Transfer Deadline Day

Bolasie
Williams
Mirallas
Klaassen
Rooney
Robles
Garbutt

And bring in:

Bernard
Richarlison
Mina
Digne
And anyone else as a bonus

I will shoot my load.

We badly need the Mina or Zouma deals to go through, to sign both is wishful thinking but if we don’t pull off a centre half coup in the next 8 hours or so then you do have major concerns about our defensive prospects this season.

Between now and 5pm is going to shape our season and arguably make or break it, much like the monumental failure to replace Lukaku last summer broke the 17/18 campaign into pieces before September was even done.

There is much resting on the shoulders of Cenk Tosun, both staying fit and making sure he is the man to score the goals (and in good quantity).

At £27 million we need him to have a good season and with no other overly convincing striker options it’s absolutely crucial for Tosun to be a goal scorer and focal point.

The pre-season has shown how much work needs to be done. Unfortunately it will take time to bed in the new additions and we will have to live with the weaknesses that still exist. Brands and Silva have a clear plan and have established the standard they want. Certain weak areas of the team have been exposed and players have a more realistic realisation of where they are in the pecking order in a Premier League team.

Brands has shown ability and has changed the perception of Everton as a serious football destination. He has given Everton the edge over rivals in the transfer market and exposed weaknesses, particularly in Man Utd. Silva has set his stall out in pre-season and set out the template of an offensive system, which Everton at their best were unrivalled. There is no hiding place for the attitude that has been a drag in performance for years. The backroom boys know they have to step up and don't feel as secure as they had been.

Everton are better placed now than they have been for years. We are off square one in a three-year plan, rather than needing more time for projects that never existed — only in the minds of those that thought in terms of contract extensions.

I really hope someone at Goodison has the good sense to say, ‘either he’s an Everton player by midday or get someone else in’

It would be RIDICULOUS if we don’t get a decent centre half or 2

And yet I can see it...

If we finish today with Bernard and Mina then we have an excellent transfer window. We can be optimistic for the season. I think the pressing, energetic game Silva wants was beginning to emerge as the pre-season progressed, and there are many reasons to look forward.

It’s easy for a uk based player to travel anywhere in the UK, so why can’t a foreign player travel to a medical centre in their country of residence, to be examined by a qualified/recognised doctor?

Better still why don’t we send our medical team(s) to whichever country!

Other clubs have private jets on standby! However, I can’t recall us ever taking that option?

Does Moshiri have a private jet?

Bernard & Mina could be the players coming in that makes the rest believe in this team. They could be the catalyst that makes others want to join today.

Then it is up to Silva to put us in the top 6 by Xmas.

As I said somewhere else a while ago, I think Keane will come on if he gets the chance to play alongside a better, stronger defender at an earlier stage in his career. I don't think playing alongside Jagielka has been good for Keane.

Thank You for the insight into Schneiderlin's private life that I was unaware of — it explains everything.

It's going to take another window to offload the mediocre pretending to be good footballers.

I’d like Zouma. Mina would be good so long as it’s unde £30m (I personally don’t like overpaying drastically). André Gomes looks risky to me, been poor in many appearances for Barca. Drinkwater on loan could be interesting.

I'm going back to Googling 'Everton' 327 times a day.

It's the same for every player, why would they choose us over Man Utd, they've no loyalty to us. Utd can offer so much more in every aspect. Let's not worry that Mina didn't want to come here, let's worry that he settles and enjoys life here. He'll have his mates Lucas and Charlie to help him settle in, he'll play every week. I'm sure he'll be a true blue in no time.

I think I have seen him have 1.5 decent games in all the time he's been here, which is not in my book a good return. After that incident with Mirallas last year he should have been out the door.

Mirallas has gone, but he remains, on the backs of the good signings we have, and are still making, it only takes one bad apple to destroy everything.

"According to a report in the Daily Mirror, West Ham United made a ‘huge financial’ offer to Bernard, but he is set to sign for Everton instead."

