Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[MisterJ]

“David Moyes has resigned” is commendably bold, most say

Especially as he seems to be sitting on the sidelines for the game we're currently playing

 

[Efcjake]

Actually I was originally celebrating the Branthwaite deal before you went on some pedantic nit picking crusade, all because I said that I thought it was a welcome departure from the past

Digne, Richy, Gordon, Onana, Rodriguez, Stekelenburg, Bolassie, Sandro, all shipped too soon

You had me in the first half.....


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[ElGato]

You had me in the first half.....


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You didn't rate James then?

I thought he was mint me, but probably a bit too luxury for us

 

[BlueStevie35]

Gotta be a bot, surely?

He’s a Celtic fan, loves trolling the Sevco and Geordie fans. Dunno what his problem is with us mind

 

[Efcjake]

You didn't rate James then?

I thought he was mint me, but probably a bit too luxury for us

Stekelenburg, Bolasie and Sandro?

 

[Goat]

I'm saying that if we'd kept some of them we might not have been as crap, so maybe we might have then been keeping more

It's both a vicious and virtuous circle.

If you're consistently willing to sell every one of your best players then you'll go nowhere

We're not Brighton fgs, we can't be happy with simply staying in the Premier League

The idea is you sell good players, then buy MORE good players with the money you get.

We did the first thing, not the second, thats the only issue I have personally.

 

[ElGato]

Stekelenburg, Bolasie and Sandro?

Everton legends

 

[Efcjake]

Everton legends

Sorry for your loss

 

[ElGato]

Sorry for your loss

Of sanity?

I blame Everton

 

[Efcjake]

I'm saying that if we'd kept some of them we might not have been as crap, so maybe we might have then been keeping more

It's both a vicious and virtuous circle.

If you're consistently willing to sell every one of your best players then you'll go nowhere

We're not Brighton fgs, we can't be happy with simply staying in the Premier League

The part that caught my attention was that you said we sold at the first opportunity.

I don't think we really did. We will always have to get the best money we can get for the players that want to leave like Richarlison, Gordon, and Onana.

Gordon we made stick around half a season after rejecting a bid from Chelsea below our valuation in the summer. Richarlison and Onana had to be sold for the books and we got good fees for them. James and Digne were booted out by the FSW who was handed complete control to do what he wanted as Moshiri played the fiddle and watched it all burn down. I wouldn't say any of these were at the first opportunity.

I also don't think we were "willing" to sell every one of our best players but rather we had to because they kept buying crap ones and giving them massive wages.

 

[ElGato]

The part that caught my attention was that you said we sold at the first opportunity.

I don't think we really did. We will always have to get the best money we can get for the players that want to leave like Richarlison, Gordon, and Onana.

Gordon we made stick around half a season after rejecting a bid from Chelsea below our valuation in the summer. Richarlison and Onana had to be sold for the books and we got good fees for them. James and Digne were booted out by the FSW who was handed complete control to do what he wanted as Moshiri played the fiddle and watched it all burn down. I wouldn't say any of these were at the first opportunity.

I also don't think we were "willing" to sell every one of our best players but rather we had to because they kept buying crap ones and giving them massive wages.

I don't doubt there are circumstances that either required us to sell or that made selling attractive to us.

If we can address some of those circumstances by displaying a better vision, both in terms of club financial management and by demonstrating to the player themselves that we have a plan that suitably matches their personal ambitions, I'd like to think we can begin to think about keeping some of these profile of players (but not all, naturally we will continue need to sell, and should to generate funds to reinvest)

Weirdly out of that list Richy was probably the best bit of business, been crocked since

The Gordon one stings for me, despite him being a rat. Scouser, high ceiling, and went to a historically smaller club than us. I'd like to think that under new ownership that maybe wouldn't have happened

 

[ToffeeTim]

At least some things seem to be happening

 

[formerly manx toffee]

He's terrifying

Who the dickens is he ?

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Who the dickens is he ?

Stumped if I know

 

[BlueBarrow]

Stekelenburg, Bolasie and Sandro?

Vlasic , Lookman and Nkounkou would surely be better than them ?