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Everton January 2022 Transfer Thread

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Saint Domingo said:
If any player starts playing well enough to get a move then good on them. I seriously don’t think we need to worry about that in the short term as half these players can’t even get on the pitch never mind play well. Richarlison and DCL both have a very long way to go before a top club comes in for them, I wish they were at the level where we had to worry about a Real Madrid or PSG wanting them. When either of them can master running with the ball without getting it trapped under them then maybe that might be a step in the right direction.
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I think that you underestimate Richarlison whose an easy buy as a starter for the Brazil national team and the cachet that brings.

DCL will be on a lot of radars too. I'd see Newcastle chancing their arm and Tottenham if Kane goes to City. If that happens, the CL teams might throw a bid in if the matter is forced. He's a well behaved lad with an unique and engaging off field personality- he'd be a marketing gold mine if handled correctly.
 
MikeH72 said:
The legal consequences are probably points deductions and transfer bans mert.
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I think we have seen that if challenged, the rules around FFP aren’t worth the paper they are written on. The governing bodies in football have little to no power over the clubs these days as we saw with the ridiculous fines given to the greedy 6 recently.

My view is that if we spend what we want and make progress and deal with any challenges that might come, that is better than really pulling back to try and get under the FFP/P&S rules if that means putting us in real danger of relegation.

Obviously any additional spending has to be from Moshiri and not leveraged against the club as that will hurt us long term
 

UltraVires said:
I think we have seen that if challenged, the rules around FFP aren’t worth the paper they are written on. The governing bodies in football have little to no power over the clubs these days as we saw with the ridiculous fines given to the greedy 6 recently.

My view is that if we spend what we want and make progress and deal with any challenges that might come, that is better than really pulling back to try and get under the FFP/P&S rules if that means putting us in real danger of relegation.

Obviously any additional spending has to be from Moshiri and not leveraged against the club as that will hurt us long term
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The PL rules are harder to circumvent. The punishments are unlimited and backed by the clubs themselves.
 
Bluestar said:
The PL rules are harder to circumvent. The punishments are unlimited and backed by the clubs themselves.
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I still don’t think they would stand up to challenge especially if Moshiri agreed to back the money himself and not leverage it against the club.

In no other industry could you tell the owner of a business that you have to limit the money you can spend on improving the business.
 

Saint Domingo said:
oh no I fully agree they’re our best players. They’ll be sold at some point but it just seems bizarre that on the one hand some fans are losing it that Richy will be off to PSG any day now yet seeing him trying to shoot with his left foot last season, or take anyone on at all was embarrassing. Equally DCL, how many times has he gone through on goal and either hit it at the keeper or fallen over the ball? Will top clubs indulge that?

These clubs can have whoever they want. Mbappe Haaland Chiesa Fati, I just think it’s a long list before one of them goes ‘ah yeah we’ll pay 100 million for a bloke who falls over every time he shoots, and we’ll get his partner as well who doesn’t like playing out wide and has a discipline problem’

They’re both very good penalty box poachers who are world class at getting on the end of things. Their penalty box movement is fantastic as is their instant finishing and also their aerial ability. Every other aspect of their game though from hold up play, to creativity, to finishing when given time, finishing outside the box, making the right runs off the ball etc. is a long way off the very best forwards in the world.

All just my opinion but I think we’re safe for a while unless there’s a step change in one of them.
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The worry is that our record of buying players is dreadful so if we lose our best players you wouldn’t be confident that we’d replace them adequately. Whether they’re elite players or not isn’t really the issue because if we lose them and bring in lower quality then we’ll get worse and we’re starting from a base where that happening would be a possible catastrophe.
 
Bluestar said:
Conversel, our first eleven when fit and available is really good and European place material. The problem is that we don’t have the depth of squad.

Two or three additions of the right sort of player to add depth would see us challenging for a European place.
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I suspect we'll see more outs than ins yet again in January, and possibly next summer. And while nobody will shed a tear for the type of players that leave in those windows, Tosun, Delph, Kenny, Lonergan etc.., it will shrink an already woefully small squad. Combine that with the likely loss of a couple of that first 11 you speak of, probably Richarlison and Mina, in the summer and our reluctance (or inability if they are not of the required quality) to play our u23s in the first team and we can forget about Europe for many years, I fear.
 
Blues Harp said:
If I was Richarlison or DCL I'd be onto my agent to engineer a move next summer away from the mid table unambitious club we have become.......if they haven't already.
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Saint Domingo said:
If any player starts playing well enough to get a move then good on them. I seriously don’t think we need to worry about that in the short term as half these players can’t even get on the pitch never mind play well. Richarlison and DCL both have a very long way to go before a top club comes in for them, I wish they were at the level where we had to worry about a Real Madrid or PSG wanting them. When either of them can master running with the ball without getting it trapped under them then maybe that might be a step in the right direction.
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Yarrgh said:
I think that you underestimate Richarlison whose an easy buy as a starter for the Brazil national team and the cachet that brings.

DCL will be on a lot of radars too. I'd see Newcastle chancing their arm and Tottenham if Kane goes to City. If that happens, the CL teams might throw a bid in if the matter is forced. He's a well behaved lad with an unique and engaging off field personality- he'd be a marketing gold mine if handled correctly.
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These are the players we probably want to allow contracts to expire or to shift for a fee:

2022
Delph
Lonergan
Begovic
Sigurdsson
Tosun
Kenny
2023
Davies
Townsend
Rondon
Coleman
Mina
Allan


It means selling some of them before their contracts expire but thats 12 players out over the next 2 summers unless we can extend Mina and choose to keep Allan.

Not to mention Gomes, Iwobi, Keane, Holgate and probably Digne who doesnt fit the style of play under Benitez.

If we can hold onto DCL, Richarlison, Gray, Gordon, Doucoure, Bramthwaite, Godfrey and Pickford then we have:

8 players not for sale
12 players with 7.5-19.5months left
4 players to sell for fees

Theres a big opportunity here for us to recycle 2/3 of the squad over the next 2 summers.

We would then be clear of FFP and could spend another £200mil to add several stars on top in summers 23 and 24.


Richarlison and DCL walk into a lot of big clubs and top teams but if we play our cards right we have two £100mil rated players who could be part of something big with us in a new stadium.

We just need to hold onto them and 6 others while we rebuild and recycle the squad.
 

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