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Summer transfer window 2023

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blulouie said:
No mate
You don't need to explain the your rationale, Che Adams in whatever role has never been good enough.

And definitely not what we need.
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What do you think Everton need? Do you think we can realistically get all of that in place in the next 4 weeks?
 
Neiler said:
This is it for me. We absolutely need to target the first half of the season and build a base from there. 20 point by the new year. We do that and we will be ok.

Last couple of years we have tanked the first half of the season either due to still working in the window, or instability from Oct to Dec particularly.

First half of the season is crucial, we cant leave it behind us again and create a mountain we have to climb in the second half.
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Worst thing is last season we had a "reasonable" start as well, not losing many, not conceding a bunch but jsut didnt take our chances (to nobodies surprise). So many more winnable games squandered. Then we just absolutely tanked over and over where we were being punished every single game for mistkaes and not takking chance.

We have seen the same group of players, pull out some wins and results and it all comes down to confidence. Being confident when things are going well is pretty easy.

REGAINING that confidence when you're in a low, low place is probably one of the hardest things for a human to do. I dont think some people appreciate just how important that injection of confidence that Dyche provided played last season. That first win against Arsenal, huge.

The players were evidently unfit as well. The fact Dyche came in and had to do a mini pre-season says it all. Had we had a proper pre-season and been fit from the first game not the 20th, we'd have got 7/8/9 more points im sure of it. Wolves, Southampton at home, the players looked as if they were knackered from the off. Dyche is too professional to ever say "i got here and the players were remarkably unfit", but I bet you he couldn't believe just how much lack of energy there was behind closed doors.

We will be fitter by the first game, we will be better im sure, but we have to start the season on the front foot, keep that confidence going as well as get some much needed additions in the attacking others.

While I dont think Patterson and Mykolenko are particularly strong full backs (yet at least), I think they're alright for a mid-table team, it's the fact that we have so little going forward, our defence never gets a break or a breather, its just wave after wave.
 

coleman=quality said:
Still plenty of talk of gnonto still doesn’t look close to being done would be a good signing at that price, I’m surprised no one else has took a chance on him for the rumoured fee don’t believe we will sign him either doesn’t look like a number 9 is the priority either should probably already have one in by now should of been our first signing and lined up ready to sign early June ready for the signing to be announced first couple of days in July.
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If we sign Gnonto, i dont believe it will be as DCL's back up option. I think he'll solely be a winger or number 10 style. I'd assume we'd also bring in another natural striker to challenge/compete with DCL.
 
It's entirely plausible that Leeds will string us along for the entire window with Gnonto, giving indications they will let him go only to sack it off at the end of the window just because they want us to suffer for (allegedly) 'breaking ffp'. Bill is definitely gullible enough to fall for it and we'll have wasted yet another window pursuing one unobtainable target. Call me a conspiracy theorist but other clubs f*ING hate us.

(I also think the only reason spurs signed danjuma in summer was because Levy was pissed that Everton got Dele on a free, and played the system out of paying the £10m fee. Levy is known for being a shrewd transfer negotiator and that one was a low point for him. Explains why the Conte didn't want danjuma)
 
andy4efc said:
Worst thing is last season we had a "reasonable" start as well, not losing many, not conceding a bunch but jsut didnt take our chances (to nobodies surprise). So many more winnable games squandered. Then we just absolutely tanked over and over where we were being punished every single game for mistkaes and not takking chance.

We have seen the same group of players, pull out some wins and results and it all comes down to confidence. Being confident when things are going well is pretty easy.

REGAINING that confidence when you're in a low, low place is probably one of the hardest things for a human to do. I dont think some people appreciate just how important that injection of confidence that Dyche provided played last season. That first win against Arsenal, huge.

The players were evidently unfit as well. The fact Dyche came in and had to do a mini pre-season says it all. Had we had a proper pre-season and been fit from the first game not the 20th, we'd have got 7/8/9 more points im sure of it. Wolves, Southampton at home, the players looked as if they were knackered from the off. Dyche is too professional to ever say "i got here and the players were remarkably unfit", but I bet you he couldn't believe just how much lack of energy there was behind closed doors.

We will be fitter by the first game, we will be better im sure, but we have to start the season on the front foot, keep that confidence going as well as get some much needed additions in the attacking others.

While I dont think Patterson and Mykolenko are particularly strong full backs (yet at least), I think they're alright for a mid-table team, it's the fact that we have so little going forward, our defence never gets a break or a breather, its just wave after wave.
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Agree with all of this. Our squad isn’t great but it’s none nearly as bad as Lampard made it look. The overnight change in ppg shows that. I don’t think Eddie Howe could believe how unfit Gordon was when he signed. The Lampard era was a farce.

We’re not good enough right now to avoid the relegation mix but the right attacking signings added to the base we have we definitely could be.
 

Neiler said:
This is it for me. We absolutely need to target the first half of the season and build a base from there. 20 point by the new year. We do that and we will be ok.

Last couple of years we have tanked the first half of the season either due to still working in the window, or instability from Oct to Dec particularly.

First half of the season is crucial, we cant leave it behind us again and create a mountain we have to climb in the second half.
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I'd go even further as to say 5 wins in our first 10 games would basically allow us to be poor for the rest of the season and stay up!

Those opening run of fixtures are hugely important, someone should tell someone
 
Tony’s Carp said:
Dyche had the existing squad (plus Mina for a few games) on 41 point pace when he came in. Adding two or three decent attacking players would significantly improve the obvious problem area in the squad and so really there’s no reason to think Dyche couldn’t, with those signings, at the very least maintain if not improve on the 1.1 ppg he set last season, and that’s easily enough to survive.
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Hope so, obviously. The margins are very fine, though, and I suspect we are in for a slow start. If we added two good attacking options....say Gnonto and Toure....we would be a better side but still destined for the bottom six, in my view. As I think I've said before, if we get 4 points from the first 3 games then I'll be more optimistic
 

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