windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
True. He's a bit more circumspect than Bill but the "James is family" bit was beyond cringeworthy plus all the chat about Koulibaly seems like wham now as well.
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What did you want , sign a load of mercenaries on top dollar, surely we don't want the likes Memphas (Big Time Charlie Potato) Depay at Everton.
Maybe the board and Koeman have recognised with the youth players coming through that they don't need to throw money all over the place.
Lets see where we finish in the league and compare that position to last year, in Koemans first season by the way.
TheGhostOfBolasie
Player Valuation: £1m
Ah, the "we'll go with what we've got" defence. A true classic.
Ernie
Player Valuation: £15m
Go with what we've got after signing Gueye/Williams/Morgs/Bolasie and Lookman
TheGhostOfBolasie
Player Valuation: £1m
(and selling Stones for 50m to fund them)
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
I think you have missed my point. I didn't mean WE could spend £200m from club coffers I meant that we would be compliant with ffp if we did spend that amount.
Secondly, we have spent more than the Stones money but, as of today, we haven't spent more than the Stones money plus the increase in TV money. That could change in either direction based on transfers in or transfers out.
The statements from Bill were the one's about things never being the same again, the one's about Moshiri wanting more signings than Bill and so on and so on. Bill likes to be over the top, he's a theatre guy after all, we shouldn't be taken in by it after a decade or more of it but when it comes to Everton most of us (most certainly including myself) allow hope to trump reason.
To answer your final question, most of us thought we would make more of the window because of the talk of Koulibaly, Witsel and Mata in the summer followed by confirmation from Moshiri on the Jim White show that we were in for these players at huge money in the summer combined with the opportunity to raise our wage bill because of the Stones sale. Maybe that was unrealistic, I don't know, we'll find out soon.
Exactly, we have spent about £40-45 million net and could still bring in another signing before the windows end.
People expecting big money will be the same clowns moaning if we couldn't finance a new stadium. Fact is only us and Spurs in recent times have had to pay for a new ground out of our own pockets, Arsenal benefitted from the ground around Highbury and both City and West Ham have had stadiums gifted to them.
Right now we have the perfect balance of spending a sufficient level of money on signings (both first team and under 23) whilst being able to finance a stadium move.
Now if we don't spend much in the summer window I'll be the first to moan but as of this window Moshiri has so far backed Koeman.
You do know that you are going to have Martinez's first season 5th place finish with a club record 72 pts thrown at you, thought I would get it in before davek has a pop at you.
Sharpys top lip
Player Valuation: £60m
It just seems all talk.....
They seem to be doing the least just to keep most happy
They seem to be doing the least just to keep most happy
Well tell Davek that I think we all knew that season was a fluke after going down 4 - 0 at anfield in 20 minutes. Koeman is a different prospect to El Brown Shoes.
OK yes we're not being held back from spending 200 million quid because of compliance, but the point is the only place 200 million quid would come from is out of Moshiri's pocket.
We have spent more than the Stones money plus the increase in TV money. If we didn't then why did Moshiri have to give us an 80 million quid injection? The money has been spent on signing players and wages, plus the compo fees for Martinez and Koeman. Not to mention that we haven't received all of the TV money yet as we have an outstanding share of the 25% merit payments to be paid out to us.
"The statements from Bill were the one's about things never being the same again, the one's about Moshiri wanting more signings than Bill and so on and so on."
This is all vague. There's nothing specific in anything they've said to influence my expectations. The only people those with high expectations that haven't been met yet have to blame for that is themselves. Nobody's come out and said we're going to be marching up the table and spending cash like its going out of style. They've referred to it as a project and it is going to take time. People have let themselves get their expectations out of hand there has been so very little from the club, Moshiri, or Kenwright to give them these expectations.
My only expectation is that we perform and compete better than before. Anyone holding Moshiri up as a saviour is counting their chickens.
You've got a point about Moshiri speaking out about Koulibaly, but that is the only thing I think anyone can reasonably point to as a reason for inflated expectations.
I think so many of the people who are disappointed right now have read into things that weren't said by anyone.
Still lacking a top name signing. Needs to prove he can pull one off.
Ernie
Player Valuation: £15m
To fund them Stone would have had to have been sold for 76m