09 Sep 2021 13:47:48
Since Mr Moshiri took over the club Everton have spent approximately 530m. They have recouped in sales approximately 285m. Giving them a deficit of approximately 245m.
However, of those players bought 19 are still at the club, and 13 are still in the first team squad. The total cost of these players was approximately 370m.
Of the six not in the first team squad 2 are out on loan, 3 have injuries and 1 is assisting the plod.
The hidden cost in all of this however is with free transfer players. Wages in the past have been astronomical Bernard 120k a week for example. Are the club learning from this? Well James at 200k suggests not.
However, recent free transfers have shown that the club are learning, by offering shorter contracts with a more realistic pay structure. And Brands now appears to be targeting younger players who will come with a more realistic price tag and wage structure.
I think by the end of this season the club will be in a much better place. Some of the high earners will have been sold or run down their contracts, but the core of the squad will still be there. Plus the potential will be there to add to the squad.
So not all doom and gloom my blue brothers. The only cherry on the cake this season would be if we qualified for European football. Let's just see what happens. ??.

1.) 09 Sep 2021
09 Sep 2021 14:08:18
You have to remember the issue is 2 fold.

1. Wages. Simply our wage bill has been too high for a while now, clearly progress is being made but slowly.

2. Fees. The reason for those silly long contracts you mention earlier is that it spreads the impact of the transfer fee over a longer period of time, which helped lessen the impact of our early spending under Moshiri. The problem is, that as you also mention we still have a lot of those players at the club, or have only recently got rid of them. This means that all those expensive fees we have been paying are still hitting us hard. Short of selling a key asset this will probably hamstring us for another year or 2 at least now.

2.) 09 Sep 2021
09 Sep 2021 14:36:03
Sorry Bob but not sure you can actually say Brands is targeting younger players.
We may have been linked with numerous young players but if you look at this window Gray 25, Townsend 30, Rondon 31. Begovic 34 and Lonegran 37 wouldn’t class any of those as youngsters.

I’m happy with the recruitment this window apart from lack of right back. I’m glad to see we’ve bought players in positions (apart from rightback) we need and ones who appear to have a desire to be at the club and not solely for the wages.

3.) 09 Sep 2021
09 Sep 2021 15:50:34
Gingerdan all those players you mentioned were either signed for free, or as is Grays case very little money. I feel these are purely viewed as short term measures for the club. Efcone I honestly don’t think it will take that long. By the end of this season we will be back on track.

4.) 09 Sep 2021
09 Sep 2021 16:22:31
Agree Bob some big contracts end at the end of this season. Hopefully club can then progress.

5.) 09 Sep 2021
09 Sep 2021 16:23:43
Not sure it matters that they were signed on a free or for low money, just our recruitment the window just gone is contradictory to what you were saying regards Brands targeting youngsters.

As I said I’m happy with the recruitment, players all that appear to want to be with us on sensible contracts and none of the previous recruiting of paying over the odds or ridiculous wages to get them to come to us.

I’m very hopeful of a positive season as the team looks the fittest it has in a long time but not only that they actually look like a team all playing with each other we’re previously sometimes you’d swear when they were on the pitch that was the first time they’d met each other or played together.

{Ed025's Note - i agree dan..

6.) 09 Sep 2021
09 Sep 2021 18:05:00
I hope you are right Bob, but by my reckoning we still have around 300m of players signed in the last 4 seasons on our books.

For simplicity sake if these fees are all spread over 5 year contracts that is still 60m a season to hit us, that doesn't leave much wiggle room to spend more money, unless we sell or generate more income from somewhere.

The real win is if Rafa can turn those players back into 300m worth of talent and then we won't need to spend much?.

7.) 09 Sep 2021
09 Sep 2021 18:17:38
Definitely be in a better financial position come the summer. Few players will be out of contract, as Woburn says.

8.) 09 Sep 2021
09 Sep 2021 18:58:46
Rodriguez is on 140k a week down from the 220k he got at real Madrid.

9.) 09 Sep 2021
09 Sep 2021 19:19:33
Players who’s contracts expire June 2022.
Rodriguez, Sigurdsson, Kenny, Tosun, Delph, Branthwaite, Begovic and Lonergan.
Rodriguez and Begovic club have option for one year extension.
If they keep Branthwaite then let the rest go that’s about 500k per week.
500k for players who hardly feature in the first team.

10.) 09 Sep 2021
09 Sep 2021 23:14:15
If Kenny goes Bob we'll need 2 right backs next season.
Most likely another centre mid too.
That's going to cost us Conservatively 150k a week.
Should still save a chunk though.

11.) 10 Sep 2021
10 Sep 2021 10:02:43
Smit think as long as we stay the right side of that 500k then we’re good. We don’t necessarily need cheaper options, just need to be smarter transfers and wages paid.
500k though in one week. Crazy!

12.) 10 Sep 2021
10 Sep 2021 19:45:05
Agreed crazy money.