ToffeeWeb - Season 2006-07

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Who Needs Transfers?

OK, so most of the fans don't trust BK. No surprise there on his past record and while Moyes is generally seen as a 'safe pair of hands' who is very unlikely to lead his squad into relegation struggles next season, he will never produce a side capable of exciting football.

There are postings to suggest that Moyes should be hunting down every transfer target out there, like the "He's a Blue ? pay up and sign him..." for Nugent.

Why should we spend £7m on Nugent, or £4m on Smith, or £6m on Koumas, £2m on Bardsley or this or that half-decent player when they will want £50k a week to sit on the bench? Nobody named as a target so far is better than the players we have! Ask yourself which one of the players talked about as 'transfer targets' would get into the current first choice side at Everton and where would he play in that first choice side.

Moyes has always spoken of Neville as a midfield player and if that is where he still wants to play him, Hibbert comes back and the side that was closing last season and which was good enough to finish in 6th place will start next season, bolstered by Johnson and Cahill returning. Otherwise Neville plays at right back and we look for a left winger who can cross a decent ball.

Is it not clear that Moyes already has his squad for the next couple of years and the low cost, reasonable waged signings of kids that he has made are to to set the side up for the years after that?

If Jagielka is a target and does eventually arrive, he will be a good addition to the bench as he covers the entire back four and could even do a job in midfield but let's bury the hysteria and watch the current squad prove again that it is good enough to hold its own with all but the top four.

As for competing with Manchester and Chelsea.... behave! The Moneybags across at Kellogg Park are nowhere close to doing that... how the hell could Moyes?

Forget the cups and concentrate on the Premier League and we are in for another good season without chucking around money that we don't have !

Chill, Blue Brothers. We're OK !
Glen Strachan, Oaxaca , Mexico Posted 22/06/2007 at 20:03:39

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Lyndon

It's not only about whom we can sign that is better than we already have but also about whom we can sign that is equal to what we have so that we can bolster numbers to cope with the Uefa Cup campaign or, in fact, bolster numbers to get them up to where we can cope with another Premier League campaign without having to worry when the likes of Cahill or Johnson are sidelined for months.

The rest comes down to differing expectations. Not all of us are happy to rumble along performing to the same level next season as we did the last. We want progress, we want to push harder on the heels of the Arsenals and Liverpools of this world and break into the top four again. To do that, we're going to need players, a sheer greater number of adequately equipped bodies in the squad on which to fall back when injuries and suspensions bite.

Phil Jagielka is such a squad signing and I'd welcome him more openly if it didn't mean that Phil Neville would be first-choice in midfield. But there's no question we need players like him in the team as much as we need to start adding players with greater creativity and ability to create chances for the forwards.

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