01 Sep 2016 08:44:41
Some fans are never happy.
I see a lot of posts moaning about us not doing well in the transfer market. We have actually done better than we have for many a year, the only thing that makes it look bad is our own fans.
Some of you still have this obsession about us having £100 million to spend and that we should be a CL side this season. Moshri, RK, BK, have NEVER I repeat NEVER said we have that much to spend, None of those have ever said we will get into Europe this season, they say it would be nice but doubt we will.
Some of you harp on about us not spending enough and we should of spent a lot more, who should we of spent more on? we have spent more in this window than we have ever done before yet some of you are still unhappy.
Those in charge have always said this is the start of a massive project, and for that we should be 100% supportive, not moaning that we did not blow £100 million on the wrong type of player.
What this window has shown is that a lot of you moaners would rather believe the garbage the press make up rather than those in charge, SHAME ON YOU. The club itself seems to be moving on, Just a shame some of our so called supporters can't.
01 Sep 2016 09:07:33
Grumpy toffee take your head for a wobble, how this the best window we had? Signing Barry lukaku an McCarthy was a much better window than this, Jeff said on ssn moshiri had message him saying Everton so yea we did expect more an who can blame us we was bought out by a billionaire, moshiri has in fact spend none of his own money on player, we are also not as strong as we was because we ain't got any depth in the squad, yes we got kids an 1/ 2 will be good fingers crossed but the chance of 4/ 5 kids being top players is slim, it's only happened 1s an that was Utd class of 92, so you can see why people ain't happy grumpy toffee.
01 Sep 2016 09:16:05
I think you're missing the point Grumpy, its not to do with the so called £100mil or spending it on the wrong players!
Because no one wants that.
You're saying it as if the appropriate players weren't there, and we chose not to buy, well they were, we selected them, approached them and even with months to organise things, we failed!
That's nothing to do with money, or the wrong players, that's incompetence. Then to go after a £30mil Sissoko at 22:00 shows absolute desperation!
Fans have a right to be disheartened, RK said himself, he'd be disappointed to not sign 3 more players!
I personally think the signings we did make are great, but we needed the extra players RK was looking at, or we wouldn't of been bidding!
01 Sep 2016 09:19:01
Grumpy the TV money was about a 112m. that AT LEAST should have been made available.
01 Sep 2016 09:24:56
Sorry beard but that is two negative post from you today.
You can't expect us to spend millions on new players every window just for the sake of it.
We already had the basis of a decent squad - we all said last season that this was the best squad we had for many years but martinez was ruining them.
We have replaced those who have left - stones, osman, Hibbert, peinaa, etc with Williams, bolasie, gueye, stek and few younger players.
We have sw, rk and moshiri, the promise of new stadium and January window to come.
We also have a lot of players who can play in more than one position to cover injuries, form, etc
All looks positive to me, so go take your own head for a wobble and support the blue boys and rk 100% rather than bitching about ifs, buts and maybes.
01 Sep 2016 09:34:41
Bloody hell BB. . There will be other windows and by then RK's turnaround in terms of form alone will be a massive attraction. So the time for people to be in a state of ''ain't happy'' would be a 'relative' argument because this time last season the arrow was hitting the 'well and truly pi**ed off ' scale!
01 Sep 2016 09:36:53
It's not about "not" spending money, it's about trying to spend it and not being able to!
Either because our negotiators are incompetent
Or we're not a big enough draw, either way, it's that which is disheartening, not the actual spending!
No one wants to see a £30mil panic buy of Sissoko at 22:00.
01 Sep 2016 09:51:29
Beard you are a prime example of what my post is about. Moshri has done wonders since joining, he has managed to unite and instill a positive feeling back into the real fans.
Last season, and previous seasons we would not of been able to sign the players we have done regardless of who's money it is.
We have spent more in this window than in previous windows does that not show you anything about the clubs intent? RK identified our weaknesses and has strengthened them, what more do you want? Why don't you listen when they say it will take at least 2 seasons for us to be where we want to be instead of listening to rumours born in the press. It is not only you, a few others seem to be whinging just the sakes of it. Wake up and have a look at what is happening.
01 Sep 2016 09:52:42
We had a bad last day transfer, simple as that, Witzel and Sissoko pissed us about, Porto upped their price to 50 million Euro for brahimi, Napoli would not sell Gabiodini, what are we supposed to do, send the Kray twins round to reason with them, we cannot offer champs league football just yet but it's not like we did not try to get these players in .
Stones, Howard, Osman, Mcgeady, Hibbert replaced with Stek, Williams, Gaye, Bolasie, Valencia.
Add to that, the like of Tom Davies, Keiron Dowell and a raft of youngsters coming through under Unsworth.
Barkley is better than Sissoko, another year so will Tom Davies.
Other clubs tried to shaft Everton, I would sooner wait than sign average players, no better than we already have for the sake of buying to please supporters, then we would need to change our motto to only the average is good enough.
01 Sep 2016 09:57:06
EFCfanatic, How do you know it was not made available?
Please please please tell me how much we had available to spend and also when Moshri, RK or SW told you.
Sadly you think because that much was not spent then we did not have that to spend. I went to PC world to buy a TV, I had £1000 to spend and bought a tv for £650. No one said to me " But I thought you had £1000 to spend. " Just because money is not spent does not mean it is not available.
01 Sep 2016 10:04:05
I'm not bothered about loosing siscocko, I'm sick of us filling our squad with midfielders.
But to top it all off by loaning Valencia it is a kick in the teeth. He is one of the worst players I have ever seen. He has a track record of not barons lucky season in the Mexican league. Ten goals in two seasons, really if we get any injuries this year up front we are in a lot of trouble. Now you can argue that goals aren't everything he must be getting those assists right, no 8 in two seasons.
This guy brings nothing to our squad, he is fast but cannot pass cannot dribble and cannot shoot not to mention weak as hell. We would have been better calling it a day, because now we have to pay this guys wages to sit on the bench just in case.
01 Sep 2016 10:07:59
''I had £1000 to spend and bought a tv for £650. ''
GT. . You old scrooge 😛.
01 Sep 2016 10:19:57
We would of had some sort of indication that the players we were interested in, weren't interested on coming! And if we genuinely didn't, then whoever is in charge of that side of things is brain dead!
01 Sep 2016 10:41:27
Blue247 I was going to get the one that had colour, But why spoil the kids, Black and white for our family and they will enjoy it.