RuffRob

and you can't help wonder how much of an impact a signing like that could have made last season. We have missed out on a few decent players by fairly small margins, I felt the same with Diaz the summer before. These player make a massive difference in tight games at home, they get the crown going and have end product. Plays that where ready to come, but we ultimately failed. I somehow feel seaon on seaon we are becoming less and less of an attractive option for these types of players. We have become that club that other clubs, low on form, actually up their game when they are playing us - as they think 'we can get something from these..'. This is my biggest fear after losing to Fulham, teams on paper we should be beating come here now with an expecation there is a good possibility they could grab 3 point. It then becomes a viciouse circle , we lose confidence and any club playing use gains confidence. Goodison has become a good hunting ground. I think Kudus in the team would have helped us massivly last season, particulary in home game. Fucking Antony!!!

12% does seem very high considering we have just come through a decade of unbelieably low interest rates. If I'd have know the club where willing to hand out 12% interest, I'd have borrowed them a few quid (but not the whole £200M). I imaging any Evertonian with a few savings would have bought in to the right investment vehicle had something been set up for the fans. But they would rather the fans not have any say - and let big corporations make the profits. My company offers investment opertnities all the time when they buy properties for different elements of the business. Its not rocket science.

Any pre season optimism diminishes by the day!!

https://www.goodisonnews.com/2023/08/23/everton-transfer-news-al-shabab-president-makes-demarai-gray-revelations/ That would make sound like a deal agreed by all, and just waiting on Everton to green light his exit. Must assume move will be on the basis of us bring in a replacement.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/callum-hudson-odoi/verletzungen/spieler/392768 have to stay away from this one - robustness of players should be one of the first consideration.

this is sickening - fractured cheek bone is just a real freakish injury. After all that effort that DCL and the club have made to get him on the pitch proper with his soft tissue injuries - and only mintues in to his comeback. I would guess he will miss Wolves and maybe Sheff Utd games as a minimum. Two very winnable games with DCL a the target man. The luck we have beggers belief - over the past few decades this club really had had more than its fair share of bad luck.

Unfortunatley this is simply a reflection of the world and society we now find ourselves living in. People now feel that its their right to share their warped sence of opinion to the wider world and this in turn simply fuel others to get on board with equally tasteless opinions in a beleive that their opinions and behaviour its somehow justifabley acceptable. We notice this kind of behaviour in our own club, but it's far more widespread than just with us. We just happen to be currently in a period in the clubs history than brings out the anger, frustration and hatred. Taking this behaviour to the extreme, we watched US Capitol building ramsacked 18months ago by a baying mob, and in the last 5-6 years we have seen two MP's murdered while taking surrgeries in the constituencies. Anysort of fame has never appeald to me, but this day and age it would frighten the life out of me. Especially if you work in any sort of feild where people think you 'owe' them something.

agree, we already have McNeil and Harrison to come in to the team ahead of Grey. Add to that Danjuma who came off the bench yesterday. If lucky we also get Gnonto (or similar). We will have 3-4 players ahead of him. I am all for selling player who are on the fringe, but would bring in a decent fee. Strike while the iron is hot on this one. With a bit of luck he gets offered money he will find hard to turn down. I would guess we might get a 20-25% bigger fee from a Saudi team.

It is far too early to be making any sort of sack the manager noises. Two games in and not all the transfer purchased compleated or match fit yet. When Dyche was appointed last season, I was convinced he was walking in to a club doomed to relegation - we stayed up. He succceded last season at a club with a very toxic enviroment. There is definatly more to come this transfer window, and the team taking to the pitch yesterday (and even more so with forced changes) is not what we are going to be seeing in a month or so's time. We also have to remember this is Dyche's first transfer window, and we have not even finished it. Never mind had and real chance of intergrating the players in to it yet. Like Dyche or not, it would be foolish to even think about changing the manager this early in the season. I have always thought the first month of a season can be hit and miss results and performance wise (for all sort of teams, from reiging champions to recently promoted). Can sometimes be end Sept-early Oct when things start slotting in to place and premier league teams find their real rhythem. Its around 10-12 games when the league table only starts to 'take shape'. We all expect this season to be perhaps in the bottom half, but out of the relegation zone. lets see how we look in 15-18 games time. If still sitting in the bottom at this time, then some more pressing questions might be deemed to be needed, but swapping managers in and out to now has only lead to a painful general downward spiral.

We need somebody to bridge the gap between DCL and Chermiti and Adams fits the bill. He is unlikley to set the world on fire, but will do a far better job in this team than Neal Maupay is going. I think you could swap between DCL-Adams-Chermiti (eventually) with out disrupting our general style of playing. If we had unlimited resources and designs on compleating for european places, then he is not the player we'd be wanting, but we are pretty far from that. He'll hold the ball up, he will press, he will get some goals and he will get some assists. Adams in with Maupay out would make me much happier for the remainder of the season.

I thought Danjuma did OK when he came on, so by default he gets my vote as Everton MotM. He does look like he will have a go. Battled back if he lost the ball. Think he will do OK for us this season

I was expecting an away defeat today. However, it's the way we lost that's more disappointing. Game was a little skewed slightly with both DCL then Iwobi, but game was lost before this. I try not to take anyone game in isolation. So already Wolves and Sheff Utd have become massive games.

Oh, for fucks sake

It is the same for a fair few team. Not sure why they don't just have transfer deadline day before the start of the season. Surely there is enough of a window through the off season.

I think this is going to be a very tough game, I don't think a hammering at Newcastle last week will have done us many favours. But football is a funny old game, so enternally optomisitc we can nick something.

Would be happy to see Che Adams come in if it allows Maupay to go.

and do you think he'll come on deadline day?

It doesn't look like Leeds are going to buckle in selling him and without getting top top dollar. This is where I feel Everton do tend to go wrong - they seem to spend so much time chasing down particular transfers, and simply leave no time afterward to sort out alternatives. End up with none - or last minute sticking plaster signings.

Sounds very much like he'll become a permanent fixture. Very much an upgrade on Grey and without paying silly money.

He must be close to a move. If others now coming in after all the groundwork has been done. . You do kind of now fear he will now end up at Spurs.

Unfortunately for us we are not in a position to build around any single player. Its a double edges sword - we want Onana to be an amazing player, if he becomes an amazing player then he will want to go to an amazing team and good teams will want him. We are some way off being a good team. Best we can do is build around a type of player/players - at least in the short term. Onana would be silly to move to a team where he ends up on the bench or as a squad player. He is not ready to walk in to a team who's asperation are a league title or top four at the very least. He is far better off staying with us for a season or two and getting regular football in order to develop in to an elite player. I also think you have to try hold on to players for at least 2 or 3 season. 12 months is too short a time to be moving players on.

very sad, thoughts go out to the persons friends and family.

we seem to be making better use of the loan market this season.

A good solid addition to the squad.

emm, just seen MotD. Disallowed goal pretty much cost us the 3 points yesterday. Confident we would have seen that game out if we'd have had the upper hand. When a team is struggling to score goals has one disallowed, its going to make it hard. If that is a indication of how we will play this season, I think it will turn out better than the last two.