Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

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What worries me is when we release these statements it tends to opens the flood gates for other teams to Gazump us,Thus in turn sending the fanbase incandescent with rage when we lose out.

I rather us say nothing till the lad is at least doing a medical or about to sign.

To be fair, Bobble tends to defend himself a lot on here. The impression I get is that he doesn't release info lightly and takes stuff like you mention into account.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Maybe he is .

Get on Flight Tracker then and see if you can see any Spitfires flying up the West coast.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

No wonder Dyche shat the bed then…..

Tbf. the one thing that really separates Moyes from all the similar managers (Dyche, Allardyce etc), is that he does coach and improve players. Just not strikers.

 

[lieneverton]

It's quite hard for that to happen in football now.

Maybe I'm just cynical, but my instinct is checking random fan social media accounts isn't the core strategy of most clubs scouting networks.

 

[Clarky cat]

What this tells me is that Kevin Thelwell would likely be in prison if it wasn’t for football.
Kevin “baby reindeer” Thelwell

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

Given his YouTube montages to awful copyright free music are pretty unimpressive, can only assume TFG have demanded Kev actually looks at players a bit more closely playing full matches rather than watching clips on his phone on the FF bog.

 

[14_dollars]

What worries me is when we release these statements it tends to opens the flood gates for other teams to Gazump us,Thus in turn sending the fanbase incandescent with rage when we lose out.

I rather us say nothing till the lad is at least doing a medical or about to sign.

Correct.

95 times out of 100 we are being used to stir up interest - we are very much the patsy of the transfer market.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

To be fair, Bobble tends to defend himself a lot on here. The impression I get is that he doesn't release info lightly and takes stuff like you mention into account.

I don't specifically mean Bobble just the rise of the early twitter announcements seems to get everyone in a frenzy.

Like the previous poster mentioned suppose it's part and parcel now.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

What worries me is when we release these statements it tends to opens the flood gates for other teams to Gazump us,Thus in turn sending the fanbase incandescent with rage when we lose out.

I rather us say nothing till the lad is at least doing a medical or about to sign.

It’s already out there. What Bobble tends to offer is the truth, which I like. Tells us if something is just paper talk, or if there is truth in it etc.

People on here don't seem to like him for some reason, but he seems quite a genuine guy and definitely loves the club. He's a proper supporter.

 

[Blue peter]

Are you [first name] Ernest Eggs or Eggs Ernest [surname]?

Surname Blofeld

 

[Clarky cat]

0 goals and 0 assists in 11 games for Lyon…
Welcome Ernest.

 

[CalBuckeye_Rob]

Maybe I'm just cynical, but my instinct is checking random fan social media accounts isn't the core strategy of most clubs scouting networks.

In light of so many bad additions in recent memory, maybe that approach to scouting would have been better.

 

[Eidean]

It’s already out there. What Bobble tends to offer is the truth, which I like. Tells us if something is just paper talk, or if there is truth in it etc.

People on here don't seem to like him for some reason, but he seems quite a genuine guy and definitely loves the club. He's a proper supporter.

My favourite thing is when people rage over the team news being released 5 minutes before.

idiots.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

It’s already out there. What Bobble tends to offer is the truth, which I like. Tells us if something is just paper talk, or if there is truth in it etc.

People on here don't seem to like him for some reason, but he seems quite a genuine guy and definitely loves the club. He's a proper supporter.

I like said am talking about the early announcements in general...I don't mind Bobble myself.

 

[NathDogg]

Tbf. the one thing that really separates Moyes from all the similar managers (Dyche, Allardyce etc), is that he does coach and improve players. Just not strikers.

Aye, can’t say Davey doesn’t coach and develop players wherever he’s been, quite happy if we get this lad because of that, we’re desperate for a bit of pace.

If we can add some focus to his pace there’s defo a potentially good player there.