January 2015 transfer window ( No GIFs allowed )(Nor fish puns ffs)

Toffee-nerd · November 4, 2014

Toffee-nerd said:
This man disagrees.
http://www1.skysports.com/football/player/12004/tim-cahill

Not to have a conversation with myself but I'd have Tim back. He'd be more use than Kone and would be a good sub to bring on when we need a goal, setpieces etc. Cahill's an everton legend for me and should be retiring at the club.

Tree13 · November 4, 2014

bluebud said:
Disputes what RM has said about the CB position I think that will be our priority, we all know he can be a bit liberal with his truths when talking to the media which is fair enough really he wants to boost the confidence of the players that will be playing from now until January. I think the left wing situation will depend on whether we get Cleverly, plenty on here weren't keen in the summer but the general concencus seems to be that he'd be an upgrade on Osman. I'd rather see a more pacey Miralles type be brought in but I'm not sure we will have the money after sorting out CB and a fee of some sort for Cleverly who Roberto is def keen to sign.

I have an issue with this. Cleverly for free is okay, but Cleverly for cash just doesn't sit right.

Tree13 · November 4, 2014

Starting standard RW on loan please, plus a CB on loan.

AdamEFC · November 4, 2014

Send Atsu back to Chelsea and get that Salah in.

Lids1978 · November 4, 2014

AdamEFC said:
Send Atsu back to Chelsea and get that Salah in.

Dont think it can happen.season long loan.would be nice though

Jags · November 5, 2014

Nastasic (loan)
Some boss winger (Deulofeu maybe?) (loan)
Matthew Lowton ~ £2-3mi

Boss window

Robert Chambers · November 5, 2014

Tree13 said:
I have an issue with this. Cleverly for free is okay, but Cleverly for cash just doesn't sit right.

Cleverly's loan is only six months right? I'll be happy with him in January if he's cheap. I still think he's a good player with a lot of potential, so a couple million would be fine.

sageyefc · November 5, 2014

Robert Chambers said:
Cleverly's loan is only six months right? I'll be happy with him in January if he's cheap. I still think he's a good player with a lot of potential, so a couple million would be fine.

Hes already played for both villa and utd so far this season so we'd be his third club, you cant play for 3 teams in a season so we wont be signing him in january

riddick · November 5, 2014

OneTrueLegend said:
At the moment we seem to be getting linked with Carlos Vela and Andre Ayew, I would welcome them both, bringing in Ayew who plays on the left wing, could mean a reduced role for Pienaar though.

I dont want to harp on this too much but you say it as if that is a bad thing?

sageyefc said:
Hes already played for both villa and utd so far this season so we'd be his third club, you cant play for 3 teams in a season so we wont be signing him in january

i THINK that its calendar year starting January 1. Soooo in theory if he was released by UTD in January i think he could for us.

Michaelcoyb · November 5, 2014

Does anybody think Howard needs replacing?

Big Fat Sam · November 5, 2014

Michaelcoyb said:
Does anybody think Howard needs replacing?

I'd be going all out to get Canisares out of retirement if I were Roberto.

daz4matty · November 5, 2014

Michaelcoyb said:
Does anybody think Howard needs replacing?

We certainly need someone to push him and get him refocused.
But I would not want whoever chose robles picking a keeper

Big Fat Sam · November 5, 2014

daz4matty said:
We certainly need someone to push him and get him refocused.
But I would not want whoever chose robles picking a keeper

Still cannot believe Roberto went and got a huge hard on for awful Wigan players thinking, somehow, that they'd be good enough for us. Aside from McCarthy - who most people thought was their best player anyway - everybody was baffled at Kone (5m), Robles (3m) and Alcaraz (no idea) joining us. All three disastrous signings and cost us about 80k a week. Ridiculous.

4m a year on their wages, plus around 8m on their signings. So, so far we've wasted around 14m on those three alone. Terrible whatever way you look at it.

ArtetaMoney · November 5, 2014

butters said:
Still cannot believe Roberto went and got a huge hard on for awful Wigan players thinking, somehow, that they'd be good enough for us. Aside from McCarthy - who most people thought was their best player anyway - everybody was baffled at Kone (5m), Robles (3m) and Alcaraz (no idea) joining us. All three disastrous signings and cost us about 80k a week. Ridiculous.

4m a year on their wages, plus around 8m on their signings. So, so far we've wasted around 14m on those three alone. Terrible whatever way you look at it.

Alcaraz hasn't been as bad a signing as everyone makes out. Robles is a spare keeper, it's hard getting a top class keeper to come and sit on the bench for you when you're not winning trophies. Kone has been massively unlucky, you can't blame Martinez for that.

daz4matty · November 5, 2014

butters said:
Still cannot believe Roberto went and got a huge hard on for awful Wigan players thinking, somehow, that they'd be good enough for us. Aside from McCarthy - who most people thought was their best player anyway - everybody was baffled at Kone (5m), Robles (3m) and Alcaraz (no idea) joining us. All three disastrous signings and cost us about 80k a week. Ridiculous.

4m a year on their wages, plus around 8m on their signings. So, so far we've wasted around 14m on those three alone. Terrible whatever way you look at it.

You are right a complete waste of money.
What baffles me though is how the loan system worked for us so well last season yet this season we have not bothered apart from a reserve striker and a winger from Chelsea who is nowhere near ready.