Good window?

dandydan · February 2, 2016

chicoazul said:
What would to say to Arteta joining us in the summer as player coach?

Remember where you heard it first.

Debaser · February 2, 2016

Wish we had bought a keeper, but that's hard mid season. I'm sure we will address that in the summer.

We got rid of dead weight (McGeady), Naismith was decent, not the finished article by a long shot but we have seen far worse at Everton - good luck to the lad.

Knee-us (as I'm told Niasse is pronounced

) I'm cautiously optimistic about. I would like a formation of Del, Rom and him up front.

So, OK window I guess.

Zaschrona · February 2, 2016

Decent only. Would be better if we could sign Byram. Goalkeeper was unexpectable from Martinez in this window. Happy with Tarashaj though. We will see if swap of Naismith for Niasse will be a good one. Hopefully it will.

USABlue · February 2, 2016

It was decent. Got some players who weren't seeing the pitch out, brought some good young players in tarashaj and foulds, Niasse should be able to start on the left and provide rom support. We'll get a new keeper in the summer

BigDunc'sFod · February 2, 2016

No Yarmo, no good.

mmmmsnouts · February 2, 2016

Wonder if that Howard to Colorado story was really a goer. Even if RM switches to Joel like he should, still rather have Howard than someone from the U21s as a backup.

Personally I expect another ridiculous on-the-fly rule change out of MLS so he can go somewhere more fancied in the summer.

McBain · February 2, 2016

Great Window.

royvernon39 · February 2, 2016

Good window.

EFC spending money on players however means that someone else is going to be sold this summer.

macdog · February 2, 2016

Next season is looking increasingly Lukaku-less.

SingBlue · February 2, 2016

MoutsGoat said:
And im gonna go out on a limb and say the people that think FM or FIFA is an actual way of judging footballers has never kissed a girl and are unlikely to EVER.

To be fair, if he's an expat in Bangkok he probably thinks he's kissed a girl....

zirc · February 2, 2016

SerenityNigh said:
Great company? Biggest spenders in all of Europe. Weird company, but can't say it's terrible.

We spent a net 8 or 9 million pounds. Hardly earth shattering.

jazzy · February 2, 2016

Going into this window we had 4 issues that needed to be addressed ;

1. Replacement for Howard
2. Back up to Lukaku
3. Quality wide left midfield
4. Back up to Coleman.

We have lost Naismith and McGeady but to be frank I don't see that that makes us any weaker unless we suffered multiple injuries to our front men.

We have signed 2 youngsters for the future and Oumar.

I am guessing ( because like just about everyone else on here I have never seen him play ) he is back up to Lukaku and might be able to play from the left although he could hardly be described as left midfield.

So I am concerned that there are significant other weaknessses in the squad especially at goakeeper.

Additionally we are likely to lose a number of senior and / or high profile players in the summer and the manager ( whoever that is ) will have to recruit a lot of new players in the summer - perhaps as many as 6/7.

However working on Martinez's mantra that we should always be stronger at the end of each window I guess that I would have to say , albeit with the reservation that I have no idea what Oumar is going to produce but hey he can't be worse than Kone ,that we are

Caolam · February 2, 2016

We were never going to bring in the players we need in this window. This window is about tinkering. We are stronger than we were before it opened, that is enough for now. Wish we had bought a keeper though.