January Transfer Window 2026

[Jebus_lives]

We'll hit the wrong button on the deadline day fax machine and end up with John Parrott

Top slotter. Knows the club.

 

[Titus Shambles]

Top slotter. Knows the club.

I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere about being a better finisher than Beto and Barry from 4 feet away....... (either that or something about getting blue balls stuck in the netting)

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Paolo Maldini, that world famous center forward. (I mean, he's no George Weah at left back, but you can't have everything can you.......)

I'd take either of them up front, at their current age.

 

[slpsd78]

Looking at that gaping hole in midfield yesterday, it still irritates me that we didn’t bring Xhaka in.

Midfield has been an issue all season. Getting a couple of overlapping fullbacks would help massively as we could drop KDH back into the midfield, Jack and Ndiaye could then play a bit more centrally at times and it would help prevent us being overrun in the middle.

 

[JLW]

Ivan Toney and a proper RB could transform this team for the 2nd half of the season
Or get a midfielder and make Garner the RB

 

[Bez2k2k]

Should just go and get that Dutch right back from Coventry. Looks decent. Toney in up front would be amazing for us. A little cheeky bid to Arsenal for Nwaneri and Lewis Skelly on loan. Robinson left back. Midfielder. Done.

 

[DrEFC]

The RS gonna bid for Camavinga, would love him here..




I Know we have no chance!

 

[Nymzee]

The RS gonna bid for Camavinga, would love him here..




I Know we have no chance!

But he'd never come here and we could never afford him, so keep dreaming.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Ahh but you see, @TheBigIguana would call this money down the drain because theres no 'value'. Not in the signing fee nor in a potential sale...and hes not good enough to not want to generate a profit.

Now, 'value' for Iggypop would be in your Garner, Ndiaye, Branthwaite, Aznou, Alcaraz and Tarkowski signings.

While they dont believe more expensive players like Onana (sold for a profit) or Dibling are value.

It’s not black and white Zat. Onana was 21 and had already played at a good level in France. The risk was lower there than it was with someone like Dibling who frankly hasn’t shown anything outside of youth team football. I do believe that the sweet spot for Everton is largely going to be between 20 and 25m. There are loads of good players in this price range! Staying around that number allows us to both invest in a greater number of players and never be too overly invested in one. This is important because we’re going to have bad signings. It is unavoidable. And so our strategy needs to account for that and be designed so that the positive can be as helpful as possible but also so that the bad isn’t disastrous.

 

[TheBigIguana]

That is the wrong outlook from him.

We dont move forward with full focus on a profit making machine.

Every new signing is a gamble, no matter who they are. you keep moving all your players that have settled just for profit, it will backfire massively.

That’s not what I’m suggesting though. I don’t care about profit. I care about sustainability. We can lose some money, just not as much as we did under Moshiri.

What I want is a sustainable system for buying and selling talent because, as much as this is impossible to get people to admit, we are going to have to sell talent. Which means we have to buy to replace it. So a repeatable system is just inherently necessary.

I am not suggesting selling to sell. I don’t want us, for example, to go out and make a deal for James Garner. At the same time if offers are made, and those offers hit a certain number, we need to be willing to make the deal with enough confidence that we can find someone new to fill it.

I hope one day arrives where we’ve got the best team in England. And when we do we’re still going to have to sell someone because Real Madrid will want the player and then we will have to replace him still. There’s no way to do this without a sustainable recruitment system.

 

[Swartzy]

That’s not what I’m suggesting though. I don’t care about profit. I care about sustainability. We can lose some money, just not as much as we did under Moshiri.

What I want is a sustainable system for buying and selling talent because, as much as this is impossible to get people to admit, we are going to have to sell talent. Which means we have to buy to replace it. So a repeatable system is just inherently necessary.

I am not suggesting selling to sell. I don’t want us, for example, to go out and make a deal for James Garner. At the same time if offers are made, and those offers hit a certain number, we need to be willing to make the deal with enough confidence that we can find someone new to fill it.

I hope one day arrives where we’ve got the best team in England. And when we do we’re still going to have to sell someone because Real Madrid will want the player and then we will have to replace him still. There’s no way to do this without a sustainable recruitment system.

That confidence in signing the right players, and having a sustainable recruitment system, have taken a pretty big hit on the club/fans in recent years.

Trust has to be rebuilt and it is going to take a while.