Are we actually more attractive than West Ham now?

Step forward!

Finger crossed we have a good day and Mina has not been stringing is along

However, how many of us have been on and on about us not replacing Lukaku's goals. We seem not to be mentioning his replacement.

Great making our defence more difficult to score against, great making our midfield more creative, but at the end of the day we still need someone to stick it in the net.

James #26,

That's basically what Newsnow does. It provides you with all recent Everton related links. The same reports you'll find googling, just a bit more convenient.

An absolute TDD necessity.

Tony, I really like Andre Gomes. He is a very good midfielder. He is a number 8 (as in plays box-to-box). Great technique, great feet, excellent range of passing, excellent accuracy. He's tall but he's not strong. He's not good in the tackle. I hoped we might push him into the Schneiderlin role. My (Benfica supporting (Portuguese)) mate tells me not. I've not seen Andre Gomes that often, he's a Benfica player not a Sporting one, but I have watched most of the Portuguese national team games and he did feature often for them, but lost his place after he failed to play much for Barca. He's always done well for them.

The question is, do we need him when we have Sigurdsson, and what would it mean for Dowell?

I don’t know much about André Gomes as a player, only that he seems to be constantly linked with transfers to the Premier League, but I gather he could displace Schneiderlin in our strongest XI. He’s also said to be ‘desperate’ to make the move happen.

Personally there’s others I’d like to see; my own favourites are Lascelles, Loftus-Cheek and Welbeck but I don’t think we’re making serious moves for any of them.

Then again, I don’t know anything other than what can be gleaned from journalists on the internet, so I still hold out hope that we’re doing some clever things somewhat secretly. In this day and age however, it’s very difficult to keep these things secret.

Here’s to ignoring my phone until 5.30pm today (never gonna happen).

I am pretty confident Mina is a done deal and the delay seems to revolve around Barca hoping Man U would show an interest to either jack the price up or as part of a deal for Pogba.

I was hoping for a goalscorer too but I suppose were getting greedy now.

As long as we get the CB and MF situations sorted out we can consider this a very good window.

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We need to get busy!

We need to get busy!

Hopefully we can get some cash back for Bolasie (never really understood that one) and ship one or two others out and obviously would like a box-to-box mid and a new forward, but it'd be a decent start.

The EFL have followed suit except they can still register loans until the end of August.

Other UEFA countries have the market open until the end of August, meaning that they can only sell or loan to the PL up until 5pm today but can buy and loan from PL clubs until the August deadline.

You get the feeling that some foreign clubs are quite relaxed because PL clubs will be wanting to get rid of certain large wage earners off their books after today. Meaning potentially that PL squads will only be finalised at the end of the month.

Where it will become difficult is where a PL star (a Pogba type say) decides he wants to go to Real Madrid or Barcelona at all costs after the window is shut. The PL who own him either have to live with a star who doesn't want to play for them or sell knowing that they can't buy a replacement until January.

Gives Silva time to assess things.

As you say, PL Clubs have to register their players after the window closes (25) so it is possible that a Foreign club come in with an attractive offer, which is acceptable by that player, and it goes through, they are at least one player light.

The next biggest transfer is 20m euros. Are they really going to stretch to £30m or even 30m euros? sure they have the Keita money but I doubt it.

Lookman will only leave if Silva is going to play Bernard and Richarlison as left wingers. I can't see how we can leave either of these expensive players on the bench, or the equally expensive Sigurdsson, or the equally expensive Walcott. I think they will all play, and so Lookman will be the guy on the bench, and he won't be leaving.

'Cos if the medical is done at Finch Farm and the player passes he can sign on the dotted line there and then, grab a shirt for the photo op and then get assigned his locker. All in time to get the paperwork through to UEFA before the deadline.

Unless BK's fax machine runs out of paper again!

Klippety Klopp would krappen in die Lederhosen!

“Sam Allardyce has revealed that Maguire and his former Hull City team-mate Andrew Robertson – now doing so well at Liverpool – were both offered to the Toffees but the then boss Ronald Koeman didn't fancy the move.”

