January Transfer Window 2012/2013 Season Rumours/Signings

Disappointing from the boss saying we're not interested in any more signings (although Cortese might have other ideas), i'm happy with the first XI but we are a few injuries/suspensions away from a poor side, the bench was very weak v Everton.
 
rossk26 said:
Net Transfer Spend and Wage bills since 2000/01
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Yes and looking through that season by season Everton still don't have the highest wage bill "by a considerable amount" of the also rans. In fact the only teams we do look consistently higher than are the ones that float from relegation and promotion into the division.

So adding both through every year.

13 premiership clubs spent more than us in 01/02
13 more in 02/03
8 more in 03/04
8 more in 04/05
17 more in 05/06
3 more in 06/07
11 more in 07/08
10 more in 08/09
8 more in 09/10
12 more in 10/11
13 more in 11/12

Comfortable ****ing on the incorrect statment that if you include wages we easily outstrip the teams around us.
 
It's really sad people try to discredit what Moyes has done, it's pretty bloody plain to see he's been fantastic for Everton.

I have my doubt's whether he could step it up to one of the 'big' teams though, it's just a different ball game when you can start playing with big money and big talents/egos, but if anyone in the Premier League has earned a chance at a 'big' club, it's David Moyes.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Yes and looking through that season by season Everton still don't have the highest wage bill "by a considerable amount" of the also rans. In fact the only teams we do look consistently higher than are the ones that float from relegation and promotion into the division.

So adding both through every year.

13 premiership clubs spent more than us in 01/02
13 more in 02/03
8 more in 03/04
8 more in 04/05
17 more in 05/06
3 more in 06/07
11 more in 07/08
10 more in 08/09
8 more in 09/10
12 more in 10/11
13 more in 11/12

Comfortable ****ing on the incorrect statment that if you include wages we easily outstrip the teams around us.
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Take out all the clubs being woefully mismanaged and those numbers drop, drastically, Villa, West Ham, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Leeds at some point in there as well.

Of the sensible spending clubs you have, say currently 35mil and below tend to be relegation candidates, 40mil like Wigan gets you damn close to relegation, Stoke, Fulhams and the like are midtable at 50mil and there abouts, and Everton closer to 60mil(acutally I think its closer to 70mil now), then you've got Spurs at 80-90mil, no idea where Liverpool are these days but a couple years ago they were up there with the 100mil + bracket.

5-10mil in wages doesn't sound like a lot when you're talking about one Tevez, but at a midtable club with players on 20-30k a week, thats 5-10 players difference.

Moyes has done a good job, mostly in his lack of costly errors, and getting fairly lucky with bigger fee's for some players than they deserved to balance the books. But the club also has noticeable debt(from some of the bigger transfer that Moyes didn't get the best use out of), he's not doing badly, at all, just not as brilliant as some make out.

Transfer fee's mean very very little, net spend is luck, nothing more or less. Benitez did somewhere between great business on the players he sold, to selling players at the right time for way more than they were worth often.

A huge amount of the transfer system is luck, one year Real is on a spending spree to hunt down Barca and is willing to spend 80mil on Ronaldo, if Ronaldo got injured, they didn't sign him that year, and didn't have 80mil 2 years later and Ronaldo had run down his contract to leave, Utd may have gotten 20mil for him. Arsenal got WAY more than Nasri/Ade were worth.

The numbers aren't black and white, should you really say that Everton are barely spending anything just because West Ham gave Dyer 70k a week to never play, or is that a case of West Ham just being incredibly awful. Of the teams that weren't just ****ing money up the wall for no reason Everton has had a mostly higher wage bill than those teams beneath them.
 
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Keen to see how Holtby does for us!

Without seeing him, I hope he's the same player as VDV, as we desperately lack the 'element of suprise' and creative edge from Midfield. We're too predictable attacking only down the wings every game!
 
Arsenal open formal talks with Barcelona to sign David Villa

Arsenal have opened formal talks with Barcelona to sign David Villa, Goal.com can reveal.

The Gunners’ contract negotiator Dicky Law has been in Spain to negotiate the transfer of the country’s all-time leading goalscorer and Arsenal are increasingly hopeful they can push through what would be a sensational deal in the last days of the window.
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http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892...rmal-talks-with-barcelona-to-sign-david-villa

Yes it's Goal.com and they talk a lot of rubbish but if it's true about the negotiator then maybe Arsenal are going to push it and get him.

It would be interesting to see him at Arsenal, deadly finisher.
 
Balotelli has been pulled from the QPR squad and is flying to Italy for his medical I am assuming.

also on SSN that Danny Graham has asked to leave Swansea for 'personal' reasons.
 
Alan Hutton has left Villa on loan to Real Mallorca, not like he's been playing much but an experienced head they've lost.



Drogba has signed for Galatasary.
 
Saint said:
If you take into account how much he's sold, it probably doesn't work out that much. I'm guessing that's what he meant

found this about net spend up to 2012:

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Surprised how low we are.
 
So this Leroy Fer, replacement for Fellaini? Him in then a deal already on the cards for Fellani to move on for double the price we pay for Fer?
 
Doubt it to be honest, if he really wanted it he could go now because of the clause. Think it's more the board trying to help Moyes push for CL.

If we do or not it's still a message to Moyes (though I think he will have really pushed for the cash this window), the current players and potential new players.
 
levy finally realising about investing in january?

pleased we're getting holtby early but if sunday doesn't show how much we need another striker then we can forget 4th

rumour we've bid £17m for willian
 
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If that's true are we looking at 4-6-0? :-P

Imo, we really need a poacher to get on the end of all the chances we are making - a van nistelrooy esque striker would do the trick nicely...
 
willian would be good for depth as lennon doesn't always shine.

we do need a finisher. i was hoping we could ship sig out as part of a deal.

i'd say moutinho will never be a spurs player now but i'm really excited about holtby. i just hope he can cut it!
 
Yep I don't see moutinho happening at all (if it was even close...). Sig is still young, but has to improve a lot to make it past squad player at the most.

Ive not seen Holtby in action but if he does live up to the hype (he certainly seems to be well regarded here and Germany) he should be a good player for us - I'd love it if he developed into a ballack/lampard esque midfielder.
 
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