Everton owners ready to back David Moyes with £150m in the transfer market

Let's hope the rumours above have a grain of truth about them. COYB!

We will only go and spend it on shite.

If it's the case, then we should be signing top quality players.

I thought it was a question of how much we will be allowed to spend, not how much we have burning a hole?

So, we're not after a left-back?

Somewhat undermines the credibility of this report, imo.

I don't care how much we have to spend, I'm fed up of all the rumours. We are about 4 weeks away from starting the season, and we don't have a bloody squad.

We need another 8 players at least to have a competitive squad. Get a move on, TFG!!!

Now playing another pre season match v Port Vale at BMD. But closed doors. Why?!

Joe I suspect it will be to give the players a “feel” for the experience of playing in the new stadium before appearing in front of 50,000. Moyes has also said he wants a couple of training sessions there

PSR, FFP, WTF? Doesn't matter how much dosh the new owners could spare... ask Newcastle.

John # 7……..the first team squad have already been training at HDS today. This was shown on a you tube video by Mr Drone about 2-3 hours ago, but it looks like for some reason that video has now been removed. I did manage to see it though.

My God the pessimism from some of you guys. It's great speculating on who will or won't be coming in. However, there is absolutely no reason (beyond impatience), why you should be ripping into the hierarchy, yet. Unless you have a direct line to the management of Everton, you don't know what is going on behind the scenes. If it is a poor summer window when it closes, go ahead, I'll even join in with you. But until then, let them do their job.

If we pull it off and managed to sign Luiz, McAtee, Kubo, a RB and a loan or two, I think we would be aiming for the Europa and Conference places. We'd suddenly have a really good squad.

I don't expect us to bring in all of those aforementioned players though...It Everton lol.

The fact is no team is making big moves image transfer market outside the champions league places. In fact we’re probably one of if not the most active already. However these dithering bastards all need sacking. Even the ones who have only just joined the club. Disgrace.

I distinctly remember the summer of 1996 and on the back of a tabloid newspaper; Bowyer, Stubbs and. Collins. We had already signed Gary Speed.

It would’ve been £6.5m for the 3 and massive wages.

Not sure if it would’ve moved us on but you never know.

Point being. The money if it is available needs to be spent sensibly. If the signing doesn’t move the club forward. Don’t make it.

Si@12. I don't give a shit what other clubs are doing, Everton is the only club I'm bothered about. And id say our need to sign players is more urgent because we need at least another 7 to just be ready for the start of the season.

If it is £150Mn as the transfer pot, that is better than many of us expected. But it is easy to spend it poorly.

We must sign a right back and right winger, plus improve the midfield so 4 players minimum.

Personally, I think signing players we would not normally consider simply because they are on a free is not the way to go - that is pre-TFG thinking. We don't need to do that any more.

Better to be patient and source players who can develop over time. Hopefully we will see the progress in this over the next 4 weeks.

We are currently about as attractive to players as West Ham. So, whilst we can blow the likes of Burnley out of the water, in a head-to-head with your typical Premier League club it's more than likely we'll lose.

Just cos the Friedkins have leaked this budget doesn't really enable us to suddenly go and get good players. If we put a bid in, the player's agent will be thinking 'yes, if nobody else comes in maybe Everton at the end of the window'. All this stuff about McAtee and the others is just pie in the sky.

There is no explanation (that I can find) explaining how we have a budget of £150M so I'm taking that with a large dose of salt. I find that highly unlikely without us falling foul of PSR rules.

The only possibility is that we sell the women's team and Goodison for a combined £100M but even then I wouldn't expect TFG to want to spend all of that in one transfer window.

It's not just having the budget to go out and buy any of the players on our wish list, it's whether we can convince those players that Everton is the best club for their career development.

We have not been good at this for a number of years, hence losing out on players to competing clubs perceived to have more ambition, more opportunities for game time etc.

It's difficult for us as Evertonians to recognise or accept that it would be preferable for some young ambitious players to choose other clubs for their future development, but nevertheless it is happening and will continue to happen until the club can achieve some success.

This will be a long and difficult process given the position we are in at the moment. With this in mind, I think we will need to tailor our expectations accordingly. Some marquee signings if possible backed up by journeymen loans and free agents.

Sorry to disappoint, but that is Everton's reality at the moment despite TFG's millions.

I don't remember how much over the £105M 3-year losses we were but add £150M to that and deduct the additional income from the new stadium, wage bill reduction and anything that can be converted to shares or from a higher league position and calculate how many points may be deducted for that.

Worse case scenario or risk management?

Kevin #16,

"So, whilst we can blow the likes of Burnley out of the water"

Didn't one of our alleged targets, or at least a fan favourite, sign for Burnley?

It sounds great in theory, let's see the quality of players we sign, considering all the players we've been linked with.

If we can sign Luiz, it'll be a tremendous start.

Challenge with the whole market is the cat and mouse game every club is playing. Let's take Man Utd for example, the 5 outcasts they want to sell and get money to fund transfers but as the window goes on and they can't sell then they either drop the price massively or they will look to ship them out on loan at the very least to get some wages covered and maybe a loan fee. Also if they perform it can drive up the price in the next window.

None of these types of moves will happen early in the window and so clubs like Everton will be hanging out to try and sign some quality players on the cheap as a loan for one season.

We have 4 loan slots and I expect them to not be finalised right until the end of the window. At which point it will be the first international break before we feel like we have a team starting to bed in.

Sunderland have spent a few quid, signed about 7 players, mind you they had to cos they are a young squad.

A few weeks before the start of the season and we've essentially just signed one unproven player, apart from Alcaraz who was already with us and a back up keeper, scored one goal (a penalty) against lower League opposition and people are telling me not to panic!!

Blackburn passed us off the pitch yesterday with the type of quick, incisive passing football we haven't produced for years.