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Strangely, my level of flap-curiosity ain't risen at all over the past week or so (since I became aware of same). Maybe it's just the drugs?

Certainly hasn't abated, either. But that's "dog bites man" news.

Any chance this thread can be closed. It's just pics of every footballer in the world we're not signing.

Cereal Killer wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 2:36 pm Should’ve have turned on the “interested” filter on the player search engine…

“Oh great! I can get Messi on a free!”

*Turns on Observation setting to Unsure*

Messi on a free turns into 35 year old Dean Windass for £5m

Someone explain why Moyes is dithering when we've just hired a complete new recruitment team to do the transfers?

bigmanbob wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 4:26 pm Someone explain why Moyes is dithering when we've just hired a complete new recruitment team to do the transfers?

Is it Moyes or TFG. The silence from the club is deafing.

Evertonian418 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 4:40 pm Is it Moyes or TFG. The silence from the club is deafing.

It's not TFG. They don't run the club on a day-to-day. Everton and Roma have their own boards who run the respective clubs. It's the CEO, Angus Kinnear and Moyes overseeing things for us.

Still think we'll be fine. It doesn't like we've missed out on potential second choices by probably waiting too long for unrealistic first choices ..

Think we have to give them the benefit of the doubt. Feels like we had more faith in kenwright and moshiris evertons for a much longer time

JoelW7 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 2:36 pm Should be looking further afield than the top 5 leagues, those sort of players are waiting for the biggest club with the biggest wages.

Malick Diouf gone to West Ham for £19m from Slavia Prague ,- LB/LM looked very good against England
Talbi gone to Sunderland for around 18m from Club Brugge, RW looked good in the Champions League
Lauriente deal is off with Sunderland from Sassuolo, 26 scored close to 20 last season in Serie B winger/forward

Deals to be done with lower leagues, especially those who played European football last season....I'm starting to flap because now we're in USA it feels like nothing will be done until we're back

Question is - are there any deals to be done in MLS while we’re there?

777Kidnappings wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 5:03 pm Still think we'll be fine. It doesn't like we've missed out on potential second choices by probably waiting too long for unrealistic first choices ..

Think we have to give them the benefit of the doubt. Feels like we had more faith in kenwright and moshiris evertons for a much longer time

We will be fine and it's early days but they are missing a massive opportunity to start off with fans majorly on side. Most of us aren't asking for a lot. If we were 3 permanent starters and a couple of loans in the atmosphere would be different

Everton have added the Southampton teenager Tyler Dibling to their list of targets as they look to strengthen their options on the flanks (Paul Joyce writes).
The asking price for the 19-year-old could be a stumbling block with Everton’s summer budget needing to be spread accordingly to bring David Moyes’s squad up to strength.
A deal is not imminent
Recruiting in wide areas has been a priority for Moyes this summer, but there has been frustration in the market thus far, with the club losing out to Juventus for their first-choice option Francisco Conceição, 22, in a €30.4million deal (£26.5million) from FC Porto.
Johan Bakayoko, 22, opted to move to RB Leipzig from PSV Eindhoven with Jürgen Klopp, head of global soccer at the Red Bull group, speaking to the player during negotiations. His move cost a total of €22million.
Interest in Real Sociedad’s Takefusa Kubo, 24, also hit the buffers due to the Liga side’s asking price.
The ages of Conceição and Bakayoko, together with their fees, offer an indication of the business Everton are trying to do this summer — recruiting players on an upward trajectory as opposed to spending £50million for example on a single talent.
Dibling scored four goals in 43 appearances for Southampton last season, but their manager, Will Still, is hoping he will remain at St Mary’s as he attempts to lead the club back to the top flight.
Everton have already brought in Charly Alcaraz from Flamengo after a successful loan move in the second half of last season, Thierno Barry from Villarreal and Mark Travers from Bournemouth for a combined outlay of about £45million.
However, given so many players were allowed to leave at the end of last season, including Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Abdoulaye Doucouré and Ashley Young, Moyes’s squad remains thin.
There is an expectation at the club that recruitment will run right to the very end of the transfer window, which closes on September 1, with Everton having arrived in the US for the Premier League Summer Series with a number of youngsters to make up the squad size.
They included Tyler Onyango, 22, who is set to join Stockport County on loan but was needed for the tournament, which begins with a game against Bournemouth on Saturday before matches versus West Ham United and Manchester United.
Jarrad Branthwaite, who signed a new contract this summer, is absent with a minor injury.


That’s the Paul joyce article.

I don’t know how people can just assume we’re going to be fine.

If they think they're getting Dibling for less than £50m then they're deluded.

Think we all know what's going to happen here. We'll have these highly rated young players, refuse to pay their asking price and then get Harrison on loan and try again next summer.

Shogun wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 5:31 pm If they think they're getting Dibling for less than £50m then they're deluded.

Think we all know what's going to happen here. We'll have these highly rated young players, refuse to pay their asking price and then get Harrison on loan and try again next summer.

Kubo has a £50m release clause.

How much less do they think they can get him for in this market?

Its actually embarrassing.

Taking a lad who is off on loan, cos we needed to make up the squad numbers.

Jesus fucking christ.

The fact that we are holding up a loan for a pre season tour because the squad is so small is insane.

Just very disappointed and feels like we may end up losing some momentum and positive feeling that we had end of last season and heading into BMD.

I understand Tete didn't work out but did we not have a second choice to go for? Did it really take us all summer to figure out Kubo's asking price?

I get Luiz, if he is your #1 CM target he is probably waiting and seeing what his options are. But too many other issues in our recruitment to give the club the benefit of the doubt.

My train has pulled up to flap city station, about to hop on dithering Dave's bus tour for a visit to Fraudkin village.

Kinnear out!

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