Everton Transfer Thread 2016

[blue61]

All?!?!?

I think he specifically meant you Ijjy, it's plain to see.

 

[windymiller]

Marquee signings are Koeman/Walsh for now...

No other club, in the world, would claim a chief scout as a marquee signing. Ffs.

 

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

Either a WUM or escapee from a secure institution
In what way had he not been backed ?

Minus net spend.
No funds given to get proven top draw players in.
Forced to scratch around last minute for bargains.

 

[CynicalBlue]

Why is Net spend important ?
I really struggle with this argument .
What we want in a window is Net Improvement in Squad.
Anyone who cannot see that this window already has done that had their head in a bucket .
Yep I get it with the Marquee signing .
I also firmly believe that it was and still is the clubs intention to bring one in. But this is a crazy market and we don't have CL as a carrot so that's a blow I can take until 2 years into "the project " when I hope the Marquees will be queuing at the door .

I think you are missing the point.
Net spend is important as we had this supposed war chest / 100 mill kitty to spend but as of yet we haven't touched it.
Like I said I'm not underwhelmed just disappointed.

 

[Smodger]

Minus net spend.
No funds given to get proven top draw players in.
Forced to scratch around last minute for bargains.

We still have 100 mil war chest you no.

 

[wainy]

"We could sign Messi if he'd come" ... that was the best one yet.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Bolasie

He's a standard Everton player. The kind we would have got in the past. It's just inflation that makes it look more but the reality is that he was bought with Stones money so it all works out about the same.

 

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

We still have 100 mil war chest you no.

It will be increasing by the transfer window!

 

[Blues Harp]

And what we are seeing here is the reason why leaving it late was a stupid naive tactic that will bite us. We are being held to ransom by players and clubs.

And you know this how?? ITK ??

 

[Smodger]

It will be increasing by the transfer window!

Even better for January.

 

[fandjango]

I think, in your heart of hearts, you, like most of us, hoped that we would be picking up some real superstars this summer. That's not to say that the players we've picked up are terrible, they're not, they're fine. But to say that this window has been markedly different to previous windows is not quite true. As other people have said selling one of our "big names" and then using that cash to buy in some decent players is the definition of business as usual and that is why many if us are a bit down because we were promised that nothing would ever be the same. Who knows though, two days to go, maybe we'll pull something amazing out of the bag?

Your logic is tragically flawed.
Yes I would have liked a superstar or two who wouldn't but the pure fact is we don't have CL football to offer a superstar and at the moment we don't have the pull of Man Utd and Mourinho

As for the silly silly assertion that we are only spending the stones money ... This is narrow almost naive thinking .

We have overall improved the squad
We have sold stones for a whacking profit and replaced him perfectly well. Just because the money spent so far does not automatically mean we only intend to spend the stones money
It means that is all we have needed to spend so far to improve the squad with the players in the market that we could convince to come
The money is there to be spent , that's why koeman signed up , the fact that is hadn't all been spent us down to
A doing good shrewd business
B our attraction level for superstars is not yet strong enough

Forget net spend its a dumb argument
Concentrate on net improvement in squad
Yep it could be even bigger with a superstar purchase but that won't happen with our current status
But the strength improvement in the overall squad and the management team for that matter is huge

 

[AmericanBlue]

I do find it mad that we have a negative net spend with two days to go. Especially being told we are loaded and can compete with the best

I clicked the net spend of more than 100 million box.

 

[Blues Harp]

We need a striker badly, and a midfielder with quality too if we're honest. Will be very disappointing if neither materialise.

I know a mate who'll have your S/T if you don't want it....

 

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

Deep down, in our heart of hearts, we all pretty much knew there would be no positive net spend. I think we should all just be thankful we only lost one of Lukaku & Stones. Keeping Lukaku is like a new signing.

 

[Igrok]

No other club, in the world, would claim a chief scout as a marquee signing. Ffs.

So u need to put money in the scouting first which is logical...no one will knock at our door yet..