Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

[Zatara]

Yeah, based on the relevant numbers if the PSR changes go through 150m would be a minimum but like you I think 200-250 is possible, and obviously there may be sales to factor in too.

It sounds enormous compared to what we’ve been doing but even at the top end it’s not too dissimilar to recent spending by the likes of Forest and Brighton, it’s really just catching up.

Another thought around PSR: the talk was we had some headroom to spend this January so doing nothing but a loan that headroom should still be there. If so we’re in good position to aim for a good deal or two in June when other clubs with PSR issues need to sell. Probably get twice the bang for buck we’d have got last month, so maybe a factor in keeping our powder dry.

With that scope of spending with changes in PSR rules across multiple clubs, players prices and subsequently wages will inflate.

We need to be savvy.

Just to add about room to spend, with whichever regs it'll be huge, amortisation is at a very low figure, the loan payment bleeds have been pretty much stopped or greatly reduced to manageable levels, commercial deals will be on a level we haven't ever had here before - including a massive stadium naming rights one, but a lot if other ones also. On terms of wages to income, we will be almost at the level of 60k being the top current contract outside of maybe three outliers (JP, Gueye - if extended without a big reduction, and Tarks - wouldn't shock me to see a longer contract on reduced wages offered there too or even a same btw). We will also have close to zero dead weight remaining in the wage bill which is the single most efficient start point imaginable if the wage/revenue is brought in.

We've been up around 90-92% up until 2023 in this, which shows you how badly we were ran, now we should see an almost complete reset on player wages combined with a sharp spike in revenue.

It's as you described almost the perfect storm in terms of allowing us to spend.

If it was £150mil then i would hope a decent amount was used on signing future stars for the academy.