Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Eggsyblueskin]

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

Because we have had 30 years of this quality of recruitment amidst 30 years of nothingness.
One of the more obvious mantras of football is that you aim to buy at the level above to progress.
I know we hope a manager can create a team better than the sum of its parts , but if you keep supplying lower level players don’t be surprised to be flirting with relegation rather than chasing European football .

 

[NathDogg]

Quite like the honesty from Moyes in his frustrations on current transfers, but he’s as much a part of the process as the rest of the recruitment team. Not sure him saying desperate 14 times in a press conference is going to help our negotiating position either.

I’m glad we aren’t allowing our pants to be ragged off on stupid transfer fees and by players agents wanting daft money for their clients, but it seems we are quite limited to our scope of targets.

I really like the aznou signing, I would love a few more of those - theres value and talent available imo, I just don’t think we are necessarily looking in the right markets.

South America, some of the champs league teams from lesser nations like Belgium etc and players from the youth set ups of the big teams, like aznou, who won’t get minutes at their current clubs and want to kick on. The world is a big place and we are just about, still a premier league team.

I don’t want us to sign crap like Harrison or coufal just to fill the squad with bodies, thanks very much.

 

[ToffeeTim]

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- Admits he'd have liked our top targets in before now. Nothing controversial there - and I agree;
- States that the squad ended the season well (generated a 'lot of positivity that has been carried over') and, in an ideal world, 'wouldn't even need any new players';
- Describes the OOCs/loanees who've left as 'gaps to try and fill' but will only look to do it with players who'll improve the current squad - a perfectly reasonable stance to take.

Where does much if any of that suggest that he thinks that we're in trouble/is panicking about the size/state of the squad? or indeed, that we should've already been backfilling the squad with players that he'd ordinarily deem not good enough to kick us on next season?

He's clearly frustrated with the pace in which new players are being brought in - not with the squad itself.

The lack of patience on display from a section of Evertonians every summer continues to baffle me..

I just cannot agree at all with this. Moyes is clearly frustrated with the state of the squad. He said the other day we need 9 or 10 more players.

There's no way you can interpret Moyes comments that suggests he is even slightly content with the state of the squad.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Eh. They don't have to sell all of their good players, they sell when offer is high enough. Just like we have done with Branthwaite. Had ManU offered 80 million last summer I suspect he'd been off.

If we can sign a player for 30 million and sell him for 80 two years from now, of course that's what's done. Don't kid yourself thinking otherwise.

That’s the same for every club in the world. These clubs just seem to sell a lot more even when they don’t need to meet FFP.

The point still stands that if we’d sold Branthwaite Pickford Ndiaye then we probably would have made a lot more signings by now but most people wouldn’t have wanted that.

Bournemouth have sold Huijsen and Kirkez and look likely to sell Zarbanyi as well. They’re their three best players. Brighton sold Joao Pedro to Chelsea. Brentford Mbeumo to United.

If we’d have sold Branthwaite to Liverpool Chelsea or United there’d have been murder on here, especially if Ndiaye and Pickford followed him out the door.

 

[Ragnar]

Im actually pretty happy with those Moyes comments its what you want to see. If im putting a senior management structure in place like we have under TFG in the last six months, what i want to see is productivity but also natural tension. You want questions being asked, you want people being challenged, you want accountability. What we have just seen from Moyes is massively healthy.

From an overall plan implementation point of view we have seen productivity, we have four in the door we have a squad of 20/21. Arguably of greater quality and potential then the players who have vacated the squad places the new signing shave taken. Do we need to abandon the plan at a critical point - absolutely not - this is a critical point when the most business will be done and availability is at highest, you can be flexible in your plan but never abandon it mid implementation. What Moyes is essentially saying to his recruitment colleagues is we have two deadlines coming up the PL and End of Window, we need to be more productive.

