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Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

Dan Friedkin being the chairman of Everton football club would have complete knowledge of our transfer strategy and execution.

On that basis, it would be logical to assume that the success or failure of this transfer window is at his doorstep as much as the CEO of the club.

My point is they are both tied together on this window and apart from a fluffy Saturday morning video from the CEO and outburst of frustration from the manager ....not a peep from the upper hierarchy of the leadership.

Certainly in US sports fans hold recruitment and top leadership accountable, they do press conferences. They dont have the luxury of not being answerable to recruitment and sports performance.
 

HKContractDave said:


Someone's rattled
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Seeing alot of this sort of stuff this summer.

Think its a reason behind Newcastle struggling to bring players in etc.

The Isak situation has been a disgrace, you look at Sky with there 'would Grealish suit Spurs' stuff, Sesko being 'pushed' to United instead of Newcastle, glorifying the Joao Pedro signing etc etc

They have decided who they want to keep/buy/sell players and control the narrative that way.

Can you imagine the outcry if United or Chelsea had a bid of £40m by Dibling turned down?
You would see articles of how 'ludicrous the price is' and how you cant let such a talent like that waste away in the Championship
 
Dan Friedkin is not Chairman of Everton, Marc Watts is. Every word that follows is about as accurate. Chairs and non-execs get periodic updates from CEO not daily briefings. They are not intimately involved in transfers. The owner of the New York Giants, who I follow, does a maximum of two press conferences a year, last year only one. Some owners do more, others do none. The GM of the Giants does more press than Kinnear has done so far but TFG’s approach at Roma is say less, do more and it is logical to expect that here. If the execs fails on the ‘do’ bit they will be held accountable, as has happened at Roma.
 

Raino85 said:
Seeing alot of this sort of stuff this summer.

Think its a reason behind Newcastle struggling to bring players in etc.

The Isak situation has been a disgrace, you look at Sky with there 'would Grealish suit Spurs' stuff, Sesko being 'pushed' to United instead of Newcastle, glorifying the Joao Pedro signing etc etc

They have decided who they want to keep/buy/sell players and control the narrative that way.

Can you imagine the outcry if United or Chelsea had a bid of £40m by Dibling turned down?
You would see articles of how 'ludicrous the price is' and how you cant let such a talent like that waste away in the Championship
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Chelsea paid Southampton £53 mil for a 19 yr old Romeo Lavia last year mate.
 
Hills Dickinson said:
We need to be more patient, we’re not signing players for the Leeds game, we’re signing them for the next 3-5 years - if they all come in on deadline day that’s fine by me.

Dibbling would be quality, the more I’ve read I’d happily go to 50M - could be an England regular for the next ten years.

Once we get a RW in, a Strikers where I’m most concerned, Beto isn’t the answer and I suspect Barry is a couple of years away given his age and raid rise. I’d be interested if we could get DCL back
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It was going so well, then I read that last line :pint2:!

P.S Apologies, was catching up, and I now see others have beaten me to it!
 
UltraVires said:
But I don’t think Southampton currently have any intention of selling at a lower price and he should have known that from the start
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But your whole argument is about how Liverpool have done that with Isak meaning Newcastle may accept a lower price.

Firstly, very similar has happened in the Dibling situation. But there’s no way of knowing prior to that situation playing out whether saints would accept lower or not.

And for all intents and purposes, there is nothing to suggest Newcastle will accept less than their valuation as no deal has been done for Isak and they remain clear they don’t want to sell and would only sell for £150m.

We literally tried what you said we should be doing, even though your example of another team doing it hasn’t even worked at this point.
 
Raino85 said:
Seeing alot of this sort of stuff this summer.

Think its a reason behind Newcastle struggling to bring players in etc.

The Isak situation has been a disgrace, you look at Sky with there 'would Grealish suit Spurs' stuff, Sesko being 'pushed' to United instead of Newcastle, glorifying the Joao Pedro signing etc etc

They have decided who they want to keep/buy/sell players and control the narrative that way.

Can you imagine the outcry if United or Chelsea had a bid of £40m by Dibling turned down?
You would see articles of how 'ludicrous the price is' and how you cant let such a talent like that waste away in the Championship
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Do you remember the Branthwaite stuff last year - we were holding back his career by not accepting £40 mill etc.

I blame the other 14 clubs, they accept it - if they had any gumption they put down a boundary at the least, that's were the power lies, in the majority.
 


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