And we're still paying the useless fuckwit's wages.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/who-andre-gomes-meet-euro-15008097

It would appear we've signed nobody and I still cant keep up

I still think we need a powerhouse in midfield, we are often overrun in the midfield which I don't think helps our CB's at all. Also having players like Baines allowing crosses in is making the CB's done far more work than is necessary. Not defending Jags or Keane either, just don't think they get much protection.

I don't think we need another striker backup. With options we've got in wide areas its very possibly that Richarlison or Walcott could play central role and I think they'd both do it well.

Actually probably no intro video for this one given the timescale.

Remembering the 23.00 closing, SSN at Finch Farm, the Live Forum, with the deals sometimes not proclaimed officially till well into the night!

Aye those were the days.

I believe that kind of deal is why it's gone back to 5.00pm.

I bloody loved Tommy Gravesen, the mental bastard (as Jimmy McFadden called him). Mad as a box of frogs.

If we also pick up some good loan deals to fill out a quality roster (some of: Zouma/Drinkwater/Gomes) and shift Sandro to Spain before the end of August then that's a fantastic transfer window. On paper - I thought getting Keane and Sandro was great business this time last year.

COYB - Just don't leave the Bernard and Mina deals go down to the wire. I don't want to be refreshing the news every 30 seconds to see if some late fax was received the right side of the deadline.

Final details between the clubs being ironed out now.

No mention of Zouma anywhere. Pity

How successful and experienced are they?

Now had it been about Failure and what it's like to be sacked, I could have understood it better.

Richarlison
Digne
Bernard
Mina
Gomes

That's pretty good going really isn't it.

It’s not really nit picking it’s a fair call.

I just hope we do get them in now that we have left it late and there are no more late twists or hitches.

I’m still shitting one thinking of a partnership of Keane and Jagielka away to Wolves at a bouncing Molineux.

It's not our choice, it's the way the transfer market works these days - clubs and agents hang it out for inflated fees till the last day, and the merry-go-round starts to spin on the last day. One transfer leads to another.

It's a total myth that Everton are the only club that wait till the last day - you just don't notice how long and drawn out other clubs transfers are, in exactly the same way ours are purely because you don't follow them in the same way.

Now that would be a terrifying thought.

Remember where we sit in the pantheon of modern football clubs - Everton are not a 'big club', whatever than means but in terms of the modern era we're a mid table side with no recent history of winning anything at all. The modern footballer has never seen us win a title.

With that in mind we're a low-end draw for players so comparing us to the RS is not a great comparison. Like it or not they win things, we don't. We're rarely in Europe, play in a shitty old stadium (much as we love her) and we're not a fashionable club, so we fish in different waters for so many reasons.

Also, Brands can shift to trying to find the next Messi, and concentrate on that. This window is about giving Silva a squad he can work with.

I have to say to M&M. "We salute you." Well I fucking do anyway.

Oh, and don't be surprised if there IS a surprise before that fucking UPVC eyesore SLAMS SHUT!!!

This time around it's almost entirely players that big clubs are trying to offload as surplus to requirements. Not saying whether one approach is better than the other, just pointing it out

I think the window looks moderately successful assuming Mina and Gomes are landed but the addition of Zouma and Drinkwater would have plugged the weaknesses we still have.

Don't we have a history of waiting until the window slams shut before announcing our final day signings?

We seem to be following the same pattern today.

I'll also be interested in the prepared script the new arrivals blurt for the cameras.

Anyone else noticed, unlike in all previous seasons, neither Richarlison nor Digne made any reference whatsoever to BK and his part in the deal?

A small point. But possibly, just possibly, a significant one and a pointer as to how and by who deals are now being handled.

I'd also say that the World Cup and the new earlier deadline has had a concertina effect this year meaning a lot less time to get business done.

Oh and of course we did lots of early business last year...that didn't go super well did it?

