and it is not quite that now, either.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

I would love Sergej Milinković-Savić.

As would we all, but isn't he on that mad Saudi money now?