Summer transfer window 2023

[Tony’s Carp]

Can you honestly see him do anything more than warm the bench at Chelsea or Arsenal. As for the kopites they just want Brighton's midfield.

Yeah, I can, maybe not every game immediately but these clubs can afford to spend big on young players who aren't expected to play every week. I think in a better team with more creative players around him he'd do very well- he does a lot of things on the defensive side very well. There's a reason at a young age he already does more than warm the bench for Belgium.

 

[lesbattersby]

We won't know but as I bored everyone with last summer - has our DOF ever been truly responsible for transfers anywhere prior to Everton? At Wolves apparently jorge mendes ran the show.

I don't want to be unfair on the club's DOF, he's not been here long, has his hands tied and he's done some good but it does concern me that we never brought anyone in January - especially Danjuma and Dyche confirming the club "tried their best" and again now - what appears to be a scatter gun approach.

We also don't have Dave Harrison anymore either.

So yeah - to be here 20 odd days before Fulham and in a worse state than when we finished Vs Bournemouth is appalling.

Since red kev hasn't had the pull of lampards name, we have signed 1 player on a free in 1 and a half windows. And we only signed Young because he is old enough to remember us as being semi decent under Moyes. Absolutely pathetic performance at running a football club.

 

[Verbal Kint]

And other Prem teams have stayed clear of him. Apparently he is a bit of a prat

He would fit in really well

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Since red kev hasn't had the pull of lampards name, we have signed 1 player on a free in 1 and a half windows. And we only signed Young because he is old enough to remember us as being semi decent under Moyes. Absolutely pathetic performance at running a football club.

Dyche also knew Young from their Watford days

 

[riddick]

Not fazed if we miss out on El Bilal Toure

Big bucks & risky. Gut feeling he'll prove to be Moise Kean mkII

A player we made money on? THE HORROR!!!

 

[d0rk]

- Any number of Chelsea/City prospects on loan, e.g Casadei, Lewis Hall, Cole Palmer

Just can't see them loaning to us given the style of football we'll play. If City are going to loan out their best prospects to PL rivals, it'll be to teams that play in a similar style/system to them, not low block merchants.

 

[Tel001]

Someone ask Alan Myers if we're close.

He believes we are …. Pretty sure that’s his automated response and is probably on holiday with Kev

 

[JohnJq]

 

[micknick]

And score in both games against us.

And score in both games against us.

Kiss the badge?

 

[NathDogg]

The owner, chairman and DoF need to go - absolutely clueless.

 

[Andy is the King]

A player we made money on? THE HORROR!!!

That's of great comfort.

As we dropped into the relegation zone unable to score goals, I kept reminding myself how we made cash on Moise Kean.

 

[Alan Whittle]

As for the kopites they just want Brighton's midfield.

Don’t know why these two axis of evil cohorts don’t just merge and have done with it.

 

[kenada_blue]

We won't know but as I bored everyone with last summer - has our DOF ever been truly responsible for transfers anywhere prior to Everton? At Wolves apparently jorge mendes ran the show.

I don't want to be unfair on the club's DOF, he's not been here long, has his hands tied and he's done some good but it does concern me that we never brought anyone in January - especially Danjuma and Dyche confirming the club "tried their best" and again now - what appears to be a scatter gun approach.

We also don't have Dave Harrison anymore either.

So yeah - to be here 20 odd days before Fulham and in a worse state than when we finished Vs Bournemouth is appalling.

We need to sell.

We won't sell untill the close of the window.

We won't buy until the close of the window.

There's what I think

 

[coollino]

Closer than we were yesterday and now getting closer to tomorrow. If the deal was due Monday we are getting further away, if its due Friday we are getting closer.

Close, but how close only those who are close to the closeness can really know.

BW

Twitter Al x

Stop insulting me, you're blocked and I'm deleting my account

 

[Cameron Manning]

Well I'm not sure but I assume unless there's some weird clause in the contract the payment terms remain the same regardless of what we do with him after - so if (as widely reported) we're doing instalments we just keep paying them even if he's no longer our player.

So for talking's sake (i'm just using indicative numbers to show how it could work) if we are paying them 5 instalments of 6m we just keep doing so. If we could reach a deal that gets us, say 30m cash up front with, say 25m in further add-ons and instalments for a total of 55m we get the cash to play with (minus this year's instalment) and the 3 future instalments out should in theory be covered by instalments coming in- we'll owe 18m but have 25m coming in future payments. So in theory that's 24m cash to play with now and future payments covered by future incomings.

There's also the sell-on fee, and no one seems to know if that's on total sale price or total profit. I think the usual is for it to be on profit and putting a sell-on on total sale would be a bit daft, but then it is Everton. If it's profit (as it hopefully should be) we need to give Lille an extra 5m, if it's total sale an extra 11m, leaving us with either 19m or 13m cash to play with.

Assuming it's logically more likely to be 19m, that's not an enormous amount but of course you can spin that 19m into much bigger purchases by agreeing similar instalment transfers- even paying close to half up front that could be 40m, so a 15m midfield replacement and a 25m forward.

All indicative numbers like I say but it shows how Onana could be flipped now to strengthen the squad and it's something we'd have to seriously consider if an offer comes in.

Fair enough, maybe we could make a profit even if it takes a few years to make it!