Worst Transfer Window Ever?

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This transfer window has definately highlighted the bed wetters amongst us. Hold your nerve and fume on September 1st. In the mean time hope West Ham and Stoke don't win the race for seventh we are petrified of losing.
 

LAToffee said:
This has been a hugely frustrating transfer window so far (it hasn't closed yet), but this being Everton there must be an even worse one. What was the absolute worst transfer window in terms of losing a key player, getting no players, getting a last minute terrible player, having a great player fail a medical, having a real exciting link turn out to be jarg, etc?
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We finally get rid of Pistone but because we didn't get prober cover we had to resign him on a new contract and a week or so after he breaks his leg and is out for the season. Lols.
 
We signed a young exciting winger from Barcelona, signed a midfielder from Manchester United who already looks to be fitting in well for free, look to be holding on to all of our important players, tied 3 important players down to long term contracts (one of whom could have left for free this season, the other 2 could have left for free next season), signed a promising 18 year old centre half, and will hopefully bring in 1-2 more before its over. Add to that that we have a few young players who look ready to finally break through this year (Browning, Galloway, McAleny)

This may be the most baffling thread I've seen on here.
 

toffeestillidie said:
We signed a young exciting winger from Barcelona, signed a midfielder from Manchester United who already looks to be fitting in well for free, look to be holding on to all of our important players, tied 3 important players down to long term contracts (one of whom could have left for free this season, the other 2 could have left for free next season), signed a promising 18 year old centre half, and will hopefully bring in 1-2 more before its over. Add to that that we have a few young players who look ready to finally break through this year (Browning, Galloway, McAleny)

This may be the most baffling thread I've seen on here.
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The opening post doesn't claim this is the worst transfer window ever, and the lad who posted it has since clarified that he doesn't believe it is.

Everyone stop reckoning your mad for remembering the time we signed Stracqulursi.
 
toffeestillidie said:
We signed a young exciting winger from Barcelona, signed a midfielder from Manchester United who already looks to be fitting in well for free, look to be holding on to all of our important players, tied 3 important players down to long term contracts (one of whom could have left for free this season, the other 2 could have left for free next season), signed a promising 18 year old centre half, and will hopefully bring in 1-2 more before its over. Add to that that we have a few young players who look ready to finally break through this year (Browning, Galloway, McAleny)

This may be the most baffling thread I've seen on here.
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Hi Bill!

Only joking mate. I see what your saying and I take your point. But your talking about the above like they are major successes. Any club should do what we have done so far. The point is that ALL other clubs are doing much more than that.

Jags contract was until 2016 wasn't it? All we've done by giving him a new 3 year deal (he's 33 this month) is risk having an ageing player on massive wages just sitting there doing nothing in 18 months/2 years time. When players go (fitness wise) they just go. This has happened to peinar and gibson and is currently happening to Barry. Think they'll move on. Of course not. They'll just sit there taking the money (see neville and distin). The length of jags contract was a bad move in my opinion.

Cleverley and Del are ok deals. Nothing spectacular though. Del could be great in the future but he's on a 4 year contract so in 2 years we'll be in a Mirallas type situation again. Del's contract too short, Jags contract too long.

McCarthy was always going to sign up again. Not the sort to rock the boat. Good player I agree, but it shouldn't be seen as a major success. It's the equivalent of doing your filing at work. Important, but it's not going to get you promoted.

Mirallas' contract is better because he is the type to move. The problem is he spent 6 months talking about all the CL clubs interested in him and then when it came down to it only West Ham and a club in Turkey wanted him (on a bargain deal). Think he realised that although he's a game winner on his day (and is therefore valuable to us), he is far too inconsistent so everton is his level. Again though, 3 years for a 27 year old is too short contract-wise. If he has a good season this year he'll look to move again next summer.

The young players. Yeah, I take your point. Garbutt signing up makes the board look semi-professional (compared to amatueur like they looked with Gosling). Henan could be a good one for the future but nothing to write home about yet. Jury's out on Holgate, but the last youngster we signed from Barnsley did ok I guess.
 
Gwladys Nights said:
The opening post doesn't claim this is the worst transfer window ever, and the lad who posted it has since clarified that he doesn't believe it is.

Everyone stop reckoning your mad for remembering the time we signed Stracqulursi.
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Fair enough, I should have read the opening post more carefully, but I think my point still stands that this transfer window, assuming we can bring in one or two more faces, has actually gone quite well. It's just a bit strange to even call this a frustrating window when we've not sold anyone, bought a winger from Barcelona and signed a free midfielder from United.
 
toffeestillidie said:
Fair enough, I should have read the opening post more carefully, but I think my point still stands that this transfer window, assuming we can bring in one or two more faces, has actually gone quite well. It's just a bit strange to even call this a frustrating window when we've not sold anyone, bought a winger from Barcelona and signed a free midfielder from United.
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Thanks for that! 75% of the folks on here appear to have just read the title of the thread and assumed I was launching a group moan on our terrible transfer window. I was actually trying to hear war stories from previous years. Because perversely I find these horror stories kind of funny. Oh well.
 

Viennablue said:
Mate, one thing you can't accuse any everton fan of is lack of patience. I was in primary school the last time I saw everton win a trophy. I'm now approaching my 30th. Come on?

Yeah, ok. The Fellaini money (2nd half) went on Lukaku. What about the 5mil from Vic, the 5mil from Jelavic, the 2.5mil sell on from Foreshaw? We didn't have any money for players then and we don't now. Nothing has changed and nothing will with the current board in charge.

We get by on TV money and players sales. We buy players with roughly 50% of the player sales. Anybody who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

But yeah, we're waiting for Spurs and Arsenal to buy players because they'd come in for our targets otherwise. Bet we nearly had Sanchez down on a 5 year deal before Arsenal came in from out of nowhere. If only we had waited!

If we're waiting for anything it's for Spurs to drop their price on lennon from 4mil down to 3mil. But knowing this board we'll probably end up paying 4.5mil on deadline day because Levy will know how desperate we are.
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I can see you're a glass is half empty kind of guy. Fair enough, fume away, enjoy your Summer.

For the record who have we missed out on this Summer that would have been great for us?
 
I think its the worse, not because we have done next to nothing, but other clubs like Stoke are now out spending us and getting the same players in with have been linked with. If we cant compete with teams on that level anymore what hope do we have? West Ham, Villa, Stoke, Swansea....etc all seem to be able to do more than we can.
Its also been a long time when going into a season if we could get a top 10 place at the end of it we would take it now.
 

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