(some day I hope to find the old TDD threads when we were skint)

Just playing devil's advocate here, but I remember getting very excited about last season's signings and, like I say, they probably had more going for them on paper...

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Bernard in Champions League against Man City.

more action from the city game, love how he gets stuck in and you can see why i think he can play centrally.

Digne is a top player (25 odd caps for the world champions) as is Mina, Richarlison is already looking the business and Silva knows him well. We are also about to buy a player who has been capped by Brazil 14 times..

Compare this to the likes of Klaassen, Lookman and Sandro last summer, they hadn’t done anything of note prior to them signing for us (Dutch league is poor) and have done nothing since.

The standard of player we are buying has increased no doubt about it and as many people on here have said who in that next level up is going to Everton over a top 4 team anyway?

We all thought it would take a few windows to fix our weaknesses but this window has been a cracking start.

All kudos to Siva and Brands.

Anyway. I'll go back to getting excited.

You're a hard man to please! If you'd have been at the last supper I bet you'd have asked for ketchup.

I think we've had a very productive window and strengthened in the right areas with quality. Many of us were excited last summer but some of us were already asking questions about how it was going to work, before a ball was even kicked with the unbalanced transfer approach.

Brands brief was to lose the deadwood and improve the squad. He's definitely done that. Let's break it down and take a look.

Defence outgoings - Williams, Funes Mori, Garbutt, Robinson.

Defence incomings - Mina, Digne

Midfield and attacking outgoings - Klassen, Rooney, Connelly, Mirallas, Vlasic, Bolasie, Besic.

Midfield and attacking incomings - Gomes, Bernard, Richarlison.

That's 11 outgoings and there's only Robinson who we need back. The 5 new signings can all play a significant roles next season. Gomes is an immediate upgrade on Schneiderlin. Mina a better CB than what we have. Richarlison has looked our best player in pre season, and Digne has better stats that Baines in all areas of the game apart from key passes. He wouldn't have got over 20 caps for France and played for Barca, Roma and PSG if he wasn't decent. I only saw him on Sat against Valencia but he looked up for it and was solid. I've been very impressed with Digne from what he's said and looks like he'll find it easy to integrate into the squad.

I am a hard man to please indeed. But My Nan would be a better CB that what we have, to be fair. And, as Steve Ferns has pointed out, Gomes doesn't play DM usually, so isn't a replacement for Schneids unless Silva is planning to convert him. Richarlison is brilliant, I';m delighted with him. Digne I have no idea about, but he needs to be as good as Baines was in his prime, which was pretty bloody good. Probably the best left back I've seen at Everton.

I’d settle for Gueye playing in Schneiderlin’s holding position, with Gomes (or any other midfielder) playing as a box to box midfielder. This would surely offer more than when we have Gueye and Schneiderlin in the same midfield...

Even though Wolves have had a massive influx of players, which can be disruptive, and they are new to the Prem, I still don't relish the prospect of (probably) Keane and Jags being our mainstay of defence against them.

Gomes isn't a tackle machine like Schneiderlin but he has more vision and can pick a through ball pass. He's also more capable of getting us up the pitch. For me, he is a much better partner for Gana in midfield. He's also 6ft 1" so isn't someone who is going to be bossed around. I'm looking forward to seeing him play in a midfield 3 with Sigurdsson and Gana

It's a squad game. Benard can be played in a midfield 3 with Sigurdsson and Gana with Sig playing more as a traditional No.8. Or we can Bernard in Sigurdsson's No.10 position. Or we can have him out wide on the left with Richarlison playing on the right wing or upfront. There's lots of combinations that are very exciting. It's not like last summer buying 3 slow No.10's and trying to shoehorn them into a system that fits. Bernard is equally adept playing centrally or out wide.

The cull continues!

