Deulofeu "very happy" to be back at Everton

"Well good luck to the lad, it’s good to have him back but let’s not get too carried away. There’s a lot of work ahead..."

So why do I actually feel more like saying...

’GOOD LAD GERARD!! ONE OF US, LAD!! COYB!!!’

Possibly because I never learn.

Long may you stay with us and good luck for the new season.

I have a really good feeling about this move.

We now have three very young forwards in Barkley, Delboy and Lukaku who need a player with ’nous’ behind them. Osman is still good for about 45 minutes and so is Pienaar but we need a ’real’ top class playmaker who can start and finish matches. I was hoping for Nolito but would be happy with Mertens.

I really hope (and pray) that Mirallas stays too as supposedly we do not need to sell anyone. If a player wants to leave then so be it but unless that happens then we need to add to the squad and not just replace it one for one. If this club wants to live up to the club motto then we must get rid of players who are either long term injured or getting too old.

We should not let the likes of Coleman, Stones or Mirallas go as they are integral to the teams progress. We should be getting Gibson, McGeady and possibly Hibbert off the squad as they are not playing enough. Bring in extra players to replace those three and add Mertens to the squad if we cannot get Nolito.

Great to hear him speak in glowing terms of the fans. I have a look on Twitter now and again and he did still get loads of messages off Evertonians. So fair play to them for not letting him forget his time here.

I’ve said it before but if he and Ross live up to their potential in the same team, we’ll not only qualify for the Champions League, we’ll make a big fucking noise in the process.

He’s super talented but he’s got a lot to live up to, it’s all well and good having the talent but much like Barkley, you have to turn up and show it off in more games than not.

It’s a huge season for Barkley and Deulofeu together for much the same reasons and most of all because Evertonians expect!

I’d been relegated to watching the game on the kitchen TV because the other half was watching the Corrie omnibus. My 14-year-old daughter entered just as I was doing my happy dance around the kitchen and gave me a look of sad incredulity. At that precise moment, I realised, whilst there is a breath in my body, I will always dance around the kitchen when we score.

So, just some more moments like that, Gerard and I will be a happy man.

Hopefully, he’s gotten over himself and will apply all he’s learned on the importance of TEAM play’s allowance for displays of individual skills. And brings it all together to his and the Club’s benefit.

Gerry probably will "pass more to a man in the box" providing we actually get some friggin men in the box!

Too often last season we had one striker, Lukaku usually, playing out wide and attempting to cross the ball to who???

You could count on one hand the amount of times our midfielders got themselves in to scoring positions last season, when does Barkley ever get into a position where a tap-in may be available??

When do any of them apart from Leon Osman??

Having said that, I really rate the lad, good signing, just can’t stand the sycophantic quotes.

That said, he seemed to show Samp more love!

I feel that we need another player on the other side who has the same speed.

A front 3 out of him, Mirallas, Lukaku, Pienaar and... still looking light. We need at least 2 more (that No 10 and an other).

Come on you blues.

It’s a simple game, Gerard: beat your man and pop a cross in. Good luck.

Welcome home, just do your best, you know you’re wanted by the majority of Everton fans. Make your mistakes, like every young player, but get us off our seats like the last time you were here and you’ll be okay.

Good luck, good health and hopefully help us to a cup final and that will do for starters.

I like your enthusiasm but the makings of a super team?? Villa had Cleverley along with the likes of Grealish and Benteke and Delph, it hardly made them a super team.

We know nothing at all about Henen expect I’m asking myself, if he was that good why are Olympiakos so quick to offload him, and where are the other big clubs pursuing his signature? It’s one thing doing it at reserve standard but he could go on loan and completely go under in a physically tough league, that’s when you really need to judge him.

Garbutt we are told is not ready to replace a 31-year-old Leighton Baines yet.

Deulofeu, as with Barkley, has a lot of potential but, as with so many players, the hard part is living up to this hype – last season, not many did, apart from Stones.

As I understand it, the reason Olympiakos were ’so quick to offload him’ is because Everton had an agreement with them that they bought him last season and loaned him straight to Everton with an option to buy him for more than they paid in the first place. This deal was put in place because Anderlecht wanted too much money when Everton tried to sign him last year but accepted a lower amount from a non-Premier League team. The outcome is that we get him cheaper than we would have had to pay Anderlecht and Olympiakos made a profit for doing very little.

Henen I’ve never seen and he will probably never play for us,; Cleverley is an average player, 2nd rate crap in my opinion; Garbutt is forever going to be Baines’s understudy until either he leaves or Martinez drops him; and Deulofeu is exciting but far from being the finished article by any means.

We talk about Martinez overhyping too much and putting pressure on the players, we don’t need fans doing the same thing because if we expect too much early on, very soon, you’ll get some on the players’ backs like last season.

Baines is 32 in December! He’s not old but his powers will begin to wane over the next 12-18 months.

How old was Ashley Cole when Chelsea flogged him off? He was only 32 because, for a left back much like Baines, whose strengths were bombing down the flank and becoming like an auxiliary winger, once age catches up with your legs, you find that a harder task.

31 is not old but I believe we will see this coming season if Baines can ever recapture the best of his game that was exceptionally good between 2009-2013.

Or will injuries (something else harder to shake off once you hit early 30s) prevent him flowing again?

Whether it’s Garbutt or whoever, one day in the not too distant future, we will need to replace Leighton Baines.

Garbutt is in no way a direct replacement for Baines. Please do not kid yourselves! Our style will need to change to accommodate him.

They can both hit free kicks but that’s where the comparison ends.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s Garbutt’s time to shine and think he will be a quality player but he doesn’t have the pace/direct running of Seamus or Baines.

If Baines is coming to an end, the thing I will miss most about him is his underlapping runs. He is the best full back in the world at the underlap. I just wish (as a fellow blue) he would take Luke to the side and teach him the underlap.

Luke is more of a ’stay on the outside and cross’ kinda guy, which may suit Lukaku better?

It always leaves a feeling of frustration, when the ’flair’ players only get the last few minutes, even when you understand the tactical reason.