Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Bluemersey]

Easy to misinterpret body language. I suspect there's a lot of posturing by Moyes as he likes to be the main man when it comes to recruitment. Similar to his ending at West Ham he doesn't like others taking over the transfer aspect of the managers job. It's why I wasn't sure he was the right fit for the project of Friedkins Everton going forward

I think the lack of recruitment isn't a Moyes issue is it, we have experts doing such a great job in that area. Maybe if Moyes was in charge we might have a few more players in place by now. He's simply telling them it's not good enough and as fan I 100% applaud his honesty

 

[windymiller]

Moyes has changed the narrative.

We now need warm bodies to fill the squad and avoid relegation.

The glorious new dawn we were hoping for has been rather familiar, so far. The season starts in 15 days and we don't have a single new first team player.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

You'd think Moyes comments would fire a rocket up the backsides of the dealmakers but it looks like another day will pass without anything substantial from a news point of view

I think we had a chance to attack the window and we haven't for one reason or another.

I think the next few weeks will be about bringing in sufficient bodies of a sufficient standard to maintain a level.

The idea of bringing in top players this window is down the swanny.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

You'd think Moyes comments would fire a rocket up the backsides of the dealmakers but it looks like another day will pass without anything substantial from a news point of view

Because what Moyes has been saying in the 'states literally serves no purpose other to placate the fans/shift responsibility off him.

 

[siddharth]

Much rather go for Yves Bissouma in the mid, has a bit of Mousa Dembele energy about him... Need such player in the middle. Josh Brownhill just seems like a James McCarthy.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Maybe sacking Thelwell and bringing in a completely new team so close to the transfer window wasn't the best idea.

Agreed. I liked Thelwell even if most didn't seem to

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Yes to Brownhill last season,

No to Brownhill this season,

We should aspire to be a different club.

I'm on board with the sentiment, but we seem to be showing that very aspiration, and in so doing we're getting stuck in the mud waiting for players to make a decision.

Should we leap straight from those players to Brownhill and the likes? No, but there seems to need to be some kind of compromise between doing great deals and doing quick deals.

 

[Nymzee]

Give me £30m and a week and I'll finalise the squad.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Much rather go for Yves Bissouma in the mid, has a bit of Mousa Dembele energy about him... Need such player in the middle. Josh Brownhill just seems like a James McCarthy.

He's a bad egg apparently Bissouma

 

[MACCA75]

The only positive so far is that we haven't re-signed Jack Harrison, but that's all I've got.

Don’t worry about that mate. The closer we get to the deadline, the more likely we are to get our first choice targets, and less likely Harrison is.

Don’t know how that works, but that is apparently what happens.

 

[windymiller]

As of right now James Garner is a starter and Tim Iroegbunam is first off the bench and a starter if anyone is injured or suspended.

We need multiple midfielders.

We do, but there's little difference between James Garner and Josh Brownhill. I'm all for signing new players, we need a bus load, but signing someone just because they're available is a bad plan.

 

[Lanolin]

This thread is crazy. One month ago we had a bunch of lads tying themselves up in knots trying to convince themselves that re-signing Michael Keane was a good move. Fast forward a month and we've basically got the same thing for Josh Brownhill.

Elite players for an elite stadium.

Everton.

It's all relative isn't it? Nobody really wants Brownhill and Keane here, it's just a discussion about whether in the real world they can do a job for us. I mean to be honest you'd think most people would have come round to the idea of re-signing Keane by now purely on the basis that we're massively behind where we need to be in terms of new signings as it is, adding in someone else that we needed to find hardly seems like it would have helped.

 

[mccole]

Give me £30m and a week and I'll finalise the squad.

Pocket the £30m and get Douc and DCL BACK

EASY

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Hope you're not implying that I am as I'm perfectly calm with the situation

The general thread vibe mate.

Although I did this with you shouting at me.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

I think the lack of recruitment isn't a Moyes issue is it, we have experts doing such a great job in that area. Maybe if Moyes was in charge we might have a few more players in place by now. He's simply telling them it's not good enough and as fan I 100% applaud his honesty

I get the feeling Moyes is playing to the gallery (us) a little too