Transfer Window Thread

[ijjysmith]

We'll see

Of course. But perhaps let your weird obsession with a player that has never has anything to do with Everton should die now (especially now he's at a rival) and you should support the player we do have.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

The concern for me is the impact the lack of additions will have on the moral of the squad.

We have shown a tremendous lack of ambition this window.

 

[faddy the blue]

Player or bus mate ?

Haha I can just about see us in the top 10 which isn't improvement. We'll struggle to create chances all season cos we still have no one to pick out a cheeky pass or spot a good run.

 

[Tubey]

Oh ok. You say it is so it must be.

A simple yes or no - did Martinez identify the need for a playmaker?

Another one - did Everton fail to sign a playmaker this window?

If the answer the above is yes and yes, Everton have messed up.

You could want to sign Messi every window, but if he's not available you don't just refuse to sign any attackers whatsoever.

 

[ijjysmith]

We don't.

How could anyone possibly know this?

Especially you.

 

[Tubey]

Or get a temp in I.E. a loan and try again for John. You wouldn't leave the position empty.

Correct.

 

[davek]

Headless chicken...wait and see.

Wait and see? We saw what he can offer last season. It wasn't a chicken running about with no head. He galvanised Everton in the second half of that hideous campaign.

*shakes head*

 

[ijjysmith]

A simple yes or no - did Martinez identify the need for a playmaker?

Another one - did Everton fail to sign a playmaker this window?

If the answer the above is yes and yes, Everton have messed up.

You could want to sign Messi every window, but if he's not available you don't just refuse to sign any attackers whatsoever.

I'm fighting so many fires here I can't remember the initial point.

Either way, we'll be fine.

 

[Big_nev]

What's that sailing over your head?

Crystal Palace.

 

[Jxg]

Down to Martinez not to have prioritized a playmaker. It's down to the board to have made him decide between a CB (also desperately needed) and a playmaker.

There should have been cash for both and then some.

I really hope Stones doesn't take a nosedive (from average defensive qualities to week in, week out glaring errors) or the decision to keep him will look like the balls up of the decade.

I'd have punted him as soon as Chelsea got near £30M. That cash plus the money spent would have reinvigorated the squad with quality.

Still, most wanted him kept, so the manager of even board cant be blamed for caving into that.

Point is mate that we shouldn't have to sell Stones to get £30m to invest. We received eighty million in TV money last season. We've seen, at a huge push, fifteen million of it. Likely less than ten.

 

[Mrk]

 

[nsno-chris]

We don't.

Are you saying that mori is a worse player??

 

[Matty2102]

Wonder what bills gonna spend his TV money on ?

 

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Again, it is.

OK, imagine it was a business who have account managers.

You identify you need a new manager for a new account, but that highly rated guy named John from a rival company isn't available.

So you go, "oh well, let's not get any account manager for that account."

Doesn't make sense. Players are assets. Yarmolenko would have been an identified asset, who had qualities to fill an identified role.

But if you have identified the need for that role, you don't put all your eggs in one basket. No business would do that.

Everton seemingly did, or we missed out on three or four others - which would make us incompetent.

So after identifying a business need and failing to fill it, which will impact our business model for at the very least the next six months, we're either stupid, incompetent, or both.

Fair points but we're not the only ones in this situation. Chelsea for all their wealth, put all their eggs in John Stones' basket it seems and they've ended up signing a dubious looking centre half for a couple of million.

Spurs and Arsenal fans are equally frustrated at their clubs dealings or lack of so we're not alone.

I know what other clubs have done or not done is nothing to do with us, but it is what it is and we've just got to get on with it.

 

[ElPorto]

AAANNNNNNND BREATHE!!!!!!

Goodbye transfer thread. You shall not be missed xxx