Everton Transfer Thread 2016

Peanut94 · July 16, 2016

Walken said:
a decent manager would have come in with a plan, especially one already in the prem, its chaos mate

Decent managers still take time to evaluate the squad, what's the point in buying players who won't fit the team or improve the team. RK has a plan just takes time, no point in rushing to buy or we could end up with another Niasse
Just need alittle faith

scratchnsurf · July 16, 2016

Westland said:
Mid July. Pre-season friendlies about to start. Other teams are finalizing their squads. Do you seriously think we are going to blow 150m (100m plus Stones) in the next month?

We may sign one or two players like we always do at the lower end of the scale but that's a lot of money and larger transfers normally take longer. There's just more logistics involved plus it's harder to get those players out of their existing clubs so again it makes it more unlikely to be done later in the window.

I believe what you said was that it's looking likely we won't even spend the extra tv money. I presume you are just talking about the equal share that the clubs get, as the rest is dependent on the number of games we get televised and where we finish. The increase in equal share is about 30 million (from about £55.5million to £85 million). So why is it looking likely we won't even spend that?

Westland · July 16, 2016

alpha1 said:
I thought Southampton finished just 3 points off a Champions League place? Why then would they want to sack him?

He actually was almost sacked around November. However he sorted out VVD's defending and they never looked back after that.

Westland · July 16, 2016

scratchnsurf said:
I believe what you said was that it's looking likely we won't even spend the extra tv money. I presume you are just talking about the equal share that the clubs get, as the rest is dependent on the number of games we get televised and where we finish. The increase in equal share is about 30 million (from about £55.5million to £85 million). So why is it looking likely we won't even spend that?

Because Stones is going and I don't think it's looking likely we will spend 80m even if your figure for the TV money is right. I think it's a bit low but not worth arguing over.

We might get close but it's definitely 50/50.

perth_blue · July 16, 2016

Westland said:
It may have helped if he didn't bugger of and go on holiday for another couple of weeks.

Wasn't the squad still away at the time also on their holidays?

Westland · July 16, 2016

perth_blue said:
Wasn't the squad still away at the time also on their holidays?

Do you really think he wasn't aware of who was in our squad. How many times have we played Southampton when he's been in charge?

He could have at least started the ball rolling.

mill · July 16, 2016

Chimpy Glassman said:
Good quality of target...

Yeah, they are. We are definitely trying to bring in quality.

KUEFC09U2 · July 16, 2016

Westland said:
Do you really think he wasn't aware of who was in our squad. How many times have we played Southampton when he's been in charge?

He could have at least started the ball rolling.

on that train of thought Kone would be a starter under Koeman because of how he played against them in the away game

Westland · July 16, 2016

KUEFC09U2 said:
on that train of thought Kone would be a starter under Koeman because of how he played against them in the away game

I think he would have studied us a bit more than just the 90 mins we actually played them.

EFCccc · July 16, 2016

Goalkeeper should of been sorted straight away.

Smodger · July 16, 2016

EFCccc said:
Goalkeeper should of been sorted straight away.

Some would say the goalkeeper is sorted.

Westland · July 16, 2016

Smodger said:
Some would say the goalkeeper is sorted.

That's the worry because it shows our ambition right there.

rochdaleblue · July 16, 2016

Walken said:
a decent manager would have come in with a plan, especially one already in the prem, its chaos mate

He's stated that he wants to evaluate the squad and in particular the young players in his squad, in Austria. How would he have known about the talent within our academy before he got here, as Martinez barely played them.
He's obviously identified witsel and koulibaly as top targets. As it stands neither has joined other clubs, so we are still in with a chance of netting these top targets. If not he will move onto other targets. Im as frustrated as anyone no one has been brought in, but koeman has identified the players he wants it up to the club to finalise the deals. To suggest he isn't a decent manager is plainly wrong, his record suggests otherwise.

Smodger · July 16, 2016

Westland said:
That's the worry because it shows our ambition right there.

Ambition what's that we have had no ambition since the biggest blue known to man took over everton.Nothing has changed to me.

Westland · July 16, 2016

rochdaleblue said:
He's stated that he wants to evaluate the squad and in particular the young players in his squad, in Austria. How would he have known about the talent within our academy before he got here, as Martinez barely played them.
He's obviously identified witsel and koulibaly as top targets. As it stands neither has joined other clubs, so we are still in with a chance of netting these top targets. If not he will move onto other targets. Im as frustrated as anyone no one has been brought in, but koeman has identified the players he wants it up to the club to finalise the deals. To suggest he isn't a decent manager is plainly wrong, his record suggests otherwise.

Nothing is obvious about targets at this stage. If you think different then you are deluding yourself. I don't suggest he isn't a decent manager. I think he's very good and the speed at which he improved VVD was impressive. I just think we should have had players in by now. At the very least a GK.