January Transfer Window 2023

[jazzy]

Last summer I remember the hysteria on here about lack of transfer activity. We eventually brought in a total of eight players.
It is up to the manager to get the best out of these and I am not sure that has happened.

I am certain we will be active in this window again but I think we may have to wait until closer to the window closing. We simply cannot afford to offer clubs the kind of money that will tempt them into selling their better players.

Hopefully we have gone away from bringing players in that are expensive and add nothing to the squad. I think it will be loan deals or maybe a signing if Holgate,Davies,Mina, Keane, Kean, Doucoure and/or others leave.

As others have said already I don't see Gordon or Pickford leave in this window as the cost of relegation would be far greater than any additional fee we would get for selling six monthe earlier.

You may we'll be right mate but leaving it to the end of the window may we'll be too little too late.

 

[Billy Dean]

People moaning about ings when we've had to watch Dominic Calvert-Lewin and maupay tryna play footy this season.

He'd be the only person in the squad you would feel comfortable with taking a chance.

Moving forward is he the type of player we should be looking at? Absolutely not

Right now though...bottom 3, can't score goals, is he the type of signing needed to stay in this league? Absolutely.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin and maupay will relegate us, pair of donkeys

I don't think anyone doesn't rate him. But for a team that traditionally has injury problems, signing a 30 year-old perma crock might not be the best idea

 

[Clarky cat]

That’s Thelwell’s remit, and he’s not new…

It really ought to be filled by now. Absolutely critical position,

I Know.
Head of recruitment……..

 

[GrandOldTeam]

If we signed Ings before the season, we'd be a few places higher in the league.

We've got to be pragmatic - we're favourites for relegation.

We're down if we're relying on Calvert-Lewin's fitness/form.

We need a striker who can score in this league, who is willing and available. There isn't many.

It's not ideal, but either is relegation.

It's all about staying in the league.

 

[blueboy72]

I do not think we have any funds to make any signings. We have to sell and offer player exchange.

Cannot see us getting any of the mooted strikers.

We have till June to balance this years books. And you can do loan to obligation, if only we had clever and competent people running our club

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Thing is this is how it should work:

Owner/board > DoF > HoR/manager

Owner and board tell the DoF the overall aims of the club and then leave it to the DoF to implement that strategy across the club. Including recruitment policy.

The manager and HoR, under the direction of the DoF, go about implementing a coaching/management style and then scouting and ultimately deciding on players.

I keep banging on about it but for me Thelwell's biggest failing was not having a HoR in place for the summer. He's trying to act like a DoF should, and that's good. But if you've not got that crucial position filled then you're making a rod for your own back.

Apparently the job has been accepted by the candidate they wanted, yet that happened 10 months into his time as DoF and it still hasn't officially been announced, as the person hasn't yet started. So as it stands, Thelwell has to take the brunt for recruitment. Lampard can take his blame for insisting he prefers English players/PL experience and Thelwell can take the blame for not being able to come up with better than he did.

I’m confused (as with many things) about the HoR situation: in December DBB told us it had been appointed yet nothing has been announced so what’s the hold up?


The big concern is the hold up with absolutely everything: we’ve got a new HoR lined up but not in position, we’ve apparently got close to agreeing contracts with JP, AI & AG but nothing signed at our end, we’ve signed no players, there’s apparent dithering over the manager’s position.

My question would be: are these all things Moshiri needs to sign off on? And if so, is he simply not taking action on anything while trying to sell the club? Had he effectively given up and left us in stasis?

 

[mikel_88]

If we signed Ings before the season, we'd be a few places higher in the league.

We've got to be pragmatic - we're favourites for relegation.

We're down if we're relying on Calvert-Lewin's fitness/form.

We need a striker who can score in this league, who is willing and available. There isn't many.

It's not ideal, but either is relegation.

It's all about staying in the league.

Agree could bring in ings if the price is fair then look to bring others in aswell who we could take a chance on like onana

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

If we signed Ings before the season, we'd be a few places higher in the league.

We've got to be pragmatic - we're favourites for relegation.

We're down if we're relying on Calvert-Lewin's fitness/form.

We need a striker who can score in this league, who is willing and available. There isn't many.

It's not ideal, but either is relegation.

It's all about staying in the league.

Bringing Ings in pushes Maupay down to third choice. Maupay is likely to hang around similar to what Tosun done and make the odd cameo here and there. I agree with bringing Ings in to fix our scoring problem but we are throwing big money and wages away once again. On the other hand, we really have no choice but to go with that strategy.

 

[Goodisongang]

I don't think anyone doesn't rate him. But for a team that traditionally has injury problems, signing a 30 year-old perma crock might not be the best idea

Hasn't been had massive injury problems over the last couple of years tbf.

I do get he's the type of signing that we've been making and not been working, but he is moG definitely a goalscorer, and that's exactly what we are looking.

As someone else, if we could sign him and get 10-15 games from him this season, could be the difference between staying up or going down

 

[Rapidvienna]

I wonder what the reaction would have been to Kev Campbell if Socials had existed as much back in the day?
Not saying for or against just curious.

Andy Gray too !

 

[ZissouBlue]

It's about the cost with Ings for me. We could try for a loan with an inflated fee, but Villa have no reason to loan him out when he's still contributing. In Emery's system, they need two forwards and recent games have shown how much better Ings is at getting goals than Bailey. They overpaid for him before last season, so he's not going for a bargain. Probably 15m at a minimum, maybe more like 20m. If we think Ings is the difference between us staying up or not, maybe you put all of our available funds to do that. It would be well worth it. But then we're stuck with another over 30 player on big wages and a long contract, which will prevent us from buying a more sustainable player in the summer. And we repeat this exercise again and again until we finally go down.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Bringing Ings in pushes Maupay down to third choice. Maupay is likely to hang around similar to what Tosun done and make the odd cameo here and there. I agree with bringing Ings in to fix our scoring problem but we are throwing big money and wages away once again. On the other hand, we really have no choice but to go with that strategy.

Maupay should always have been a useful squad/second striker. Steven Naismith like. I like him, in the right team, in an around a centre forward he can be a real nuisance/handful. Never an out an out number 9 in this Everton team.

We're talking about wasting money as though we've got a choice - if we don't bring in more goals - a decent/proven centre forward, we're relegated.

 

[Pabbers]

Ings screams of panic and looks like another older payer going to be on massive wages and a long contract.

But, we are desperate, and Kevin Campbel was a very similar signing, so they can work out.

His age aside, he is exactly what we need.

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

It's throwing mud at the wall and hoping it sticks. Exactly what we have done for years. There's no proper youth development in place. There's no proper strategy being implemented. It's reactive like it always has been

 

[Azza]

Ings = King