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John Brooks
1 Posted 02/09/2025 at 13:15:14
You've also got the bargains. Tim Cahill - £1m. Seamus Coleman - £65,000. Branthwaite - £1m. Dominic Calvert Lewin - £1.5m. Leighton Baines - £6m. and so on and do on. Come on, let's quote some more.
Joe McMahon
2 Posted 02/09/2025 at 13:45:07
John, not Everton but Leicester getting Vardy for 1 million from Fleetwood was impressive.
Kieran Kinsella
3 Posted 02/09/2025 at 16:05:03
Sad indictment of the Moshiri years that we signed many players for 25 or more and the vast majority weren't just not value for money but were actually a complete waste of money altogether. Hence Sigurdsson and Onana make the top 5.
Christy Ring
4 Posted 02/09/2025 at 19:44:10
Our best big money signing has to be Seamus for a massive €60,000 euro's!!!!
Don Alexander
5 Posted 02/09/2025 at 20:20:50
This is Everton - we haven't done big-money signings since the Premier League began.
Phil (Kelsall) Roberts
6 Posted 02/09/2025 at 20:55:06
Can we please amend to say that all Sigurdsson never faced any charges after a two year investigation and was not able to play during that period and in effect ended his career.
Brian Keating
7 Posted 02/09/2025 at 10:16:53
Loved having Lukaku, but I would put Pickford at number 1 by a country mile.

The guy kept us in the league, IMO. He's the 2nd best keeper of my life time for the toffees. Big Nev will always be number 1.

Sam Hoare
8 Posted 03/09/2025 at 10:18:45
Amazing how few of our top 25 most expensive signings were actually a success. Top 5 (excluding Dibling) did ok but after that it's:

Iwobi

Mina

Bolasie

Keane

Pickford (obviously a success)

Kean

Godfrey

Klaassen

Gbamin

Gomes

Beto

Mykolenko

Schneiderlin

Tosun

Walcott

Doucoure

Not sure many on there could be considered a hit and Moise Kean was the only one who made the club any profit. Terrible record really from a financial point of view!

Dave Abrahams
9 Posted 03/09/2025 at 11:17:54
Sam (8):I think if you add the transfer fees and wages together they must have cost us more than what we paid for Bramley Moor—or is that an exaggeration?
Sam Hoare
10 Posted 03/09/2025 at 11:28:22
It's probably not that far off Dave. Staggering! Though the RS have just spent 400 odd million in this window alone. Madness really.
Peter Moore
11 Posted 03/09/2025 at 11:31:47
William Ralph Dean gets my vote. Only 1 year ago (plus a couple of zeros).
£3000 was a huge sum in 1925, for an 18 year old too.
Surely the best value signing though. Will his record of 60 top flight goals in a season ever be broken? I doubt it.

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