Transfer Rumours Summer 2025 1 - 10 June, 16 June - 1 September

I think the worry for buying clubs is that his good spell was just good form. He has had one season in men's football in which he was great for half and pretty poor for half - which of those is form and which is his actual ability is hard to say with certainty. Personally I think he is not worth £45m - which is why the I'm glad the club are taking such a firm stance.

 

Agree to an extent with this. Another thing to consider is you are buying what he could become, not what he is now. For a team like Everton spending around £50m on a player with such limited experience/footage to judge him on at the top, who ultimately may not come good is risky. You could spend that sort of money on a 25 year old who is much more of a sure thing (still a risk of course like all transfers). Of course if it does work out then £50m could be considered cheap if he ends up being a good player for 7/8 years, see Shaw as an example. Everyone laughed when Utd paid £30m for a teenage full back but he has to be considered a bargain for the longevity and level he has played at in his 10(?) years at Utd

 

(Whispering quietly... even if Dibling stays I think Jay Robinson will have a better season than him...)

 

He wasn’t ‘terrible’. The whole team and management was terrible, yes, but singling out a teenager - who even on his bad days was one of our better players - is harsh. If anything he only looked bad because he started the season off so well. Understandably it got tougher for him when other teams knew about him, and when we gave up playing possession football.

He’s an attacking player, but for us last season he basically had to win the ball in his own half and run with it for 40 yards before he was in an attacking position.

 

Nah I can’t see that at all.

I still think J-Rob will be too lightweight and he’ll get bullied.

 

Keep hearing people say things like this and I don't get it.

I'm excited about Robinson but he's not on the same level technically. Doesn't have the same level of close ball control in both feet, balance, or spatial awareness imo.

 

I wasn't singling him out at all, we are talking about Dibling so I mentioned his form. The entire football club was terrible last season but Dibling did absolutely nothing past November/December to make himself stand out from that like I feel a player valued at £45 Mil should be doing. Like others have said you don't know whether you're buying the August-December Dibling or the December-May Dibling and for £45 mill you wanna be pretty sure in what you're buying. The guy is clearly a competent footballer when the game is played at his very specific pace. But it's also very easy to just remove him from the game. I can absolutely see why we'd be asking for it but I'm not going to begrudge any club scoffing at the price tag.

 

Get fellows in regardless of Dibling’s position as we are very light on decent wide attackers with Edoze on his way out soon too

 

Hope that's not true tbh as we should be looking to make that kind of signing regardless of selling Dibling if we are serious about wanting autos. Particularly as it's currently an area that we badly need to improve.

 

Fellows isn’t going to be cheap so maybe it’s “we’ll spend what is required for Fellows if Dibling leaves, if he stays we will get someone else”

 

“And pocket the Sulemana money”

 

Balance the books with that money.

 

Hang on, you mean there are costs involved in running a football club other than buying players?!

 

We've lost a huge chunk of revenue now we're relegated again so we do need to cover operating costs as well.

 

Such rational thinking will never catch on…!!

 

LTL posted something akin to commonsense rationality, got short shift.

 

Conductor? So more of an 8 than a 10?