January Transfer Window 2026

[Raino85]

They have both been successes, im not saying they weren't but we need to be realistic.

KDH was good scouting but also luck as mactee turned us down and he was next on the list.

I personally dont think rohl or barry have struggled. Rohl has been injured alot but looked decent when playing deeper (although i think he looks a bit of a headless chicken when played at the tip of the triangle).

Barry has went from playing in the swiss league to starting for a PL team in the sapce of a year and is improving every game. Yeah, he hasnt scored much but we dont create much. So what do you expect.

My original point was people seem to be operating under the delusion that £30m still gets you a top player and it just doesnt anymore.

It gets you exactly what weve gotten for it, potential or rejects. Our fans need to realise its not 2010 and stop using avarage prices to beat our potential signings with.

Bournemouth got Huijsen for £20m

We got N'Diaye for £22m

Brighton got Minteh for £30m

Palace got Sarr for £15m

Brentford got Kayode for £17m

 

[hetion]

Ofcourse we do, we have been bad in the past in that department, but their is nothing more boring and bland than reading the neverending cycle of pretty sounding foreign names..

They are atleast twice the gamble, most of the names brought up our from a computer game rating..

I want us to find the best we can wherever that may be, but stop casting off experience for a flavour of the month signing..

What i laid out shows a pretty good picture..

I genuinely don't think a single person on the forum does this btw.

 

[chippy1722]

"Prefers Premier League experience"

My most hated phrase ever when it comes to our transfer dealings.

Its lazy management and coaching

Are you joking. Go back over 20 years of our strikers and Premier League experience is an absolute must. Absolutely nothing to do with coaching whatsoever.

 

[davids]

Really surprised we haven't done any type of business with Roma.

 

[Swartzy]

I genuinely don't think a single person on the forum does this btw.

You might not, as you like the stat outlook, but you can't say no-one does, as i can't say everyone does.

I keep seeing people put a player for you to look up, thats not really watching a player when you can come back the same day with a response..

Either way, as a forum, the bigger percentage like a pretty sounding foreign name.

Look at the list I laid out, which part of it looks better..

Look who's probably going down this year and the amount of foreign transfers they have brought in.

I don't know that answer, but experience shouldnt be taken for granted..

 

[hetion]

Are you joking. Go back over 20 years of our strikers and Premier League experience is an absolute must. Absolutely nothing to do with coaching whatsoever.

That's *our* players, which only tells us about the quality of our recruitment teams.

Look at the best 50-odd players of the prem over the last decade and probably only a quarter of them are homegrown.

 

[hetion]

You might not, as you like the stat outlook, but you can't say no-one does, as i can't say everyone does.

I keep seeing people put a player for you to look up, thats not really watching a player when you can come back the same day with a response..

Either way, as a forum, the bigger percentage like a pretty sounding foreign name.

Look at the list I laid out, which part of it looks better..

Look who's probably going down this year and the amount of foreign transfers they have brought in.

I don't know that answer, but experience shouldnt be taken for granted..

Fair but I've never seen anyone reference a video game when talking about a player is all I mean.

And like I said above, I don't think it tells us much to look at Everton's recruitment because that has clearly been poor overall over the last 10 years

Look at some of the best transfers of this season from outside the prem:

Most of Sunderland's recruitment
Estevao
Cherki
Ekitike
Stach
Pino
Zubimendi
Kayode

And some of the worst, from inside:

Isak
Kerkez
Delap

There's also big hits from inside the prem (KDH, Cunha) and misses from outside (Wirtz, Sesko), obviously! And I would also say prem experience *is* a good and useful thing and cuts down on adaptation time. But you are simply missing out on so, so many good players - and for cheaper! - if you focus too hard on prem experience. Like, what's the full list of prem-experience RBs who are gettable and are at the level we want? It's got to be tiny.

 

[hetion]

Bournemouth got Huijsen for £20m

We got N'Diaye for £22m

Brighton got Minteh for £30m

Palace got Sarr for £15m

Brentford got Kayode for £17m

These are the exception not the rule to be fair. If a club can consistently make those transfers the majority of the time then they've found the cheat code to modern football

 

[Swartzy]

Fair but I've never seen anyone reference a video game when talking about a player is all I mean.

