Everton January 2025 Transfer Thread

[blueboy72]

Why is the default to be "spending badly"

It's a nonsense, apologetic defence.

Sign players who improve the team or heaven forbid, allow some depth.

That isn't asking much.

And your last sentence isn't accurate, as much as the Sky Sports type agenda would love to have you believe. The stadium, previous board and Russia's war got us into the current situation. Sure, one window under Koeman we spent a bit of money. Like Fulham, Bournemouth and West Ham have since. And nowhere near the amounts Nottingham or Villa have.

Teams spend money, teams invest money into the playing squad - we haven't.

Our squad value for fees, including players we have on loan who we didnt actually spend is 19th. I think Ipswich actually went above us this window.

I think the first 5 years under moshiri, we sold stones, lukaku, Barkley and a few others and I think our debt on spending was like 150/200mil . Basically 30/40mil a season, I can’t be bothered to check but it wasn’t a fortune
This all started
when talkSPORT would go on about this £500milion we’d spent and it just snowballed and uneducated fans of other clubs jumped on the bandwagon. That figure some how went to 700mil overnight and we hadn’t even bought anyone. Probably a few of the [Poor language removed] fans on social media spinning the narrative.

The media have always had an issue with Everton and put it down to our neighbours being the biggest media darlings on the planet, we finished 7th or 8th under silva and yet talkSPORT presenters would say we should be top 4 with the money spent silva had basically failed, funny how you don’t hear that about Villa or Newcastle