January Transfer Window 2023

[GlosBlue]

I've noticed leeds fans saying their defence has been killing them this season. You can guess how surprised I was, when I went on the BBC website this morning to see the club have identified they have a problem in that area and have a defender signed a couple of days into the window. But what would Everton do, good times, good times.

Haven't they been linked to Holgate? Similar recruitment strategy to us by the sound of it... ?

 

[allen]

I've noticed leeds fans saying their defence has been killing them this season. You can guess how surprised I was, when I went on the BBC website this morning to see the club have identified they have a problem in that area and have a defender signed a couple of days into the window. But what would Everton do, good times, good times.

We've already sorted our defence. In many ways, that's an easier ask. Attackers, especially goal scorers, carry a premium and are harder to recruit.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Started the season with 3 fit forwards costing 1.7mil and 2 injured costing 1mil a
Front 5. Costing under 3mil in 2022 and the richest league in the world.

That’s a bit of a dumb metric saying how much we paid for players. Would mean the whole time Barcelona lined up with Messi he added £0 to their front line, surely what matters is their value now and Gordon and a fit DCL definitely combine to be worth more than 3m without even talking about anyone else.

 

[CielosGrises]

The club does seem to leave it late and ultimately their hand is forced by who is available - I assume that is all about finances.

If we have to buy other teams 'spares' then logically we will always be worse than them - its like natural selection in reverse.

I'm not keen on this exceptionalism that someone like a Dele Alli will come to Everton and magically change his ways or find their previous form. When did that ever work, Arteta and Pienaar maybe ? Coady ?

The best team-building signings we've made recently were Myko, Onana and Patterson - even if they don't work out, it is the age and trajectory that makes sense.

Coady and Tarks were savvy buys too but with more of an eye on our current position.

 

[Evertonthat]

Dear Everton,

Sign a striker!

Regards, the entire Everton fanbase.

Ps, don't wait untill the last day in January. Ta.

 

[billyblue80]

Mc Neil was partly bought because it was such a small upfront fee and a structured deal whereas we couldn't do the same with Dennis or Cornet. Which I agree is the wrong reason to buy a player but that's the financial position we are in after unsustainable spending and waste at DOF and board level,
we needed threat and pace he has neither...

 

[Dancing Pat]

Dear Everton,

Sign a striker!

Regards, the entire Everton fanbase.

Ps, don't wait untill the last day in January. Ta.

PPS…
And don’t bring in another Rondon or Maupay thx.

 

[BlueToff]

Has he? 1 goal? If that's excellent then I give up. Hes poor.

Would you not say Iwobi has been generally excellent for us for most of this season?

He's only got 1 goal...

 

[BlueToff]

I see it the other way.

Can forgive McNeill because of his age, and his potential he has shown. He does he a good whip on him even if his training routine is running in custard.

Maupay has always been distinctly average and I question what I’m earth they were e expecting when they signed him. Doesn’t fit any profile in the team whatsoever.

I don't think he's really show much of that for about 18 months before we signed him, mate.

He might have a good delivery on him but we haven't used it at all. Our wingers hardly cross the ball (that's a tactical thing of course).

 

[BlueToff]

i think we'll bring in MGW during the summer window.



You've written the same thing twice, so it isnt different.

Unless we have £40m to spend then I doubt it.

 

[andy4efc]

I don't think he's really show much of that for about 18 months before we signed him, mate.

He might have a good delivery on him but we haven't used it at all. Our wingers hardly cross the ball (that's a tactical thing of course).

He's shown potential in his career, and burnley lad in work says there is a player (as has another burnley fan who visited this forum) there. He's a rational thinker as well with football, doesnt get blinkered by burnley.

my mate is adament Dyche has taken it out of him though, playing him as a defensive winger in his standard 442 has killed any sort of intuitive creativity that he had when he first got a chance.

Im just saying I can "understand" the thought process for the low upfront fee. I dont agree with it, but I can see it the thinking.

Maupay, I cant see the thinking whatsoever. Not one bit.

 

[BlueToff]

He's shown potential in his career, and burnley lad in work says there is a player (as has another burnley fan who visited this forum) there. He's a rational thinker as well with football, doesnt get blinkered by burnley.

my mate is adament Dyche has taken it out of him though, playing him as a defensive winger in his standard 442 has killed any sort of intuitive creativity that he had when he first got a chance.

Im just saying I can "understand" the thought process for the low upfront fee. I dont agree with it, but I can see it the thinking.

Maupay, I cant see the thinking whatsoever. Not one bit.

Fair enough.

With Maupay he's a half-decent squad filler for a team that has a certain way of playing. No surprise he went from Brentford to Brighton and succeeded at both.

However, he's very limited in any other system and that's what we've seen.

It was panic mode and all because they weren't ready to go on a striker first thing. I do blame Thelwell for that. Dom got injured August 1st.

 

[billyblue80]

He's shown potential in his career, and burnley lad in work says there is a player (as has another burnley fan who visited this forum) there. He's a rational thinker as well with football, doesnt get blinkered by burnley.

my mate is adament Dyche has taken it out of him though, playing him as a defensive winger in his standard 442 has killed any sort of intuitive creativity that he had when he first got a chance.

Im just saying I can "understand" the thought process for the low upfront fee. I dont agree with it, but I can see it the thinking.

Maupay, I cant see the thinking whatsoever. Not one bit.

We would have been better just buying a big target man than Maupay even if it wasn't a brilliant target man it would have been better backup to DCL

 

[GoldenToffee]

I genuinely think no players are coming in because the board will wait until the next three league games are done, after which they'll decide whether or not to keep Lampard.

After the third fixture we go into a 10-day period before the window ends, and they probably naively think that's enough time to start and close out a managerial search, as well as allow the new guy to determine whether he requires additional players, scout them, approach clubs, agree deals, have them fly over for a medical and sign contracts.

We have three winnable games on the horizon and it would be a travesty to pick up fewer than 6 points from them.

For me, Lampard ought to go tonight if we don't beat Brighton, but you can bet that won't happen. We're quickly running out of on-paper winnable home games, and this will push us into needing go to away and turn Expected Defeats into victories, and that just won't happen.

 

[billyblue80]

If Elanga is the domestic loan who is the foreign loan? That's the question now because I don't see us spending unless we can punt a Keane or Holgate