Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread


hallamblue said:
It's not 1995 mate, the days of us being able to buy the best players from the bottom half clubs are gone. With the TV deal their income is similar to ours. Those players you've highlighted would cost £200 million on fees plus extras and we'd fail psr.
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Personally I think we are just now returning to that. Now I dont think we will prioritize that, and instead will go for more up and coming players, but we will have the revenue and draw that those clubs do not have. Outside of Newcastle, who we aren't pulling players off of(and aren't bottom half anyway), we should be able to pull off of almost every other non-sly six club.

The stadium and sponsorship revenue will put us in a revenue bracket that the rest just dont have. For example, Bournemouth had revenue of 170m last season. We will likely have 250m. Thats an 80m gap, made even wider by the fact that while all clubs get TV revenue, all clubs also have base costs before they can even get to player trading. Any given club probably has a base costs of about 80-90million for staff costs and operations(based on team accounts), and then you have to field a basic team so you start at 140m with wages. That gives the likes of Bournemouth 30m a season to spend, and us 110m.

We could drop 300m this window and stay under PSR because its amortized over 5 years(60m per). We shouldnt do that, but we could.
 

Vaughan said:
instead of going for Soucek we could bring in another rangy box to box midfielder from our academy called Harrison Armstrong for no fee and on minimal wages

we have Gana, Garner and Iroegbunam and hopefully Alcaraz who can all play there too. We could also possibly sing Doucoure on much lower wages which the reports suggest he's possibly open too.

if Soucek was on a free I'd say it was a good signing but not for a fee

this is the kind of transfer that has financially crippled us and left us with a squad of aging and finished players that we cant shift

Coufal, because he's a free agent, is one I'd be more inclined to go with, even though Soucek is a better player

However, I'd rahter we looked at one of, if not both Tariq Lamptey and/or Kyle walker Peters who are younger, more versatile, faster, and I think, better players

Probably on lower wages too
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Honestly for me be happy getting a rig with doucoure gana still here then a other loan for armstrong, i kno rigg younger but feel his experience at sunderland puts him ahead of armstrong. Doucoure would just be one more year reduced wage and id sign gana to 2
 
Bez2k2k said:
I disagree. We still have the ability to sign good players and we are certainly more attractive than Bournemouth, Brentford, Palace, West Ham. We just have to make a statement signing or two and hopefully a few others get on board.
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To the non Evertonian I would disagree, in the modern Premier League players lifetime we are not a big deal.
The ground will help but none of the modern players care what we did in the 80’s.
It’s all about the here and now and currently we are no better than any of them.
 

We only paid 6 million for Sandro and 8 for Onyekuru. On the other hand we paid 45 million for a 28-year old Sigurdsson, 20 million for 28-year old Walcott, 20 million for 29-year old Allan. Club spent on fees and wages at least 130 million on those three players and got exactly 0 pounds back in transfer fees.
 
Makis said:
We only paid 6 million for Sandro and 8 for Onyekuru. On the other hand we paid 45 million for a 28-year old Sigurdsson, 20 million for 28-year old Walcott, 20 million for 29-year old Allan. Club spent on fees and wages at least 130 million on those three players and got exactly 0 pounds back in transfer fees.
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We spent 35m on Moise Kean, 34m on Alex Iwobi.

2m on Gareth Barry.
 
We got our money back on Kean. Iwobi was not 34 million, closer to 25 and we lost about 4 million on him simply because we were forced to sell.
 
Makis said:
We got our money back on Kean. Iwobi was not 34 million, closer to 25 and we lost about 4 million on him simply because we were forced to sell.
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We spent 20m on Doucs, we wont get a penny back for him.

But even tho im not his biggest fan, I think we can agree he was worth the fee.

I cant think of many players we have spent big money on that I consider old, 28 isnt old by the way, but yes, when you buy a player that age you aint looking at resale. Of course Iceland stands out, but we got "good service" from him and might have sold him for a fee if only, well you know.

Not every player has to turn a profit, some just help the squad.

But I cant see West Ham letting Soucek go for a price we would find acceptable, so its a moot point.
 

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