Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

[Tony’s Carp]

Was just thinking about the game at the weekend.

Half the back four (Tarkowski and O'Brien) the entire midfield (Ndiaye, Gueye, Garner, Lindstrom) and the striker (Beto) all brought in by Thelwell.

That's 7/11 starters - total cost about 85m (giving Lindstrom the cost of purchasing him as well otherwise just 65m)

Btw the cost of the other 4 totals up to about 65m as well weirdly (Pickford, Mykolenko, Branthwaite and Doucoure)

Looking at that I'm inclined to say you're right and we should give him a new contract with the instructions ok now you can shop in a higher market but we want half the desks to be of this calibre too price/quality wise.

Yeah I do think now the Dyche tax has been disapplied we'll start to get a fairer appraisal of the players he has brought in the last couple of years. There seems to be a weird situation at the moment where his individual players are getting quite a lot of praise while people still yell for the man who brought them in to be let go.

Would be interested to know Moyes' opinion on things, there are murmurs of them disagreeing on the January approach but they seem to me to be two personalities who could agree on a lot of things, like the need to be responsible with a budget, and the importance of character as well as ability. The more he sees of Thelwell's signings the more Moyes may start to feel he can trust his eye too.

 

[Jebus_lives]

We didn’t need to bring in more than 1.

O’Brien and Lindstrom are essentially new signings to us this month anyway with how ignored they have been.

Precisely. I think the 9 points have us a buffer, we've got players returning and Alcaraz will bolster our midfield.

The squad looks a bit threadbare in places though.