"It’s a funny thing about young footballers. We laud them to the skies on their emergence. We all want to say we saw them first. We plead for them to be given time, even whilst trying to envisage the champion into which they will develop. And yet when, remarkably, they fail to live up to the hype, somehow it’s always the player’s fault rather than the hype. As with so many other hotly-tipped prodigies, it’s tempting to think about Walcott in terms of failure, inadequacy, loss. Perhaps, instead, a player who first took shape as a brilliant idea remains just that: a sunlit extrapolation, a figment, a blurry vision of pure untrammelled speed that really only existed in our heads."

(I was wondering if there was any rumours that Walcott might be off).

Plus they do them fancy vids on twitter these days. Let's worry in a couple of hours time, not just yet.

I haven’t seen too much of Bernard, but I don’t think he has played for a while and needs to get up to speed. I have a feeling he is more of an attacking wide player than a centre mid, but maybe I am thinking that because he is small - I could be wrong, and he could be another Modric for all I know, but I thought his main quality was dribbling. In any case, i’d be happy with Gueye, Gomes and Sigurdsson in centre mid. Bernard can play his way in if he is good enough!

We got £6m for Besic, well done Brands.

If Walcott doesn't perform, there is Lookman, Richarilson who can play RWF.
If Tosun doesn't perform, the is Calvert-Lewin, Richarilson, Walcott, Lookman who can play CF. Niasse off the bench.
If Richarilson doesn't perform, there is Bernard, Lookman who can play LWF.
If Sigurdsson doesn't perform, there is Gomes, Bernard, Davies who can play CAM.
If Gomes doesn't perform there is Bernard, Davies, Sigurdsson who can play B-to-B
If Schneiderlin doesn't perform, there is Gueye, Baningime, Davies who can play CDM
If Digne doesn't perform there is Baines for LB.
If Mina doesn't perform there is Keane, Jags, Holgate.
If Zouma doesn't perform, there is Keane, Jags, Holgate.
If Coleman doesn't perform there is Kenny for RB.

Connolly has signed for Wigan on loan for the season too.

He hasn't done anything in preseason either. He still drifts out of the game and isn't noticed unless he delivers a moment of magic.

If he loses possession, he seldom goes looking for the ball, to get it back, hopefully Silva will be able to coach a different approach.

Still a talented youngster and think he'd benefit more from a full season in the championship to sitting on our bench, or not even.

This waiting around is like waiting for a date who isn't on time - just how long do you wait before you p off.

Maybe give him a few months with Bielsa at leeds from Feb-May.

Connolly needs game time and define his best position. Ipswich did him good and hopefully Wigan will do the same.

Though M & M are purchasing players in their prime or very close to it, I like most Evertonians would like to see our talented youth integrated into the mix. There are young players on Everton's books that many clubs would bite your hand off to have (like Lookman). If you are World champion at your age group then your should be on course to being the best, playing with the best and for the best - DCL, Dowell, Davies, Kenny, Connolly and the aforementioned Lookman are in that bracket.

It was stated before that Everton had bought players from Barca who weren't starters, yet these players were purchased by the Catalan club for their potential to get in the fist XI. Potential is the key word.. you buy potential - technical, physical and mentally strong footballers.

It is the task of the Manager/coach to improve these purchases and our youth players to become something together. I personally see a vision in the M & M plan, but they need a bit of time, motivation, tuition and some luck to become good players molded into a good team. Over to you Mr Silva..

The contract extension is a safeguard, and should see us get a fee if he doesn’t make it this season.

I know of very few players were multiple year loans has produced a player worth keeping.

Connelly, Robinson and Dowell all in this boat.

If there is a hope for Dowell he is now surrounded by many players in his position of different styles. Can he pick up how Bernard plays despite lacking physical size? Can he understand how hard Richarlison works to get the ball back?

A another loan would tell me his time is up.

I also remember Martinez being phenomenally impressed that he had virtually marked Messi out of the game.

Edit: It was Andy Hunter of the Guardian.

By the way I jest about the easy jet thing, but you never know.

Everton have agreed a loan deal with Chelsea to sign Kurt Zouma, but face a race against the clock to ensure all the formalities are in order, according to L’Équipe.

