RuffRob

I agree, the timing of our transfer leaves a lot to be desired. I think everybody is nervous of the club selling give there recent inability to bring players in. We dropped the ball in not getting another goal scorer in last summer, only to end up in a worst state after the January transfer window. That was shear incompetence on the clubs pars and should be a massive warning light on why not to leave transfers to the final week. Those coming in any sort of final week flurry should be bonus transfers rather than absolute necessity. Priority No.1 - need a squad that is strong enough to not be in a relegation battle. This has to be well and truly in place before game week 1. If there is an good opportunity to improve the squad on the lead up to transfer deadline day to in developing the squad beyond our minimum expectation then great. I don't have an issue with last minute deals.

Good money for a player of Grays ability and going in to the final year of his contract. He is a fringe Dyche player, so think £17 to £25m can be better used elsewhere by him this season. Have to be able to spend it. I don't believe we won't reinvest money, otherwise we are doomed. Can't see investors coming in and be prepared to see no effort put in to the team.

You would have to snatch their hands off. I have read a lesser figure of £17m, but still would make sense to sell. Would love to see some similar offers for the likes of Gomes etc. Saudis mad for it at the moment.

WTF. I am just lost for words.

I have high hope for Garner this season, and beyond. I think he has the potential to become a really important player for us. He has not come with the same hype or price tag as Onana, but I am liking what I have seen so far. Other than a couple of cameo's for Utd when he was a teenager, this has really be his debut in the Premier League and it looks as if it a level he will be comfortable at. He came in to the team proper at a really tough time and just got on with it.

https://www.footballfancast.com/everton-viktor-gyokeres-transfer-news-everton-premier-league/ Premiership has to be a better draw to him than Portugal - descent age and maturity, and think he will be robust enough for the Premiership. Coventry missed premier league football by the narrowest of margins (and one of the form teams towards the end) and Gyokeres was their stand out player - If he was English you could add +£10M the fee being talked about!!! I wouldn't dick around with to much negotiation of a couple of million on the fee, get it done quick and before pre-season starts. He will score goals and be a decent team player. More than half his goals scored where in away games, plenty against teams that ended up in or around the play-offs, and spread over the full season. A good consistent record.

There is no argument that we are a big club (relative to most) and we will have what will be a showcase stadium to player in. However at this moment in time we are arguably the worst run club in the Premiership, we swap managers left, right and center, at this moment in time we don't even have a functioning board and we have a FFP hearing due in October. We are currently a club that is well below what its stock value should really be at. At the moment a player will very mull over an offer from Notts Forest, Brighton and Brentford as he would an offer from Everton - we should be bigger and better than this, but the reality of how badly this club has been run and how the team have performed it is where we are. If the stories are correct that players went to bottom of the table Southampton over Everton in January. Does it get much more embarrassing than that? I was at my lowest ebb as a fan on 31st January 2023 - it was humiliating that not a single player seemed willing to come here. Other than staying up by the skin of our teeth, not a great deal to shout about just yet. I still think players will be cautious this transfer window over a move to Everton, we have to show improvement on the pitch and some harmony upstairs. MSP investment, new faces on the board, a couple of transfers who perform and better results on the pitch and hopefully no more than a meaningless slap on the wrists or exoneration for FFP at the end of October - Perception of the club could change massively between now and Xmas - and can go from an embarrassment of a club who are at rock bottom to one moving positively in the right direction towards this amazing new stadium.

Everton need to get their current house in order, year on year our 'history' is rapidly becoming less and less meaningful beyond the Goodison faithful. Our modern Premier league history is average at best and this past two seasons is as bad as its ever been. It shouldn't be like this but it is. A new stadium should definitely be a head turner and an Everton talking point, but given how bad things have been this past two seasons, even as fans the hype of what this new stadium should be has been taking second billing to the shambles that is going on. Its going to be Dyches and Thelwell's job to sell 'Everton' to potential targets - this job is just not as easy as it should be, and they are going to have to work hard at it!!!

I would say we are a very 'unfashionable' club at the moment, and not at the top of many players wish lists of clubs to go to. Chaos, shambles, 'how not to run a football club' seem to be how Everton are currently described. Board and owner all over the place, back to back relegation battles, FFP hearing due, no real money to spend on the squad, likely player exits on the cards. We are not the easiest sell at the moment to a player who may have a number of offers this summer.

https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/sport/football/everton/everton-set-for-ps16m-transfer-boost-as-highly-rated-wingers-clause-is-confirmed-4187546 Would he come here? Hard working, decent crosser of the ball, scores goals, Premiership proven I think he would do well under Dyche. I am pretty sure he would be in our starting line up. He is the type of player I would happily see Iwobi swapped out for, especially if Iwobi is not wanting to sign a new contract. We should be able to get a similar £16m fee (maybe better) and Iwobi's wages would likely cover Harrisons.

Definitely, throughout last season we lost a lot of game we feel we should have won or at least been competitive in, including Fulham and Wolves at home. If we don't improve in those sorts of games, then we are in for another long season. I am sure Dyche will make us a horrible team to play against if nothing else. but we have a lot to improve on since last year to make sure we are not again view by other teams as an easy 3 points!

