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Steve @121

How many actual players is that Steve?

I know it comes from a place of passion, and hope, but there isn’t half a lot of shite being spoken on these boards, not to mention a total lack of understanding of the bigger picture of football finance.

Would be more forgiveable if we hadn’t already got docked a ton of points and massive fines for breaching rules once, after the ‘free flowing’ spend under Moshiri.

Even before any last minute surprises, our net spend this summer isn’t close to ‘zero’, I think we’re looking at £22M at least, and could easily be closer to £50M by windows end. This is after a net investment of £100m / €117m in 25/26

With the new rules in PL and especially Europe, we have to operate within the lines or face penalties. Read the Esk’s awesome report if you want to understand more: https://theesk.org/2026/08/31/everton-football-club-player-trading-strategy-summer-2026/

Don’t get me wrong, I want a competitive team. But I also want a sustainable club and not the circus teetering on the edge of bankruptcy we’ve witness for the last few decades. The last administration splashed the cash, how did that work out for us?

Outgoing Player Sales: £89M + add ons thus far:
NDiaye: £60M + £5M
Iroegbunam: £13M + £10M [€15M + €12M]
Beto: £15M + ?? [€18M]
Patterson: £1M + 30% resell
Aznou: Loan

Incoming Player Purchases: c. £111m
Earlier in the summer we spent almost €100M on fees for George, Rohl, Hackney, Norgaard and Johnson, recouping just €26M equivalent for McNeill. So that was a net spend of €74M / £63M
These may not have all been new players to the club, but they were spends.

On top of this we now have:
Folarin Balogun: £38M + £5M
Maitland Niles: £4M
Jack Grealish: Not sure about ‘fee’, but salary is equivalent to another £6/7M on top of what we pay elsewhere

Plus we also have/had bids on Richarlison for £25M+10M and Jamie Leweling for £30m, so I wouldn’t be surprised if another £20/30M gets spent.

Yeah, bring him back next summer for 15m when he doesn’t get a game !

Mark I think you’re being generous mate. So far we’ve spent £62m, the sale of N’diaye alone puts us at +£3m.

Scott, he has a release clause of €25m and other EPL clubs are interested in him including our old neighbours. It is said that he prefers Fulham, strange one that.