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Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

MACCA75 said:
Sorry but shedding some of the high earners? Mina and Gomes simply had their contracts run out. And a huge part of the ‘£100 million profit’ was simply accepting a bid for Gordon. (Now worth twice as much).

This isn’t some accounting genuis.
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This, it feels like to many people have read the Athletic article were he boasts about making £60m off academy products. (£40m being Gordon, £6m for Simms, £4m for Samuels Smith & £8m for Cannon)
Well done to the clubs academy staff for progressing these lads to a level they can be transferred.
Leicester have just made a profit on Cannon, selling him 18 months later, and as you said, Gordon is probably worth double now.

I could shed the club of millions off the wage bill, 'sorry Deli, no contract for you', 'Andre, you have been here a while now, why don't you find somewhere else, but only when your contracts up'
 

Bob Elstone said:
Everyone justifying Kevin thelwell. We’ve been crying out for goals for season after season and this idiot has so far given us maupay, chermiti, Broja and Beto.

This is in an environment where spending is limited.

The Conk wouldn’t know a decent striker if it landed on his nose.
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Apparently we aren't allowed to blame him for Maupay, despite him being the actual director of football when we bought him.
 

I think we can cope without Mangala. We have Garner and Tim. Id be more worried lising Gana.
But we must get a good striker in. Thelwells recruitment has been poor overall but he did bring Ndiaye in.
 
MACCA75 said:
No but it’s a stretch to give Thelwell credit simply because a players contract runs out.

It’s been a basket case club, no question about that, but he’s still made some awful decisions. You have to sign players that the manager will play.
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It's the context with which he's done things - unsellable players on high wages.

Inability to buy because of high earners (who we need for depth) but never play.

Unattractive prospect for any sought after young player because we look like relegation fodder and play dross football.

As for your final point I completely disagree - we shouldn't be buying players the manager will play, we should have a style of play which we want and a profile of player that fits that system. We should then appoint managers to fit as closely as possible to that system.

Buying players for the manager is exactly why we ended up with a team of mismatched players, unbalanced squad and players value depreciating sat on the bench because a manager who we've appointed for 12 months doesn't like them (which we've been forced to do through our position and ownership capriciousness).
 
Bob Elstone said:
Everyone justifying Kevin thelwell. We’ve been crying out for goals for season after season and this idiot has so far given us maupay, chermiti, Broja and Beto.

This is in an environment where spending is limited.

The Conk wouldn’t know a decent striker if it landed on his nose.
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Maupay and Beto were bought on extremely favourable payment plans. He apparently recommended other attacking midfield/forward options like Joao Pedro, Gibbs-Whyte and Kudus but the club seemingly couldn't afford any of them. Broja hasnt worked out but his wages weren't paid until he was fit. I think Chermiti has exciting potential. It's very frustrating he suffered a freak foot injury as he would be very useful now.

The big issue has been complying with FFP whilst trying to sign players. It has severely limited the pool of players available to the club.
 

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