Everton January transfer window 2021

[catcherintherye]

Only Everton and St Petersburg have increased their earnings in 19-20 out of the top 20 richest football clubs ,not sure about Petersburg but I would say in both cases its down to sponsorship
20-21 I can see all 20 being down some more than others

Yes. Which has seen us jump to 17 I believe.

As I keep saying though, this years accounts for teams will be bad. The following year will be brutal.

Is will be next years that take into account
-No pre season tours
- An entire season with no matchday revenue (including corporates)
- Heavily reduced spending on club shops/outets
-UEFA rebates on prize monies for CL/EL (not sure if thats been announced yet)
- Deferred sponsor payments/reduced sponsor payments.

Thats before you even get into a heavy reduction in player trading profits, which when you look at a lot of the accounts coming out are what have masked underlying weakness of the top teams. I mean Liverpools 40m profit, which came off the back of getting to the CL final was also with a £100m book sale of Coutinho (wth Alisson and Van Dijk spending being allocated into the following years).

You take player trading profits away, those clubs would ordinarily be making losses, before all of the above.

Then you will have the shock of a system trying to deal with this, in the midst of a likely recession that is going to be happening across the western world. We are very much at the beginning of this crisis.

To bring it back to football, I think this lack of spend in January, massive down from last January (which was marked as a very quiet month) is probably more a sign of things to come, than last summer was.

 

[the_toffees_bosnia]

Well it worked with Lucas Neill I suppose...

Who the hell is Lucas Neill ?

 

[Zatara]

Yes still smashing the realism
We need 4 -5 top quality first team players ,say 180-200m to compete at the very top
That will cost big money because Carlo will want the best available
Does not leave us with the option to spend half that again on squad players to fill the gaps left by Gomes ,Siggy etc leaving
In a perfect world with no FPP and Uzzy flexing his wallet . the ambition would be be to keep 6-7 of the current first team squad and buy 16-17 replacements
However realism says otherwise

There's very little moves being done this window. I mean year on year spend we are down to about 1/8 of last winters spend. When you factor in in 2017 there was 500m+ spent, it's about 1/18 or so of that level of spending. There's wider trends here, that sides have just moved away from those sort of deals, but I do think the pandemic has and the impending financial pressures are starting to squeeze now.

I would say a lot of football, had the view everything would be ok by Christmas. That was what pretty much anyone working in the industry said to me; "fine by christmas". There was a belief all fans would be back. Tht essentially no fans were back by Christmas, and likely no fans will be back this season will be a killer. There's a chance no pre-season tours will be allowed next year as well, so lots of lucrative money lost. Thats before you get into commercial spend from sponsors and merchandising spend.

The one counter I'd add though, is I wonder if we will see a bit of a bonanza in the last 2 days as people blink a bit? Lots of loans being agreed? I don't know. The quarantine rules for 2 weeks don't help, but maybe that comes into the thinking?

The first 11 that Carlo will want will take more than 18months
He is not here for top 4/6 .he is here to win the league
Digne ,Allan ,Ricarlison ,James and maybe DCL and Godfrey
The rest will not be in the first 11 in Carlos first 11
The younger lads in the squad maybe in time

The landscape has totally changed, when we can get a 29yr old James on a free and Allan another 29 for 20mil when the year before Napoli wanted 50mil plus.

There will be so many deals available over the next few windows, teams struggling financially, top teams over loaded and wanting to get their own wage bill down. Players running their contracts. Loaning players over 1yr maybe 2yrs and then buying them.

We can’t have another injury crisis next season and have siggurdsson, Davies & Gomes our midfield back up. Like we can’t have Tosun, Bernard as our forward line back up.

Perhaps its just me, but im not sure that we actually need many players immediately...

Brands wants

3 × GK
8 × DF
6 × MF
6 × FW

How many do we actually 'need' of good quality to 'complete' the squad, before we aim for one or two truly top signings a season?

Who the hell is Lucas Neill ?

Former Everton player...

 

[Toffeelover]

Only Everton and St Petersburg have increased their earnings in 19-20 out of the top 20 richest football clubs ,not sure about Petersburg but I would say in both cases its down to sponsorship
20-21 I can see all 20 being down some more than others

Are in a better state than Barca, word is they owe money to about 15 clubs and 120 mill to the RS.

 

[Zatara]

Barca owe £112mil to 19 clubs in unpaid transfer fees and also didnt pay their squad its full wages 2nd half of 2020 despite them taking pay cuts:

Barcelona 'fail to squad their full wages for the second half of 2020'

Barcelona have struggled to cope with the impact of coronavirus and the financial outlook for the Spanish giants now appears bleak with reports suggesting the situation is 'extremely delicate'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Dortmund would punt players if they dont make champions league:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ancho-Reyna-Guerreiro-market-not-Haaland.html

Finally, Chelsea of course have Tuchel now...unlikely he will want to develop their younger lads as he knows he'll be fired if he doesnt deliver results.


All pointing towards a summer window full of opportunities for us.

I really hope we can sell as many as possible this window...

 

[zook]

Are in a better state than Barca, word is they owe money to about 15 clubs and 120 mill to the RS.

They don't owe anything to Liverpool (technically), Liverpool have already been payed but not directly by Barcelona, the bank is now owed about 20 plus mil from that Coutinho deal by Barcelona

 

[Brisan123]

That’s a lot different from what you said. So very very good players could be available

I doubt very many of James quality at 100k a week would become available
Can you think of any others in the recent past
It was a curious set of circumstances which aligned to allow us to sign James

 

[Dublin blue 75]

Zaha should never be mentioned in this thread again for no other reason than his hair tonight. Good god what was he thinking

 

[Brisan123]

Perhaps its just me, but im not sure that we actually need many players immediately...

Brands wants

3 × GK
8 × DF
6 × MF
6 × FW

How many do we actually 'need' of good quality to 'complete' the squad, before we aim for one or two truly top signings a season?




Former Everton player...

GK,RF,CB,CM RW for the first 11 to challenge for the TITLE and 5-6 new squad players to add to the displaced first 11

 

[Blue toffee]

Who the hell is Lucas Neill ?

Believe me your best not knowing.

 

[MikeH72]

Who the hell is Lucas Neill ?

Big fan of this.

 

[tim gabbott]

I just don’t understand how everyone doesn’t get this. It’s not speculation, it’s the club’s stated position.

Maybe I missed the clubs official statement?

Carlo doesn't speak for the club, neither does Brands.

In fact its in both of their interests to pour water on fires.

It’s on ceefax p21 or call the club line

 

[TheSecondComing]

Barca owe £112mil to 19 clubs in unpaid transfer fees and also didnt pay their squad its full wages 2nd half of 2020 despite them taking pay cuts:

Barcelona 'fail to squad their full wages for the second half of 2020'

Barcelona have struggled to cope with the impact of coronavirus and the financial outlook for the Spanish giants now appears bleak with reports suggesting the situation is 'extremely delicate'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Dortmund would punt players if they dont make champions league:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ancho-Reyna-Guerreiro-market-not-Haaland.html

Finally, Chelsea of course have Tuchel now...unlikely he will want to develop their younger lads as he knows he'll be fired if he doesnt deliver results.


All pointing towards a summer window full of opportunities for us.

I really hope we can sell as many as possible this window...

Depends where we finish there's a huge opportunity that's opened up lets see what ambition there is.

 

[Bazlar]

It’s on ceefax p21 or call the club line

Remember those days. My Ma's phone bill used to be through the roof

 

[DaChunk]

Aaron Ramsey on loan? Could be a good little deal.