His negligence in January is a given???
We received £40m for Anthony Gordon - all of it up front if the Newcastle documentary is to be believed. We now know that pretty much none of that was available to spend to Thelwell. We know that because none of it was there when the current window opened.
How he gets blame for working with no money I don't understand. The Chermiti deal involved about £1m up front - there aren't many other strikers knocking about who were available for that sort of seal structure. He somehow convinced Udinese to accept the grand sum of absolutely nothing up front.
Players are being sold and we are told that again anyone he could have signed today would have been for buttons as an initial payment.
The man isn't just working with one hand tied behind his back, he's got absolutely nothing to work with.
Not having this being pinned on Thelwell. I was sceptical in January when he was being scapegoated by people on here, but I'm now absolutely certain about where blame lies.
Yeah you’re spot on here. Frankly anyone blaming Thelwell, or really at this point any DoF we’ve had, has their head firmly in the sand and is ignoring the mountains of evidence to show what a horrific job he’s been given.
Like you say he’s been given absolutely nothing at all. Look at just some of the deals that we know about and how they’re structured with him negotiating.
Dele - free, all appearance based
Tarkowski - free, somehow picked us over Villa
McNeil - £2m up front, the rest over years
Gana - £2m outright
Coady - option of £3m signing after a loan (which we should’ve taken)
Chermiti - like you say £1m up front.
Harrison - just pay wages, no loan fee
Beto - somehow nothing up front
Legitimately I challenge any Everton fan to look at those deals, regardless of how the players work out here, and say that this is some buffoon negotiating for us or that he’s not putting any effort in. Literally 8 players off the top of my head, most of a team, and in this market we paid literally £5m up front for them combined.
This doesn’t even go in to the clearly fantastic job that he’s done with selling players for us that are utterly dreadful. Even if it’s a case of getting their wages off the finances he’s done it incredibly well. After the Saudi window closes off the top of my head Michael Keane will be the only proper wage thief left at the club. That’s fantastic given the absolute dredge and rot that Thelwell inherited when he came in.
I’m sorry, lay the blame at Moshiri and Kenwright as it should but for the love of Christ get off Thelwell’s back. It’s not the DoF‘s fault that we couldn’t pay £5m more for Gnonto despite selling literally £30m+ worth of players, same reason that it’s not his fault that we couldn’t pay Sulemana’s release clause. It goes on and on.