I was about to say the same. We have to avoid hamstring ourselves in very winnable opening games. On paper you would be hoping for 5-6 point at least. That's a decent percentage of our point total this past couple of years. These point do make the difference between going up or down. The January window should have taught us that you leave it till the last week or few days at your peril.

As good a opening fixtures trio as you could expect. I always think its best to avoid the newly promoted sides in the first couple of weeks, so we have at least done that. They can be really tough in the first few weeks, then soften a little.

do you think he is worth more than £5M this summer? What we payed for players is not a great barometer for what we might sell for

I just don't think we are yet a club that can afford the luxury of £60M worth of potential in our midfield, at the expense of an increased budget to spend elsewhere across the team. I am pretty confident we can't afford both. I feel transfer funds are going to be needed to be generated to allow decent and meaningful transfers to be made. The way I look at is if we only had £60M to buy a players this window - would spending the lot on Onana the very best use of it?

If we could get £60m for Onana I would take that - He was hot and cold last season and hadn't made himself an integral part of the team. Yes, he will get better, but think at the moment £60M in to a transfer kitty may be more useful to us as a club. He wouldn't feel like a £60M loss to the team, much like Gordon didn't feel like a £45M loss in January. Would be happy to see Gray go, as he will command a fee - maybe up to £10M and is definitely a fringe Dyche player so will fall down the pecking order as other players come in. Obviously Maupay leaving for some sort of fee would be most welcome, £5M ish maybe and would say maybe the same for Keane. Just getting Gomez, Gbamin and Alli of the payroll would be great as well. That could generate of the order of £70M, and add to that some of the Gordon transfer funds (if its still available like it was in January), then potentially not the worst transfer kitty available - potentially be nudging the £100M mark. I might be far of the mark, and transfer fee gains simply cancel out all the lost sponsorship we have lost. Who fucking knows with this club - as its never straight forward.

We where low on attacking numbers at the end of last season and he hardly got on the pitch so it's obvious he is not a 'Dyche player'. Dyche IS going to be the manager next season, so if you can make a decent profit on a player who in all likelihood would be a bit part player it is the sensible thing to do, transfer fee and wages are simply better used elsewhere. I don't have a particular problem with Gray, as he arrived for a very modest fee and has more than matched the fee paid for a 24 year old. However, he has been a fairly integral part of a team who have been in a relegation battle for two seasons on the run - our playing personnel have to be changed to help move on from this. We have to assume that the club will be looking at bringing in one or two forwards and perhaps a right winger in any case as part of the priority transfers needed. He is now a fringe player who could perhaps bring in a fee possibly approaching £10M, so to me if other players for the attacking third are coming in, then it would be the right time to move Gray on. With limited funds, we simply can't hang on to OK players if we want other players in the club that knock him further down the pecking order.

very strange this one - just over two years after he walked. All I can think off is that we didn't pay his last pay check. If anything you would have though Everton would have been the aggrieved party when we parted ways. But this is Everton and if there is a shitty end of a stick available, then we somehow manage to latch on to it!!!

and given the situation we are in we have to limit our risks on any players we buy. We can't currently afford expensive fuck ups. That is one good thing that improved last summer was buying players that in the main stayed relatively injury free and fit. Gardner was the only player that was a little unlucky on that front. I think that still needs to be at the forefront of any signings this summer - players who are robust and generally injury free.

https://www.footballfancast.com/everton-sean-dyche-viktor-gyokeres-lukaku-premier-league-transfers-news-rumours-efc/ A player I would have liked to have seen come in January - He has to be considered the best option from the Championship. Now to me this is where the club should be using Ellis or Cannan as part of the negotiations. This would be win win for everybody. We get a mature striker we want, Coventry get a young ready made replacement who has already scored goals at that level and we send a youngster out to get what is hopefully lots of competitive minutes of senior football.

I agree, maybe not your £40 -£60M quality midfielder that would drive you to titles and top 4 positions. But we are a long way from that - we need solid dependable players that would keep you out of a relegation battle. We have tried running before we can walk type of transfers in the past. Nothing wrong in stabilizing as a club, with some sensible purchases. I am sure he would need hardly any adjustment time already Prem proven and lives in the area. Next season all I crave stability. That will hopefully keep us on a even keel going in to the new stadium.

I think you have missed my point. Last season we had Davies on the bench, maybe if it had been Price in that position then 1) we and the club will have seen what he was like in the Premier league and 2) it will have shown him (and other youngsters) that there is a potential route in to the squad and he may have stayed. Just a thought, now we lose two players.

Thanks, I thought Price had just gone, but wasn't 100%. I agree it's good for young players to go out on loans to get proper experience, but it's not great seeing the likes of Price leaving. To me it seems we have had far to many expensive players on the bench and in the squad over the past few year. Half a season out on loan and half as part of the Everton senior squad would be ideal for the brightest talent. Obviously, it depends on the quality and physicallity of the player, but would the likes of Price have walked if he found himself having Davies role this season.

Has Issac Price moved on or not yet? I feel keeping hold of Davies for a season or two to long holds back other potential youngsters - who are not going to be first team regulars but could come of the bench or fill in during a injury crisis.

what's happened to promoting the Everton brand globally.