Favourite 3 and worst 3 transfers you can remember.


Tony Hibbert's Wife said:
Favourite was Daniel Amokachi. £3.5m Nigerian World Cup star? Get in. In my head he was going to score a billion goals. Still love him for that semi-final, though.

Worst was when we signed Solomon Rondon. It was like the opposite to the feeling I had when we signed Amokachi.
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He was elite at the head rock sticking his tongue out gig. We need some more characters these days rather than drones too focused on their image rights.
 

In my lifetime that I actually remember/had an interest in football for..


Best:

1. Lukaku - The loan was one thing, signing him after his performances on loan was another. Couldn't believe a striker of that calibre had joined us permanently after struggling up front for so many years. Brilliant saga on here as well, the Martinez thumbs up to that blue yelling to sign Rom, the plane tracking bedwetters, the Instagram bedwetters when the "a new chapter" post went up and "He's off to Juve LAD!!!" was cried. Wish it'd have worked out for him and one of my favourite Everton players of recent times.

2. Mirallas - Really unknown player, chose us over Arsenal (apparently?), "the Belgian Ronaldo" shouts, really could have gone either way. On his home debut there were more supporters queueing outside of Goodison trying to get their tickets than there were inside of Goodison thanks to the club deciding not to send any out or something silly like that, and nearly everyone missed his first goal. Cracking player on his day, took a few too many knocks and lost that yard of pace (I still blame Suarez for that). Worth the money alone for scoring in the 13/14 home derby then promptly declaring mission complete and assaulting Luis Suarez - somehow got away with a yellow.

3. Mina - Not so much for the player we got and his years at the club, more for the symbolism at the time. After the disaster transfer windows before it, signing three players from Barcelona, albeit fringe players, felt more like who we should be signing rather than a mishmash of mid-table premier league players. In hindsight, those three players from Barcelona contributed to our entire squad becoming a mishmash of mid-table premier league players. But at the time Mina was the one to chase. There was plenty of interest and I remember the fume on here when it was announced that Barcelona had a £60m buyback clause on him.

Worst:

1: Siggurdson: - I didn't want him when we initially went in for £20m. I was gutted when we spent over double that on him. Not actually a bad player but the fact he is our record signing doesn't sit right with me. Compounded by the fact we'd signed Klaasen for the same position well over two months ago, then Rooney a month before, the whole chase didn't make any sense. Ever more frustrating that it feels like he was only ever signed as the club/Koeman was convinced we were bringing in Giroud and we wanted a set-piece specialist alongside him - almost like paid professionals never realised that Giroud made a career of scoring goals by peeling away to the near post. If rumours are to be believed we've got Giroud's poor betrayed wife to blame for that one never materialising, or the lass from the hotel room!

2: Bolasie - Similar, I didn't want him when we were first linked to him. I was gutted when he signed for us. Eye watering fee at the time for the wrong player from Crystal Palace. Compounded frustration a few years later when Moshiri ran off to try and publicly offer a phantom £70m for Zaha. I do actually think that if he didn't do his ACL he'd have made me eat my words as he was building an understanding with Lukaku and starting to properly bed in. Alas, injuries and he became a drain on resources.

3: Townsend/Rondon - Townsend worked out better, but I had the same view on both of them. Went from signing James Rodriguez to taking what we could get on a free. These two both woke me up to how severe the financial situation at the time was, I truly realised we were up a brown creek without a paddle. Will always appreciate the effort of Townsend during that season though. Rondon, not so much.
 

Neiler said:
Favourite and best are two different things. Favourite ones at the time were:

Amo - Nigerian players were hot to trot after the world cup in 94 and Amo came to us - at that time the likes of Alan Smith and Lee Chapman were generally the prolife type of striker in the league - so Amo came to us in the first wave of Foreign players - couldn't believe wed gone all exotic.

Kanchelskis - couldn't believe wed signed him, that Utd team were top trumps at the time and be like one of Citys best players players today lashing in a transfer request to push through a move to Everton. Wed just won the Cup, Joe was doing a magic job and it felt as if we we would be back to the big time in short order.

Not so much a player but Transfer window 07 was one of my favourites - The Yak, Baines, Jags, Manny Fernandes and Pienaar all came that summer it really felt as if we were building something and progressing after years of having no money and getting no where. What an incredible window that was in hindsight.
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Was thinking Amo, not so much for the impact he had but how buzzing I was when it happened.

Kanchelskis was just awesome, absolutely loved him.
 

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