Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[preposterousvelios]

I’m confused how panic buying would relate to bringing in players early (is in time for the first match early idk anymore)?

I would say “panic buying and buying any old player” would be much more likely as the transfer deadline moves closer

Only if we fail to land long term targets. Needless to say if they spend the time chasing certain players and don't pull it off they need to have a good list back ups they know we can fall back on or we're screwed.

As a counter to your point though, my personal view is that everyone saying 'JUST GET PLAYERS IN NOW, MOVE TO DIFFERENT TARGETS IF YOU NEED TO, JUST SPEND THE MONEY FFS' basically just want us to panic buy now, weeks before deadline day to ease their personal stress at not having players.

 

[MACCA75]

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You are counting Rueben Gokah and Jack Grealish’s wages.. bit of a stretch mate.

 

[D410]

Another day slips by, there is something very wrong behind the walls of this club.

 

[Saint Domingo]

If Palace gazump us for Dibling the new owners will have a riot on their hands

 

[Bristol Blue]

Zippy?

Leave Elton Welsby out of it!

 

[MACCA75]

Only if we fail to land long term targets. Needless to say if they spend the time chasing certain players and don't pull it off they need to have a good list back ups they know we can fall back on or we're screwed.

As a counter to your point though, my personal view is that everyone saying 'JUST GET PLAYERS IN NOW, MOVE TO DIFFERENT TARGETS IF YOU NEED TO, JUST SPEND THE MONEY FFS' basically just want us to panic buy now, weeks before deadline day to ease their personal stress at not having players.

What becomes more likely do you think, as we get closer to the deadline? Signing Kubo or signing Harrison?

 

[MikeH72]

If we start filling our squad with free agents and cheapo signings then yes you'd be right. On the other hand if tough negotiations lead to us getting the best deal for players who will be the bedrock of our squad for the years going forward then the recruitment team have played a blinder. I'm not going to go all panic stricken and worst case scenario for the season ahead because we've lost to Leeds and aren't firing on all cylinders yet. It's a long season after all

But they’re not leading to that though are they? They’re leading to a situation where we’re going into the last two weeks of the window without a first team squad. This is the point of the window where teams pivot from that strategy and end up panic buying anyway, as we have routinely showed in the last 10 years. It’s never, ever worked the other way around.

Our strategy going into this window was upside down. We got it totally wrong. We shouldn’t have been trying to chase luxury Champions League quality players while we had a squad of 14 footballers, that’s utterly ridiculous and a sign that they don’t have a clue what they’re doing. We should’ve assembled the skeleton of a squad first and THEN looked to sprinkle the quality on top.

 

[ultra]

Anyone got a pic of Hammond and Kinnear for my dart board?

 

[Gerbs]

Only if we fail to land long term targets. Needless to say if they spend the time chasing certain players and don't pull it off they need to have a good list back ups they know we can fall back on or we're screwed.

As a counter to your point though, my personal view is that everyone saying 'JUST GET PLAYERS IN NOW, MOVE TO DIFFERENT TARGETS IF YOU NEED TO, JUST SPEND THE MONEY FFS' basically just want us to panic buy now, weeks before deadline day to ease their personal stress at not having players.

I don’t think anyone is seriously suggesting spend money to spend money. Your original post was that we as a fan base was being naive and unrealistic about this summer. I don’t believe it is unrealistic to have all 11 positions covered by at least one person in the squad.

I think it was incredibly naive and unrealistic for our recruitment team to think going into our first match without a rw or rb or lb would give us a better negotiating position with key targets. I think any rationale person would look at Everton trying to negotiate for a right winger without a single one in the squad on aug19 and know that they have all the power in a negotiation.

So yes I think they should have got business done early. They should have had a rb and rw on the team Going into the first match. Even if they were a predicted backup. This was a failure by our recruitment team 100%

 

[brittcop1]

Is it, though?

Last season, we actually had a back up left back that has played left back more than once before in his entire life.

We had a right winger that was actually capable of playing on the right wing, which we do not have at the moment.

And as for KDH being an improvement on Doucoure. That may well be the case, or it may not be, but he won't be better than him in the advanced 10 role. Certainly not on last night's showing anyway.

Well for me...the back four wasnt the biggest disappointment for me...it was the 6 players in front of them. They acted like they had never played together and had no interest in trying to score...I refuse to believe it is because Dacoure isnt there. I put that on Moyes...

 

[witchdoc187]

We haven’t bought anyone that’s a upgrade on what we have not seeing anything from KDH to say he’s worth 30 mil think we have massively gone after the wrong targets

He's played one game . I expect a massive improvement Sunday. Grealish will start and I think we might win.

 

[preposterousvelios]

What becomes more likely do you think, as we get closer to the deadline? Signing Kubo or signing Harrison?

We were never signing Kubo or Harrison. Most likely scenario imo is that we sign Dibling.

 

[witchdoc187]

Only if we fail to land long term targets. Needless to say if they spend the time chasing certain players and don't pull it off they need to have a good list back ups they know we can fall back on or we're screwed.

As a counter to your point though, my personal view is that everyone saying 'JUST GET PLAYERS IN NOW, MOVE TO DIFFERENT TARGETS IF YOU NEED TO, JUST SPEND THE MONEY FFS' basically just want us to panic buy now, weeks before deadline day to ease their personal stress at not having players.

And we know where buying useless players on big contracts gets us. People seem seem to want everything to be perfect for them immediately or just get angry. The club is clearly trying to get players in. Just relax ffs

 

[brittcop1]

Championship because we lost the opener? Hysterical

No. Because Ive supported this team for over 50 years and watched them flirt with relagation pretty much the last 3 or 4. Thinking " dont worry, there's always 3 teams worse than us" is not a great business model. Sadly nothing about Everton these days is hysterical.

 

[DanB90]

They really have plugged those leaks. Not a sniff of a rumour in days. I’m tweaking like mad