And like I said above, I don't think it tells us much to look at Everton's recruitment because that has clearly been poor overall over the last 10 years

Look at some of the best transfers of this season from outside the prem:

Most of Sunderland's recruitment
Estevao
Cherki
Ekitike
Stach
Pino
Zubimendi
Kayode

And some of the worst, from inside:

Isak
Kerkez
Delap

There's also big hits from inside the prem (KDH, Cunha) and misses from outside (Wirtz, Sesko), obviously! And I would also say prem experience *is* a good and useful thing and cuts down on adaptation time. But you are simply missing out on so, so many good players - and for cheaper! - if you focus too hard on prem experience. Like, what's the full list of prem-experience RBs who are gettable and are at the level we want? It's got to be tiny.

Yeah, i don't want just prem experience, I want a blend of the best we can find out there, from wherever that maybe, a blend of age, youth and game experience.

Take Xhaka out of Sunderland and would we be looking at the same team.

It works both ways, but how many foreign players have been failures over the years and regarding your stature as a club, it's even harder.

Take bowen out of west ham
Take Anderson out of Forrest
Wolves, what prem experience do they really carry.

I want the best wherever that may be, getting ourselves more attractive as a club puts you in a higher bracket with better resources in finding those players.

I don't have one preference other than what moves us forward..

 

[Swartzy]

They have both been successes, im not saying they weren't but we need to be realistic.

KDH was good scouting but also luck as mactee turned us down and he was next on the list.

I personally dont think rohl or barry have struggled. Rohl has been injured alot but looked decent when playing deeper (although i think he looks a bit of a headless chicken when played at the tip of the triangle).

Barry has went from playing in the swiss league to starting for a PL team in the sapce of a year and is improving every game. Yeah, he hasnt scored much but we dont create much. So what do you expect.

My original point was people seem to be operating under the delusion that £30m still gets you a top player and it just doesnt anymore.

It gets you exactly what weve gotten for it, potential or rejects. Our fans need to realise its not 2010 and stop using avarage prices to beat our potential signings with.

KDH wasn't luck, he has been fantastic since breaking in to the leicester team.

He is the perfect example of a Moyes signing..

 

[Bluewolf]

I really think that how ungainly Barry looks when he plays make people think his touch/hold up play is worse than it actually is - there's loads of examples of him doing exactly that even just this week:



It's not outstanding but I think it's 'good-ish' generally.

I think people just want their strikers to score goals and rate them on that.

I really like barry but I understand hes a working and any striker would struggle to score goals in this team.

Obviously we need a better striker but in all honesty who doesnt. The RS have just spent £200m+ on two strikers and will tell you they need better strikers.

Its only really city, real madrid and maybe bayern Munich who dont and thats because they have the best in the world

 

[blueboy72]

Are you joking. Go back over 20 years of our strikers and Premier League experience is an absolute must. Absolutely nothing to do with coaching whatsoever.

We all know that it’s very difficult to have an 11 all with prem experience, but if Moyes insists on it, it’s going to be very difficult for us to break into the top 6 and Europe every season. Because it leaves us with a small pool to pick from and the best players will have a number of better options, plus add in the cost and wages, puts us at huge disadvantage

 

[Bluewolf]

Bournemouth got Huijsen for £20m (19 year old cb)

We got N'Diaye for £22m (24 failed at Sheffield and marseille)

Brighton got Minteh for £30m (20 years old)

Palace got Sarr for £15m (watford reject in his mid 20s)

Brentford got Kayode for £17m (20 years old rb )

So?

in my op i reference that i was talking about attacking players. That wasn't in the post you replied too. So sorry if there was any confusion there. Defensive players cost less then attacking.

Where players like ndiaye and satt have been very good for us and palace respectively. They had failed at their previous clubs which explains why they were available at that price.

Its really only minteh that is young full of potential and a attacker in that lost and he went for around the 30 i was referencing in my post

 

[Bluewolf]

KDH wasn't luck, he has been fantastic since breaking in to the leicester team.

He is the perfect example of a Moyes signing..

Sorry, mate. i think you've misread my post.

It was luck we signed him because we wanted mactee and he chose Forrest over us. So we got our second choice which was KDH.

If mactee had agreed to sign for us we wouldn't of signed KDH. So thats why i was referring to there being a element of luck to us signing him.

 

[ValBlue]

‘Prioritising prem experience’

Im gonna scream. We’ve got loads of prem experience in the squad. If the best player available is prem experienced, then fine, go for it, perfect. But if the best player is in the French league or wherever, then why refuse to entertain the idea?

Quality should be the biggest priority when it comes to signings, nothing else. We have a very experienced back line, I’m sure a RB who has never played in the prem will be fine playing next to them.

Who are ‘prem proven’ RBs then? What does that limit us to?