Everton Transfer Thread 2016

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Given the financial importance of staying in the premiership I could see some big money being spent in January by teams worried about relegation. A proven goal scorer like Naismith who is not currently getting a game may be worth cashing in on as his value will likely never be so high.
 
Given the financial importance of staying in the premiership I could see some big money being spent in January by teams worried about relegation. A proven goal scorer like Naismith who is not currently getting a game may be worth cashing in on as his value will likely never be so high.

There's no value in the January transfer market. Players are definitely far cheaper in the Summer. Definitely.

If RM doesn't like the Jan window because players are over-priced well maybe we wouldn't do any buying ... but if players are over-priced does that mean we can now get 10m for Naisy?

To me if players are over-priced now then we should sell now. Squad depth is important but there is literally no way Naismith on the bench (at this point of the season behind all the players he's behind) is worth more than 10m to us. I really like Naisy I do but if it's 8-10m I think we have to make that deal.
 
And leave our squad short of options?

What if the 10m was the extra we needed for Yarm? But assuming we save the money for the summer then it's simple risk/reward: It does unquestionably reduce our options by some amount. Is that amount of risk worth the reward? Reasonable people can disagree. None of us would sell Lukaku for 10m because the risk is far higher than the reward; we'd all sell Hibbert for 10m though needless to say.

Naisy is somewhere on the Hibbert to Lukaku spectrum and depending where you place him I guess is whether you'd sell him. Naisy I could go either way. Keep him? Fair enough. Sell him? Fair enough. I'd sell. If you wouldn't fair play ... but it's one of our few viable options to bank some cash right now (Mirallas being the other but I probably wouldn't sell him unless it meant Yarm or someone of his quality right now in this window).

With a shorter contract etc. and likely way less playing time in the second half of the season Naisy could be down to 5-6m in the summer with memories of his hat-trick v. Chelsea a distant memory.

Barring some bizarre set of circumstances in the new year his value is likely peaking for us in this window and I just don't see him playing many games for us.
 
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What if the 10m was the extra we needed for Yarm? But assuming we save the money for the summer then it's simple risk/reward: It does unquestionably reduce our options by some amount. Is that amount of risk worth the reward? Reasonable people can disagree. None of us would sell Lukaku for 10m because the risk is far higher than the reward; we'd all sell Hibbert for 10m though needless to say. Naisy is somewhere on the Hibbert to Lukaku spectrum and depending where you place him I guess is whether you'd sell him. Naisy I could go either way. Keep him? Fair enough. Sell him? Fair enough. I'd sell. If you wouldn't fair play ... but it's one of our few viable options to bank some cash right now. With a shorter contract etc. and likely way less playing time in the second half of the season he could be down to 5-6m in the summer.

It's very unlikely Yarmalenko will be sold in January given Kievs champions league position, and it was seemingly never a lack of funds that prevented any summer transfer.

Keeping a strong, fit and competitive squad for the second half of the season will be more valuable to long term success than pocketing £10m in the short term.
 
It's very unlikely Yarmalenko will be sold in January given Kievs champions league position, and it was seemingly never a lack of funds that prevented any summer transfer. Keeping a strong, fit and competitive squad for the second half of the season will be more valuable to long term success than pocketing £10m in the short term.

Yeah maybe. I just can't see a super strong argument either way. Coin flip to me.

Then again why are we all writing off Tel Aviv? They are Champions! ;)

It's weird to me the CL group stage still has cannon-fodder. Heaven forbid they let five teams in from countries whose relegation teams could hammer some of these "Champions." Either its all "Champions" or it's the best teams regardless (if our 5-8 placed teams can justify it with a coefficient score then they should be in) ... this weird mix is just ... well anyway ...
 
These guys have hardly played and will rarely play. Two top new players would play more than them and improve the squad.

We already have 2 players for each of their positions

Again mate easy to say that but considering Oviedo and gibson both played this season so far and Osman in the cup, naismith scored a hatrick, all very useful SQUAD members, Squad being the key here.

Gibson may be 5th or whatever choice, but he still came and played when he needed him. The other thing to take into account as well, these are the players on lower wages than the first team, and if not than any extension would lower them (because they can always leave). How much do you want the club to spend on players who aren't guaranteed a game and have to knock about doing nothing most of the time? Or more importantly, who would you relegate to this role?
 
These guys have hardly played and will rarely play. Two top new players would play more than them and improve the squad.

We already have 2 players for each of their positions
ok mate.

but the pint I'm making good is we need players in the squad who are happy to play bit parts whenever they are called on. They also need to be experienced as chances are they will only be called upon to fill in due to missing first teamers.

who in the current squad could and more importantly be happy enough to play that role?
 
If losing Naisy, who lets be honest is not a top 6 quality player allows us to bring in a striker it's a no brainer. If Rom get injured the weight falls on Kone and that isn't good enough to challenge at the top
 
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