Everton Summer transfers 2021

[jerseytoffee]

Where was @Theoneandonly with the Begovic rumour?

Any minute now

 

[Terrarian]

I don't care about other clubs business, we need players.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Yawn.

Most clubs have hardly done anything yet. The majority of deals completed have been frees - and we're one of 6 clubs not to have brought anyone in - including Man City and Chelsea.
The market is slow at this point and It's the same whenever there's a major tournament going on.
For someone like Dumfries, no player in his right mind, before into a major tournament, would commit to signing for a new team or agree a contract - because there's huge hay to be made by performing well at the tournament and getting more clubs interested. Once the tournament is over, there's options to assess - plus most players would go straight on holiday.

Also - increasingly - I think the transfer market is like the housing market. You know the house you want to buy and the price you want to pay - but you can't just do it overnight because someone above you in the chain is waiting for their purchase of their next house to go through - or someone below you in the chain is delayed in buying your property from you.

Players/clubs get stuck in "chains" (or in football parlance, "merrygorounds". Often clubs won't release Player X until they've sorted out signing Player Y.

Or - conversely, they can't buy Player Y until they've raised the funds from signing Player X.

Or - Player X won't sign for Club Y until he knows that Club X or Z - who he's really hoping to join - isn't going to bid.

It's just not a simple as us going out and buying who we want as soon as we want. There's all sorts going on that will be delaying us - it doesn't mean nothing's happening. People use this stick to beat Everton every single season - pre Brands and now.

The one summer we did it all really quickly and got loads of players in early was Moshiri's first one, where we paid over the odds for a pile of average players and it went horribly wrong for several of them.

I'd rather we take out time and get it right, thank you very much.

You cant say "most" clubs haven't done anything yet then highlight 14 out of the 20 PL clubs have actually signed someone! lol

Man City won the league and have a squad of top quality players. Chelsea spent £250 million last summer and are the reigning CL winners.

We on the other hand have no right hand side, a collection of one pace CM players, no consistent back up CF for DCL, one creative player who can barely keep fit and may be leaving and if Benard goes one LW who will miss the start of the season being at the Olympics.

yet some people are demanding Benitez gets us European Football next season lol

Brands has let down every manager he's worked with and he'll do it again this summer mark my words.

 

[Papa Shango]

Starting to think that this club is seriously beyond repair.

Can guarantee if we are signing an ancient keeper who can't kick or even save, we are doing so because we can't afford the wages of Romero etc.

The quality of player we have been linked with this summer (bar Dumfries and the potential of Nunes) has been absolute dross. We certainly seem to be in something of a recruitment spiral.

It's a back up keeper role. They may never play a first team game for us. he is experienced though so could probably help Pickford quite a bit.

I don't see any reason to be concerned about this one at all really.

 

[dutchblue54]

Where was @Theoneandonly with the Begovic rumour?

Where was @Theoneandonly with the supposed sale of Bernard ? I mean if the Echo say it it must be well advanced as normally they deny all lol

 

[The_La]

You cant say "most" clubs haven't done anything yet then highlight 14 out of the 20 PL clubs have actually signed someone! lol

Man City won the league and have a squad of top quality players. Chelsea spent £250 million last summer and are the reigning CL winners.

We on the other hand have no right hand side, a collection of one pace CM players, no consistent back up CF for DCL and if Benard goes one LW who will miss the start of the season being at the Olympics.

yet some people are demanding Benitez gets us European Football next season lol

Brands has let down every manager he's worked with and he'll do it again this summer mark my words.

I absolutely will mark your words.

And you're twisting mine. I said "hardly" done anything. Not "haven't" done anything.

 

[Nymzee]

Think this is the least interested I've ever been in an Everton transfer window. Generally just not arsed what happens.

 

[dutchblue54]

Asmir Begovic to Everton according to Fabrizio Romano

i dont understand the waiting for Benitez line. a) if we are in talks Benitez should have said yes or no already
b) surely we need an experienced head competing with Virgina as back up

 

[The_La]

You're saying it's fine that we haven't strengthened because the PL Champions and Champions League winners haven't strengthened.

We finished tenth; we desperately need to strengthen.

And we will. But most teams haven't really strengthened yet.

14 have made signings - but if you actually look at what they've signed, it's pretty scarce.

Man Utd have made a signing. Tom Heaton. A backup goalie.

Southampton have made 2 signings - a cheap french full back and Theo Walcott on a free who they already had on loan.

