Summer transfer window.

[Neiler]

I'm still not 100% against having him for a season or 2....he would have been a good affective singing at any point for us.

Stops him scoring against us to mate, which I’d be a fan of!

 

[Saint Domingo]

PSG hardly have any height in their team. They have pace and technique. We have a team of absolute giants and still can’t defend set pieces or pose a threat from them.

We don’t get back to the top by getting in some huge grocks. We need technical players who have pace all over the park. That’s when teams sit off you and you start to dominate games when they know they can’t press you, and that when they get the ball back they won’t be able to keep it for long.

Currently every team knows if you even press us slightly we’ll go starlight back to the keeper who will launch it to two strikers who can’t win an aerial dual and even if they do we have the slowest midfield in the league backing them up.

 

[Neiler]

I said it in another thread but the biggest threat to our investment in players and overall recruitment is alignment of the manager and all the dudes they have on the “great bunch of lads transfer comittee”.

For me - I think the manager has sign of on players - but I think that’s different from those being the managers picks, likely assent on players being brought to him.

I think the club has a strategy - invest, buy young, develop players - maximise value! Theory is great.

We have a manager that looks at Aznou, Dibling, Rohl etc and thinks they can’t right now give me as much as say Myko, McNeill or Gana. So the transfer strategy practically has no teeth.

Ultimately the “great bunch of lads committee” and the managers needs aren’t aligned.

If I’m the TFG I’m asking how effective is that for 100+ mill invested during the summer and if it hasn’t been effective then why not?

We need to make sure - we have our acts together heading into the summer and both the manager and committee are aligned - because it doesn’t work any other way.

 

[mccole]

The worst part of this summer will be targets who will not join due to lack of European football.

We have 12 points to play for but the last 3 games we have totally missed an excellent opportunity to grow the quality of the squad.

 

[Neiler]

I said it in another thread but the biggest threat to our investment in players and overall recruitment is alignment of the manager and all the dudes they have on the “great bunch of lads transfer comittee”.

For me - I think the manager has sign of on players - but I think that’s different from those being the managers picks, likely assent on players being brought to him.

I think the club has a strategy - invest, buy young, develop players - maximise value! Theory is great.

We have a manager that looks at Aznou, Dibling, Rohl etc and thinks they can’t right now give me as much as say Myko, McNeill or Gana. So the transfer strategy practically has no teeth.

Ultimately the “great bunch of lads committee” and the managers needs aren’t aligned.

If I’m the TFG I’m asking how effective is that for 100+ mill invested during the summer and if it hasn’t been effective then why not?

We need to make sure - we have our acts together heading into the summer and both the manager and committee are aligned - because it doesn’t work any other way.

This is an illustration of the point I am making.

The new signings are highlighted in gray.

While I’m not really portioning blame at the transfer committee or the manager - whatever has gone on - both clearly aren’t aligned.

That’s a huge investment for us - with very little practical return in terms of influencing games or results on the pitch.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

This is an illustration of the point I am making.

The new signings are highlighted in gray.

While I’m not really portioning blame at the transfer committee or the manager - whatever has gone on - both clearly aren’t aligned.

They're the same thing - we legged the DOF, the manager leads it.

He gets the plaudits for Arteta, Cahill, Coleman, Lescott and co, not the scouting department.

 

[Neiler]

They're the same thing - we legged the DOF, the manager leads it.

He gets the plaudits for Arteta, Cahill, Coleman, Lescott and co, not the scouting department.

I’m critiquing it this year mate - but its two very different clubs and structures IMO - Everton early 00’s and Everton 25/26.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I’m critiquing it this year mate - but its two very different clubs and structures IMO - Everton early 00’s and Everton 25/26.

There's always been scouting/recruitment departments, working for the manager.

Then it changed so you had DOF model with ultimate accountability - Moyes/we got rid of that.

We can hire as many head of or director of titles as you like, but there's no bloke in a suit deciding we sign Tyler Dibling and poor Moyes is passively accepting it.

Nobody comes in without the manager. His own words, the CEOs words, and decades of understanding who the manager is.

Trying to portion good signings to the manager or bad ones, depending on your agenda is beyond tedious - I understood it when we had a Director of Football - we don't anymore.

You'll give credit to Moyes for Seamus Coleman, or John Stones and not some shadow recruitment team at the time. You can't switch that when it suits.

 

[Username.]

I see Bayern have said, “I’m sorry, Nick Jackson” - and are not taking up the option to make his move permanent.

Of the two, I would rather take a chance on him than Delap, I think.

Wouldn't want either..

 

[Saint Domingo]

This is an illustration of the point I am making.

The new signings are highlighted in gray.

While I’m not really portioning blame at the transfer committee or the manager - whatever has gone on - both clearly aren’t aligned.

That’s a huge investment for us - with very little practical return in terms of influencing games or results on the pitch.

Moyes is cornering himself into a difficult position by not playing them. The owners aren’t going to get rid of 100 mill of players, and all the new hires they’ve just made who scouted them, just to keep Moyes happy. I don’t care who you are, it’s not a good look for a manager to spend 100 mill on players and then use all the previous managers players for the entire season.

If Gueye hadn’t have renewed on his deal, and McNeil had gone to Palace, they wouldn’t even be here but instead they’re ever presents.

What’s the strategy? Do they start next season as well because if the idea is to use Rohl Dibling Alcaraz then we’ve not used this season to transition to that in the slightest.

 

[Swartzy]

He talks about Soucek the way Ferguson would have talked about Scholes. He really is a duffer.

He really shouldn't have even been talking about Soucek, especially after a loss..

 

[davek]

He really shouldn't have even been talking about Soucek, especially after a loss..

Even before going to West Ham he was talking West Ham up a lot and what a great time he had there.

No professionalism at all. If he wanted to gush then he should have done that after taking all three points off them.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

I think we could do with someone big at 6 mate as much as i like Idrissa, Garner and KDH against teams like Newcastle, Arsenal and Derby i thought they wooked a bit light weight.

Rohl is a big man - but would you play him at 6.

I think we will look for someone big at 6 and at 9.

It was actually interesting listening to him talk mate, he said you have to be prepared to sacrifice technical players for bigger presence.

We need quality players now not squad fillers and to be fair to Moyes he does have a good eye for a midfielder.

Yes I would play Rohl there in the last 4 games instead of Gueye as we need to move away from him as a first team regular, why Armstrong has not been used recently I will never know.

 

[Bedfordblue]

They're the same thing - we legged the DOF, the manager leads it.

He gets the plaudits for Arteta, Cahill, Coleman, Lescott and co, not the scouting department.

They’re watching you lad

 

[Eggs]