Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[MikeH72]

There is ZERO reason to believe that’s not what we’re currently in the process of doing. You’ve decided we’re not working quickly enough and so should abandon the notion of completing deals that require any sort of negotiation and just go for some mediocre, low-hanging fruit just so you can get your yellow SSN ticker dopamine hit. Then we can all convene back here and talk about how crap we are, and how we should have done “whatever it takes” to bring in better quality while we had the chance, even though when all it ACTUALLY takes is a bit of time, the mere prospect of it makes you saturate your kecks.

It’s all a bit tiresome, mate.

Anyway. 3 in this week.

Hahahaha yeah. Got told this last week.

Aznou is the only serious link that appears to have any legs. Who else are you predicting comes in this week? Fofana who’s basically laughed us out of the room, and then who?

 

[Aries]

The other side to this though is the recruitment team being savvy enough to identify the right 'bargins' across the world who have a potential high upside, which tend to be younger players from 'weaker' leagues. Other clubs have had success in doing this (Brighton et al) so you'd imagine that it should be a strategy that we should at least be trying hard to emulate given the position that we're currently in..

This Aznou kid seems this type of profile at least, which is a positive.

With all due respect Brighton are a nothing club and are simply happy being self sufficient and running a steady ship. That sounds disrespectful but they’ve never had aspirations to evolve and be successful. We’ve had a long proud history of success and unfortunately for the younger fan base, all they’ve ever known is a badly run club that sees 7th position as a success a la Brighton/Fulham.

We shouldn’t be aiming to copy the model of a Brighton football club. Good scouting, signing talented young players then selling them on for a healthy profit is absolutely fine if you have no ambition to be anything else other than a self sufficient mid table nothing club.

The point still stands, at some point you have to pay the big wages if you want to compete at the top end of the table. If you copy Brighton’s playbook, sign talent at 20 years old on low wages, and then inevitably lose them when they outgrow you and are demanding triple their current wage, then you’ll never progress as a football club to anything other than mid table fodder.

You can’t simply rely on finding these unpolished gems on a regular basis either. It isn’t an exact science and is harder than it seems.

 

[toffee66]

Moyes’ interview is honest but is not doing anything to reduce pressure. If they’d also bought eg Hackney or Fellows or Doak by now as well they would have earned a touch more patience but they have chosen to go big name hunting first, presumably trying to prioritise their £. It has not really worked. The question is when do they pivot. Now? In a week? When the season starts? Last few days of the window? Get it wrong and it could be very ugly.

 

[bluestevon]

The other side to this though is the recruitment team being savvy enough to identify the right 'bargins' across the world who have a potential high upside, which tend to be younger players from 'weaker' leagues. Other clubs have had success in doing this (Brighton et al) so you'd imagine that it should be a strategy that we should at least be trying hard to emulate given the position that we're currently in..

This Aznou kid seems this type of profile at least, which is a positive.

The Aznou deal actually really surprised me as raw talent and potential wise I'd rate him higher than other players we've supposedly been after. Whoever convinced him to join should be the one talking to every young player as they've sold him the project and his role within it very convincingly.

They key is to find those young very talented players and target the ones who actually playing games matters more right now to them than some badge of CL footy were they are at best a bit part.

Hardest part though is a lot of those talented ones do t think despite very clear evidence that this will end up their fate - most back themselves to be the one whose different and will be one a key player for Chelsea etc at 20

 

[gedefc]

Hahahaha yeah. Got told this last week.

Aznou is the only serious link that appears to have any legs. Who else are you predicting comes in this week? Fofana who’s basically laughed us out of the room, and then who?

I do agree with you, but that Aznou came out of nowhere again - there could be 1/2 others like that closeish to completion

 

[Azza]

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Moyes interview with The Athletic on Friday

Funnily I never had the manager just coming out and saying "We can't sign anyone because we're mega trash."

'Everton miss out on targets despite £150m war chest'

'Too much to do, too little time. Window shuts before Everton can fill key positions'

'Moyes: the team worked hard but ultimately the character just wasn't out there'

'Everton confident youngsters can step up. Armstrong won't go out on loan manager confirms'

'Everton lose out on marquee Brazilian after work permit issues'

'Everton last gasp deadline day return of Lookman fails - £40m bid gets rebuffed'

'A window of missed opportunity as rivals swoop on Everton targets'

'Last minute loan brings Everton's slow transfer window to a close'




Or something equally as obvious as one of those.