A player linked a few days before the window closing seems to have difficulty getting things done. Wierd

Anyone seen much of Gomes? He seems unspectacular to me. Decent feet and a decent passer but not quick or imposing enough for my liking.

I'd say Keane's morale is taking a battering.

Aaaargh! Come on you blues!

He's now making us sound like paupers. God he hates us. What a horrible guy.

Bolasie is staying …

Also funny that at 16:24, Zouma is "interesting Everton".

The English club will pay FC Barcelona 2.25 million euros for the season long loan and will also pay the player’s wages.

everyone thought we did well last summer, and look how that turned out.

Honestly, you wait 140 for one Brasilian and all of sudden two come along at the same time.

OK - forget Muller, he never signed but I cannot think of any others. You are going to prove me wrong aren't you. I know.

Besic hasn't gone and there's maybe another signing

Great day.

Zouma surely?

The deadline for English clubs to make permanent transfers has now arrived!

Remember, EFL clubs have until August 31 to make loan signings, and players can still leave England foreign clubs before their deadlines arrive.

Looks like the mystery signing is Zouma

They acted on the thoughts and desires of most Evertonians.

Bernard is the crown jewel, a play maker from the wing, Arteta before the ACL and is in line with the fashion. Neymar, Messi, Hazard, Ozil etc. all like to make it happen from the wing then in field.

Gomes, it’s a punt, a hopeful one too, injury record is up there with professional sick notes. The upside is high if he stays fit.

Mina, well he’s fucked us around for most of the window so he’s gonna have to prove his worth.

A huge pick-me-up, from the pre-season we’ve had.

Answer was with Siggy, Rooney and Klaassen then they would burst from midfield and score 10 each and so make up for the loss of Lukaku.

With Tosun, Walcott and Richarlison up front then there is a chance of them scoring 30 goals between them, but I just feel that what we have now behind them are more likely to score goals than the midfield from last year. And with just 3 goals from defenders in the league, I think the defence will weigh in with more this year.

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Can anyone confirm this please ?

So, the premier league doesn’t have much staff for this. They go through each deal one by one, in the order they came in. This is fellaini territory and that took 7 hours to confirm but assume there was some sleeping in that period.

Patience my friend. It’ll be fine.

We now have only 3 over 30 year olds in the squad. Steckelenberg, Baines and Jagielka.

I know Wolves have had a lot of new faces, but have done well pre-season in comparison to us, not confident about our defence at all.

Subs: Baines, Keane, Lookman, Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin, Holgate

Still to leave this window: Bolasie, Besic, Vlasic

Anyway good transfer window again, happy with richalison and Bernard might inject a little more pace in the middle.

After last summer I was thinking the players seemed good we spent a lot of money but they just seemed too slow last summer.

Anyway hoping for a better season be nice to break that top 6, but I'll just settle for seeing better football, last season was probably the worst for me to watch, since the Scot gemil and Walter Smith days...

Pickford

Keane
Mina
Digne

Walcott
Sigurdsson
Gueye
Schneiderlin
Richarlison

Tosun
Barnard

Subs:
Baines
Jagielka
Gomes
Lookman
Besic
Steklenberg

Pretty sure the deadline day isn’t finished regarding the movement to / from Championship Clubs / Players so the likes of Mo Besic and Y Bolasie etc still have time to sort loan deals

I would expect a disappointing side:

Pickford

Coleman Zouma Keane Digne

Gueye Schneiderlin
Walcott Sigurdsson Richarlison

Tosun

Rest of them being in the bench.

The window is shut to buy and loan now, but we can still sell to European teams up until midnight on the 31st August, plus we can still loan players to Championship and below up until the 31st August.

So me might not necessarily have to wait till January to offload the players you mentioned or any other players that we want to offload.

I hope he looks to quickly integrate the new players though otherwise this bubble of optimism may burst quite quickly

Bernard will be at the same level as Mina or might even need longer.

