Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[pfim]

They play on opposite sides of the pitch

I’m certain Fofana would be playing on the right for EFC

 

[pedro789]

Maybe the strategy is scattergun, I don't know.

But we never seem to have things worked out with players/agents before transfer window opens.

Most deals are done months ago.

We seem to wait until season ends before we start doing any work on deals.

 

[Syrup]

I didnt want to say

Endless days of bed wetting wreaks havoc on the brain evidently

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

I neary sahred this earlier

Was soooo good - went to see him live with my wife as a result, wow it was actually serious .We thought it was a joke

 

[Jebus_lives]

do you mean same position apart from the different side?

Maybe we want both.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Endless days of bed wetting wreaks havoc on the brain evidently

Ammonia can send you potty.

No pun intended.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

That’s fine when we have the ball but when pressing you need pace all over the team. We don’t have any anywhere. I wanted the new recruits to have a bit of searing pace. At least he’ll be quicker than McNeil I suppose.

Hear what you're saying, football is all about the right balance after all but sometimes searing pace comes at the cost of guile which we're also crying out for

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

We currently do not have a RW at the club, so make a move for a young player and its wrong.

As Fofana maybe we were going to put Ndiaye out on the right until other targets came available. Maybe they are waiting till Fofana says no and we move for Grealish.

Next you will ask why we didn't move for Dibling earlier, Southampton were asking silly money and now have dropped their asking price.

Its not scatter gun, its moving down targets and not jizzing everything we have, like we have done for years

OK, so 1st august, we have been bidding on all sor, mostly LW above our station, then, we suddenly cheuck a randon low (BK) style bid in for a LW and its not scattergun??

Mate, I am an optimist on here and even I am calling it ' fofana and grealish say no - shall we activate operation Dibling?'

 

[Saint Domingo]

Hear what you're saying, football is all about the right balance after all but sometimes searing pace comes at the cost of guile which we're also crying out for

The top teams can buy players that have both. Everton seem to only be able to get players with one attribute, it’s either Doucoure with a load of pace and no technique, or it’s Leon Osman with brilliant skill and no pace. We’ve had the odd one like Kanchelskis Rooney Barkley who had both but not many. We seem to have fared much better in defensive players than we have attacking players.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Maybe we want both.

Ah, so we waitied 6 eweeeks for this bid despite moyes protesations??

 

[Miked1e]

See the recruitment strategy is still going well!

 

[MaghullBlue1878]

Well maybe we're after both. Maybe we think one of our LW can play RW.

It's well documented we need two wingers so I think we are after both. Could perhaps see Ndiaye tried a sa number 10 if we do get both

 

[Syrup]

Well he’ll go for 30+ so he must be doing something right, regardless of your knowledge

Not just my knowledge clearly

 

[Marcus Kendall]

The top teams can buy players that have both. Everton seem to only be able to get players with one attribute, it’s either Doucoure with a load of pace and no technique, or it’s Leon Osman with brilliant skill and no pace. We’ve had the odd one like Kanchelskis Rooney Barkley who had both but not many. We seem to have fared much better in defensive players than we have attacking players.

It's the fact of life I'm afraid when you've been in the doldrums as long as we have. I think the best way to the top is to buy young hungry unproven players and hope with good management mould them into a great side ala Tottenham under Pochettino. It's not a guarantee to work but to me its a better strategy then buying established second tier players who will keep you at a certain ceiling going forward ala the knife to a gunfight analogy

 

[Lapeno77]

We're gonna end up paying 20 million for Harrison on transfer deadline day, aren't we?