Flashback the August Window

Everton hit the headlines for their paltry spend, endeavouring to operate under the financial fair play rules but the late window signing of Beto at a reported 25 million pounds perhaps squashes the gossip juice. Of note was the no list of clubs looking to take a punt on last season’s Championship leading goals corer Michael Akpom who netted on 29 occasions for Middlesborough, scooping the Golden Boot, a snip at 12 million pounds on transfer to Dutch land with the Ajax, a double Dutch thought process with no movement from the Premiership clubs. The Huddersfield Town manager Neil Warnock, previously at Middlesborough with Akpom, stated that the forwards is not a forward, make sense? Too many John Smiths for Warnock.

At Liverpool, the debacle of bids stretching to 115 and 60 million pounds for Brighton’s Caicedo and Southampton’s Lavia respectively, with Chelsea bidding likewise to align with hefty contracts and a bulging pay scale, were the two factors to sign on the Chelsea dotted line worded as ‘creed’. The ‘Liver Bird’ redirected one’s route and drop zoned by over 100 million pounds to sign Japan’s National team captain at a reported 16 million pounds. Perhaps the signing will improve the club’s shirt sales in Wataru’s homeland. One deal that fell through the Chelsea net was Crystal Palace’s Atsu, turning down a move to the bridge, the pants don’t fit on the Chelsea bench to be the think tank harboured. The rebound effect came with the Palace upping Atsu’s wages alongside an increased contract courtesy of the Chelsea failed pursuit, thanks Chelsea.

At Manchester United, the fork out fee of 72 million pounds for the Rasmus Hojlund potential, ten Hag and his strange quirks, add another 28 million pounds to that fee and United could have purchased the ready made package of Harry Kane, to line United to challenge the top honours. The Dutchman doubled up on the double Dutch to engineer the exit of Harry Maguire, then lays claim to Maguire being part of his plans, following Harry’s stubbornness to remove oneself from United’s wage bill to warm the bench with the fat bulging wallet for bugger all match play, but there’s always Gareth Southgate’s cronyism on selection for England, foolhardy Gareth, ten Hag has a tendency to serve porkies with a similar crass line on the Ronaldo United exit factor to not suck on ten Hag’s tulip, routed out to a yellow heaven in Saudi? Time to chew on the Bournville with expected relegation fodder Bournemouth splurging 120 million pounds on players with no incoming revenue sales, will it keep the fodder at bay? At the other end of the spectre the crazed Chelsea hit the 450 million mark, with an incoming 143 million pounds on player sales to mark out at a deficit of 307 million pounds to add to equate to hit the 1 billion bubble on total send over a twelve month period under the American Doodle Dandy owner Todd Boehly. The Sweeney Todd Boehly then has the audacity to cut the Chelsea supporters away travel club subsidiary of 250,000 pounds, pathetic and petty. Neighbours Fulham share the same common ground with the club looking to rip off the supporters at the marked down figure of £175 a ticket to cushion seats in the club’s brand new spanking stand, as opposed to the Liverpool owner JT Henry who needs a good Manero defence attorney on occasions with the development of the Anfield Road end, but not at the marked down price of £175, who needs the spanking? 2 billion pounds plus has been spent in the window setting, a new record. Will the bubble burst? It keeps getting bigger and bigger.

It’s time to cheer up ten Hag with some classic George Best quotes:

“I went with three Miss Worlds, it should have been seven, I didn’t turn up for the other four.”

“Former girlfriend Marjorie Wallace was keeping a little black book, but so was Jack Charlton and I was not giving him one.”

“Marjorie was keeping a book of her bed post scoring antics giving my mark at a three out of ten, that’s two more than she got.”

A Lasting Legacy?

Everton Football Club are on the brink of a takeover with the club’s owner Farhad Moshiri cusping to sell his 94.1 percent to the American named 777 company. The need to pass the football authorities fitness to govern rules for perspective owners to get the get go on the green light. Moshiri’s legacy will be the club’s new stadium on completion at Bramley Moore Dock 2024, alongside the Iranian’s part wealth of over 700 million pounds pumped into the club over a seven year period. The rest we can leave to the debaters. Link to article ‘Farhad Moshiri’ March 1^st 2023.