Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Marcus Kendall]

…I think you’ll find there are plenty of U21 squad on this trip, there won’t be many left at FF.

I know Eggs but being that's he's just 16 it took me by surprise

 

[MisterJ]

Apes, together. Strong.

somewhere near Ramsey in Cambridgeshire according to What 3 Words

 

[NathDogg]

There's no excuse for starting the season with a RB who's adapted to that position in the last few months.

I expect a new RB and I think most others do too.

We cant be setting a bar as low as that for the new owners.

Rw much more a priority moody lemon.

Patto will see us right at right back.

 

[FinchFarmBlue]

KDH for starters.

Danny Drinkwater still there ?

Some have got good moves after not playing much but its been a bit of a footie graveyard for others hasn't it over the years?

 

[MichaelEFC96]

Hopefully Moyes can give us some sort of update about where things are at in the presser tomorrow

If there is one..

 

[Eggs]

I know Eggs but being that's he's just 16 it took me by surprise

….yep, and he tended to be with U18s last season. I do recall he switched to central striker to good effect at times, so could end up down that route.

I’m told he’s about to sign his first pro contract, I’d be doubtful he’d be involved with the first team this season but you never know, somebody could spring out of the group and stake a claim. Great opportunity for a youngster to impress.

 

[FinchFarmBlue]

KDH for starters.

Danny Drinkwater still there ?

I remember when Chelsea had good old fashioned playeez with salt of tye earth names. Step forward. Kerry Dixon

 

[blueblue]

More likely it’s down to simply the attractiveness of the proposition.

We want good players, most good players don’t want to come to us. We have no European football, we can’t pay mega wages, we don’t win anything, we’re an irrelevance to anyone of football playing age now.

So we either buy poor players

Or overpay to get good ones who may not want to be here

Or take a risk with big money on a prospect who could become good (Barry) or player who is good but something wrong making them available (Luiz, Grealish etc.)

We don’t really want to do any of these but we’re getting into the part of the window where a cautious manager like Moyes might start being more open to this.

I’ve no doubt that if he’d have wanted to Moyes could have filled all the vacant positions with deals for Coufal Antonio Ings Ward Prowse Longstaff Fellows etc. alongside offering the contracts that Doucoure Young Calvert Lewin wanted. There’d be lots of moaning about a very different problem then which would be the hoarding of complete rubbish players.

I think Moyes wants a higher quality of player and he’ll make do with smaller squads and players playing multiple positions if it means not wasting money on poor players. He’s shown he’ll do that in the past.

I honestly trust him more than anyone else that’s recruited at Everton since him though. He gets through the door people who want to play for him and want to play for the club. Give me that over Schneiderlin Siggurdson Moise Kean Klaasen etc. who literally were only here because we eventually found the right price at which their parent club were saying please just go and we paid them through the nose to be here.

I think the last paragraph is the most relevant.
David Moyes has shown himself to be shrewd in the transfer market and probably errs on the side of caution.
I think he looks at season 2025/2026 as a ten month project where the players you get in is more important than the number you get in. All managers make mistakes but the secret is making fewer mistakes.

I have been saying for a while that we certainly could have more signings by now by simply making bids matching or giving clubs more than they ask for but that has been in part of our problem for many years now.

However, I do think that DM and the club will know that supporters are watching for transfers almost on a minute by minute basis and they could give some general information which might calm nerves a little , I don't think it would break any confidences to say they are talking to a number of clubs, have bids in for a number of players but no agreement reached. Generic stuff but at least something for supporters to cling to.

 

[FinchFarmBlue]

….yep, and he tended to be with U18s last season. I do recall he switched to central striker to good effect at times, so could end up down that route.

I’m told he’s about to sign his first pro contract, I’d be doubtful he’d be involved with the first team this season but you never know, somebody could spring out of the group and stake a claim. Great opportunity for a youngster to impress.

That's a very good point about staking a claim. I don't follow the youth team closely to my own shame but was watching a few of their movements at the test event in March. One day soon you feel we will get a candidate or two after Armstrong that has what it takes.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

Romulus and Remus linked with Roma in a double swoop.

Had to act quickly. Wolves were at the door for them.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

I remember when Chelsea had good old fashioned playeez with salt of tye earth names. Step forward. Kerry Dixon

Bumstead

 

[Mr Happy]

I remember when Chelsea had good old fashioned playeez with salt of tye earth names. Step forward. Kerry Dixon

John Bumstead

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Bishop from Chicago may be plying his trade in Roma next season

 

[FinchFarmBlue]

John Bumstead

Nigel spackman.

If you aren't making Plans for Nigel in your team you are doing it wrong.

Every team needs a Nigel

 

[brieverton]

Hopefully Moyes can give us some sort of update about where things are at in the presser tomorrow

If there is one..

Probably judge more on his demeanour than what he says.