Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[davek]

The manager sounding a bit more optimistic while also highlighting concerns around the ‘bedding in period’.



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'Confident' is a lame shout.

It's way off the expectancy he ended last season with.

The lowering of what's going to be possible numbers wise is alarming.

 

[evertony]

Nothingness but we've signed 4 players so can't all be nothingness, can it?

OK 2600 pages

 

[Bob Elstone]

It’s true, the perception of the club looks worse when tete who’s not even an above average player stays at a club with a cottage.

Dress it up how you like, it’s poor.

 

[brieverton]

Stirling journalism from The Echo then, I see.

I expect it will be Dibling.

Hardly Sherlock Holmes stuff.

 

[blueblue]

Perception is important in football. Tete deciding to stay at Fulham over us sent out the completely wrong message IMO.

Feel like going the extra mile (financially) to get that done just sends a message that Everton are actually an attractive proposition again. The dominoes fall easier after that.

Probably sent out the message that London is more popular for players than Liverpool.

Also sent out the message that the agent played a blinder by getting his clients a big pay increase.

 

[Bob Latchford]

'Confident' is a lame shout.

It's way off the expectancy he ended last season with.

The lowering of what's going to be possible numbers wise is alarming.

Perhaps he’s been told to reel in the negativity…. I had set the bar at elite players for an elite stadium without the expectation that it would be a one and done window. I didn’t expect it to feel like more of the same which is probably the most disheartening aspect of it.

 

[Bob Latchford]

Is Moyes’s hair going orange

Maybe a wee rinse in or he’s went 90s lemon juice while out in the summer sun

 

[SteStocksDJ]

Why would urgency automatically mean signing bad players?

Players that are easy to sign are usually coming for the money or nobody wants them.

I’d rather not spaff a load of money up the wall on useless dross and hinder us from PSR again

 

[MikeH72]

Players that are easy to sign are usually coming for the money or nobody wants them.

I’d rather not spaff a load of money up the wall on useless dross and hinder us from PSR again

Actually, and I’ll keep saying this, teams get their priority business done and their top targets in early in the window. It’s not and never has been the other way round. This is something our fans have invented to cope with the sluggishness of our transfer activity.

 

[Bally1989]

'Confident' is a lame shout.

It's way off the expectancy he ended last season with.

The lowering of what's going to be possible numbers wise is alarming.

This happens all the time at this club, lots of false postering about how things are going to change and then there’s slow erosion of the original statement over a period of time which is then accepted by fans and excuses are made until it gets to November and the realisation hits home that they lied to us again.

 

[Bally1989]

Actually, and I’ll keep saying this, teams get their priority business done and their top targets in early in the window. It’s not and never has been the other way round. This is something our fans have invented to cope with the sluggishness of our transfer activity.

July 1st is another one.

 

[MikeH72]

In fact it’s funny to see people mentioning Maupay as an example, a player that we signed in the last week of the window in a blind panic because DCL got injured and we hadn’t bothered buying another striker. He’s an example of why you shouldn’t rush and buy early though.

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

If a player sees Fulham Football Club as a better career opportunity than Everton then we are clearly doing something very wrong. We’re not even talking about a Villa or a Forest or even a West Ham. We’re talking about a club that is as tinpot as it gets.

They are a Premier League club
They are a London club
He is probably happy living there.
They improved his wages and made it clear they wanted him .
He respects his manager .
We made an offer , he preferred to stay .
That’s all there was to it , hardly a pitchfork and torches moment for us .

 

[MikeH72]

They are a Premier League club
They are a London club
He is probably happy living there.
They improved his wages and made it clear they wanted him .
He respects his manager .
We made an offer , he preferred to stay .
That’s all there was to it , hardly a pitchfork and torches moment for us .

I think it shows how low our stock has fallen if I’m totally honest.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Players that are easy to sign are usually coming for the money or nobody wants them.

I’d rather not spaff a load of money up the wall on useless dross and hinder us from PSR again

Prices for good players will go up as the deadline gets closer. There are always some good deals at the end but it's also much more likely that a panic buy happens later in the window.

Waiting till late in the window is no guarantee of success and I'd argue its far more likely to lead to a poor window.