Everton director of football Marcel Brands says he is not expecting much transfer business to be conducted in January.
The Blues sit eighth in the Premier League after a solid start under Marco Silva, but there have still been calls for reinforcements next month.
In an interview with the Liverpool Echo, Brands says he doesn’t think it is a good time to sign players, however, meaning incomings are not to be expected:
It’s not only in England but most of the time you see clubs doing things because they are in trouble
They have problems – sometimes it can be because of injuries and is something you have to sort out – but most of the time it is clubs who are in trouble with their ranking in the table and they try to fix that in the January window.
I don’t believe in that. Especially not in England because there is no pre-season (winter break), the games go on and on and on.
In Holland there is a short pre-season but when I was there I did not do many transfers in the winter, only when it was completely necessary.
I don’t like to sell in the winter, I don’t like to buy in the winter.
If you see, statistically, they are not the best transfers and you have to be careful.
It looks set to be a different January transfer window to last season, when Sam Allardyce brought in Cenk Tosun and Theo Walcott, as well as Eliaquim Mangala on loan.
Youngsters Kieran Dowell and Mason Holgate could leave on loan, but that appears to be Everton’s only likely activity.
Silva’s side face a trip to Brighton on Saturday, as they aim to build on their superb 5-1 win away to Burnley on Boxing Day.
