Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread


Bebeto said:
Tried philogene, then nuamah...Weah now, just guess we'll end up with the fourth or five option in the list on deadline day which will be seen as a panic buy and definitely not elite.
Click to expand...
Alot of it has just been alot of talk nuamah was before moyes and talke looked to have stopped then. Same with philogene prob agent talks to get him a better deal, then the same with weah to just get his name out for other teams
 
Bebeto said:
Tried philogene, then nuamah...Weah now, just guess we'll end up with the fourth or five option in the list on deadline day which will be seen as a panic buy and definitely not elite.
Click to expand...
I think you mean fourth or “fifth” option that the OS has mentioned? Who’s to say that there is any truth in the rumours, but hey, if it means that you can have a go at the club you support then great!
 

Neiler said:
100% mate. I said on here two years ago after we stayed up by the Dukes goal that Brighton and Brentford would be relegated long before Everton will be and was laughed at.

But it’s true at our very worst, we’re that big that you have to be at your absolute catastrophey lowest to get relegated - we’ve been very close - that’s how badly we have been run. But it’s an anomaly and almost impossible. We can be unlucky a lot and not get relegated, Brighton, Forest and Brentford need to be unlucky once and they are gone.

Thats not to be arrogant and we are still a ramshackle, but broad based those clubs just long term can’t compete to maintain, you have to get it right to often and they won’t.

It’s like us competing Real Madrid for three or four seasons if we ever got into the CL, they’d always come back in the years ahead to win the thing ultimately.

It’s sheer scale of the broad base.
Click to expand...

There’s elements of this, having Goodison has probably kept us in the league at times and extremely good performances beyond most relegation battling teams have come from nowhere when needed (beating United Chelsea Leicester Newcastle (10 men) under Lampard, beating Arsenal, beating Brighton 5-1 under Dyche.

It’s more the power of the new stadium though. Not just in the revenue uplift from the extra seats but how it can be leveraged for revenue all year round. We’ve done the hard work now and taken our medicine, any other team that wants to follow has to go through a multi year process of building a new stadium just at the point when they may need to start reigning their spending in to comply with PS&R. Look at the toll it took on Wenger’s Arsenal and that was before PS&R, Spurs have fallen away from where they were and couldn’t match the spending of their peers whilst they built the stadium.

We might look back at this period as a horrendous time but ultimately a strategic move that put us ahead of mid table sides off the pitch for a long time to come.
 
Saint Domingo said:
There’s elements of this, having Goodison has probably kept us in the league at times and extremely good performances beyond most relegation battling teams have come from nowhere when needed (beating United Chelsea Leicester Newcastle (10 men) under Lampard, beating Arsenal, beating Brighton 5-1 under Dyche.

It’s more the power of the new stadium though. Not just in the revenue uplift from the extra seats but how it can be leveraged for revenue all year round. We’ve done the hard work now and taken our medicine, any other team that wants to follow has to go through a multi year process of building a new stadium just at the point when they may need to start reigning their spending in to comply with PS&R. Look at the toll it took on Wenger’s Arsenal and that was before PS&R, Spurs have fallen away from where they were and couldn’t match the spending of their peers whilst they built the stadium.

We might look back at this period as a horrendous time but ultimately a strategic move that put us ahead of mid table sides off the pitch for a long time to come.
Click to expand...

It’s a great enabler for sure and and we’ve needed it for 30 years now.

In truth we’re playing catch up, with club we historically have competed with.

Actually think Villa are in that position, we’re all around them have broadened their base and where they hit the ceiling.

But getting back to us, the stadium is an enabler, yes it added to our burden, but if I’m honest much of our ills are down to our own incompetence.

We are however if we survive this season and since the takeover beyond rock bottom and can certainly look at competing like a normal football club again.
 
mikel_88 said:
Alot of it has just been alot of talk nuamah was before moyes and talke looked to have stopped then. Same with philogene prob agent talks to get him a better deal, then the same with weah to just get his name out for other teams
Click to expand...
We were definitely in for both players, much more than rumours. Whereas moyes appointment have changed things I don't know. But moyes himself mentioned that nuamah was on the list. The win against spurs has taken a lot of pressure off the recruitment team, and perhaps they don't feel the sense of urgency that should have been there independently of results or manager change. Our squad is a joke that needed reinforcement last summer let alone in January.
 
Bebeto said:
We were definitely in for both players, much more than rumours. Whereas moyes appointment have changed things I don't know. But moyes himself mentioned that nuamah was on the list. The win against spurs has taken a lot of pressure off the recruitment team, and perhaps they don't feel the sense of urgency that should have been there independently of results or manager change. Our squad is a joke that needed reinforcement last summer let alone in January.
Click to expand...
There are a lot of players all over the world. Both Nuamah and Philogene are well known as they both were involved in the summer transfer dealing as well.

I feel they may have been regarded as good signings and doable deals rather than the next coming of Messi.

We certainly need more players if for no reason other than the number of players leaving in the summer but I don't agree the squad is a joke.

I think it was underperforming all over the place.
Even under SD we should have had another seven or eight points minimum.

We certainly have weak areas for sure but we saw against Spurs that Lindstrom, O Brien and DCL just to name three have a lot more to offer than we have seen all season.

Garner, McNeill and Iroegbunam should all contribute in the next couple of weeks.

One result doesn't change everything, but maybe the change of manager does.

We survived comfortably last season in spite of everything.
We lost no significant player in the summer but added OBrien, Iroegbunam, Lindstrom, Ndiaye ,Mangalore.

I think we should have been doing better with the players we have and that (along with the recent results) is why I felt SD had to go.

I would have accepted the poor football as necessary if the points were coming.
 

Saint Domingo said:
There’s elements of this, having Goodison has probably kept us in the league at times and extremely good performances beyond most relegation battling teams have come from nowhere when needed (beating United Chelsea Leicester Newcastle (10 men) under Lampard, beating Arsenal, beating Brighton 5-1 under Dyche.

It’s more the power of the new stadium though. Not just in the revenue uplift from the extra seats but how it can be leveraged for revenue all year round. We’ve done the hard work now and taken our medicine, any other team that wants to follow has to go through a multi year process of building a new stadium just at the point when they may need to start reigning their spending in to comply with PS&R. Look at the toll it took on Wenger’s Arsenal and that was before PS&R, Spurs have fallen away from where they were and couldn’t match the spending of their peers whilst they built the stadium.

We might look back at this period as a horrendous time but ultimately a strategic move that put us ahead of mid table sides off the pitch for a long time to come.
Click to expand...
Without the new ground no way TFG take over us!

Weirdly the ground could have been the thing that killed us…now its very likely the one thing that gives us a future.
 


Write your reply...

Welcome

Join Grand Old Team to get involved in the Everton discussion. Signing up is quick, easy, and completely free.

Register

Shop

Back
Top