Looking at the Premier League’s worst transfer windows, with Manchester United and Everton among the clubs struggling to make the most of the summer.
The transfer deadline has finally passed, and as the dust settles (mostly on the tops of fax machines as they are wheeled back into their corners), we can finally make some judgments on who did the best business and, far more importantly, who did the worst for the purposes of cheap social media banter.
And many clubs, from top four candidates to projected basement boys, had a difficult summer this time around. Perhaps we’ll return to these five clubs in a few months and apologize for their somewhat disappointing signings, but for now, we believe these are the teams who have set themselves up to fail in the coming months…
Everton
Everton concluded last season with one of the league’s weakest defenses and the league’s worst offense, narrowly avoiding relegation and badly in need of reinforcements in multiple areas. According to the one point earned by the Toffees in their first four games, not enough has been done.
Not that the players that eventually arrived appear to be poor investments – Beto was extremely useful against Doncaster Rovers in the League Cup, Jack Harrison is an experienced and versatile player, young Youssef Chermiti has many admirers back in Portugal, and Arnaut Danjuma could be an important addition based on what we’ve seen, but that’s offset by a lack of investment in the defensive unit (a 38-year-old Ashley Young is the only new face, while Yerry Mina and Mason Holgate have left), After a summer that didn’t appear to resolve anything, a difficult season awaits. After a summer that didn’t seem to fix much, a difficult season awaits.
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