Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

[maccavennie]

Points to be won here Jinks

Would take him straight to the top of the leaderboard with the rest of us left behind, choking on the dust.

 

[MACCA75]

daily record reporting that

A former Everton insider reckons the club could make a move for Rangers striker Hamza Igamanebefore the end of the January window.

The Moroccan has emerged as the first-choice frontman at Ibrox this season after netting 13 goals for Philippe Clement's side following his summer arrival from AS FAR. Reports south of the border have suggested Everton, West Ham, Newcastle United, Bournemouth, Brentford and Fulham have shown an interest in the prospect who arrived for £1.7million last summer.

That is based on some nonsense from ‘Goodison news’
(which itself was based on other nonsense from Graeme Bailey)

 

[ValBlue]

Whilst I am rooting for the Prince Who Was Promised to deliver, the phrase ‘deal to be done’ does not fill me with hope

 

[NikNak8]

His own manager has said just recently he is not mentally fit too play football atm. The issues with him (and have been for a while) are more related to his lifestyle off the pitch. He is a young lad and hopefully he can get his head straight again. Here is not the right place for him imo.

I haven't seen those and am very surprised I haven't heard them before now. If there are lifestyle issues I'm surprised the Irish rags havent been all over it as he is very much the hopes and dreams of Irish football. Similarly I'm surprised it hasnt been raised on Off the Ball (Irish sports radio show). If his own manager said he is mentally unfit then that could be for many reasons, a major one being a lack of confidence because said manager doesnt have faith in him.... Not saying the lifestyle rumour that you refer to isnt true just that I have not heard it before now... and of course I hope its not true (for his sake)

 

[Blast_of_Cannock]

Just looked up that he played just 3 league games for them in a year and a half due to injuries. I make that costing the Saudi club over 100m per league appearance

Perfect Everton signing then...

 

[Vintage]

Perfect Everton signing then...

Deffo a Mosh Hollywood signing

 

[matty1878]

Would take him straight to the top of the leaderboard with the rest of us left behind, choking on the dust.

i prefer jinx over bubble bobble wobble anyway.

 

[Curtis]

His own manager has said just recently he is not mentally fit too play football atm. The issues with him (and have been for a while) are more related to his lifestyle off the pitch. He is a young lad and hopefully he can get his head straight again. Here is not the right place for him imo.

I thought it was more due to his reoccurring injuries and not fitting the new manager's style of play as I was unaware of any issues related to his demeanor

 

[GoldenToffee]

Getting to the point where I’d think Andros Townsend would be a decent signing.

Getting to the point where I'd think Andy Townsend would be a decent signing.

 

[HappyJack]

just read this, watching a lad from Bologna as well - Castro

Fidel? Revolution and Footie. Gotta hand it to him like….

 

[marnie]

He got something right a couple of weeks ago...he's the only hope we've got at the minute

Yeah but that was what he was having for his tea.Still not sure on that one myself.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Fidel? Revolution and Footie. Gotta hand it to him like….

I know nothing about him but I like the sound of him.

Castro sounds like goals.

 

[Paul Rideout]

Yes and I was responding to you about Lewis and your question if there was a chance we could loan him and gave you the possible loan option that could be done.
We can't loan Evan Ferguson at present

I don’t see why they you’d loan serie As midfielder of the year 2024 to us tbh.

 

[Simon Buttle]

I haven't seen those and am very surprised I haven't heard them before now. If there are lifestyle issues I'm surprised the Irish rags havent been all over it as he is very much the hopes and dreams of Irish football. Similarly I'm surprised it hasnt been raised on Off the Ball (Irish sports radio show). If his own manager said he is mentally unfit then that could be for many reasons, a major one being a lack of confidence because said manager doesnt have faith in him.... Not saying the lifestyle rumour that you refer to isnt true just that I have not heard it before now... and of course I hope its not true (for his sake)

I live down here on the South Coast. Its well known round here that there have been issues and there has been some hint of it in certain media. As for the manager thing, well I will counter that by saying the previous manager (De Zerbi) had issues with him also and they were publicised, so that's 2 different managers that seemingly have/have had an issue with the player. I get why all the Irish fans want to defend him and refuse to believe it but as I have said before Brighton is an enticing place for the younger ones and it has a seedy underbelly to it, plenty have fallen foul of the 24hr lifestyle and crazy nightlife which exists there, if we were just talking about some random student nobody would bat an eyelid but because he is a footballer people don't want to believe its true.

 

[Simon Buttle]

I thought it was more due to his reoccurring injuries and not fitting the new manager's style of play as I was unaware of any issues related to his demeanor

Nope, he likes the Brighton nightlife a bit too much