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Everton Summer Transfer Thread - 2022

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toffee-L said:
We have far fewer players that could be considered pure deadwood than we used to have. Tosun, Gbamin and he who must not be named are the only big earners we have who never play (although the latter certainly would have played this season if he was able to) and Gomes under Lampard has drifted into this category recently although injuries have played a part too.

What is killing the club is the fact we have huge transfer deficits which is what has truly plunged us in the ffp mire. You can't repair that deficit from selling the likes of Tosun and Gomes, you'd do well to get £5m for the pair of them.

We need to sell the likes of DcL, Pickford and Richarlison - the transfer fees they would bring in are the only way we will have the leeway to make major changes to the squad. And as our 'better players' have proven this year, they're a bunch of chumps as well so it would be pointless trying to build a new team around players we know are rubbish. We need to press the reset button in a big way, no matter what division we find ourselves in.
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This!

I think Mykolenko and Patterson felt like a change in direction. Younger and less expensive than usual. Both will have resale value too!
 
PhilM said:
But surely these aren't the players we wanted to move on? That's the problem! What's the point in selling your better players to retain those we do not want?

I'm not being obtuse, but this isn't a game: players have to want to go; clubs must want to buy them; we can't simply offload players with pay offs due to the books.

Tosun is on circa £90k-100k a week. When there was only a year left on his contract, why would he accept a pay off of anything less than 100% of his wage?

We'd still have to pay his wages yet not obtain a fee, which is even worse. So we look at selling him, but who is going to pay wages close to what he's got here.

Talking totally hypothetically, if we sold him for £5m and paid 50% of his wages, we'd pay close to £5m on wages before all the added on-costs.

That'd totally negate the fee, and leave us with only £50k per week on wages to replace him but no money to redistribute towards new signings.

Scale it up by getting a £10m fee etc., and we're not really getting much in terms of capacity to buy. This is due to buying poorly and offering silly contracts.
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Well Tosun was apparently on £50k-75k a week. If Besiktas would pay him £20k a week and a £2mil fee for him then youre half way there to covering his wages...so you could pay him the remainder in a lump sum.

But you missed one thing out which is his book value -- if his book value was e.g £5mil then that is a loss on Profit and Sustainability (as well as FFP) regulations.

So you would be able to move these types of players on if you sell someone with a low book value that can bring in a high fee e.g DCL or even someone like Davies.

The point is that we could have sold a few players who had decent values last summer such as Pickford, Godfrey, Keane, Digne, Doucoure, Allan, Richarlison, DCL etc

We could have done that...then reinvested.

Benitez chose not to -- rightly or wrongly he 'could' have done so.

Crying about not being able to sell is nonsense.
 

Tree13 said:
Seriously?

Without Richy and Pickford this season, we would be 20th right now. Absolutely no question of that IMHO.

You could even argue that Pickford would easily perform better and more consistently if he didn't have a largely poor set of defenders in front of him, and that Richy would produce more goals and assists if there was a functioning midfield working alongside him.

As others have said, we won't get better by selling all our best players. Our approach this summer should be to wave goodbye to the OOC lads, then look to shift the likes of Gomes, Mina, Keane and anyone else at the top end of the pay scale who has not contributed (in comparison to their wages). Then we should invest in mostly younger players on lower wages, and look for one commanding CB and one commanding CM to knit it all together.
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The profit and sustainability rules would mean that we cant really take losses on players book values without a sale to balance it out.

Logically it makes more sense to sell a couple of the higher value this summer and a couple next summer. But i dont think thats the right thing for us to do.

I think we need to recycle alot of the squad and trust Thelwell to make the right young signings and Lampard to develop them.
 

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