Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[matty1878]

More the fact that he's a right back and we don't seem to have one.

well they need to find one

 

[brittcop1]

But unless relegation is a genuine concern, where's the fire?

Despite this pathetic 3300 pages( including myself there), the fanbase is the only positive thing about Everton at the moment. The new owners are invisible. They may turn out to be good businessmen but they do zero to show us they actually "care" about the entity that is Everton and the fanbase. If they think a shiny stadium is going to keep everyone happy they have completely misread the room. Moyes has aged since the end of last season. Something is not right between him and ownership and possibly some of the players. If he really doesnt fancy Barry, why is he the only forward we bought all summer after publically calling out Beto? As bad as we were last night, it was a lot of the same team that scored goals last season and looked like they enjoyed playing. The preseason was an unmitigated disaster...headi ng off to the US to showcase Everton completely backfired...played awful and the manager whinged the whole time. I dont even have the energy to debate who we should sign...noone with other EPL options would think this is a place to be right now, hope that can change. It will only change when we look better on the field, are not set up with right footed left backs and midfielders who cant pass and a sulking center forward. For me, time for Moyse to show hes a good manager and get what he has playing better, as he did last season. Ti.e for the owners to demand better from all involved and show they give AF.

 

[PeregrineT]

“Relax, everything will be fine, there’s still 2 weeks of the window left” is more exhausting to read than anything else to be honest with you.

Dont worry, Im confident you wont have to read that for long!

Because itll soon be 1 week of the window left.

 

[MikeH72]

Dont worry, Im confident you wont have to read that for long!

Because itll soon be 1 week of the window left.

Next Monday is a bank holiday too so strike that one off. Then we’ve got a cup game so another day off for the lads.

 

[jazzy]

The players we have should be fit, played in their proper position, and trying to win every game.

It was nil for three last night. That’s on Moyes. Ndiaye looked like it was his first day back at preseason. Iroegbunam had no clue what he was doing. Alcaraz and Garner were out of position. Grealish is fit to play but not fit to start? Subs were made too late.

A complete mess.

I agree with all of that which I why I said last night was " mostly " down to the recruitment team.

It's criminal that we have no RB or RW at the very least.

 

[NikNak8]

Some pathetic stuff in here and the TFG thread today. Last night was really poor but to be calling for the head of the manager and owner/board...

People had naive, unrealistic ideas about this summer and how it was going to go. The ineptitude of the previous regime left us in a position of needing to sign 10 players in one window. 100% we could have filled out the squad with mediocre players by now and had a full squad available for the opening game of the season. All that would be doing though would be restarting the previous cycle.

The hold up is coming down to us having a standard of player we want to bring in, and sticking to that. It's frustrating, we look woefully underprepared for the season which has now already begun. But get real, we are not an easy sell atm and despite what some people seemingly think we are defo still limited by PSR in what we are able to spend. What we've been told is that we are taking the necessary time to land the targets we actually want, that are actually good enough to improve us. If we manage that, even if we have a poor start to the season, in the end looking at the bigger picture it will be worth it.

Moyes bottled it last night, but he has credit in the bank. TFG and the recruitment team - it's their first window, they have very openly asked to be judged on deadline day. Personally I'm not happy about it, but given that's what they have said that's what I'm going to do. If you're crying and throwing your toy's out the pram after the first game of the season I'm sorry to say that you're being an idiot. If deadline day comes and we still don't have the players in then by all means throw a tantrum then. Until then though could people just relax with the doom-mongering. We're 1 game into the season and its already exhausting to read this forum.

Lad it was exhausting to read this forum back in early July, but thats a good thing as its the only exercise some of the people on here get

 

[brittcop1]

Yes, we have done it badly but, it’s basically the same squad that was top five under Moyes games and with the addition of grealish, dews, Barry and whoever else we add

A good team doesn’t become crap overnight - we messed up last night ironically due to injuries in positions we are less concerned about than others.

We will have a much better squad than last year you’d imagine and it was a squad that we were all praising

Not sure it was your point, but I agree with you...this is the same squad that played quite well end of last season...

 

[Moomin]

Next Monday is a bank holiday too so strike that one off. Then we’ve got a cup game so another day off for the lads.

Half day Friday as well.

 

[brittcop1]

I agree with all of that which I why I said last night was " mostly " down to the recruitment team.

It's criminal that we have no RB or RW at the very least.

And its also criminal that we then start Garner at left back and leave him there all night when we signed a left back ( who wasnt even in the squad) and had lefty mclefterson Dwight McNeil on the bench. If they werent fit then have the common courtesy to let the fans know because the speculation is much worse...

 

[mikel_88]

Prob get alot of people saying no but anyone take a chance on awoniyi at forest, would only try offer a loan in the short term

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[brittcop1]

What evidence is there to suggest that Barry is even an upgrade on DCL? From the admittedly little I’ve seen frankly I’ve been alarmed at just how “not ready” he is. He looks absolutely nowhere near ready to start in this league.

The fact that some w@@nkers who get paid a whole lot of money by Everton paid over £27 million for him and paraded him around as if we had just signed our next superstar forward. If we were paying that amount of money for a developmental player and bought in no new forwards, our problems are worse than I thought...and that is bad.

 

[pfim]

My opinion is that unless our recruitment has a remarkable improvement in the next fortnight, then we will have a disappointing season, even if we appointed Pep Guardiola, Ancelotti, or anyone else as manager

This squad is really bad. So many bad players and so many areas we just have no one. No manager is having a successful season without any available full backs, without any wide right players, an unproven striker and an average striker, and only 2 real quality players at goalkeeper and centre half, one of whom is injured.

Either sign the right players or we will be down the bottom again.

He's been fired. He's gotten a team relegated. He's not above being fired for cause.

The squad is not that bad and won't be by the end of the window. It's still a bit thin. The frustrating thing for me is that he doesn't think RB is a priority, which I'm not sure I could disagree with any more than I do. Certainly with the way he wants to play, a 6'6" CB is not suited to RB.

 

[DaChunk]

3 seasons too late for Rabiot otherwise I'd take him

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

I think you need to factor in other squads improving. Utd, Spurs, Palace, Brighton and Forest I expect to push on again. I think Villa and Newcastle might dip a bit but still finish above us. Fulham migjt drop off a tad, and I expect Brentford to plummet. I think Sunderland and Leeds will be harder to play against - even if they come up short. And it’s 2025 - we cannot have a team full of players playing out of position. Doesn't work that way.

We probably won’t be a team out of position though
Agreed, there’s been some decent strengthening by some teams - most were better than us already tbh

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

And its also criminal that we then start Garner at left back and leave him there all night when we signed a left back ( who wasnt even in the squad) and had lefty mclefterson Dwight McNeil on the bench. If they werent fit then have the common courtesy to let the fans know because the speculation is much worse...

Yeh, surely Dwight would’ve been better as a left wingback - he’s done it before