Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Makis]

Yeah, but we all know that wasn’t how it was with Moyes here. He helped lead a brilliant scouting team.

Problem isn't the scouting team but their instructions. They don't just randomly search for players, but search for certain types.

 

[Eggs]

Problem isn't the scouting team but their instructions. They don't just randomly search for players, but search for certain types.

…I like that, maybe you’ve been reading my posts

 

[Curtis]

Mate...I didn't want to tag him in the post but you've just done it for me

Had it all plotted out

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Problem isn't the scouting team but their instructions. They don't just randomly search for players, but search for certain types.

Yeah, we seemed to have a really in-depth approach back then with multiple players for different positions and filling different profiles and age groups. The thing that stood out to me when reading about it was it was a collaborative approach and everybody had well-defined roles when it came to the process.

Scouting system that reveals David Moyes' mind

In an exclusive extract from his new book Michael Calvin is allowed behind the scenes at Everton to see how the man who is now Manchester United's manager works

www.the-independent.com

 

[windymiller]

I have explained further in my following post. It's a team effort as Moyes will have had to sign off on the likes of Paqueta and Kudus who would have been scouted and he will have proposed a few players to the board as well like Bowen, Eze and Watkins. As well as the likes of Vlasic and Zouma who obviously didn't work out. I'm just balancing the reality than some giving Moyes all the blame/credit for those signings.

It wasn't a pop at you, mate, it was a general observation that people believe the media stories that confirm their beliefs but refute the ones, often from the same or similar sources, that contrast with their beliefs. Hence all the Brands signed W, Moshiri signed X, Dyche signed Y, Thelwell signed Z nonsense. It's a flawed position in any argument because, in reality, none of us have a Scooby what views were given and who, ultimately has the power of veto over any deals except those in the club. You'll see it reported as fact, really soon, that Moyes didn't sign player X, who signed in the summer and is absolutely rubbish, because some people have decided that Moyes must be infallible otherwise their world view will collapse. It's weird, and illogical.

 

[billyblue80]

I agree up to a point, but his signings at West Ham in the recent past it’s what’s more relevant surely? And they’ve largely been poor. A staggering amount of money has been wasted on bang average players. But as yet we don’t know how it’s going to work here. He may well prefer “Premiership experience” and players in the 25-30 year old bracket, what we don’t yet know is if TFG will be happy to sanction them. Only time is going to tell on this one. We’ll all know in August.

Managers don't pick players on their own anymore...

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

I have explained further in my following post. It's a team effort as Moyes will have had to sign off on the likes of Paqueta and Kudus who would have been scouted and he will have proposed a few players to the board as well like Bowen, Eze and Watkins. As well as the likes of Vlasic and Zouma who obviously didn't work out. I'm just balancing the reality than some giving Moyes all the blame/credit for those signings.

Zouma was club captain and helped them win a trophy. It was his knees that did him in, but he still performed better last season half-crippled than the guys they have at the moment.

 

[salmon fingers]

The Georgian at Lyon also looked decent, Mikautadze. Good feet, busy. Showed up well in the Euros too.

Yeah! I remember him from the euros did well. Lyon seem to buy well and produce a lot of young players JOB being one.

 

[Charlie Sweet]

Yeah, we seemed to have a really in-depth approach back then with multiple players for different positions and filling different profiles and age groups. The thing that stood out to me when reading about it was it was a collaborative approach and everybody had well-defined roles when it came to the process.

Scouting system that reveals David Moyes' mind

In an exclusive extract from his new book Michael Calvin is allowed behind the scenes at Everton to see how the man who is now Manchester United's manager works

www.the-independent.com

Easy to forget Moyes signed plenty of duds for us as.well as him being a disaster in charge of other clubs (at times). However, he's earned the right now to oversee a summer rebuild. I was wrong about him coming back so would be delighted to be proved wrong about his transfer skills as well!

 

[murphy89]

Singing played isn’t an exact science. Some will work, some won’t. For every Scamacca at West Ham, there is a Moise Kean, Hoijland or Darwin Nunez elsewhere. No club has an unblemished record.

The only thing that really matters is the result. Moyes turned West Ham from relegation battlers to consistent European challengers and winners.

It’s like ground hog day in here with bad transfers. People always trying to shift the blame for them into whoever their least favourite member of staff is or to prove a point. The reality is, regardless of stats, a player sometimes just doesn’t fit at a club or in a league. It’s the gamble every time.

 

[Makis]

I have to disagree because if only results matter then clubs wouldn't think about the future, just here and now. Bit like at least in the NHL (don't know about other US sports). Contenders swap their draft picks for even rentals (players who's contract runs out at the end of season) to win now. But they can do this, because winning is the only thing that matters. There's no relegation. Once their championship window closes they can spend years rebuilding next team. And fans are ok with this.

Moshiri tried this win-now mode and we are still suffering from it this season. Clubs should always have one eye in the future and make sure there is continuity even after current manager leaves.

That is, unless the club is so filthy rich they can just buy an entire new core whenever they want.

 

[Eggs]

….hopefully the club remains tight lipped on targets and negotiations, word tends to leak out eventually but hopefully when deals are largely done.

 

[RinkyDinker]

Zouma was club captain and helped them win a trophy. It was his knees that did him in, but he still performed better last season half-crippled than the guys they have at the moment.

He wasn’t the same after he caught that cat on the half volley

 

[Swagger]

It wasn't a pop at you, mate, it was a general observation that people believe the media stories that confirm their beliefs but refute the ones, often from the same or similar sources, that contrast with their beliefs. Hence all the Brands signed W, Moshiri signed X, Dyche signed Y, Thelwell signed Z nonsense. It's a flawed position in any argument because, in reality, none of us have a Scooby what views were given and who, ultimately has the power of veto over any deals except those in the club. You'll see it reported as fact, really soon, that Moyes didn't sign player X, who signed in the summer and is absolutely rubbish, because some people have decided that Moyes must be infallible otherwise their world view will collapse. It's weird, and illogical.

Agree

 

[toffeeblue9]

….hopefully the club remains tight lipped on targets and negotiations, word tends to leak out eventually but hopefully when deals are largely done.

Rarely in an agent's interest to keep things under wraps tbh. You want to drive interest (whether real or not) in a player to help your negotiating position.

I would imagine the vast majority of leaks nowadays don't come from the club themselves.