Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[DaChunk]

Can I shock use....am still not worried.

This isn't me trying to be some cool edge lord.

I still think it will be turned around.

Really hope so mate.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

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.

The same way that you can argue that he's unhappy with it.. despite not actually flat-out saying it at any point?

Multiple times in interviews since pre season began he's praised the current squad and how they finished last season on a high, just as much as he's conveyed (rightly) that we need some good new players through the door to replace those players who were released because they weren't carrying their weight. That is, indeed, how you improve a squad after all. This doesn't suggest though to me that he's 'unhappy' with his current crop of players - the very ones who ended last season well.

The argument isn't that we don't need '9 or 10' players (which we just simply will not get anyway - it'll be more like 5 or 6) it's that the current squad (plus Travers, Barry & Aznou) aren't equipped to deal with the first 3 games of a 38 game season prior to the 1st September deadline - which is what your heads appear to be falling off over

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

There's also the very clear reason trams do t do this is that the extra season or two they spend after leaving say Belgium to play in France or Portugal is what they need to develop to the level they can play regularly in the Premier League.

If we buy someone straight from Belgium say there's a god chance he isn't ready and either stagnates getting very few minutes or is loaned out - we don't have the financial ability to be paying 10-15+m for a player who isn't ready to play.

Case in point if Chermiti would have moved to a French side there's a chance he may have ended up developing very nicely and have been getting brought to the premier league for 30m this season the way we did with Barry.

Exactly - people act like moyes has never thought about 'getting fofana types in before they cost 50 mil'

 

[Ragnar]

We should have took Kyle Walker. Not everything had to be a glamorous signing, we need players to make the numbers up and RB is one of our weakest positions. Obviously, he’s not as quick as he once was, but he’s still got a footballing brain, and massive experience.

 

[ToffeeScot]

We should have took Kyle Walker. Not everything had to be a glamorous signing, we need players to make the numbers up and RB is one of our weakest positions. Obviously, he’s not as quick as he once was, but he’s still got a footballing brain, and massive experience.

Stunk the place up at City and Milan last season and has loads of off field baggage. Sensible swerve.

 

[msb]

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.

An interesting perspective, but honestly none of us really know which markets they are scouting. I had never heard of Thierno Barry or Adam Anzou and had no idea we had ever looked at them.

Our frustration with slow purchases means we speculate at what they should be doing, even to the point of telling them to pay more, when we don’t even know what offers have been made.

I am more patient than most, although impatient to see Everton improve. There is nothing I can moan about in reality, other than apparent slowness in transfers, so, like many, I will fill the gap with utter nonsense - like this post!

 

[9LeagueTitles5FACups]

Us going for established European players has probably hampered us.

The South American market is where we should be looking.

You've got players over there you could pick up for relatively low fees and would literally walk to you, regardless of whether you're in Europe or not.

I'd like to add that we should also be looking in the smaller European leagues (e.g. Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark) for any talent which may pop up there. Thierno Barry was only at Villareal for one season before joining us. Where was he playing before that? Basel in Switzerland and Beveren in Belgium. Fofana was at Belgian club Genk before joining Lyon in January 2024 for €17m+€5m in add-ons. Now Lyon want close to €40m after one-and-a-half seasons playing over in France. We're definitely missing a trick in the European market as well as the South American market and should be picking up players on the cheap before their value skyrockets.

 

[Pabbers]

6-7 is the aim - we’re short in all departments and AFCON will deplete of atleast 3 players.

It may be your aim.

Moyes said 9 players, we have singed 4 already.

So maybe 5 more...at the most.

If we fetched in 4 more very good players, we are looking good.

We lost 2 first teamers from last season.....1 of those being Jack Harrison.

 

[matty1878]

An interesting perspective, but honestly none of us really know which markets they are scouting. I had never heard of Thierno Barry or Adam Anzou and had no idea we had ever looked at them.

Our frustration with slow purchases means we speculate at what they should be doing, even to the point of telling them to pay more, when we don’t even know what offers have been made.

I am more patient than most, although impatient to see Everton improve. There is nothing I can moan about in reality, other than apparent slowness in transfers, so, like many, I will fill the gap with utter nonsense - like this post!

no it’s a good post mate!

 

[ToffeeTim]

The same way that you can argue that he's unhappy with it.. despite not actually flat-out saying it at any point?

Multiple times in interviews since pre season began he's praised the current squad and how they finished last season on a high, just as much as he's conveyed (rightly) that we need some good new players through the door to replace those players who were released because they weren't carrying their weight. That is, indeed, how you improve a squad after all. This doesn't suggest though to me that he's 'unhappy' with his current crop of players - the very ones who ended last season well.

The argument isn't that we don't need '9 or 10' players (which we just simply will not get anyway - it'll be more like 5 or 6) it's that the current squad (plus Travers, Barry & Aznou) aren't equipped to deal with the first 3 games of a 38 game season prior to the 1st September deadline - which is what your heads appear to be falling off over

My opinion is that our squad is currently not equipped to deal with any top flight matches, and that was proved to some extent on Saturday. If we go into the season with this squad, I expect a very disappointing start. We've seen how we start the season following a poor and disorganised pre season.

I just can't understand why Moyes would say we need another 9 players if he was happy with the squad - that makes no sense at all.

 

[DaChunk]

Something else that I found interesting was that Moyes made it clear that we really do have to stretch our money. So the haggling over 3-4 million isn't just the new transfer team playing hardball but a needed process.

 

[MikeH72]

We should have took Kyle Walker. Not everything had to be a glamorous signing, we need players to make the numbers up and RB is one of our weakest positions. Obviously, he’s not as quick as he once was, but he’s still got a footballing brain, and massive experience.

Mate Kyle Walker has never had a footballing brain, never mind still

 

[MisterJ]

Here’s three that could be completed this week…

Doucs
DCL
Harrison

Jobs a goodun

Ban

 

[Exeter_Gently]

I'd like to add that we should also be looking in the smaller European leagues (e.g. Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark) for any talent which may pop up there. Thierno Barry was only at Villareal for one season before joining us. Where was he playing before that? Basel in Switzerland and Beveren in Belgium. Fofana was at Belgian club Genk before joining Lyon in January 2024 for €17m+€5m in add-ons. Now Lyon want close to €40m after one-and-a-half seasons playing over in France. We're definitely missing a trick in the European market as well as the South American market and should be picking up players on the cheap before their value skyrockets.

 

[COYBL25]

We should have took Kyle Walker. Not everything had to be a glamorous signing, we need players to make the numbers up and RB is one of our weakest positions. Obviously, he’s not as quick as he once was, but he’s still got a footballing brain, and massive experience.

One big problem with that one, he signed for Burnley three weeks ago