on July 24, 2025, 2:29 am, in reply to "Same - although I’m usually golden retriever happy about the world…"
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It’ll take some time but it genuinely feels like - for the first time in a long time - the foundations aren’t built on sand. We’ll see, and I may be completely wrong, but the stars finally seem to be aligning (new owners, stadium, exec team, Moyes, contracts finally expiring, (a little) more room to manoeuvre on the PSR front)…the path forward finally seems to at least be clearer than it’s been in a long time - decades, in fact.
We still have to get the execution right, of course, but we have the opportunity. It’s not felt like that in a long time.
I don’t think we’ll run the table or anything, but I think we’ll comfortably finish around 10th and continue to improve our standing as a place for ambitious young players to come and make their mark. That will only lead us to a better future.
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Since before Kendal left, the first time! Honestly I am, even wen we have done ok in that time period it has been with a backdrop of no money and shit owners. This is the best chance we have had in daceades. But then to some you come across as neagative for thinking that rebuilding will take time and that will mean some dodgy spells.
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Ste said it all perfectly - the new stadium (and other positive factors, like the new owners / Moyes / our finish to last season) all help elevate our standing. But our start point is in the group of clubs that includes Palace, West Ham, Brighton, Bournemouth, Wolves. This time last year it was lower than that; now we’re probably at the top of that pack. Because of things like the new stadium.
Ahead of that you’ve got Villa, Spurs, Newcastle. Maybe Forest, given last season and European football.
Ahead of that, Utd, Arsenal.
Ahead of that, City, Chelsea.
Ahead of that, sad but true, Liverpool.
And that’s before you factor in the same hierarchies in the main European leagues.
But take away the new stadium, go back to having Dyche in charge, imagine a team that - yet again - scraped survival on the final day (which is where we were headed), still under Moshiri’s watch…we’d be competing with Sunderland, Leeds and Burnley for players.
We’ve got to work our way back up the food chain. The stadium absolutely helps that. It’s not going to bump us up a tier, overnight, but it will put us at the very top of our tier. And that’s a start. Previous MessagePrevious Message
Players will wait on potential offers from clubs in Europe competitions or with seemingly more pull or who are offering higher wages.
Most players think they are better than they are and think they are worth more than they are, Doucoure a good example of this.
As such lots of business gets done later in the window as options run out for players.
Likewise, buying a player these days is often like buying a house, they come with a chain of other deals lined up and if one fails they all fail, the Kudus deal we tried to do is a good example of this.
It’s the same all the way through the leagues, right down to non league, hundreds of players run off and do trials for higher level clubs, who keep them all involved till the last minute then dump them or they sit on the bench for the first few weeks, get no game time then leave.
This kicks off a filtering down the chain, they leave and drop down a level, then those players displaced by them do the same and it kickstarts a change reaction.
It’s reflected at the very top, obviously they don’t trial etc but clubs will be talking to players when the interest may only be like warm or a plan b, but player x would rather wait and see what happens with that possibility before committing elsewhere.
We hate the fact that we’re probably not every players first choice but it’s where we are as a club.
We need to keep improving and work our way up that chain as quickly as we can and then it’ll be easier to do business quicker.
Likes of Liverpool sit at the top of that tree and is why they get everyone they want before July is done.
Food chain, nothing more nothing less.
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the lack of rumours surrounding us signing anyone. I’m completely at ease with where we are and where we are going.
The new CEO, Kinnear, has already outlined that a new team is in place to handle recruitment, scouting, and experts in data and analytics. We are a world away from where we have been for over 30 years, I doubt Everton making significant professional changes in this regard, means we aren’t moving forward, nor that we do have money to spend. Maybe not 100’s of millions, but money to do what’s needed to be done.
Moyes was the choice of TFG, I doubt he wasn’t made aware of the changes coming, the money he’d have and what the new structure was likely to be like for him to work with going forward.
Gone are the days (hopefully) of having an owner completely out of their depth, throwing money around without a plan, a Chairman so far out of his depth, it being laughable and not at all credible.
TFG are serious players. They mean business. Everton have been woeful off the pitch for 30+ years, it takes time to get the new order onboard, to get this ship going forward. I belief we are 100% headed in that direction.
If Moyes said, the importance of re-signing Gana, means an added experienced voice in the dressing room, to help the additional players he is likely to sign over the coming weeks, then I believe him.
In short. UTFT!!
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