2025/26 Tyler Dibling

[Jebus_lives]

Some of you need to get your head around the fact that not every signing is made for immediate returns.

Could that money have been better utiilised, given the holes in our squad? Perhaps.

But we’ve all been moaning for years how we always miss out on the top young talent (something this lad is rated as throughout football).

Patience.

If we ended up in a years time with European football and a team with George, Dibling, Armstrong, Aznou in and around the first team that's very good forward planning.

They may not all get there, but even if 2 are starters that's positive.

 

[davids]

My take on this, is that it's a possibility that the club saw good potential in Dibling, realised that the usual suspects were not going to move for him and decided that this was our only real chance of getting him. They may well have bought him not intending to put him straight into the starting lineup, but, worried that had they waited a year and Dibling tore it up in the championship, our chance would have gone, as the big hitters would have then been in for him.

In my opinion we should not have signed him when we needed full backs desperately, but I'm a fan, not an owner. Dibling has been bought with a view to developing him and moving him on for a profit. We can expect to see more of this, the club is very definitely being ran as a business now.

Every signing has an element of risk. I can see the idea of getting the player before the big boys snap him up,but those two fullbacks could very well have had us comfortably in a European position and maybe even CL.

 

[hetion]

While i don't necessarily disagree, until we see how much money TFG are going to spending in the coming window(s) I’m just not sure a £40m prospect is what we needed in the summer. It also feels like he sits between the two camps you’ve described, of course he’s young, but he also made 30(ish) appearances in the EPL last season.
I think they bought him expecting him to play more than he has, hopefully he is beginning to settle now and we’ll start to see a bit of him next season (can’t see it this season while Europe is still on the table), he certainly looks like he gets on with George, presumably from England camps, so fingers crossed.

I think it'll be a case of he wasn't what we needed for this season, but we'll be very happy we got him in a year or two's time. Is what it is.

 

[hetion]

I think it'll be a case of he wasn't what we needed for this season, but we'll be very happy we got him in a year or two's time. Is what it is.

One of the reasons I say this - and one of the reasons I'm very optimistic about Armstrong - is maybe the single most 'special' attribute a player can have currently is being able to receive, turn and beat the press. Given how intense the press is these days, and how everyone is man-marking, it totally changes what you can do. Dibling and Armstrong are both extremely good at receiving and turning to beat their marker (he did it beautifully to win that foul right at the end on Tuesday). Not many can do it!

 

[Mr Happy]

It was a terrible squad. We had a couple of diamonds and a manager who worked wonders.

This is like talking to my kids. I concede.

 

[Swartzy]

We aren't at the stage where we can pay £35 million for a development project. Maybe £5 million, and even then if that player doesn't get game time inside a year they'll want to leave, it's the way the game is these days.

No, but we have.
We can't rewrite history now,
All we can do is back the lad..

He will show his worth and more.

That window will have been a learning curve though.

 

[Gilbert..]

My take on this, is that it's a possibility that the club saw good potential in Dibling, realised that the usual suspects were not going to move for him and decided that this was our only real chance of getting him. They may well have bought him not intending to put him straight into the starting lineup, but, worried that had they waited a year and Dibling tore it up in the championship, our chance would have gone, as the big hitters would have then been in for him.

In my opinion we should not have signed him when we needed full backs desperately, but I'm a fan, not an owner. Dibling has been bought with a view to developing him and moving him on for a profit. We can expect to see more of this, the club is very definitely being ran as a business now.

Not comparing as players but Spurs went down that road and took a punt on Gareth Bale from the same club. He wasnt cheap back in 2007. And bale never hit the ground running at Spurs.

 

[Neiler]

We aren't at the stage where we can pay £35 million for a development project. Maybe £5 million, and even then if that player doesn't get game time inside a year they'll want to leave, it's the way the game is these days.

Disagree mate, why are we not at that stage and why should we not?

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

Looks to be a future talent. Doesn’t show quickness.