Away from strategy and if im interpreting what he is saying and what is happening so far i would say this. Hes talking about specific players, i suspect we know what it takes to get McAtee done, i suspect we know what Lyon want for Fofana for say, Sociedad for Kubo and prob an awful lot of different players. Part of what the management team has done in recruitment this summer has been to sepdn a lot of time negotiating to get best value in deals - thats been one of the objectives. We spent three weeks negoating down the Barry deal. What Moyes is signalling here is there comes a point if you want to get deals over the line - that you go and pay the £35 mill each for McAtee and Fofana if you want them and that any deal isnt on our side and i think it is.

As said i think wat we are seeing here isnt a reason for blin panic, Moyes knows exactly what hes doing here - hes using the media and fans to raise the tension to recruitment team to get deals over the line instead of over negotiating. Thats what you wan tin management structure a natural tension. While we have been productive Moyes is signalling we need to be quicker, more decisive, committal, bolder and agile, because in the next week or so we are hitting the apex of the market.

We keep our heads here, but recognise the need for commitment and stealth - we're getting to the business end now.

Hard when the players are saying no.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

You are desperately scrambling around to justify a stance that makes no sense here.

Moyes is not happy, however you want to dress his words up and try and twist them into something else. Maybe Onyango getting significant minutes over the next 2 games will wake you up, then again who am I kidding, of course it won’t.

Mate I've literally just handed you the evidence of where he isn't happy which I don't think many of us are actually disputing..

Let me put it this way - if one of those journos had flat out asked 'are you happy heading into August without a squad?' he'd have clearly disagreed with that notion and lets not pretend otherwise..

 

[matty1878]

Everyone’s being used in football. None of the reports you see from ITKs are the result of them doing incredible investigative work, it’s all being fed from someone who has a skin in the game. Players, clubs and agents are all out for their own interests, surely everybody understands that by now.

i’m not bothered about others mate

 

[Toffe3m4n]

I just cannot agree at all with this. Moyes is clearly frustrated with the state of the squad. He said the other day we need 9 or 10 more players.

There's no way you can interpret Moyes comments that suggests he is even slightly content with the state of the squad.

2+2=5 stuff here mate haha

 

[Kirkles]

That’s the same for every club in the world. These clubs just seem to sell a lot more even when they don’t need to meet FFP.

The point still stands that if we’d sold Branthwaite Pickford Ndiaye then we probably would have made a lot more signings by now but most people wouldn’t have wanted that.

Bournemouth have sold Huijsen and Kirkez and look likely to sell Zarbanyi as well. They’re their three best players. Brighton sold Joao Pedro to Chelsea. Brentford Mbeumo to United.

If we’d have sold Branthwaite to Liverpool Chelsea or United there’d have been murder on here, especially if Ndiaye and Pickford followed him out the door.

The difference is , when clubs like Brighton and Bournemouth sell their best players for huge profits they already have the replacement lined up . We'd sell them and then start looking .

 

[ToffeeTim]

2+2=5 stuff here mate haha

Nope mate. There's only one way to interpret Moyes last 2 interviews - he's incredibly frustrated

How can you possibly argue he's happy with the squad when he said we need 9 or 10 more players.

 

[Victus]

@bitterbloo157 Where are these players lad?

 

[matty1878]

Nope mate. There's only one way to interpret Moyes last 2 interviews - he's incredibly frustrated

How can you possibly argue he's happy with the squad when he said we need 9 or 10 more players.

yup

 

[Lanolin]

i’m not bothered about others mate

Not being bothered is fine, but you obviously still need to appreciate how things work in a wider sense in order to know whether what's happening to Everton is good or bad. If you don't take any notice of how the world works then you have no idea whether what you see happening to you is normal or not. In this case, it's normal.

 

[ToffeeScot]

Seeing Ipswich have a deal in place for Hackney at c. £15m. A deal we should be looking to hijack.

 

[matty1878]

Not being bothered is fine, but you obviously still need to appreciate how things work in a wider sense in order to know whether what's happening to Everton is good or bad. If you don't take any notice of how the world works then you have no idea whether what you see happening to you is normal or not. In this case, it's normal.

i didn’t say it wasn’t. i just don’t like it