Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[ultra]

As each day passes, the evident tumbleweed seems to suggest Hammond & Kinnear are totally useless.

 

[Bebeto]

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.

Basically nothing new...so either nothing is happening or we are keeping information to ourselves

 

[Preki]

It seems madness that no progress has been made on any of this.
Just have to hope it will be all go after this week.

 

[Zatara]

I don't rate Beto to be honest, and I don't think Moyes is a huge fan

Could have sold him early doors and moved quickly on a replacement.

Too late now.

As each day passes, the evident tumbleweed seems to suggest Hammond & Kinnear are totally useless.

Hammond & Kinnear AND M*Y*S.

 

[MondayHater]

As each day passes, the evident tumbleweed seems to suggest Hammond & Kinnear are totally useless.

Give them chance, they are probably only just getting back from the wedding they were at.

 

[PeterGet]

I’m starting to get reflective about this…

Everton have NEVER done quick business, I don’t know why I expected any different.

Also, we haven’t started well in the Prem for years (especially under Moyes)…

Basically… I’m very much in the “Don’t panic” camp

 

[Victus]

The fume in here over Barry is hilarious, fellas read one sentence and automatically proceed to think he's the worst striker in the world, actually making me laugh as I type this.

 

[windymiller]

Now were close to 0/10. Dibling takes us to 5/10. A RB 7/10 and a DM 9/10.

All top class or potentially top class.



Who?



Moyes isnt a scout & for a manager you'd expect him to know every top leagues centre forwards.

Your best mate, @Eggs

 

[ultra]

If Barry is supposedly "raw", what does that make Beto?

 

[Scrubs02]

The fume in here over Barry is hilarious, fellas read one sentence and automatically proceed to think he's the worst striker in the world, actually making me laugh as I type this.

I'm not fuming, it just does have an air of history repeating itself yet again for Everton. I'm quite happy to follow Barry's journey and get behind him or at least have a laugh in the end if it's the same old story. Ha e you noticed how many players that we have 'nearly' signed in the past that have gone on to be quality?...and the ones we often seem to end up with don't even polish up to be diamantes

 

[Hogwild]

That's a stretch , he scored 11 goals in la Liga not the Russian league I think it means he needs time to develop, Niasse was perpetually raw

Sandro scored what, 15, the season before we bought him…

 

[Curtis]

Sandro scored what, 15, the season before we bought him…

Completely different type of players though you can see he has potential, Sandro was never a type of striker that could lead the line himself

 

[Hogwild]

Christ alive!

Now reading that we need another striker because Barry has been deemed raw from his training and not ready for the prem.

Who the hell is scouting and signing these players?

I thought you were familiar with our delegation

 

[Deulofeumygod]

I reckon he starts against Brighton

 

[Hogwild]

Completely different type of players though you can see he has potential, Sandro was never a type of striker that could lead the line himself

That’s fair, I was just saying that 11 goals in La Liga doesn’t ensure success. He looks to have potential, but whether he develops or not is hardly a guarantee. The fact he was raw should have been apparent to anyone who watched him for a half. If he was brought in to lead the line on day one someone did a poor job