Who let Everton/Koeman down?

[Blue Magic]

Thanks for the reply mate. I have mixed feelings about this window. I like the idea of building a squad with good value players like Gueye etc. We'd all like to do what Leicester have done with a bargain squad - winning the league is obviously a freak occurence, but could we get Europe with that strategy? At the same time, from a public relations point of view, with our own supporters and the wider football world, a 'marquee' signing would have helped us a lot more. I'm sure that Mr Moshiri would rather have been in that position now, wouldn't he?

 

[Blue Magic]

@The Esk

Sorry. Meant to tag you into my previous post.

 

[TGW89]

This thread makes me LOL. You'd think we'd got 7 points from 33 games, not 3!

 

[bluejohn66]

We need to chill on transfers, we've got some boss new cladding !

 

[mikeyl]

This thread makes me LOL. You'd think we'd got 7 points from 33 games, not 3!

WBA Stoke And a Spurs side with no Dembele.... Should of been 9 points.

 

[Mekias]

I have no idea what's gone on behind the scenes in Everton's transfer business and I'm not willing to lay blame at anyone's feet without knowing more. What I will say though is that it's unclear if a different person could have gotten some of these transfers over the line without paying a lot more money to the club or player. Basically, no player will come to Everton if a Champions League club wants them. Some clubs wanted to try and gouge Everton with unrealistic fees.

It was always going to be difficult to draw in world class players without paying through the nose and I'm not too upset that we didn't do that. I'm 100% confident that we have significant money left to spend in the next window and hope everyone involved will be a little more prepared come January 1.

 

[mkrudden]

I just think we are a little late the party.
The year we finally have money... guess what?
Everyone else does.
Drives up prices massively, even for the not so great players.
Paul Pogba cost 92 million. Superb player. But 92 million?

 

[mikeyl]

If your opinion about Everton football club is we shouldn't be beating Spurs at HOME you are part of the problem. 7 points isn't bad in fact in year we won the league we lost to Spurs on opening day. All about belief in the team and fans backing the team.

 

[LAToffee]

We need to chill on transfers, we've got some boss new cladding !

and the third strip is amazing.

 

[markDee]

I think we were all hoping for Walsh to bring in some unknowns and Koeman to use his stature in the game to help get players in, it didn't really work and they all knocked us back. So we have to go with what we got. (Heard that one before)

Hopefully we batter Sunderland and go on a little win streak and build some more confidence because the squad is good enough bar any major injuries

 

[The Mighty Quint]

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...sing-out-top-targets-deadline-day-News-Gossip

 

[BlueStorm]

This post seems to me to be an attempt to reconcile two conflicting ideas. We're now super rich but we've spent nothing (net) in the transfer window. In refusing to abandon the highly attractive, but unsubstantiated, narrative that we have a gigantic budget the most convenient explanation is that BK, a man who has more experience negotiating transfer deals than the large majority of Premiership owners, and Elstone are so unbelievably inept that they literally can't spend £1 (net) of this gigantic budget over the course of two months.
It's possible, they clearly didn't perform well, but it's also possible they make convenient scapegoats to avoid an inconvenient truth. The budget is not so gigantic after all. There's money to spend but it was greatly exaggerated so the transfer team had to tread cautiously in an attempt to attain value. This caution decreased after the sale of Stones and would have decreased much further if Lukaku also went for big money. He didn't, and that wasn't settled until late in the window, so only a limited time remained in which to spend what was there.

Interesting take on the comic events of the last few weeks.

Could be right - who knows

 

[Dirty Dutch]

I just think we are a little late the party.
The year we finally have money... guess what?
Everyone else does.
Drives up prices massively, even for the not so great players.
Paul Pogba cost 92 million. Superb player. But 92 million?

There're more players than pogba who wouldnt cost you 92 million. I said this before but look at southampton. They're not buying players above 20 million but they're always finding the right ones(tadic,mane,V dijk, bertrand etc). Its just about scouting.

Oh and when you've done that you also need to finalise the deal but we don't seem to be good at that........

 

[mmmmsnouts]

The money and ambition and intent was there. Either the reciprocation or execution wasn't.

Not much you can do about the first one (other than making a Robinho-like move). A lot that should be done about the second one.

 

[everton2004]

WBA Stoke And a Spurs side with no Dembele.... Should of been 9 points.