January 2019 Transfer Window

[maccavennie]

I was thinking more of canal barge oliday.

I've done the Norfolk Broads mate ( the barges not the birds )


Loved it, was an absolutely crap sailor though. 7 days and all I done was sail up and back down the same stretch of water every day and moored it back outside the same pub every night. Didn't understand the maps/locks etc so found it easier to just sail in a straight line, find a place to turn and sail back Inna straight line lol

 

[Goat]

 

[whiteshadow]

...they're all on £120k pw.

Get your head down.

Dream on. hahahaha

 

[davek]

His job is far more detailed than the Leicester tit. It’s more than transfers it’s getting a grip of Unsworths wet millennials and making them ready for the PL. Getting the conveyor belt in motion. A complete culture change

I’d personally be happy if he culled anyone who had any previous history with this club

I endorse that...but he wont. He's another paper tiger failing to drum out the bad seeds.

 

[TheNinja]

They conflate "the stadium" with the club's best interests. It's not, that's the shareholders best interests. Our best interests are to get a successful team n the pitch.

Football is a business and is not sentimental these days Dave, as much as that pains some people. I find myself falling out of love with Football due to the money and egos etc. But most clubs are run by business people these days, it's just what happens. Having a good team is only part of the process for them, for us fans, it is the only thing that matters.

 

[nsno-chris]

I endorse that...but he wont. He's another paper tiger failing to drum out the bad seeds.

We have 8 months before we find out, or at least see if strides are being made

 

[davek]

File under: pliant Echo hack spins narrative for master.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Already said mate that I see the previous window as having been the major problem...and I;ve said his failure to convert players to cash has been a major disapointment of his tenure so far since last August.

A problem that stems from the deals dished out by his predecessor. Getting DC to pick up Rooneys contract was good business and I don't know enough about Klassen deal regarding wages but there was a massive hit on the fee which shows he's willing to push a sale. Also managed to get back the bulk of Funes Mori's fee after a spell that was mixed at best.

Trouble is you need all 3 parties to be in agreement and given the deals handed out to some players that's ridiculously difficult to negotiate. No club in the world would pick up Sandro's wages and understandably the lad might not be too keen on giving them up himself. Every club has a player or three that they can't shift bar a subsidised loan spell and poor recruitment has magnified that issue at Goodison.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

I’m quite glad to see a January window where most clubs are wise to the shocking value on offer. I wouldn’t have said no to Michy on loan, but we obviously didn’t fancy those wages as good VFM so fine by me.

As for not selling anyone - So few clubs were buying that there’s no way we were ever going to shift some of our duffers for real money. Got some wages off the books and some young lads out for some experience, not too shabby.

 

[davek]

A problem that stems from the deals dished out by his predecessor. Getting DC to pick up Rooneys contract was good business and I don't know enough about Klassen deal regarding wages but there was a massive hit on the fee which shows he's willing to push a sale. Also managed to get back the bulk of Funes Mori's fee after a spell that was mixed at best.

Trouble is you need all 3 parties to be in agreement and given the deals handed out to some players that's ridiculously difficult to negotiate. No club in the world would pick up Sandro's wages and understandably the lad might not be too keen on giving them up himself. Every club has a player or three that they can't shift bar a subsidised loan spell and poor recruitment has magnified that issue at Goodison.

Bottom line: a decision was made for expediency that the club would be happy cutting wages rather than spending a lot of time last summer especially on selling players to hand the cash to the manager.

That's just about it in a nutshell - and it's a stunt that makes more sense to the club accountant than the club manager.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

“What a day we’ve had!”

Wind it in, White, you meff.

 

[ClausThomsen]

ALLARDYCE’S EVERTON VERDICT
Former Everton manager Sam Allardyce believes there are too many players in the current Toffees squad…
“There are a huge amount of players there on the staff, which actually causes you a problem on a daily basis because you don’t know what to do with them,” he told Sky Sports News.
“I would say for the U23s and the first team, probably around the 50 mark. There’s a lot of those players bought from the clubs down below. It’s very difficult to manage the U23s and cope with all those players on a daily basis.
“Effectively you have to section them off – and that creates a conflict. You get your squad of 22, 23, and there’s eight or nine who you say, ‘you’ve got to go over there’. That’s a big problem. We moved quite a lot out in the January window, getting them out on loan, just to ease that problem.
“To have a better feel around the training ground. Because when it’s like that it can get a bit toxic.
We all know the mood of the dressing room is very important for you.”

Fat Sam making a very relevant point there and a good reason why shipping players out on loan isn't a bad thing. Not entirely happy about agreeing with him like.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Been hearing that point over and over, and I still dont buy it. There;s deals to be had. If your polciy as a club is to sell to buy then you find a way. My conclusion is that the club just aren't thinking about matters on the pitch, they're looking at the books.

This is what austerity looks like.

Probably somewhere in the middle I think. But I don't think there are too many deals to be had. There's a reason Chelsea struggle to offload their players as their recruitment has, at times, been as bad as ours.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Bottom line: a decision was made for expediency that the club would be happy cutting wages rather than spending a lot of time last summer especially on selling players to hand the cash to the manager.

That's just about it in a nutshell - and it's a stunt that makes more sense to the club accountant than the club manager.

Have you got a breakdown of how the people involved spent their time last summer? You seem very ITK about who did what during the work day.

As an aside what do you make of Fat Sam's comments about getting bodies out of the door just because of the logistics of having so many playing staff drifting around Finch Farm? Putting aside opinions on GravyMan himself it goes some way to explaining the willingness to loan out players if a sale's not on the cards.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

Whilst I know we desperately need to shift out the deadwood because of FFP, I believe that the board are being remarkably arrogant here. We will do well to get much above 40 points this year without a striker, but they just presume that we will be in no danger. Not sure about that myself.

The problem isn't just about the scoring of goals, but the impact not having a striker has on all round play. None of our forwards can play with their backs to goal, nor have any of them got the pace to stretch and frighten teams. This means that the ball is consistently coming straight back at us in games and then our defensive weaknesses are being more greatly exposed. Even a lump of a striker on loan in the mould of a Deeney (not a player I like btw) would have plugged the gap to the end of the season. But not signing one will exacerbate our weaknesses and I reckon we will continue to slide down the table.

Now the Summer may well provide much better value for money, but if the board believe that, as the season is effectively over, this will have no impact on summer activity then they are wrong. Let's say we finish 15th - what decent players are going to join the Everton 'project' when we would clearly be going backwards? And let's say that Silva wants to sign Gomes permanently, well he would hardly be wanting to stay either in that situation would he? (I accept this is a moot point for some of our fans who probably no longer want him anyway - but you get my point).

Plus, if we really do struggle for points, we all seem to be forgetting that we may yet still receive a points deduction from the FA for tapping up Silva - which should be unlikely, but this is Everton, so you never know.

I believe that it does make sense to trundle on with our dross until the summer and not continue to splurge money for the other positions, but the lack of striker, is for me criminally negligent and may yet come back to haunt us as it fundamentally affects the way we play. Just my opinion, but there we go.