Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Exeter_Gently]

@Exeter_Gently, Here We Go?

See what happens

 

[get-your-coat-on]

Love what I've seen of him but he's not the sort of DM we need, I'd want a Barry type rather than a Rice

Think he’ll go West Ham, they still haven’t replaced Rice, and they’re desperate for numbers

 

[argietoffee]

I see what you did here. You see the name Hackney and assume we're going somewhere.

He will be needed at West Ham.

For Potter

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Was concerned by his first half and the gaps he left behind him in midfield for them to stroll through. Grew into the game and showed glimpses as he normally does, but still lacks understanding and reading of the game that will bite us at some point.

Decent analysis Mike, remember he's still inexperienced and raw so he'll grow as a player with good coaching and backing

 

[Kurt.]

You got tourretes, fella

Relax

I asked him that once and he replied “No, I’ve only got one”

 

[preposterousvelios]

Fair enough but we are assuming the teams we are playing against won't recognise our weaknesses and cut supply lines. In the end you need a focal striker point with a genuine threat to allow you to spread the goals around by drawing players towards them .

I dont think many prem teams are the least bit bothered about our striking threat and Moyes knows it.

I'm personally quite confident that Barry will come good for us this season, if maybe not straight away.

Even disregarding that though, the one thing I think you can certainly say about Beto regardless of his limited technical ability is that he gives centre backs a lot to deal with. He was really poor against Leeds but back end of last season he was consistently a handful. He needs to use it to his advantage better but I don't think there's a cb in the league that can match him physically.

 

[Neiler]

Hackney will know what clubs are interested in him, he’s been told by his agent to sit tight until the end of the window.

That's actually been our M.O. with a lot of our deals for younger players this year.

 

[HKContractDave]

How dare you tweet this for free Pete?

 

[FTY]

We need that type as well. We need more than 1 more midfielder. Amazes me how quickly people forget that our best midfielder is 36.

Very true

Think it's cus I've got it in my head we're only signing one

 

[D410]

For what though? To take away development minutes from our already-good-enough (for our purposes this season - we aren't challenging for trophies) young striker?

Sorry if this comes across argumentative, I promise it's just the difficulty of conveying tone over text haha. Barry just already is premier league ready. No he's not ready to be a starter for a CL level club, but we aren't that club either, so that's fine. He's a very handy mid table striker who should develop to be at least a level above that. Taking away development minutes from him to score *maybe* ~2-3 more goals over the season, and show other exciting young players that they might not get good minutes at Everton because we're too focused on the short term, is not a strategy I want us to pursue.

All good points, I just think Moyes wants options and at the moment I think it feels thin to him to change games in that position. I mean an injury to Barry would leave us in a very bad place.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

I wonder if Everton will flag a Hackney this week.

I wouldn't be surprised.

@Rooney_Tunes I tried to throw a few bread crumbs on Monday evening.

 

[Nymzee]

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How dare you tweet this for free Pete ?

Gone private now that Benj, must have been getting too much abuse the fanny

"I've had to mention it" God forbid someone says something before you.

 

[hetion]

All good points, I just think Moyes wants options and at the moment I think it feels thin to him to change games in that position. I mean an injury to Barry would leave us in a very bad place.

Agreed, but to be fair, the same goes for an injury to the main striker on pretty much every other non-elite team in the league. I don't think we're in a position to have genuine start-ready quality in depth at striker. Would be nice though I agree!

 

[D410]

I'm personally quite confident that Barry will come good for us this season, if maybe not straight away.

Even disregarding that though, the one thing I think you can certainly say about Beto regardless of his limited technical ability is that he gives centre backs a lot to deal with. He was really poor against Leeds but back end of last season he was consistently a handful. He needs to use it to his advantage better but I don't think there's a cb in the league that can match him physically.

He does rough em up but I don't trust these Premier league refs they seem to pick on us too easily.

 

[witchdoc187]

Box to box type by all accounts. Gets about the pitch and is good on the ball. Nobody on here can convince me we don’t need one of those.

That sounds lovely.