January Transfer Thread 2017

[CRIMHEAD]

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Not like our Bill at all.

I would hope that's like everyone. Wow, we are less interested in paying more for stuff?

 

[MarkCorrigan]

I hope we dont Jezz today up.

 

[Telford-Feb-85]

Most important thing is it frees up the number 9 shirt.

 

[CRIMHEAD]

That and he looks decidedly shii bad.

Of course he does. Contract negotiation is a skill. That being said, it's a players agent, so not sure I would trust anything they have to say. But if you say you are going back with another offer, you best do it.

 

[Blackwell Livermore]

I would hope that's like everyone. Wow, we are less interested in paying more for stuff?

Welcome to doing business in January.

 

[madkiwi]

I blame Unsworth for the lack of signings. He's had a word in Koeman's ear about the U-23s being ripe for picking.

Rhino Out!

 

[Tin-Tin]

Lennon being allowed to leave too. Bloody hell we are going to have a lot of kids on the bench for the rest of the season.

 

[everton2004]

So Ronky got cold feet, decided a player was gash after all and pulled the deal. Good. We wouldn't want another Niasse now would we?

 

[Quim]

We've had 31 days, and months before that really because the need was obvious. If in the entirety of world football we cannot bring in a striker with the money we allegedly have, then we never will find one.

In short, I don't buy that excuse for a second.

Its not that easy mate, 99% of the strikers in the football world will not be good enough to play for Everton. We are in 7th place in arguable the first or second best league in the world. That means the pool of strikers available to us will not be great straight away. Then you have the fact that it is January and any centre forward good enough to play for us will be heavily involved in a team that is only half way through a season and either he will not want to leave, or the manager will not want the player to leave until the summer.

The argument that we had the summer to buy a striker I fully agree with, however the manager came in and decided to spend the summer assessing his squad. This meant he has been able to allow the youth that was capable of it to prosper(if most on here had their way we would have signed enough players in the summer that Holgate and Davies would still be names we hear about now and again in the reserves). On top of that, in them summer months assessing the squad he has quickly established which players are 'deadwood' and he has moved nearly all of them players on inside 6 months.

I understand the thirst for new players, and even more so a centre forward. But if you look at the bigger picture this manager has not put a foot wrong since he walked in the door bar maybe a dodgy goalkeeper signing and a run of 10 poor games when it was pretty obvious he was still working the players out and they were him. This man will not settle for second best, if we haven't signed a forward it is because he doesn't want any available to him.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Koeman is kicking some arse

 

[blulouie]

I miss the Flight tracker

 

[Nymzee]

Heard absolute jack about Everton since I turned SSN on this morning.

 

[TippEverton]

Gotta love sky and they're football manager stats for random players scattered around the continent.

We're not doing anything today I'd imagine, stay healthy Rom.

 

[everton2004]

Heard absolute jack about Everton since I turned SSN on this morning.

That's usually when something is happening behind the scenes.

 

[blulouie]

Heard absolute jack about Everton since I turned SSN on this morning.

Looks like Alan Myers is staying out the way at USM Finch Farm....dont blame him like.