Henen set to sign permanently this summer

Well done to the lad. I look forward to watching him make his first team start.

Now sign Dembele from Fulham.

Something has always seemed a little bit dodgy about it to me!

I also note that Atletico Madrid are after Â’Everton targetÂ’ Nolito. Not much chance then that he will playing at Goodison Park next season.

I donÂ’t believe we will get Nolito. More likely Lennon and if Mirallas is sold after his clear the air talks someone who will cost less than what Super Kev fetches.

I know itÂ’s sceptical but we see it too often, Vellios, Gueye, Francisco Junior, Silva, Plessis, too many to mention.

IÂ’m not saying he will make it with us but I think he might have a better career than the majority on your list. He has something about him.

IÂ’d love you to be right but supporting Everton makes you very sceptical, doing it in the U-21s is a world apart from doing it in the Premier League.

Have you seen Henen play at all. I havenÂ’t so would be interested to know what he is like. I understand your scepticism. The list you give is pretty convincing.

Bought young, relatively inexpensively.

If there was 100% chance of it always working then everyone would do it but it is a gamble that the poorer clubs have to make.

Even Arsenal don’t seem to be bothered to take the development / risk approach anymore – recent signings like Ozil and Sanchez would seem to suggest. Buy them ready-made.

Personally, I’m all for it – short of getting a very rich owner, I don’t see much choice.

WeÂ’re mining for diamonds here lad.

God knows I’m no Martinez fan – or Moyes for that matter – but given the financial restrictions they have/had to operate within, what choice do they have?

It's easy to say Henen may be the next Vellios or Gueye, because everyone knows that is the most likely scenario... but every now and then one of these lads prove to be the real deal. IÂ’d rather we kept digging, than to just leave the diamonds for other clubs to unearth.

The top teams in the main buy proven finished articles for a starting price of around £30M; we are typically at the £10M mark or well below in the hope that these players can achieve an improvement that they’ve patently been unable to make as they’ve risen through schoolboy and youth systems. It’s the brutal reality of modern EPL football, those who have the money to attract top players become top teams.

On thing I have to say after the Cup Final showing is that Benteke is no better than Lukaku when he has to play on his own up front .

Hopefully the Henen situation will work out.

The only hope we have is that, as a club we have been exceptional as developing players but developing a player to become EPL top 4 class is very difficult. So far weÂ’ve only done it once with Rooney who was a massively gifted exception who could be seen to be top class before he entered his teens. The reality was we gave him away to soon for a fast buck that undervalued him by hundreds of percent.

Tim was a brilliant exception who gave us goals from midfield but would a top 4 club have bought him? He was magnificent for us though with those goals that may have meant the difference between being towards the relegation slots and upper table respectability.

We’d expect >£15M for Mirallas but surely there’d be an outcry if we were to pay that for a pretty ordinary player by EPL standards.

There must be someone half-decent who fancies a game for us.

Lennon would be an adequate replacement... if he can find his scoring boots

IÂ’d prefer Lennon to Mirallas with or without his goals. Lennon will try his best every game, the other fella will now and again.