Everton Transfer Thread 2016

Nymzee · February 3, 2016

I think Stones is odds on for City now they have Pep; doesn't have to move house, supreme wages, awesome manager & very real chance at lots of trophies as a starting CB next to Kompany.

whiteshadow · February 3, 2016

Dier would be good ...... oh.

Neiziro · February 3, 2016

That Fraser Forster lid isn't half bad.

Skeleton Crew · February 3, 2016

neil999 said:
i thought this, but then what centre backs would we get? jags will need replacing as well soon(although galloway might step up)

we have Funes Mori, Jags for a while, Galloway in the next gen and didnt we sign Matty Foulds?

Not saying there wont be a need for improvement on those guys but of the people expected to leave. Stones seems the easiest to transition.
(especially at 30 or 40mil)

tonka1878 · February 3, 2016

MoutsGoat said:
Keep it open and stick all the threads Zatman will make from now until June in it.

I'm not sure if that's better or worse than whatever its used for now, but it'll be full of nonsense either way.

abelard · February 3, 2016

Nymzee said:
I'd take Gary Cahill in the summer if he's not gonna be first choice anymore.

Two-thirds of his fee and wages will be just for his sustained Englishness. There's no shortage of anonymous Garcio Cahillo's or Slobagary Cahillovic's who we could get for a fraction of the cost.

daz4matty · February 3, 2016

Nymzee said:
I'd take Gary Cahill in the summer if he's not gonna be first choice anymore.

Rather have shawcross or williams from swansea

Nymzee · February 3, 2016

abelard said:
Two-thirds of his fee and wages will be just for his sustained Englishness. There's no shortage of anonymous Garcio Cahillo's or Slobagary Cahillovic's who we could get for a fraction of the cost.

Tons of PL and CL experience shouldn't be scoffed at and it's hardly like we'll be skint next summer.

Eggs · February 3, 2016

....probably time to close this thread.

kone99 · February 3, 2016

we should seek out players in euros

USABlue · February 3, 2016

Nymzee said:
Tons of PL and CL experience shouldn't be scoffed at and it's hardly like we'll be skint next summer.

The fact he just signed a four year deal and said he's settled at chelsea should nip this whole argument in the bud

By god I'm blue · February 3, 2016

njligernj said:
Rebuilding?!?!?!?!?! These players haven't done anything yet. They are 22 -- the team BUYING them is rebuilding. We would be destroying.

Sell Stones and then tell Rom we can't sell him this year because Stones went. We can't keep Stones long enough for him to win us games anyway -- Rom can win us games now.

Rebuilding is an insane thing to do and no way Martinez is going to start rebuilding 3 years into the club. It makes no sense for Everton and it makes no sense for his personal career either.

Selling Stones wouldn't be rebuilding -- if we spent the money on 26+ y/o defenders it would likely be an immediate upgrade (just lower potential).

Take money from Stones and get a IN PRIME defender and a new goalie and otherwise stand pat (aside from deadwood).

If RM can't keep Rom, Del and Barkley together for one more year then I'd fire him. They are still worth more to us than the money (because nobody as good as Rom would sign for Everton). Stones can go though. Spain preferably.

Having read your post I find it hard to argue with any of it.

Maybe rebuilding was the wrong word to use. But I meant for the squad more than the actual first XI.

njligernj · February 3, 2016

By god I'm blue said:
Having read your post I find it hard to argue with any of it.

As far as I'm concerned this is the way everyone should respond to every post I make.

I just don't want us losing Rom to be a foregone conclusion because that does make it easier for them to sell him.

If we're trying to win anything it's too early to sell him. The money is pointless there is nobody better we could realistically sign. Stones is different -- he may actually hit peak value this summer, his *current* value can be replaced far easier than Rom and he's already done one transfer request.

By god I'm blue said:
Maybe rebuilding was the wrong word to use. But I meant for the squad more than the actual first XI.

Fair enough. I always focus on first 11 first -- valid point about the squad there should be a lot of shuffling there.

I imagine this summer to be the summer where we make the squad look more like the first 11 in terms of age. So we bring on players like Besic and Tarashaj rather than Pienaar and Osman. Not knocking either of them but best case is to get similar performance from the bench but higher upside.