Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Exeter_Gently]

How do you know this exactly?

Come back in month you plonker and you must bow to your sensei.

 

[Miked1e]

fgs - are you STILL doing this?

Just replying to someone who brought it up.....

 

[ToffeeScot]

Saying Hackney hasn't agreed personal terms so I reckon he's waiting to see if a PL club comes in. Do it.

 

[Miked1e]

Come back in month you plonker and you must bow to your sensei.

Another great response.... well done. Keep up the good work.

 

[toffee82]

Sandro is 30 and in his prime now.

Three cheers for Ramirez.

 

[Yankfootball1]

Sounds as though we’re about to admit defeat in waiting for our top targets, and start moving down the list. Which is a shame, but understandable

I have no idea what goes on behind closed doors. But it appears from the outside to very much work linearly by position. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a top 2 or 3 by role that we would be happy with and would improve us. We work across all of the tier 1 prospects by position concurrently and communicate a hard date to get them in and we are also talking to others. Then you have tier 2 if the player and the club say no. It seems like we work on a target and if they say no we seem start fresh on the next target.

I think the Tete situation kind of reinforces that impression. We were working hard on a RB clearly to be a starter and now nothing for a month until ANM.

I'm sure I am probably wrong but it sure does feel this way from the outside.

 

[Drico]

Well another great overnight depressing update from the US.

I think it's admirable Moyes is being as candid as he can with fans and maybe also shift some pressure onto the recruitment team if there's some bottle neck there, but anyone else think it's a bit naive?

It's an absolute vipers nest the transfer market with agents and selling clubs. Admitting we're struggling just gives them leverage as we look desperate.

I doubt Moyes is being naive. He said what he intended to say. This is not his first day at the office. In the past, mutually-assured destruction was his friend. He knew he needed Kenwright as he built his career and Kenwright knew he needed Moyes to be his trusty sword, scabbard, and shield. It made sense that the two of them presented a united front despite whatever tensions played beneath the surface. When he didn't need Bill, he was off.

Moyes knows that if recruitment fails this summer, he's not long for the Dock. He probably expected more. I know I did - and I wasn't expecting miracles.

 

[Makis]

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.

We had to sell to buy during Moyes's first stint and we weren't that bad back then.

And if a players wants to move to a bigger club Everton will usually just have to sell them. There's no way to force an unhappy player to stay.

 

[Kirkles]

Saying Hackney hasn't agreed personal terms so I reckon he's waiting to see if a PL club comes in. Do it.

And if we don't get Hackney then go for Lennon Miller.

 

[Miked1e]

I have no idea what goes on behind closed doors. But it appears from the outside to very much work linearly by position. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a top 2 or 3 by role that we would be happy with and would improve us. We work across all of the tier 1 prospects by position concurrently and communicate a hard date to get them in and we are also talking to others. Then you have tier 2 if the player and the club say no. It seems like we work on a target and if they say no we seem start fresh on the next target.

I think the Tete situation kind of reinforces that impression. We were working hard on a RB clearly to be a starter and now nothing for a month until ANM.

I'm sure I am probably wrong but it sure does feel this way from the outside.

Clearly makes sense, and something we should be doing.

 

[brieverton]

Well another great overnight depressing update from the US.

I think it's admirable Moyes is being as candid as he can with fans and maybe also shift some pressure onto the recruitment team if there's some bottle neck there, but anyone else think it's a bit naive?

It's an absolute vipers nest the transfer market with agents and selling clubs. Admitting we're struggling just gives them leverage as we look desperate.

Yes, considering this was presumably an attempt to leverage some pressure on the CEO and owners, he could have done that without confirming we are a tough sell for players.

That said, in a press conference environment, and probably feeling generally stressed anyway, it can be hard to discipline your every utterance to that extent. He is human like us all.

 

[MACCA75]

Just showing y'all hardly anyone has done anything outside of the big guns. Mostly newly promoted teams trying to stay up, and a lot of last seasons loans turned perm.

Spoiler: PL 25/26 Transfers

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We had the most players walk out the door though.

 

[Azza]

Sounds as though we’re about to admit defeat in waiting for our top targets, and start moving down the list. Which is a shame, but understandable

Fill under the headline

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

'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.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

You just made it sound like you are happy with the squad.

No

I said our squad last season would’ve finished in a European position since Moyes took over based off our points total in response to someone saying we’re in a relegation battle with this squad. This squad is better than a relegation battle.

I have also said that I think our ambition in trying to sign very good players instead of good players is worth the risk of having to sign good players at the end of the window instead of early


Where did I say I am happy with our current squad?

Maybe instead of trying to work out how I sound in my written text you should take your own advice and read what people say

 

[14_dollars]

I have no idea what goes on behind closed doors. But it appears from the outside to very much work linearly by position. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a top 2 or 3 by role that we would be happy with and would improve us. We work across all of the tier 1 prospects by position concurrently and communicate a hard date to get them in and we are also talking to others. Then you have tier 2 if the player and the club say no. It seems like we work on a target and if they say no we seem start fresh on the next target.

I think the Tete situation kind of reinforces that impression. We were working hard on a RB clearly to be a starter and now nothing for a month until ANM.

I'm sure I am probably wrong but it sure does feel this way from the outside.

I think you’re being very kind.

It’s a shambles from top to bottom and The Friedkin Group have some serious questions to answer.