 

[coollino]

I thought the Gana contract was the 'signing of the summer' for the thinkers?

 

[blueboy72]

well i think Moyes confirmed it in this article. do we wait/continue to try for the likes of Luiz and Fofana level (as long as they have not turned us down already) or are we moving on to like Tom Fellows / Josh Brownhill level of players

No I’d rather sign nobody than sign brownhill, I’d just keep Armstrong and Tim

 

[ToffeeScot]

With all due respect Brighton are a nothing club and are simply happy being self sufficient and running a steady ship. That sounds disrespectful but they’ve never had aspirations to evolve and be successful. We’ve had a long proud history of success and unfortunately for the younger fan base, all they’ve ever known is a badly run club that sees 7th position as a success a la Brighton/Fulham.

We shouldn’t be aiming to copy the model of a Brighton football club. Good scouting, signing talented young players then selling them on for a healthy profit is absolutely fine if you have no ambition to be anything else other than a self sufficient mid table nothing club.

The point still stands, at some point you have to pay the big wages if you want to compete at the top end of the table. If you copy Brighton’s playbook, sign talent at 20 years old on low wages, and then inevitably lose them when they outgrow you and are demanding triple their current wage, then you’ll never progress as a football club to anything other than mid table fodder.

You can’t simply rely on finding these unpolished gems on a regular basis either. It isn’t an exact science and is harder than it seems.

I don't really agree. In the past two seasons Brighton have stepped up in terms of their recruitment drive and are splurging on signings a tad more. I think they unfortunately have to find a balance due to where they're located and not having the history of someone like Everton. They do have aspirations but they are also realistic with what they are. They will likely never be able to be a title winner or CL winner under their current ownership without huge investment because of the clubs they're competing with in the PL for it (Either clubs with huge history/mega investors or in some cases both) so the best they can do is chip away at EL/ECL places and try to compete there. You can both have aspiration and be clued in to how rough the football landscape is at the moment because of how fiercely competitive it is.

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

Them quotes are from Friday. The Fofana bid allegedly went in on Saturday, its not like they've completely given up on half decent players.

 

[MikeH72]

No I’d rather sign nobody than sign brownhill, I’d just keep Armstrong and Tim

I would rather have Brownhill than Tim. There you go, it just needed to be said.

 

[bluestevon]

Moyes’ interview is honest but is not doing anything to reduce pressure. If they’d also bought eg Hackney or Fellows or Doak by now as well they would have earned a touch more patience but they have chosen to go big name hunting first, presumably trying to prioritise their £. It has not really worked. The question is when do they pivot. Now? In a week? When the season starts? Last few days of the window? Get it wrong and it could be very ugly.

Here is the thing though mate, you get fellows or hackney in by giving them assurances about their role in the side - after that good luck big nose hunting as if you then sign a Luiz you do so by assuring him he's a central player and ooops Hackney now feels lies too as he sits on the bench behind him.

It's a balancing act and only time will show if they judged it correctly.

 

[Miked1e]

What are the chances for at least 2-3 signings this week Everton?

3 weeks till our first EPL game

 

[Blue_Berry]

Sick of the excuses. Maybe start going for top class European talent when we have an actual squad of players first and foremost. We need bodies to fill a matchday squad more than quality at this stage of proceedings. An absolute disaster of a window.

They're not excuses, they're reasons.

Your philosophy gives up now and accepts a relegation struggle again for our club. The club has a strategy, and if it doesn't work by the end of the window we'll no doubt end up buying as many cheap bodies in as needed to fill the squad. So we'd get to the same point you're suggesting anyway. But at least this way we'll have a good go at getting some proper targets in first.

Short-sighted clap-trap.

 

[bluestevon]

You can start fine tuning the squad to your liking once you actually have a squad in the first place. The season kicks off 3 weeks today, or registration deadline for the Leeds game is in 18 days time. We don’t have a right winger to speak of at the football club, we have one central midfielder of any quality who is 36. You can’t dress this up as anything other than a disgrace I’m afraid.

I'll pass comment once the reg deadline for Leeds is here mate, life's too short for me to get angry at something that in a week's time could mean I've been raging over nothing.