Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Joey66]

By my reckoning Soucek was missed less then 10 games in 5 seasons since he joined West Ham .

Yet they want rid of him looking for mugs !

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

So essentially he's a much better version of Doucoure

Yup - ditch the donkey and get this guy in. One intangible he would bring is a fantastic attitude.

 

[DaChunk]

I don't think there will be any rumours with legs, Moyes likes a tight ship as do our new owners.

 

[Curtis]

Exclusive: Moyes Wants Everton to Sign £370,000-a-Week Trio in Summer Revamp

Everton manager David Moyes wants the club to sign three Premier League stars as he eyes a major summer revamp ahead of the Bramley Moore Dock move.

www.givemesport.com

Well that’s a depressing read. Those in charge simply mustn’t let Moyes take control of signings whether he likes it or not. I don’t know who “John” is, but his comment underneath the article I couldn’t put better myself.

It's give me sport , not exactly the most reliable publication

 

[Curtis]

I spoke to a west ham fan a couple weeks ago , said hes a given for several goals a season but that his passing is atrocious , decent at making tackles and that he prefers to going forward to sitting back

 

[D410]

Incremental players get you incremental improvements. Is that ambitious enough considering the new owners and next year with so many English clubs in Europe.

There is a real chance to fly up the league next year and we can do it with players who give us electrifying speed and high technical execution (world football markets).

We have to brave and find the players who are not in prime time but who are young enough to become so soon. Leadership is a problem in the squad that has to be addressed but its not an excuse to shape the entire team on incremental players.

 

[Timbucktoo]

Incremental players get you incremental improvements. Is that ambitious enough considering the new owners and next year with so many English clubs in Europe.

There is a real chance to fly up the league next year and we can do it with players who give us electrifying speed and high technical execution (world football markets).

We have to brave and find the players who are not in prime time but who are young enough to become so soon. Leadership is a problem in the squad that has to be addressed but its not an excuse to shape the entire team on incremental players.

There`ll be one or two teams that make Europe that will likely struggle to cope with the extra fixtures. this should give us a chance to really push into the top half if we strengthen the squad in the right areas. I think we need a lot of improvement in midfield all across the park and need to get some players scoring up top into double figures.

 

[Aries]

Some are just making excuses here “you need a balance between old and young players” and “Soucek is still good for a couple of years he’s only 30”

We already have experience and plenty of it, the oldest squad in the league is it? Whether you’re choosing to bury your head in the sand because you’re blindly backing Moyes or whatever other reason, there is simply no world where Soucek or Stones would be sensible signings. They’re going to demand big wages and those high wages for players who are on the decline has been what has caused us so many problems with PSR and financially in general, in the past.

Any significant wage we pay should go towards upgrading the contracts of the younger players in our squad who are important, namely Branthwaite. Younger players with big potential is the sensible business policy and far more sustainable when it comes to recruitment. They don’t demand instant high wages, and have resale value so give you monetary assets that give you the option to sell at a later date for a profit (if the talent spotters have done their job) to then reinvest. Soucek on 100k+ on a four year deal would NOT be a good signing and neither would an injury plagued 30 year old John Stones who would demand to be our highest earner.

Hopefully these links are utter nonsense.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Some are just making excuses here “you need a balance between old and young players” and “Soucek is still good for a couple of years he’s only 30”

We already have experience and plenty of it, the oldest squad in the league is it? Whether you’re choosing to bury your head in the sand because you’re blindly backing Moyes or whatever other reason, there is simply no world where Soucek or Stones would be sensible signings. They’re going to demand big wages and those high wages for players who are on the decline has been what has caused us so many problems with PSR and financially in general, in the past.

Any significant wage we pay should go towards upgrading the contracts of the younger players in our squad who are important, namely Branthwaite. Younger players with big potential is the sensible business policy and far more sustainable when it comes to recruitment. They don’t demand instant high wages, and have resale value so give you monetary assets that give you the option to sell at a later date for a profit (if the talent spotters have done their job) to then reinvest. Soucek on 100k+ on a four year deal would NOT be a good signing and neither would an injury plagued 30 year old John Stones who would demand to be our highest earner.

Hopefully these links are utter nonsense.

Yes, but we are about to lose a lot of that experience - Gana and doucs being two

 

[blueboy72]

If Stones can stay fit. Soucek is a no brainer - he scores so many goals and is great in both boxes. He has great stamina as well.

TFG ain’t spending big money on 30 yr olds and being stuck with them at 33

 

[Lanolin]

Some are just making excuses here “you need a balance between old and young players” and “Soucek is still good for a couple of years he’s only 30”

We already have experience and plenty of it, the oldest squad in the league is it? Whether you’re choosing to bury your head in the sand because you’re blindly backing Moyes or whatever other reason, there is simply no world where Soucek or Stones would be sensible signings. They’re going to demand big wages and those high wages for players who are on the decline has been what has caused us so many problems with PSR and financially in general, in the past.

Any significant wage we pay should go towards upgrading the contracts of the younger players in our squad who are important, namely Branthwaite. Younger players with big potential is the sensible business policy and far more sustainable when it comes to recruitment. They don’t demand instant high wages, and have resale value so give you monetary assets that give you the option to sell at a later date for a profit (if the talent spotters have done their job) to then reinvest. Soucek on 100k+ on a four year deal would NOT be a good signing and neither would an injury plagued 30 year old John Stones who would demand to be our highest earner.

Hopefully these links are utter nonsense.

I don’t want us to sign those particular players but it’s worth pointing out that we could be about to lose almost all of the players that contribute to making us the oldest squad in the league, so there is an argument that we’ll want to bring in a bit of experience to replace that.

 

[maccavennie]

TFG ain’t spending big money on 30 yr olds and being stuck with them at 33

That's the hope isn't it.

All the rumours, stories, transfer gossip are exactly what you'd expect from the old Everton....players on the decline, players not needed by their club but looking for a final pay day, players with questionable fitness history, players on big wages.......this is TFGs 1st transfer window and I'd hope them and the transfer committee will be saying to Moyes if he requested one of the above "sorry no, that doesn't fit our model for Everton Football club, but here's an alternative player who costs x less, is on y less money and has a potential resale value of z.

All the reports to me just sound real lazy. I don't want any signing because "he'll do" or "Moyes knows him". If West Ham are getting rid of Soucek it's because they think they can get better. We need to be out there finding that type of player aged 25, not aged 30.

 

[NeilMorepies]

Only manager in my lifetime who left the club in a better place than he inherited it btw.

Fat Sam politely disagrees with your assertion

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Only manager in my lifetime who left the club in a better place than he inherited it btw.

Sean Dyche did. From a very low starting point, but he still did.

 

[MikeH72]

Sean Dyche did. From a very low starting point, but he still did.

In terms of points and proximity to the bottom of the table, you could make the case that we were fractionally better off, by virtue of 2 points. But when you deep it, he picked us up in the thick of a relegation battle in January and left us in the thick of a relegation battle in January.