Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Dwight K Schrute]

A good manager ( Carlo ) got us to 8th with additions similar to what we need today, he did so playing a centre half at right back as a compromise.

Hope another good manager in DM can learn from the past and not compromise there and sort it out for the foreseeable future.

We finished 12th and 10th didn't we?

 

[cjuk87]

Getting battered 3 times, will
Matter a lot

I watched us get beat 2-0 by Leicester then 4-1 and 3-0 by Bournemouth in the space of a week. What happened after that?

We won the relegation league.

 

[Curtis]

He'll replace Gibbs White at Forest.

You think Forest's unhinged owner will let him go after feeling aggreived over Spurs' approach? He seems petty enough to squash the deal

 

[Exeter_Gently]

You think Forest's unhinged owner will let him go after feeling aggreived over Spurs' approach? He seems petty enough to squash the deal

I was reading something before saying he's open to selling Gibbs-White to another team but not to Spurs over the way they've conducted themselves

 

[cjuk87]

You really dont think the whole league isnt investing in youth?

They steal players from all over the world.

The whole league have set up an academy and are bringing through youth both to play and sell for big money?

 

[Jebus_lives]

You think Forest's unhinged owner will let him go after feeling aggreived over Spurs' approach? He seems fat enough to squash the deal

Is right

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

Ah I get it. Transfers are dead hard but everyone else has managed to assemble an actual first team squad.

You must be a nightmare at birthday's/Xmas.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Ah I get it. Transfers are dead hard but everyone else has managed to assemble an actual first team squad.

I mean Brentford have been completely decimated and look to be in trouble. Newcastle & Forest looking pretty light considering they have Europe this season and the likes of Brighton, Palace & Wolves havent exactly lit the transfer window up yet either..

We aren't the only ones who've been 'slow' in this window so far.

 

[Curtis]

Amazing new stadium with the same dross players.

You know under Moyes our form was in the top ten with those crap players

 

[riddick]

That summer we battered that Italian team 27-0 or what ever it was - how did we then start on the prem season?

Just checking on the correlation theory

Austrian.

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

There are two strands to 'fitness'. The fitness overall and adjustment to the new club and tactics.

We had a manager last year that was prioritising fitness and gaffers day over tactics. By mid Dec the team looked knackered and looked like they had not worked on any tactics.

Most professional players will maintain a high level of fitness, the tactics and squad dynamics are the reason to get players in early. But even that depends on if it's a tactical adjustment or not and if they are being bought to play in a familiar role.

To summarise, there isn't a one size fits all, approach to dealing with people.

But given that signing a player is a 4/5 year financial commitment and we don't have unlimited money to make mistakes prioritising getting the right players in (and being patient to do so if necessary) is surely preferable to getting the wrong players in early. Everyone would want players signed before the squad report back for preseason. But the transfer market doesn't work that way.

 

[zook]

I genuinely can't understand why we (or more clubs) aren't massively investing in their youth structure. Surely the answer is right there?

Get steady in the league, invest into a huge youth structure and begin producing talent:

Talent comes through and becomes part of the squad
Talent comes through and becomes a star and is sold to the usual suspects for big money.
Talent is sold off as prospects/potential, making us money.

Yes, it requires patience and money, but surely long term it's ideal?

Transfers are getting more and more absurd and costly.

In very typical Everton fashion the club were quite serious about this when we first came into the Moshiri/Usmanov money, with bringing in quality into the academy from other teams, but ended up getting a half a mil fine and a 2 year transfer ban from signing any youngsters

 

[Jebus_lives]

You must be a nightmare at birthday's/Xmas.

Like he gets invited.

 

[Jebus_lives]

But given that signing a player is a 4/5 year financial commitment and we don't have unlimited money to make mistakes prioritising getting the right players in (and being patient to do so if necessary) is surely preferable to getting the wrong players in early. Everyone would want players signed before the squad report back for preseason. But the transfer market doesn't work that way.

Yes, that too.

 

[Goat]

The whole league have set up an academy and are bringing through youth both to play and sell for big money?

This feels like a trick question?

But yes, every team in the world invests in their youth academies, Everton for example are in the same catchment area as Liverpool, Man City and Man Utd, not that catchment area matters in the global game.