Gomes will be two months at least.

Zouma should be ready and just needs adjustments.

That’s my thinking anyway.

Just cant wait to see the final squad list to see who has no future left, and will be looking for loan moves to the championship or even better permanent moves to Europe.

One of the best deadline days I can remember.

If I’m honest I still think we’ll lose to Wolves and that 7th this season would be a good achievement. These players will take a while to get match fit and form a cohesive unit. But there’s a plan at work here. A strategy I see where there wasn’t one last year.

Younger, hungry players with pace and power and some real guile. Pretty much everything I hoped for. The foundations forming for a team that can really challenge nearer the top.

We’ll get a few tonkings I expect. At least one of our new players will disappoint. But I think it’s gonna be a lot more fun.

Well done Everton. COYB!

But my hope is that our ownership see this as a long term plan. It's the only conclusion you can reach. If the aim was to hold position and stay in the gravy train then you could do that on a lot less. It looks like we want to make progress and maybe be placed in the event that one or two have a shocker.

Great window, finally feeling excited about Everton for the first time in about three years.

We on the other hand were dire in preseason and have half a squad bereft of confidence and the other half who’ve just met each other.

I hope we win of course but without checking I’d be fairly sure we’re not the bookies favourite. Negative or realistic?

Well done Brands and Silva and also Moshiri for having the courage to role the dice. I am full of hope again!

Great window; mY take some time to gell and hopefully the faithful allow him that

A MASSIVE improvement on what Walsh-ite done in transfers. Brands (inntandem with Silva) has certainly done his job..identitfied the weak areas and recruited, not just spending for the sake of it. A lot more pace and agressive attacking force now.

Sam, aye I think the bookies have Wolves as favourites, which in a way is understandable; a stable squad and set up vs a new manager and new squad. I'm on the fence, I don't expect us to win but I'm certainly not gonna rule it out.

Been thinking about the dire preseason and I have said before its not really sensible to gauge things based on a preason. Its more a fitness exercise and getting used to new tactics and systems. Worth bearing in mind too that its probably a lot more difficult to properly give your all when its not really a competitive game, the result means very little (for the players that have a near certain starting XI place at least). I think we can expect a lot more focus when its a proper, competitive league game. I'm expecting it to be a month or so before we really start seeing the gaffers ideas and the squading clicking into place.
Regardless, things are going to be a lot more entertaining and exciting than last year. Surely we've taken some big strides in the right direction!!

I think I can safely bid you all a pleasant nights kip after todays dealings. COYB!!

1. Liverpool - £155.4m
2. Chelsea - £87.3m
3. West Ham - £83.3m4
4. Fulham - £68.1m
5. Wolves - £64.1m
6. Everton - £60.6m
7. Arsenal - £59.8m
8. Brighton - £53.6m
9. Man Utd - £51.6m
10. Soton - £44.5m
11. Burnley - £29.5
12. Bourne. - £29.4m
13. Hudders - £29.3m
14. Cardiff - £28.5m
15. Man City - £25.7m
16. Palace - £9.5m
17. Leicester - £5.9m
18. Tottenham - £-2.2
19. Watford - £-13.4
20. Barcodes - £-28.7m

So Spurs, Watford and Newcastle were the net sellers.

I'd expect to see Jags and Baines still starting.

Expect some "Fancy Steppin" when our new signings hit the back of the net. Bernard will do his Samba. Mina does a kind of hip wiggle. And Richarlison does his "pigeon dance" ?

Will underwear be thrown on the pitch?

This window however, everyone from Moshiri to Brands to Silva, including the negotiating and admin teams have played it all well beyond expectations. Not just the in's but the deadwood going too.

Fair play blues, you managed a three window turnaround in a matter of weeks. As fans we must surely be patient with the new team on and off the pitch, this could be the start we looked for last year.

I see world ☮️ and an end to poverty as well as an Everton phoenix rising on the banks of the Mersey.

Can supply evidence for all 3 visions (well only the last one to be honest).