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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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Paul Rideout said:
Tbf Turin is miles away from Naples... unless he’s on holiday in Positano or something
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Thought he was meant to be in Monte Carlo with Mosh and his agent.

Nice airport is the closest and I think there's a daily flight into Liverpool from there. He'll probably come on Mosh's private jet though.
 
Barnfred 55 said:
Thought he was meant to be in Monte Carlo with Mosh and his agent.

Nice airport is the closest and I think there's a daily flight into Liverpool from there. He'll probably come on Mosh's private jet though.
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Tbf I’m sure he wouldn’t mind being picked up from Manchester airport and driven down the M62. Genoa airport isn’t far away on the other side btw.
 
Barnfred 55 said:
He is probably Juve's best home grown prospect in decades and already has 2 goals in 3 appearances for the full Italian side. He's probably the closest thing Italy have had to Wayne Rooney.

It looks like, please God, he is going to sign for Everton, and there isn't a mention of it on Sky or the BBC. It should be the biggest deal of the summer in the whole of Europe.
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It’s a massive deal for us but not the whole of Europe. Hazard to Real. Pogba and Lukaku still likely to move. Pepe to Arsenal is arguable a bigger move as well.
 
Barnfred 55 said:
Man City are in a position that they are not only one of the richest cubs in world football, but they also have one of the very best teams and even the very best players would consider going there. I think it's fair to say that they generally have their pick of players so can identify their target and invariably get them. But even they have their moments, like the race with United to sign Sanchez 18 months ago.

Everton, by comparison, are in a position where we are trying to bring in players that are of a better quality than our current standing in world football. We are also having to do this on a budget that has been limited by the poor transfer dealings of the previous management team which also left us with a plethora of aging sub standard players on high wages that we are trying to offload. In addition we are striving to hold on to our best players who are understandably attracting the attention of the bigger clubs.

In the ideal world we would have brought in all the players we wanted early in the window, retained our best players and also offloaded all the deadwood just as swiftly. But football doesn't work like that. I'm more than happy that we have a manager who is keeping the DoF on his toes as I think the fans demand that as well. But at the end of the day we are asking him to perform miracles and they only happen in the Bible.

People who are trying to make out that the club are a joke or, in your case, that we are looking amateurish, are way off the mark. What have we done that is amateurish? Put an offer in for a player that broke our club record?. Made a club statement to deny rumours that might have affected current players worth?. Generally stayed quiet about our general dealings?.
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Totally missing the point. It’s not about their attractiveness, it’s about *how* they operate. City’s operation is the gold standard and it’s not because most players in the world want to go there or because they can afford them. It’s because they have smart people all over the club running it in an utterly professional way.

You mention Sanchez; how many weird club statements did they have to release during that saga? How many times did their manager end up looking like he had no idea what was happening, or making veiled pleas to the people above him? That’s how we’ve looked amateurish: the club having to put out odd statements to the press; Silva looking completely out of the loop when asked about incoming transfers and what’s happening with Gana.

And we can clearly afford Zaha if we want and by all accounts he wants to come. So, again, it’s not about attractiveness. It’s about how you operate. There are clearly clubs worse than us. But to suggest that it’s something to ignore or, as you seem to suggest above, celebrate, is deluded.
 

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