Summer transfer window 2023

[Daytripper]

Has anyone told Gravel Gob we haven't got a yaribb?

Gravel Gob

 

[Monk d Wally de honk]

Would take a punt on Alex Scott from Brizzle City.

Agree. Might not have all the bells and whistles that foreign imports have, but they do have a grounding in English footy. They tend to be up to speed, even if they are league 1 or 2, or Championship. Just a matter if they have the genuine skill required.

Less of a gamble, buying from another English club, I suppose.

 

[Fralahna]

We need goals, badly, in about 4 positions so there’s that

50 mil though? To get how many players? And add a keeper on top of that? Nah we keep pickford unless a stupid offer comes in.
If we want to buy a few alright players with Pickford money, we will spunk it on mediocre players (see last summer). If we do sell our best player, it needs to be way more than 50 mil.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Agree with this, we can’t keep selling our best players and getting worse.

It’s like Richarlison last season, was a stupid deal, despite being clapped by many and we couldn’t score, penetrate or create all season and circled the drain.

We’re seen as a soft touch in the market. Feeder club for Newcastle and Spurs, time to stick two fingers up and act like a proper football club.

Selling to reinvest is the club weeing down your back and telling you it’s raining. Don’t fall for it again.

Yeah there comes a point when the player wants to go and it makes sense to sell, and that might have been Richarlison last season (plus the financial regs might have meant we had little choice) . I don’t think Pickford is in that camp though, as long as he’s England’s number 1 he seems content to be first choice here.

 

[Runub]

It’s not rocket science. Sell your best players you deteriorate, especially with our shoddy history in recruiting replacements

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

Agree. Might not have all the bells and whistles that foreign imports have, but they do have a grounding in English footy. They tend to be up to speed, even if they are league 1 or 2, or Championship. Just a matter if they have the genuine skill required.

Less of a gamble, buying from another English club, I suppose.

Alex Scott is a fantastic player and has all the tools to go to the top. Unfortunately, we'll also get charged between £25 and £35m for his services. Even allowing for negotiation and driving down the price, it would be an expensive investment.

It's generally cheaper to find good talent abroad. Take the Jack Clarke one. He's decent, has potential, though I'm not sure how good he can be. The price being quoted in the media is between £5 and £10m below what Villareal supposedly want for Samuel Chukwueze - and look at all the top level experience he has. Clarke's price is actually relatively cheap as far as young English talent goes, but it always comes at a massive premium.

 

[Fralahna]

I seriously don’t think the Everton fanbase, and certain sections of this forum, could deal with having an average PL keeper. Pickford has been virtually faultless for 2 and a half seasons and kept us in absolutely key games in the run ins with world class saves, and he’s still taken absolute dogs abuse at times for goals that arguably weren’t even his fault. Some of the fan base still hasn’t forgiven him for the Origi incident despite him quite frankly not being able to do much about a complete mishit that bounced perfectly on the top of his bar. Doesn’t matter that he’s probably won those points back and more in the derbies that have followed.

Look at some of the goalkeeping ‘prospects’ in the PL recently in Meslier and Bazunu, they’d be lambs to the slaughter for the fanbase.

If we follow a recruitment tactic of selling Pickford to fund additions in other areas then there’s going to have to be a reset of expectations in the fanbase of what they expect from their goalkeeper because whilst you say there must be a goalkeeper out there who can replace him, it’s a keeper that United, Spurs, City, Arsenal, Chelsea have struggled to find so far.

Unless we pull off a recruitment miracle, I think there’d be a lot of fans revising their opinion of Pickford very quickly when they see another keeper up close every week.

What i wanted to say but didn't have the eloquence to. Bang on the money here.

 

[davek]

That first fella was 1 of the worst CBs in the league, only matched by that other they signed Waes.

First season he was there he was very good.

I think there was a falling out with Rodgers.

 

[Neiler]

Yeah there comes a point when the player wants to go and it makes sense to sell, and that might have been Richarlison last season (plus the financial regs might have meant we had little choice) . I don’t think Pickford is in that camp though, as long as he’s England’s number 1 he seems content to be first choice here.

All of that will happen and you can’t be damagingly to dogmatic, there is a difference between that and being a soft touch in the market or spoofing the fans. That’s what happens here. As opposed to being pragmatic like Brighton or whoever.

There is 70 mill in revenue in player sales this financial year and we shouldn’t be asked to be pragmatic and sell our best players again to invest in the side. We know what happens we’ve lived it the last two seasons, we can’t keep taking rungs down the ladder and compromising on quality.

 

[Goat]

The Gentleman in bold who I believe @nsno-chris and @Goat may say wouldnt get in the Everton, or Burnley teams...

....signed for Simeone at Atletico 3 days ago.

I would have Keane before him, hes terrible, Diego does sign some stinking players.

How much did he pay for that Joao Felix?

 

[BlueStevie35]

Isn't this fun spending hours exchanging rubbish messages instead of dreading the drop and our impending doom. One of our main tasks will be to suitably reward Bill for his vital role in our escape.

Most of us are actually discussing, others (not naming names but begins with e) are making little weird jabs and not really adding much to the discussion

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

People need to stop talking about selling Pickford as if it's a reasonable option, it's not, it's a dreadful idea. For two seasons in a row he's kept us in this division, and he could probably play for another 7 years at the top level. What's more, he actually loves it here for some reason the fantastic weirdo. Move on, try and flog virtually any of our other players.

 

[MisterJ]

I seriously don’t think the Everton fanbase, and certain sections of this forum, could deal with having an average PL keeper. Pickford has been virtually faultless for 2 and a half seasons and kept us in absolutely key games in the run ins with world class saves, and he’s still taken absolute dogs abuse at times for goals that arguably weren’t even his fault. Some of the fan base still hasn’t forgiven him for the Origi incident despite him quite frankly not being able to do much about a complete mishit that bounced perfectly on the top of his bar. Doesn’t matter that he’s probably won those points back and more in the derbies that have followed.

Look at some of the goalkeeping ‘prospects’ in the PL recently in Meslier and Bazunu, they’d be lambs to the slaughter for the fanbase.

If we follow a recruitment tactic of selling Pickford to fund additions in other areas then there’s going to have to be a reset of expectations in the fanbase of what they expect from their goalkeeper because whilst you say there must be a goalkeeper out there who can replace him, it’s a keeper that United, Spurs, City, Arsenal, Chelsea have struggled to find so far.

Unless we pull off a recruitment miracle, I think there’d be a lot of fans revising their opinion of Pickford very quickly when they see another keeper up close every week.

I agree. No more of this mad talk about selling Pickford.

 

[Neiler]

First season he was there he was very good.

I think there was a falling out with Rodgers.

Simones gobbled up hi, up for Atlético months back mate, hes off their.

 

[davek]

Simones gobbled up hi, up for Atlético months back mate, hes off their.

Figures.

Simeone isn't daft.