Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[LeeB]

His touch is much better than Watkins, and he can beat his man one on one.

Watkins has other strengths, but they can play together as he prefers playing wider. That's why I think this might have legs.

[cdbearsfan]

Watkins had the best hold up play in the league the season before last. Richarlison has a worse scoring rate and, again, would cost 60 million minimum. There must be countless better strikers for that money. If we have money to burn, get Mbappe.

[LeeB]

OK, sound.

[tomd2103]

I think he's a good player, but I don't quite see where he fits in to the system or the style. Maybe if McGinn picked up a long-term injury? But even then it's not quite the same role. He'll do really well at the right club though, I'm sure.

Funnily enough Monty, from the glimpses we have seen of him this season, he has fitted in well to the midfield system Gerrard plays.  He seems well suited to the role McGinn and Ramsey play. 

That said, Gerrard clearly doesn't fancy him and the fact that Smith didn't either does suggest something.

[Percy McCarthy]

Richarlison 43 goals in 135 games, rate 0.318
Watkins 25 goals in 72 games, rate 0.347
Ings 62 goals in 170 games, rate 0.365

Premier League only.

So not any upgrade and would cost trillions. He's massively overrated and then there's the Everton Inflation Factor to take into account.

No ta.

Plays wide a lot of the time though, with DCL up the middle.

[cdbearsfan]

Even if that's the case, nothing about him screams £70 million striker to me. That should get you one of the top ten strikers on the planet.

I think in years to come he would be added to the Rodwell, Barkley, Gueye, Fellaini, Stones list of so-so players who Everton managed to get incredibly over the top transfer fees for.

[Toronto Villa]

I guess there is no max non-EU player rule now post Brexit.

[cdbearsfan]

I guess there is no max non-EU player rule now post Brexit.

There never was. The rule was, and remains, that you can't name more than 17 players who aren't "home grown" in a 25 man squad. "Home grown" doesn't necessarily mean you have to be from the team's country. For instance, Martinez is classed as home grown, deepite being Argentinian, as he spent the required minimum of two years before his 21st birthday playing in England.

[Toronto Villa]

Ah ok. I thought there had been a rule or maximum imposed on non-EU at one point.

[cdbearsfan]

There was a three foreigners rule but way back in the nineties, as I recall. It became largely pointless when the EU adopted Freedom of Movement meaning they couldn't enforce it. It may have stumbled on for a little while being basically, as you say, three non-EU players but got scrapped eventually.

I think it only applied in European competition anyway, I remember we had to drop Bosnich and maybe one or two others for one of the Inter games but we could always play as many non-English players as we liked in the league.

[LeonW]

There was a three foreigners rule but way back in the nineties, as I recall. It became largely pointless when the EU adopted Freedom of Movement meaning they couldn't enforce it. It may have stumbled on for a little while being basically, as you say, three non-EU players but got scrapped eventually.

I think it only applied in European competition anyway, I remember we had to drop Bosnich and maybe one or two others for one of the Inter games but we could always play as many non-English players as we liked in the league.

‘‘Twas a strange rule for sure. Domestically, Welsh, Scottish, Irish players, etc, fill your boots. But in European competition? Apparently not; they were classed as foreigners. Very confusing to me as one entity (FA or UEFA) didn’t seem to be working things correctly. If someone could explain the differentials I’d quite like to know.

[Clark W Griswold]

These stinky Ben Mee rumours are still lingering. Surely not.

[andyh]

Regardless of the fact he’s a cunting thug, Ben Mee is not the type of player to take us to the next level

[OCD]

He's 33 in September. That alone should suggest that he's not one we would be looking at before we even look at the type of player he is.

[KevinGage]

Unless we're expanding the backroom team and he's coming in as physio's assistant or jock-strap cleaning technician or summat, can't see it.

We won't be looking at him as a footballer, unless Gerarrd and Lange have been on the glue.