Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

Axlswhk said:
Are you saying we need 3 strikers to score double digit while each of them plays 13 league games a season? That’s hallucinating. Even with an injury prone DCL last season, we hardly need a 3rd striker never mind a 4th one. Fantasy football at it’s best.

We sign Barry assuming he will score quite a bit of goals and now you want us to sign another young striker assuming that Barry can’t score enough goals and all these while ignoring the fact that both full backs and right midfield have zero backups or not even good enough.

I haven’t even go into PSR constrain.
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No. I'm saying most other clubs we aspire to get close to have a handful of players on their books who, if played week in, week out, you'd back to get into double digits for the season. We cannot claim that at Everton. We need a fourth striker, to me that's a complete no-brainer of a decision.

I agree on us also needing better in terms of full backs and wingers, and hopefully that would draw more out of other players.

That's also why I didn't put another striker at the top of our priorities list, but I would hope we're looking to bring one in still.
 

GoldenToffee said:
Can you point to me suggesting we need to be signing a striker at even half of the value?

A decent, young-ish striker from the Championship would be a big upgrade on Chermiti, for example, and wouldn't cost anywhere near that.

Liverpool have about 6 forward players (I'll count these as players easily capable of getting close to double figures in terms of goals per season), as do all of the top 5-6 clubs.

If I were to put my neck on the line and say who I think might get into double figures next season in the current squad, assuming Barry and Beto play a similar number of games, I'd go for the pair of them and that's it. If we get a load of penalties, Ndiaye too.

Last season we finished above Spurs who horribly underperformed, yet they had three players score 9+ in the league, we had one, with only two players scoring more than five goals.

We clearly need an additional striker in the squad you'd feel comfortable about coming in when needed and scoring a few goals—does Chermiti do that for you?
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Liverpool who quite comfortably won the league, had 3 players score double figures and a few more with 5 or 6. Are you classing 5/6 goals as close to double figures?

We don’t need an additional striker if we are suggesting both Barry and Beto get double figures. We need goals from other areas. Liverpools top 3 scorers were wingers.

We had a crap AM in doucoure and a non scoring RW in Harrison. If a new RW and Alcaraz can chip in with 6-8 goals each, we will make a tonne of progression up the league table.
 



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