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Summer Transfer Window 2019

Everton's Transfer Window

  • Good

    Votes: 394 49.0%
  • Alright

    Votes: 329 40.9%
  • Poor

    Votes: 81 10.1%

  • Total voters
    804
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I’d normally get a little twitch at the news of a new signing, but this is a sad day indeed.

I shall remain flaccid for the rest of the morning, at least.

...plus, it remains to be known if the news is accurate.

The Gueye signing is the only major positive from the Walsh era. He’s been a terrific player for us, but it’s a great move for Gueye and decent business for the club to replace him with a progressive 23 year old for less money.
 
If it’s Zaha AND a striker (Kean?), then Zaha left, Richarlison right, new striker up top and Siggy just behind is pretty tasty no?

Teams would absolutely hate playing against us and we’d have opposition defenders literally disappearing up their own bumholes

I was thinking this. A genuinely exciting prospect. One that would realistically challenge the top 6.

And then I remembered there is no chance of signing Zaha, let alone a top striker too.
 

The only transfer with reliable sources is Kean which is going to cost around 35m-40m, we are looking for CB, DM minimum, so where is this 60m Zaha coming from? Sky are good at bait
 
I hate this pl experience tag. Aguero had no pl experience when he arrived, neither did... Henry, Bergkamp, Van Persie, Salah, Suarez, Coutinho, Zola, Hazard, Drogba, Ferguson, Arteta, Pienaar (first time), Jay Jay Okocha, Campo, Lacazette, Aubamuwhatever ... the list goes on and on.

It means nothing if you’re buying the right player. Except cost, it means buying a worse player because they’re from an English club to mitigate risk that your scouts are dreadful.

Do you think, after last years purchases of foreign players with no pl experience (Gomes, Bernard, Mina, Digne) that our scouts are bad at this?
The thing is, for every player that succeeds in the premier league, there are probably 3 or 4 who don't, many of who have absolutely shone in other leagues. Even those that do succeed can take time to settle.

I'm actually in favour of buying players from outside the premier because you can get a lot more value as you say. But you have to accept that it does come with a bigger risk.

As regards Zaha, I really don't think this is a goer for a number of reasons. He wants to stay in London, he would want to go to what he considers a bigger club than us, his price is way outside what we would be considering on 1 player given our budget and the large number of new players we need, and Silva has said on few occasions that he is looking for a left footed striker. Plus none of this is coming from local sources, all sources down in London.

I do think the lad is a very good premier player and would definitely improve us, but not at anything near the price quoted. But a cash + player deal where we are offloading 1 or 2 of our surplus players, with a total combined value of say £60m, would, IMO, be considered decent business. No way it's happening though.
 

I have no idea where we're getting the money for Zaha, Kean, Center Back and Gbamin from like, but if it's there then this could end up being a good window


zaha 60
kean 35
gbanmiin 25
cb say 30mill
gomes 22
delph 8

= 180

sold

lookman 22
vlasic 14
Robison/browing 5
gana 30
= 71

total spend around 100m, add in we are still looking to sell McCarthy/niasse which would fetch another 15m

net spend of around 80/90 mill isn't unrealistic given say villa are already upto 100mill

just see what happens init
 

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