Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[hktoffee]

Fellows is also a bit of a one trick pony. The vast majority of his assists were a step over, quick shift to the outside and a cross dinked to the back post. PL defenders would sniff that out in a heartbeat. Bowen when signed by WHU from Hull tells us what Moyes values. A player who has pace to counter, can go outside or in, interchange positions and score goals as well as contribute to assists. Can Fellows be coached to do that? I don’t know but he does not do it much right now and he will never have that pace.

Spot on mate.

 

[MikeH72]

Mate - once again - we have enough of a squad to field Premier League sides in August.

Disagree all you want - but that is a fact.

It’s definitely not a fact and I will disagree. Do you think Tim Iroegbunam and Nathan Patterson are viable options for a Premier League season? Because as it stands one is starting and one is first sub off the bench when 36 year old Gana is knackered.

 

[Makis]

Would you be happy to have numbers in rather than quality? What squad fillers (not first teamers) would you have to fill our squad from the teams around us?

Just having numbers in a squad in the prem these days is no good. You got to have quality throughout otherwise we just promote the u21's /academy players to make the numbers up and make the fans happy.

I already said I wouldn't. Longstaff would have been fine if we also get Luiz. Longstaff and Brownhill together is not ok.

And we can't have 30 million players sit on the bench. We still don't have the finances to compete with the top six. Even with BMD our revenue will still be less than half of the poorest of them.

 

[MikeH72]

But if the players are no better than what we have, then it kind of is.
Yeah, we need a squad, but part of the reason we’ve been scrapping relegation for years is because we’ve been signing crap players.

But obviously they will be better than Nathan Patterson, Tim Iroegbunam and Isaac Heath?

 

[hktoffee]

So you're calling a player slow off a few clips of him crossing on a YouTube video... with no actual evidence to back it up? Because he runs past full-backs on his clips but you're likely ignoring that.

The only person we should ask is @Littlesue who is an actual WBA fan.

Let me ask you the same question. What you think he is quick like the Lyon winger. Do you have evidence?

Go and watch the clips of Fellows and Forfana. You will be able to judge.

 

[Drico]

It's clear that we've made a mess of recruitment.

It's one thing being ambitious, it's quite another executing on that ambition. We seem to have over-reached and are now panicking. This means bad decisions - made in haste - now become more likely.

We need someone to add a little magic dust to the Everton proposition - whether that's one glamorous player who can attract others, or a manager who people want to play for.

If we don't have that, then it's really up to the manager to get the best out of what he can get in.

 

[Nymzee]

I havnt heard a single no yet

What makes you think this lad will want to pick a club like ours right now?

 

[Makis]

Yep. Looking back now at the Ndiaye deal, it's a bit of a steal. A deal up to £17m for him and now targets in his relative position this summer you're looking at anywhere from £30-50m.

Loads of people would moan if we signed someone of Ndiaye's profile this summer. He had a poor season and hadn't done that much in England before. That's why he was so cheap.

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

There’s been a few that are head scratchers. I can understand the complications with Luiz and Fofana for sure, but how we haven’t paid the price for Hackney and AMN yet I don’t know. Would leave us with the rest of the window to focus efforts on the right wing position.

I suppose you could add Fellows to that list.
I think, taking the rumours at face value, we have been trying to add some quality to the team , signing players who would allow us to control possession a little more and create more in the way of attacking threat.
Niles , I hope , is a spurious rumour , he has had ample time and chances to establish himself as a PL player and been found wanting. In fact his relative success in France highlights his failure in the PL.
Fellows , I wouldn’t be averse to as a squad player if he could translate his form to the PL.
He is a traditional winger and I would prefer to have someone who offers more quality and options as first choice.
Hackney is an intriguing one , I was initially unimpressed with the link , but upon closer inspection he appears to be highly rated as young , developing , deep lying playmaker .
Of the three he is the one I wish we had taken a chance on .
I think Fellows and Hackney already have moves lined up now if we were ever interested in them in the first place .

 

[Nymzee]

Let me ask you the same question. What you think he is quick like the Lyon winger. Do you have evidence?

Can two people not both be quick? You called him as slow as McNeil.

 

[GlosBlue]

Let me ask you the same question. What you think he is quick like the Lyon winger. Do you have evidence?

But loads of these pace merchants have no end product? And ones that do go for silly money!

 

[Curtis]

You only have to look at the recruitment of Brighton as the benchmark.

Brighton also brought in what appeared to be a washed up Danny welbeck, Adam lalana , and later on a mid 30s James milner along with the up and coming talents they deftly scouted. Those 3 being recruited at Everton would of created a tsunami of urine with our delicate fanbase

 

[danny=)]

Remove ndiaye and gana with injury or for afcon and our midfield is disgusting

 

[Makis]

But if the players are no better than what we have, then it kind of is.
Yeah, we need a squad, but part of the reason we’ve been scrapping relegation for years is because we’ve been signing crap players.

No, problem has been we have been forced to fill key positions with cheap players _and_ having a small squad.

 

[blue to the bone]

….plus the posts predicting new signings will get serious injuries soon after they join us

Or the posts saying his own thread when someone starts one up