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Summer transfer window 2023

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Blue peter said:
I think there are multiple strategies a club like Everton can adopt through stages of growth or on the path to be more successful. I agree you can’t copy another club completely but you can adopt certain aspects of how they operate.

Taking Brighton for example, like any club they will buy duds, and good players….they seem to be on a good run of gaining net benefits from their transfer transactions, but it’s what underneath that to get those results that’s the thing to look at. For instance they seem to have good contacts in South America, they identify them and bring them over to their feeder club to develop. This is something Everton should consider doing.

The reality is, that whatever our pedigree and our potential, we have to think like a Brighton to get to a foundational level to build on that success. As we grow and become more sustainable, we wouldn’t necessarily cast off the feeder club but we can’t start to act like clubs who are bigger but we should not try and run before we walk….it is trying to do that initially and that ‘small window of opportunity’ as Moshiri put it, that landed us in this mess. Yes, we should try and be at the top of the game, but that is something we should aspire to once we have gone through a number of development phases.
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People were saying the same about Leicester a couple of seasons ago.
 

If the club came out and announced we are not focusing on signings but instead utilising our existing youth then it would be a lot more palatable and likely lead to a siege mentality between fans and team.
 
Swartzy said:
Everton just need an obvious overhaul of the club, We will have one of the best stadiums around, and we will gradually be building ourselves on and off the pitch to eventually get us back to working order.

No, It won't be short term, but we have to believe we will get there, back to a club we can all be proud of..

But that club that I want to see and smile about, is EVERTON ( and how they have chosen to do things ) - Not Bloody Brighton !!!
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Nothing we are seeing suggests this will be the case, it's more likely on recent evidence you'll see us relegated and fall in to the abyss.
 

25 days until our first game v Fulham.
Lets say our transfers tend to take 10-14 days from when a reputible ITK gives out info of a new signing that means we need to hear news of a new signing in the next week for anyone to being close to ready for that game.

My biggest bug bearer will be that we wont of learned lessons from last seasons opening fixtures and got our team prepped and ready before the season starts instead of 5/6 games into the season, throwing away our advantageous opening fixtures
 
Blue peter said:
I think there are multiple strategies a club like Everton can adopt through stages of growth or on the path to be more successful. I agree you can’t copy another club completely but you can adopt certain aspects of how they operate.

Taking Brighton for example, like any club they will buy duds, and good players….they seem to be on a good run of gaining net benefits from their transfer transactions, but it’s what underneath that to get those results that’s the thing to look at. For instance they seem to have good contacts in South America, they identify them and bring them over to their feeder club to develop. This is something Everton should consider doing.

The reality is, that whatever our pedigree and our potential, we have to think like a Brighton to get to a foundational level to build on that success. As we grow and become more sustainable, we wouldn’t necessarily cast off the feeder club but we can’t start to act like clubs who are bigger but we should not try and run before we walk….it is trying to do that initially and that ‘small window of opportunity’ as Moshiri put it, that landed us in this mess. Yes, we should try and be at the top of the game, but that is something we should aspire to once we have gone through a number of development phases.
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Brighton will swallow themselves up in the next couple of seasons just like Leicester/Southampton have.
It just takes a poor 18 months of not replacing certain players properly to drop back to were they came from and the larger clubs will pick them apart!
 

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