Everton January 2022 Transfer Thread

[andy4efc]

The main positive reaction to Alli would be that Lampard wanted him as part of his plan, whatever that will be.

The problem with that is, I dont trust the club at all so cant discount that they already had the deal in motion regardless of the manager.

If its the latter I expect a massive failure

Persoanlly think he'd been mentioned in interviews and so the ball had started rolling on that one ready for when he had signed.

Benefit of the doubt on this one for me. Lampard wants him and I can see why. Plays a role he played as a player. HOPEFULLY its a good fit and we get a player eager to right his own personal wrongs.

Pienaar and Arteat, two who had bad times, out of favour and wanted to do better are perfect examples.

 

[Stephen Gibson]

None? It says free.

Yeah i just re read it. Mistakes happen when you allow Paul Merson to take 5 mins of your life away.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Wow/ 2.5 year deal, free transfer, £10m after 20 games

Feels like an FFP dodge from us. E.g we don’t have that wriggle room now but after 20 games (sometime in next season) we’ll have presumably dropped an expensive year off the 3 year rule, and also maybe shipped out a lot of players on high wages e.g Tosun, Siggurdson for starters.

 

[Gabagool]

Thats more like it ?

apologies for the 30 seconds of panic and dread induced (despite the obvious lack of credible source), could just hear 'it's terrible...but it's Everton' ringing in my ears after reading that tweet

 

[Stephen Gibson]

Zero English Pounds

My mistake

 

[navidson]

Feels like an FFP dodge from us. E.g we don’t have that wriggle room now but after 20 games (sometime in next season) we’ll have presumably dropped an expensive year off the 3 year rule, and also maybe shipped out a lot of players on high wages e.g Tosun, Siggurdson for starters.

It's the sort of clever business that successful football clubs have been doing for decades

 

[nonstripdzebra]

If anyone can do it, Lampard can. He'll know all about him and it the move is successful then weve got a star player.

If Lampard can play him in a role like he knows and played in, he'll be great. He's just not a winger or a DM.
He doesn't beat his men, doesn't carry the ball, doesn't run through walls - he appears in dangerous places and plays the ball quickly.

The amounts of caveats connected to making this business sound are five too many for Everton's current competence. If for starters we didn't have a history of signing larger clubs cast offs, that for the most part haven't worked out on the pitch, cant be moved from some combo of inflated contracts aged out of recuperating larger fees or having not clicked at a bigger club to begin with we might have more ground to stand on.

Or if Alli under three managers since the one he broke out under had shown some more chances of clicking back into place, sure. Yes there is a caveat on fit in relation to those coaches schemes, the same problem exists with almost 3/4ths of the current Everton roster, whose hyper specificity or single managers belief is possibly the largest contributor to our poor form. A factor that gets more coonfusing when the likelihood of Lampard being manager in 18 months time by all precedent is unlikely. And then is Alli victim to the same lack of cohesion as he has been after Poch. We are then left with a player that is entered his prime without having improved whose fit worked under a past coach. Literally Evertons squad summarized.

Alli could work, but Everton has a habit of talking itself into the outcome that has the lowest probability of happening. Thats fine with the right caveats like age, sell on potential, price etc but on all those Alli is not really a value proposition. And when you are a club who is both reactionary, restricted in large part from past big hasty transfer decisions, the risk should come at less a risk.

 

[mikel_88]

Would love two more a dm and a cb, still hopeful we can pull some more off

 

[Rich1878]

apologies for the 30 seconds of panic and dread induced (despite the obvious lack of credible source), could just hear 'it's terrible...but it's Everton' ringing in my ears after reading that tweet

Haha no worries . I had to sit down , went all hot after reading it . Nothing surprises me tbh , but I am slightly optimistic after Frank's appointment . I think we won't be as stupid as we have been

 

[Saint Domingo]

It's the sort of clever business that successful football clubs have been doing for decades

I am enthused that we seem to be doing cannier deals rather than just throwing 30 mill at every player now.

It’s a sad indictment on recent recruitment though that first through the door for Lampard are VdB and Alli.

Schneiderlin, Siggurdson, Klaasen, Rooney, Vlasic, Gbamin Gomes Delph Allan Docuoure James

Absolutely amazing that we are still looking at bringing in two midfielders in almost every window, and even then there’s still arguments for us getting a DM and a deep lying creative midfielder. Just so much money wasted.

 

[chuffy]

Or if Alli under three managers since the one he broke out under had shown some more chances of clicking back into place, sure

As I said, he did - under Mourinho

 

[Dixieslaces]

That is a very clever deal what happened to Everton!!!

 

[riddick]

I'd have preferred younger players like Brennan Johnson and Knight but ah well.

Brennan Johnson might be a BIT too much for us but I can't see Knight costing anywhere near as much. The administrators would take just about anything for those players atm.

This is the maddest January window we've ever had in my lifetime.

Said this yesterday, it's crazy how the phrase "nobody does business in the January window" is thrown around but it seems like every club is doing relatively BIG business this year.

 

[MACCA75]

Happy with this. Not sure we quite have the right balance in midfield with Allan, DvB and Alli, but this is levels above Tom Davies and Gbamin.

 

[Marius57]

CB next please. ASAP.