Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

[Clarky cat]

I’ve heard Evan Ferguson is a big Rangers fan, I’d sign him just for that tbh. Very easy to get up to Glasgow to watch a game and just as easy to get to Ireland from Liverpool. Let’s face it, he will have lots of interested teams because loads need strikers atm

 

[Simon Buttle]

It's a weird one, just looks like an Everton striker (back when we had good ones)

Brighton don't make too many mistakes when it comes to recruitment though, if they are willing to let him go then there is a reason for it. The only others I can think of are Undav who just didn't settle in the system and Gyokeres who they never actually wanted to sell, he was just desperate to play games.

 

[Eggs]

It's a weird one, just looks like an Everton striker (back when we had good ones)

….he’s a good age (actually 5 months younger that Chermiti), competitive, combative but he’s only a 1 in 4 goalscorer for club and country. Looks like an ankle/foot injury has been the issue, so hopefully something he’d fully recover from. Sounds like he has issues in his private life and Brighton are keen to show him the door but he plays like the game matters which is important for me.

you’d not want to be paying big bucks for him, certainly not going over our PSR limit. If the price is right and medical gives green light he could be ok.

 

[Lanolin]

Brighton don't make too many mistakes when it comes to recruitment though, if they are willing to let him go then there is a reason for it. The only others I can think of are Undav who just didn't settle in the system and Gyokeres who they never actually wanted to sell, he was just desperate to play games.

I think it's clear that one way or another they haven't been happy with his level of professionalism and so they're probably at a stage where the sort of fee he could command starts to look worth taking. The question is whether he's a hopeless case or if a change of scene/being handled differently gets him back on the right path.

 

[larbert toffee]

Evan Ferguson would me an interesting one. It’s huge risk given the injuries and the off the field rumours but the upside would be huge if Moyes could get him fit and knuckling down.

Haven't we had enough of the words 'risk, if, could,rumour' wouldn't it be nice to buy a player who, when he puts the shirt on is ready to go out there and do a job for us without question.
If you include just one of those words in a report on a potential player for us you just know he's going to be a dud

This lad Ferguson at Brighton was a good player when he burst on the scene and scored a few goals for them but boy I smell a rat in that for whatever reason they seem too kean to let him go.

 

[Chegsy]

Other clubs business or lack off this window has no bearing on whether we should or could do business. We don't have the luxury of going with what we have and if results don't go our way this weekend we are back to looking over our shoulder.

 

[Mr Happy]

Haven't we had enough of the words 'risk, if, could,rumour' wouldn't it be nice to buy a player who, when he puts the shirt on is ready to go out there and do a job for us without question.
If you include just one of those words in a report on a potential player for us you just know he's going to be a dud

This lad Ferguson at Brighton was a good player when he burst on the scene and scored a few goals for them but boy I smell a rat in that for whatever reason they seem too kean to let him go.

They'll not sell. Nobody will buy this window. So it's a loan and we can't unless we bin one of our domestic loans. As for the coke rumours I'd suggest they are nonsense. Just Internet BS.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Haven't we had enough of 'risk, if, could rumour' wouldn't it be nice to buy a player who, when he puts the shirt on is ready to go out there and do a job for us without question.
If you include just one of those words in a report on a potential player for us you just know he's going to be a dud

This lad Ferguson at Brighton was a good player when he burst on the scene and scored a few goals for them but boy I smell a rat in that for whatever reason they seem too kean to let him go.

Proven quality with no risk is outside our reach as a bottom half team with financial constraints. Everyone we target will either be good but have an injury record, good but with baggage, good but completely untested at any decent level, or fit professional and proven to not be very good.

If we want good players we have to take some element of risk.

We’re in a transfer world though where City and Madrid will sweep up unknown Brazilian teenagers after half a season in the Brazilian league. The top clubs not only want to buy proven quality like previously but now don’t even want to wait for an Everton to develop them first, they want them at source and they’ll run squads of 50 players with half of them on loan to keep them all if needed

We either need to be far smarter than everyone else, or take more risks, either approach though does not involve us just buying a proven quality player that is risk free.

 

[NikNak8]

Brighton don't make too many mistakes when it comes to recruitment though, if they are willing to let him go then there is a reason for it. The only others I can think of are Undav who just didn't settle in the system and Gyokeres who they never actually wanted to sell, he was just desperate to play games.

How would it be a mistake exactly? They got him for next to nothing, think there is a 10% sell on clause from Bohs, but the rest would be pure profit.

 

[ArtetaMagic]

Brighton don't make too many mistakes when it comes to recruitment though, if they are willing to let him go then there is a reason for it. The only others I can think of are Undav who just didn't settle in the system and Gyokeres who they never actually wanted to sell, he was just desperate to play games.

That's their model tho. Excellent recruitment and sell for big money. Although they would have got a lot more when he 1st broke thru.

 

[Bluewolf]

From the Echo this morning to save all the reading

"On Wednesday, a report in Tuttosport claimed Everton were on the verge of finalising a deal to sign Igamane but the ECHO understands that such claims are wide of the mark and the Blues are looking elsewhere as they have no interest in the 22-year-old."

Has that rag ever actually say we're signing anyone?

Im sure it said we weren't interested in richarlison after we'd put a bid in for him.

 

[Isla de pajaros]

….he’s a good age (actually 5 months younger that Chermiti), competitive, combative but he’s only a 1 in 4 goalscorer for club and country. Looks like an ankle/foot injury has been the issue, so hopefully something he’d fully recover from. Sounds like he has issues in his private life and Brighton are keen to show him the door but he plays like the game matters which is important for me.

you’d not want to be paying big bucks for him, certainly not going over our PSR limit. If the price is right and medical gives green light he could be ok.

Last time we bought a centre forward named Ferguson he also had some troubles off field.

 

[D410]

Football is littered with players with lifestyle choices gone bad. If youth is on your side then it can be turned around. You get one chance to do that for the most part in life.

 

[larbert toffee]

Proven quality with no risk is outside our reach as a bottom half team with financial constraints. Everyone we target will either be good but have an injury record, good but with baggage, good but completely untested at any decent level, or fit professional and proven to not be very good.

If we want good players we have to take some element of risk.

We’re in a transfer world though where City and Madrid will sweep up unknown Brazilian teenagers after half a season in the Brazilian league. The top clubs not only want to buy proven quality like previously but now don’t even want to wait for an Everton to develop them first, they want them at source and they’ll run squads of 50 players with half of them on loan to keep them all if needed

We either need to be far smarter than everyone else, or take more risks, either approach though does not involve us just buying a proven quality player that is risk free.

Would rather we were smart given the twooptions because not one of our risks since the days of Peter Reid or Andy Gray have paid off.

 

[Lanolin]

Haven't we had enough of the words 'risk, if, could,rumour' wouldn't it be nice to buy a player who, when he puts the shirt on is ready to go out there and do a job for us without question.
If you include just one of those words in a report on a potential player for us you just know he's going to be a dud

This lad Ferguson at Brighton was a good player when he burst on the scene and scored a few goals for them but boy I smell a rat in that for whatever reason they seem too kean to let him go.

It certainly would, but I think we're a long long way from that being what we can expect from a transfer.