Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[MondayHater]

Bloody hell we sound like a sad state of affairs. You just can’t make this crap up.

I am fully convinced that life as Everton fans is being recorded as some sort of Turman Show on TV to see what the audience will put us through next week.

 

[Bristol Blue]

I love the word ‘raw’ for when someone can’t control a football.

Plenty of rawness in our squad!

 

[Jebus_lives]

He doesn’t look in any way a Moyes signing this fella.

He looks the type of player Moyes would lump on the wing to try and bully a fullback. But Moyes will always want a CF who runs loads and holds the ball up.

 

[MikeH72]

Can’t see it. No way we have a new striker, Beto and Barry all on the books all expecting to start. Only way I can see it happening is if Beto leaves.

Best solution could be to get a player who can cover RW and striker (like an Richy type) and be another option if Dibling or Barry slump in form.

I mean you’ve jumped ahead several steps here to assume we’re getting Dibling.

 

[JohnJq]

Plenty of rawness in our squad!

Undercooked might be more appropriate.

 

[Saint Domingo]

I mean you’ve jumped ahead several steps here to assume we’re getting Dibling.

Well if we don’t get him then I definitely can’t see us using those funds to buy another striker

 

[Scrubs02]

‘We should sign young players before they become obvious stars and cost loads of money, what are the recruitment team doing?’

‘Hang on a sec this lad looks a bit raw, we need someone who can lead the line now, what is the recruitment team doing?’

GOT.

He was a relatively large amount of money. Also, raw here seems to mean like really raw...like potentially Niasse raw

 

[evertony]

Pile your cash on Mikael Antonio arriving around 6.50pm on transfer deadline day. Nothing more obvious. I have a bit of beef with him too...gazumped me on a house when he was at Sheffield Wednesday, however I had the last laugh as the day the sale went through he moved to West Ham so a house in Cheshire was no use to him. Pretty sure he never moved in.

 

[pfim]

One tweet, without an actual quote, and now he's Oumar Niasse. Get a grip people.

Niasse was 26 when he joined Everton, if you compare his career to anyone it would be Beto.

 

[Root66]

We've always wanted a 3rd striker. Nothing to do with Barry being raw.

We are a striker down on last season

 

[MikeH72]

Pile your cash on Mikael Antonio arriving around 6.50pm on transfer deadline day. Nothing more obvious. I have a bit of beef with him too...gazumped me on a house when he was at Sheffield Wednesday, however I had the last laugh as the day the sale went through he moved to West Ham so a house in Cheshire was no use to him. Pretty sure he never moved in.

Big fan of this subtle flex.

 

[kenada_blue]

Vardy.

 

[summerisle]

Anyone got this article? Behind a pay wall. Seems to be talking about disagreements over targets.

Everton's four transfer priorities - and three players on Moyes's wishlist​

There have been tensions between Moyes and the rest of Everton's recruitment team - but hope is not lost this summer with one last push before deadline day

Everton are monitoring Nathan Ake (Photo: Getty)

August 22, 2025 11:00 am (Updated 11:54 am)

Everton still want to sign four new players before the end of the month, with Premier League-ready targets who can “plug in and play” at the top of the wishlist.

It is a challenging ask for a club who have faced an uphill task this summer to rebuild a squad that lost 11 senior players at the end of last season.

There is quiet satisfaction about some of their additions – Jack Grealish is the marquee arrival but Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s signing is understood to be more typical of the blueprint they’re working to.

Yet there haven’t been enough new faces who are ready from day one to make it an easy landing for David Moyes’s new era.

Those issues have made it a tense run-up to their first competitive fixture at Hill Dickinson Stadium on Sunday, when a response to their tepid defeat at newly-promoted Leeds is sorely needed.

The Leeds defeat was a wake-up call (Photo: Getty)
That loss came after weeks of Moyes warning that his side wasn’t ready as they struggle to strike the right balance in their recruitment drive – and his dire warnings were proved correct at a charged-up Elland Road.

The answer in the short term has been to refocus recruitment efforts. While Moyes has the undisputed final say in transfer dealings, there have occasionally been tensions over targets in the newly-formed transfer committee of the Scot, Angus Kinnear and Nicky Hammond.

That was to be expected given the scale of the rebuild this summer and sources stress they have worked well together but Everton now face a decision: move on to targets who are attainable right now or continue to wait it out until closer to September’s deadline for players who belong in the next tier up but who they have had a mixed record in signing?

Everton’s transfer targets​

Everton’s priority is a right-winger – they are toying with another approach for Tyler Dibling, although Southampton’s demands have been prohibitive until now and Spurs are emerging as a rival – and need a full-back and a central midfielder.

They are also looking for another striker, with Thierno Barry still considered enough of a work-in-progress that he isn’t ready to shoulder the burden of leading the line just yet.

That verdict – which sounds curious given Everton spent £27.6m on him this summer – is based on performances in training which have revealed a rawness to the player.

Moyes believes that blooding him in more gradually, as is the current plan, will allow him to fulfil his undoubted potential, even if it does rely on Beto to perform a great deal better than he did on Monday.

Alternatives are understood to include former Burnley man Josh Brownhill, who is a free agent and scored 18 goals in the Championship last season. But with the club still needing to be mindful of the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules (PSR), his wage demands might yet sink that deal.

In defence Manchester City’s Nathan Ake is an interesting and ambitious option that has been explored. Everton want a defender who can play across several positions – a box that Ake ticks – but City could be reluctant to allow the Netherlands international to leave.

Sunday marks the exciting start of a new era at Everton – but the anxieties of more recent times haven’t been shaken off just yet.

 

[Saint Domingo]

He was a relatively large amount of money. Also, raw here seems to mean like really raw...like potentially Niasse raw

I don’t really get the obsession with whether a striker is raw or not. Goals are the only attribute that’s worth anything. Erling Haaland’s hold up play is relatively shocking for the level of striker he is.

I remember Moyes doing this before talking up the virtues of Saha and his hold up play outside the box, meanwhile the team wasn’t scoring and Saha never looked remotely like troubling the 6 yard box. Calvert Lewin was the same, constantly getting all this praise for doing everything but barely scoring.

Yet when we get a striker like Niasse or Beto who comes in and scores a glut of goals people seems overly bothered that their hold up play isn’t great.

I couldn’t really care less as long as the striker is scoring. No better way to get Barry up to speed than to play him. He’ll score goals, he has done everywhere he’s been.

 

[Melchizedek]

Wouldn’t shock me, we think our new young striker is a bit raw so instead of getting a proper team and system in place to help him out and get him up to speed faster, we instead block his pathway and development with another over the hill, overpaid striker and don’t address the actual key imbalances in the side and then wonder why another new striker hasn’t magically solved our issues

He'll be the next Moise Kean or Lookman. Young and with talent, but the manager doesn't have the time to nurture it because the squad is an unbalanced mess.