Season › 2024-25 › Opinion › Talking Points The summer barometer by Andrew James | 28/06/2025 1 Comments [Jump to last] The unusual summer of matches — including internationals, the much maligned Club World Cup — has arguably delayed activity in the transfer market although one cannot help but notice our darling neighbours and Manchester United have been busy, making some very bright moves. Usually, you'd hope we'd have tuned up the squad for the season by the time the season starts… so our lack of progress is not making me panic — yet. Matters have been positive with the permanent signing of Alcaraz and the extension to Coleman's contract. But there are other pressing issues which have become frustratingly drawn out. Idrissa Gana Gueye for instance… Is he staying? What's the story with Dominic Calvert-Lewin? We appear dogged in our pursuit of Barry and Tete but no white smoke yet. Woltemade is obviously not coming yet the site moderators still see fit to give us updates on his likely fate. I don't care, he can go and give the carthorse at Munich some competition. This makes July a crucial month in which to freshen things up and, for the moment at least, I am not seeing the names to convince me we shall. The longer we don't buy a striker, the more I see us reaching some desperate deal with Calvert-Lewin and another season of the invisible man just is not sustainable. Come on, Moyes & Co, get a move on! Return to Talking Points index : Add your Comments » Reader Comments (1) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer () Michael Kenrick 1 Posted 29/06/2025 at 09:47:09 Things do seem a bit slow, Andrew, but you don't mention what appears to be our major constraint:No spending before the 2024-25 Financial Year ends for Everton FC Co Ltd at midnight on 30 June. That's less than 2 days away… but it appears to be what has been holding us back. At least we hope so. Posts on other threads still talk of us still carrying massive debts… The most significant chunk of Moshiri's £471M shareholder loan was converted to equity in the form of a million or so shares printed up and sold to Roundhouse Capital (TFG) for a pittance, decimating the value of small shareholding at a stroke. But I digress…Let's hope there's some money there to meet Robert Thressell's key financial indicator — investment in squad value — moving forward. But as ever, it's more like "wait and see" right now! Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. How to get rid of these ads and support TW © ToffeeWeb