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

We aren't at the stage where we can pay £35 million for a development project. Maybe £5 million, and even then if that player doesn't get game time inside a year they'll want to leave, it's the way the game is these days.

We are. We're 8th in the table. He can come in an hopefully improve us next year.

 

[Neiler]

While i don't necessarily disagree, until we see how much money TFG are going to spending in the coming window(s) I’m just not sure a £40m prospect is what we needed in the summer. It also feels like he sits between the two camps you’ve described, of course he’s young, but he also made 30(ish) appearances in the EPL last season.
I think they bought him expecting him to play more than he has, hopefully he is beginning to settle now and we’ll start to see a bit of him next season (can’t see it this season while Europe is still on the table), he certainly looks like he gets on with George, presumably from England camps, so fingers crossed.

I dont know mate. Sure hes played in the PL and been impressive - which is why we've bought him.

But hes gone from one of the worst teams ever in the PL, to a club pushing for Europe and to be frank a bigger club.

There is a ladder there - for example all fit he has to be better then Grealish and NDiaye to start in our team - is he at the moment, no, could he be in a couple of years, sure.

I dont actually think we bought him for right now, i think we bought him with a medium term outlook to continue his development, that doesnt mean he doesn't game time or opportunities, but i dont think we brought in Grealish with Ndiaye already here with the intention Tyler starts tbh.

I think how TFG invest has to be stragic, ultimately the club needs to make money, one strand of that is going to be player trading and buy cheap sell high - Tyler has come in because a judgement has been made that we can increase his value in the years ahead. Spend money to make money. Jack Harrison costs less and would proabably play more this season then Tyler, but then we know where that road leads - so why not try this developmental model.

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

If he was bought for the future, why will he be capable of starting games (or even making regular sub appearances) this coming August if he wasn’t capable from last August to now?

Is the training at FF that good? He will have had a years worth of Everton training sessions and lower confidence compared to the player we bought. Confused why there is an expectation that after contributing zero so far, a switch will suddenly flick on and he will be “ready”

I know he played European games, but George got 178 PL minutes last season. Dibling had 1,874 PL minutes.

I just find all of it very weird, from the purchase, his lack of minutes, his disappointing cameos and awful starts, look of apathy when on the pitch with a point to prove, and now the expectation that he will be a better PL player next season than this one despite he nor the club doing anything to warrant that expectation.

Odd.

 

[hallamblue]

If he was bought for the future, why will he be capable of starting games (or even making regular sub appearances) this coming August if he wasn’t capable from last August to now?

Is the training at FF that good? He will have had a years worth of Everton training sessions and lower confidence compared to the player we bought. Confused why there is an expectation that after contributing zero so far, a switch will suddenly flick on and he will be “ready”

I know he played European games, but George got 178 PL minutes last season. Dibling had 1,874 PL minutes.

I just find all of it very weird, from the purchase, his lack of minutes, his disappointing cameos and awful starts, look of apathy when on the pitch with a point to prove, and now the expectation that he will be a better PL player next season than this one despite he nor the club doing anything to warrant that expectation.

Odd.

It's not odd, the transfer committee bought him, Moyes doesn't fancy him so he doesn't play, same as Aznou.

 

[carolinablue232]

If we ended up in a years time with European football and a team with George, Dibling, Armstrong, Aznou in and around the first team that's very good forward planning.

They may not all get there, but even if 2 are starters that's positive.

They’ll all want and need to be playing next season. Wouldn’t be shocked if Dibling and Aznou were both sent on loan. Which is wild for Dibling given what we’ve spent on him. Would be 2 years with basically nothing from a 40mil player, but I can’t an alternative given where Moyes clearly think he is at the moment.

 

[smileychap]

Inverted winger, his best strength is moving in centrally. His biggest weakness is the hole behind him and the options around him..

Didn't need him, still don't.

Happy to see _anything_ in his performances to show otherwise, c'mon Tyler