West Ham have made 3 signings - all kids

Arsenal have made 1 signing - a back up left back who'll interchange with Tierney

Most of the significant business of the summer has not taken place yet - for any club.
If we haven't strengthened come the end of the window, that's a massive problem.
but not having strengthened in mid-July after a major tournament is not yet a problem.

This happens every chuffing year btw. It's so boring.

I don't actually know why I bother tbh. People just love to moan and feel lost without it.

Just knock yourself out - I give up

 

[MikeH72]

And we will. But most teams haven't really strengthened yet.

14 have made signings - but if you actually look at what they've signed, it's pretty scarce.

Man Utd have made a signing. Tom Heaton. A backup goalie.

Southampton have made 2 signings - a cheap french full back and Theo Walcott on a free who they already had on loan.

West Ham have made 3 signings - all kids

Arsenal have made 1 signing - a back up left back who'll interchange with Tierney

Most of the significant business of the summer has not taken place yet - for any club.
If we haven't strengthened come the end of the window, that's a massive problem.
but not having strengthened in mid-July after a major tournament is not yet a problem.

This happens every chuffing year btw. It's so boring.

I don't actually know why I bother tbh. People just love to moan and feel lost without it.

Just knock yourself out - I give up

Every single year we get posts like this telling everyone to stop bedwetting because no one else has made any signings either, relax guys the club know what they’re doing. And then every single year without fail we start the season short of about 4 players we desperately needed and the bedwetters get proven right.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Every single year we get posts like this telling everyone to stop bedwetting because no one else has made any signings either, relax guys the club know what they’re doing. And then every single year without fail we start the season short of about 4 players we desperately needed and the bedwetters get proven right.

A momentus day for pissy sheets.

"I told you I'd wee the bed and you laughed at me. Who is laughing now?!?"

 

[ForeverBlue92]

And we will. But most teams haven't really strengthened yet.

14 have made signings - but if you actually look at what they've signed, it's pretty scarce.

Man Utd have made a signing. Tom Heaton. A backup goalie.

Southampton have made 2 signings - a cheap french full back and Theo Walcott on a free who they already had on loan.

West Ham have made 3 signings - all kids

Arsenal have made 1 signing - a back up left back who'll interchange with Tierney

Most of the significant business of the summer has not taken place yet - for any club.
If we haven't strengthened come the end of the window, that's a massive problem.
but not having strengthened in mid-July after a major tournament is not yet a problem.

This happens every chuffing year btw. It's so boring.

I don't actually know why I bother tbh. People just love to moan and feel lost without it.

Just knock yourself out - I give up

Utd have signed Sancho haven't they?

 

[MikeH72]

A momentus day for pissy sheets.

"I told you I'd wee the bed and you laughed at me. Who is laughing now?!?"

Of course, bedwetting is a popular phrase used on www.grandoldteam.com/butties to describe moaning about Everton Football Club and doesn’t literally refer to urinating in a bed.

 

[The_La]

Every single year we get posts like this telling everyone to stop bedwetting because no one else has made any signings either, relax guys the club know what they’re doing. And then every single year without fail we start the season short of about 4 players we desperately needed and the bedwetters get proven right.

Do you think that happens every single year? Honestly?
I mean actually "desperately needed" - ie if we don't have that player we simply don't have players to cover the position?

There's deffo been some examples where we're left ourselves a bit short - granted. But rarely - if ever - do we go through a window where we actually don't make a signing at all in a position we need a player in.

Thing is - what will happen next is we'll make signings and the "bedwetters" will move on from complaining at no signings, and start complaining that the signings we've made are not the ones they wanted.

Then they'll moan that we shouldn't have been forking out for expensive first team players who they don't like, Brands should have been signing "young unheard of gems"

Then we'll sign some young players, and the bedwetters will move on to moaning that we've signed too many inexperienced players when we really needed first team ready stuff.

It's like clockwork - nothing is ever good enough. Everything is always terrible. Brands is always letting everyone down. Everton are a total mess etc etc etc. Fact is, whatever the club do, people find a reason to hate it and moan about it.

It's not that black and white. Some stuff Brands has done has been really good. Some stuff he's done has been really rubbish. That's the same with most DoFs/managers to be honest. Signing players is risky. And you don't always get what you want.

But to be panicking in mid July is a bit much.

 

[The_La]

Utd have signed Sancho haven't they?

Not yet