Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

[jazzy]

or hoof it

i’m guessing we say to norwich wel give you 15 mill now

and another ten mill in summer but shhhhh

What have Norwich got to do with it Matty or have I missed summat?

 

[Paulie]

This - if he has to stay. The worry is that Dyche said recently that central is NOT Ndiayes best position so would he ever move him??

Not he's too rigid and stubborn to change.

 

[billyblue80]

The biggest concerns for me are unlike a fair few recent seasons, we go into the second half of the season with numerous key starters having zero investment in what happens to the club and a manager in exactly the same situation.

Out the nominal starting 11 on average 6 won't be here next season as it stands add on the manager and that's 7/12 of key components that if we were t down would simply retire, find a new club with a good signing bonus, go back their parent club etc.

Doucoure, Gueye, Mangala, Young, Coleman, Harrison, DCL all going.
Even the players coming in for them are largely in the same boat, Broja, Lindstrom, Keane etc.

A combination of the fans, the players finally dogging in and managers getting the players buying into the support to dig late escapes out....

Not sure if we have one more left in the locker doing that this season...

This is my fear too, it is affecting motivation. Same happened to Leicester with players contracts running down, when they went.

 

[billyblue80]

As sure as day follows night, as soon as we are in the black there are calls to throw money around - we need to be much smarter about it this time - blind ambition is for the oil clubs.

We cannot throw it around like we did due to PSR. But we do need a few shrewd additions

 

[Nymzee]

 

[billyblue80]

They will sack him, in the summmer.

So lots of dross leaving in the summer, with a fresh new ground, new finances.....could be very nice clean start everyone needs.

Coupld of clever loans in now and we will be sound.

Not so sure mate ,we have maxed out the loans too. I am guessing it will be a few sales and a few incomings. I think relegation is a bigger danger here than you are accepting.

 

[billyblue80]

Not enough PL experience for Dychosaurus

 

[coleman’s mustard]

Thought the same, but wasn't convinced once he got a short spell there.

Think he's the only player who can progress the ball, and I reckon now that's best served on the wing where it's easiest to do so - such is our desperation for a ball carrier to get it anywhere up the pitch.

Maybe in a better team, he'd be a better player as second striker/number 10 but not sure.

Living in Sheffield I watched Ndiaye a lot when he was with the Blades. Very good advancing the ball from behind the striker, tricking past defenders and either shooting himself, clever one twos or putting others in.

But Blades fans did not think he defended well from that position
…… do Dyche is never going to put him in ahead of Doucoure on a regular basis

 

[Blue peter]

AT at £45 million I'm sure we could have bought much better

Salah for them lot was bought for £36m that same summer I think

 

[SuperKev91]

Any chance we do anything, seen a few excuses being planted on twitter.

Depends if we can shift a couple first/they’re confident they can shift a couple.

We’re flying very close to the sun for the three year period PSR wise so can’t take a chance unless we know we have wiggle room.

 

[Nymzee]

Ridle Baku (RB) with only 6 months left on his deal probs going to Leipzig for €2.5-5m. These are the sorts of deals a PSR-shackled side like ours needs to find.

 

[Dymak]

Salah for them lot was bought for £36m that same summer I think

Jack Harrison has a market value in excess of 15 million. Leicester came close to paying 20 million for him in January 2023. They had a bid accepted and a medical took place.

Salah is not a 36 million pound player. He’s a £120 million pound player that the RS got for 35. Similar to Branthwaite being a 60 million pound player that we got for about one million.

Bargains can be had, although they are few and far between. So I don’t think we got mugged off with Sigurdsson tbh. He was definitely worth two Klaassen’s, or a Klaassen, Bolasie and Schneiderlin all put together.

We aren’t going to be able to compete if Everton want to continue paying 10 - 20 million for crap players, whilst Bournemouth, Brighton and Wolves are dropping 40 million on forwards.

Of course, it’s not just about spending money, but you are operating as a small club if you become too scared to spend.

 

[Blue peter]

Jack Harrison has a market value in excess of 15 million. Leicester came close to paying 20 million for him in January 2023. They had a bid accepted and a medical took place.

Salah is not a 36 million pound player. He’s a £120 million pound player that the RS got for 35. Similar to Branthwaite being a 60 million pound player that we got for about one million.

Bargains can be had, although they are few and far between. So I don’t think we got mugged off with Sigurdsson tbh. He was definitely worth two Klaassen’s, or a Klaassen, Bolasie and Schneiderlin all put together.

We aren’t going to be able to compete if Everton want to continue paying 10 - 20 million for crap players, whilst Bournemouth, Brighton and Wolves are dropping 40 million on forwards.

Of course, it’s not just about spending money, but you are operating as a small club if you become too scared to spend.

I think Iceland was a decent player for us, just not £45m player. If memory serves I think our opening bid was something like £25m, so to be negotiated up to nearly double, was peak Moshiri. We were kids that had been starved of food under Kenwright, who were given the keys to the sweet shop.

The Salah mention was just a comparison.

 

[matty1878]

What have Norwich got to do with it Matty or have I missed summat?

we’ve bid for one of they’re players?

 

[jazzy]

we’ve bid for one of they’re players?

Have we ? News to me thanks. Hope it's not that Max Aarons ( yeah I know he doesn't play for them any more - in fact he just doesn't play - wonder who thought he'd be a world beater )