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Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

I can’t for the life of me understand these PSR rules no matter how much effort I make to research and understand them. I live in Ipswich, they just spent 124 million after just getting promoted, and I’m reading this morning that they’re attacking the market again this January making a 30 million bid for the striker Igor Jesus. This is a club who were in league 1 two seasons ago, have a capacity stadium under 30,000, and have little in the way of commercial revenue incoming. How on earth can they continue to spend this sort of money and comply with PSR? Fair play to their owners, they’re incredibly ambitious and have deep pockets and they’re going to be a problem if they manage to stay up this year. But we’re now hearing Leicester could be in trouble yet again with PSR, Newcastle can’t spend, we can’t spend, Forest like us were hit with points deductions. I’m baffled as to how Ipswich seemingly have a bottomless pit of cash with little revenue, and not a whisper of PSR!
 
Aries said:
I can’t for the life of me understand these PSR rules no matter how much effort I make to research and understand them. I live in Ipswich, they just spent 124 million after just getting promoted, and I’m reading this morning that they’re attacking the market again this January making a 30 million bid for the striker Igor Jesus. This is a club who were in league 1 two seasons ago, have a capacity stadium under 30,000, and have little in the way of commercial revenue incoming. How on earth can they continue to spend this sort of money and comply with PSR? Fair play to their owners, they’re incredibly ambitious and have deep pockets and they’re going to be a problem if they manage to stay up this year. But we’re now hearing Leicester could be in trouble yet again with PSR, Newcastle can’t spend, we can’t spend, Forest like us were hit with points deductions. I’m baffled as to how Ipswich seemingly have a bottomless pit of cash with little revenue, and not a whisper of PSR!
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Losses assessed over a 3 year period
 
jazzy said:
Losses assessed over a 3 year period
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I get that, but they’re surely positioning themselves to fall foul of the rules? The money being spent is bonkers. There has to be a point when the spending HAS to stop pretty sharpish otherwise they’ll be looking at a fire sale in a season or two then what would have been the point? They’re acting like a kid in a sweet shop
 
Eggs said:
….all of this PSR discussion regarding Beto should not disguise the most important fact that we signed yet another dreadful footballer. It’s what matters most.
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A not so thinly veiled swipe at thirwell
We needed a striker who stayed fit, could score 10+ goals a season and was availablefor 0 down payment. I have little doubt in my mind beto was one of very few strikers who ticked all these boxes. He's not great but it does not take a decorated title winning manager to see he's more dangerous than dcl these last 2 seasons.

There is something to be said for playing players that want to be here, dcl doesn't so shouldn't play.

Not going to say thirwell is blameless here. But his failure with beto is not selling/moving on dcl as he'll have known internally pretty early on dyche would play him regardless.
 

Eggs said:
….all of this PSR discussion regarding Beto should not disguise the most important fact that we signed yet another dreadful footballer. It’s what matters most.
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Our scouts make recommendations based on playing football manager while drinking whiskey and smoking crack.
Edit that's a bit harsh couldn't we have had Haaland for 6 million and the money men said no, so we end up with the likes of Sandro and Beto for multiples of that.
 
Tipp blue said:
Our scouts make recommendations based on playing football manager while drinking whiskey and smoking crack.
Edit that's a bit harsh couldn't we have had Haaland for 6 million and the money men said no, so we end up with the likes of Sandro and Beto for multiples of that.
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As someone who does occasionally play FM, I can say that I wish our scouts used it.

Feels more like they use Emlyn Hughes’ International Soccer.
 
Tipp blue said:
Our scouts make recommendations based on playing football manager while drinking whiskey and smoking crack.
Edit that's a bit harsh couldn't we have had Haaland for 6 million and the money men said no, so we end up with the likes of Sandro and Beto for multiples of that.
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….i honestly think we buy players from YouTube clips after agents have been in touch.
 

Aries said:
I can’t for the life of me understand these PSR rules no matter how much effort I make to research and understand them. I live in Ipswich, they just spent 124 million after just getting promoted, and I’m reading this morning that they’re attacking the market again this January making a 30 million bid for the striker Igor Jesus. This is a club who were in league 1 two seasons ago, have a capacity stadium under 30,000, and have little in the way of commercial revenue incoming. How on earth can they continue to spend this sort of money and comply with PSR? Fair play to their owners, they’re incredibly ambitious and have deep pockets and they’re going to be a problem if they manage to stay up this year. But we’re now hearing Leicester could be in trouble yet again with PSR, Newcastle can’t spend, we can’t spend, Forest like us were hit with points deductions. I’m baffled as to how Ipswich seemingly have a bottomless pit of cash with little revenue, and not a whisper of PSR!
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I also live in Ipswich, my daughter is in their women's pathway. They have excellent owners, a competent CEO in Ashton and an up and coming manager in McKenna, who they fully believe in and support. They are clearly taking assessed risks. I am not an accountant and also don't understand how this impacts PSR, but the investment has been considerable (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00315421/filing-history) an additional £75m pumped in during July last year on top of the £89m total from the previous two summers. They were well within the EFL FFP guidelines.

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Perhaps they are cleverly structuring deals over a long period with player contract clauses that mitigate the financial risks associated with relegation, on wages etc...

Ultimately, it is what can be achieved if you are a well run club, with competent people and a plan.
 
GoldenToffee said:
We really ought to be going for Jobe Bellingham. For £15-20m and a not huge salary it would not be a massive gamble.

He has a very high ceiling, and we're not exactly in the market for Champions League players. Young, hungry, performing very well a league below.

Obviously we won't go for him and he'll turn out to be a star for somebody like West Ham and we'll waste £25m on some flop from abroad instead, but I think he'd be a good signing and exactly the type of player we are crying out for.

If we could match him up with Tom Fellows who also appears to be one of the better performers from the Championship and also in a position we need to fill desperately, likely for a similar fee, that would be great business.

Get Beto off the books for £10-15m - surely the additional £15-20m wouldn't push us over the PSR limit after three years of zero spending.
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Can imagine Bellingham hanging tight to see if Sunderland go up, in which case the best thing for him would probably be to stay put. Best for him in the prem would probably be a stable mid table club who can bed him in and rotate him if necessary, a bit like what Palace did with Wharton. Fellows would be great and its in a position we need someone
 
A player we have been linked with already, Yunus Akgun, but there are reports today that we have submitted an offer to loan him until the end of the season with an obligation to buy in the summer, there is interest in him from Real Sociadad as well.

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Eggs said:
….i honestly think we buy players from YouTube clips after agents have been in touch.
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No Eggs we buy players because of how cheap they are and how little up front we can pay that must be obvious. That has been happening for the last 2 years 4 transfer windows, or si ce Moshiri washed his hands of us. Also you might have heard we have had a few psr problems the last few years too and yes the signings could have been better.
 

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