Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

[Blast_of_Cannock]

He's got to be pure profit at this point. Sell him for a few million. I don't think we will miss his 2 goals in 20 games that much. Plus, he will be more concerned with not getting injured to protect his payday this summer than actually playing football as the important matches come later in the season.

The only problem with this is getting someone to pay money for something they can get free with a bit of patience.

 

[buededw1]

One thing I’ve come to realise recently, and where I’ve consistently been wrong, is putting hope into injured players returning to their best, or even surpassing their previous levels.

Take the Dele Alli deal as an example, at the time, I thought it was worth the gamble, but it clearly wasn’t. The same applies to someone like Broja, a very similar situation. The risk compared to the potential reward simply doesn’t justify it.

With that in mind, deals like Chilwell or Ferguson, for now have to be forgotten.

 

[Nyhus]

Is there a decent place to keep up to date with the day to day (lack of) transfer news? Since I got rid of Twitter I’ve been completely out of the loop.

Theres a decent rumor-section on toffeeweb.

 

[UltraVires]

I've honestly never seen the logic in buying substandard players. You may as well play someone out of position, or throw a younger player a chance. Out of over 100k professional footballers Worldwide, no chance Harrison was the only option.

I understand resources are limited, but that's the job he is paid to do. Harrison was poor last season, and Everton signed him again!

Exactly this.

If you say that Harrison is on 80k a week (I have seen reports as high as £100k per week) and we are paying all of it. That is over £4m a year which you could effectively call the loan fee or the cost of the loan. I am assuming/hoping we aren't paying a fee to Leeds as well.

If you take that £4m and find someone like Ernie in Lyon (doesn't have to be him) who is probably on about £40k a week at absolute best. You pay Ernie's wages, give Lyon the rest as a loan fee of about £2-3m with an obligation to buy in the summer for £15m or whatever.

That is an infinitely better option than spending £4m on Harrison who we know is not going to have a future at our club unless Everton are playing at Championship level next season and even then you can debate if Harrison is the way to go.

 

[jackyboy]

Dom replacing Isak would cheer me up no end.

 

[Delargeinho]

I've honestly never seen the logic in buying substandard players. You may as well play someone out of position, or throw a younger player a chance. Out of over 100k professional footballers Worldwide, no chance Harrison was the only option.

I understand resources are limited, but that's the job he is paid to do. Harrison was poor last season, and Everton signed him again!

We could surely find a better option than Harrison for 90k a week, on which he is apparently.

Actually makes me sick of thinking, we're still 11th on wages with our squad despite getting rid of players like Mina and Gomes.

 

[jackyboy]

Would love KDH as unlikely as it is. Think he's a really good footballer

 

[welshtoffee]

Would love KDH as unlikely as it is. Think he's a really good footballer

Rate him very highly but don't think there is a hope of getting him unless Chelsea take Broja back.

 

[MACCA75]

One dud
One with resale value
Two for the future - no-one can determine that either Chermiti or O'Brien have been awful deals yet.

If we get relegated because the squad couldn’t score a goal,I think we can say they were awful deals.

 

[MACCA75]

Dom replacing Isak would cheer me up no end.

Unfortunately they aren’t absolutely insane.

 

[jackyboy]

Unfortunately they aren’t absolutely insane.

I need something to cling to in the quiet haha

 

[MACCA75]

I think Forest have shown that building a decent side isn’t rocket science.

A couple of hardworking/mobile central midfielders
A number 10 that can travel with the ball and pick a pass
Two quick wingers
A centre forward that stays in good areas and can finish a chance.

There is nothing complicated about that, and yet our recruitment has delivered the absolute opposite.

 

[bluestevon]

One thing I’ve come to realise recently, and where I’ve consistently been wrong, is putting hope into injured players returning to their best, or even surpassing their previous levels.

Take the Dele Alli deal as an example, at the time, I thought it was worth the gamble, but it clearly wasn’t. The same applies to someone like Broja, a very similar situation. The risk compared to the potential reward simply doesn’t justify it.

With that in mind, deals like Chilwell or Ferguson, for now have to be forgotten.

Yeah I think we move misty eyed in the past remembering how supposed crocked players like Gray and Reid came good here, not realising that with modern rehab, sports science, medical scans etc and the intensity of football it's a completely different era.

Broken players now stay broken as by the time they reach that point they simply can't play competitive sport anymore at the intensity required and hace already had every medical procedure known done on them.

 

[DanB90]

Now that the PSR gods have been appeased. Do we now have more scope to spend this window?

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Now that the PSR gods have been appeased. Do we now have more scope to spend this window?

Depends if we had set aside some PSR budget to cover the worst case scenario ie loads of interest being added onto our calculations, and now we no longer need to worry about it. I doubt that though.