Summer transfer window.

[knowing your history]

All of the bottom half teams would have took KDH for 25mil last summer, including Brentford

Yep. West Ham would've stayed up signing him imo as he'd have been far more use for them than Paqueta from start of last season. Not saying he'd have kept Wolves up obviously but in first half of last season they lost so many games by a goal it's hard not to think they'd have got some draws and wins with goal scoring midfielder in their team.

KDH has his critics but he was good last season imo. Nice goal return, linked up well with Grealish when given the chance and also let's not forget he missed all the Xmas/New year schedule injured.

Need to sign 2-3 more of his types in the summer otherwise I think next season is going to be a harder slog again, Hackney would be a very good start indeed.

 

[Bez2k2k]

According to me.

Silly

 

[Bez2k2k]

Whom

Wham

 

[PhilRegan]

Do you want the bet?
And you said the next 5 yrs, the bookies have them shorter odds then us to be relegated next season. And had what happened to us under moshiri, happened to thrm
they would have gone down

I said the previous 5 years actually. They were candidates to go down last year the bookies know less than this forum .

They are ran further from how we were under moshiri than Mercury to Pluto. If we were ran 50% as well as they are we would be so much better off.

 

[knowing your history]

If we only have 40/50m to spend as Douglas thinks, we are either selling Ndiaye early, or after a lot of loans and frees.

I read the article. He was saying more like Tim would be sold to get in Hackney (Ipswich want him apparently). However Tim to me is long term replacement for Gana so with him being 37 in September would still be a midfielder down.

Also is McNeill going or what? Had a brief renaissance around the time of his aborted Palace move but one year left on his deal so surely Coventry and Ipswich would be after him.

Think Ndiaye stays here regardless of contract and then will seriously look at the situation next summer as there is far more chance of having a comfortable mid table season with him deciding tight games against bottom half than sell and then having a real creative void in the team. Were having these dilemmas just 3-4 years back so don't want to be back in those desperate times in a hurry again.

 

[Blue peter]

Even if Toney came for a vastly reduced wage, given what he's reportedly on in Saudi (£400k tax free per week) he’d still be on a bell of a lot of money, I wonder if that jeopardises any resigning of Grealish. Having two players both on those short of salaries would be a hell of a financial burden.

 

[knowing your history]

If a player is ambitious then they certainly aren’t going to fulfill that at Everton. Unless their ambition is maybe an FA Cup quarter final and a flirtation with the Europa league.

Players go to the club that pays the most wages. Location probably the second factor.

This club tends to shop around for players who've failed a bit higher up. People can debate the merits but Grealish, Ndiaye and KDH all reasonable examples of this and all three were the difference last season between comfortable mid table and being West Ham I think.

Moyes success last time was training up the better championship performing players like Jagielka, Lescott and Cahill into excellent top half prem players but 20 years on that formula is much harder now with how strong the prem is even in mid table.

It's going to be a tricky summer I think. Still under restrictions and Friedkin aren't the most progressive ownership group from what I've seen so far. They're clearly sticking with Moyes which is a pretty passive call given how poor the run in was so pressure going to be ramped up from fanbase with poor start next season I imagine especially if any decent signings don't come in until deadline day.

 

[preposterousvelios]

I'm not buying that 50m net spend thing tbh. Ipaper are good source since TFG come in but the quote isn't from a club source its from a random 'football finance expert'

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

Aaron Ramsdale popping up being linked to us after Newcastle loan last year.

 

[Hogwild]

Lots of people getting wound up about things that either haven't happened or aren't going to happen.

You’ve basically described every summer transfer thread I can recall…

 

[PhilRegan]

Aaron Ramsdale popping up being linked to us after Newcastle loan last year.

It would be full blown Everton to sell pickford deadline day and get ramsdale on loan

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Toney is a fantastic striker and immediately makes us a much much better team. He’d be our best striker since lukaku easily.

 

[blueboy72]

I said the previous 5 years actually. They were candidates to go down last year the bookies know less than this forum .

They are ran further from how we were under moshiri than Mercury to Pluto. If we were ran 50% as well as they are we would be so much better off.

You said they’ve got more chance of success

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

Toney is a fantastic striker and immediately makes us a much much better team. He’d be our best striker since lukaku easily.

That's an incredibly low bar though.

 

[1878blues]

Don’t get why we [Poor language removed] around with deals. Give 10m plus some add ons and get him in the door. We had no problem throwing about 40m for Dibling