I don't want this to be too negative but I'm struggling to find the positives. Preparation wise I thought we were going to get the players in early and get them settled (Moyes words). What happened to that?

We've struggled so far this season. It appears we made a last ditch bid for Krancjar last night (why wasn't this done a month back) and Bentley's in talks with Man City (not sure he'd be the answer).

I'd like a right side midfielder, right back and back-up centre half. Would love to know what goes on in Moyes's/BK's minds and what they're playing at. I hope they've got some Aces up their sleeves...

So where is the rest???

Wouldn’t it be just great if somehow Everton stumped up the €15m Valencia want for Banega and we signed him with seconds to spare, or signed anyone decent with seconds to spare for that matter?!!!

Heitinga is a class player, first choice for Holland and Atletico Madrid, now in an Everton shirt. He will undoubtedly improve our quality of play. Distin was a very solid signing and will give us a solid defense until Jagielka gets back, and then provide options at that point. Diniyar comes with praise from his Russian manager Hiddink who’s opinion I will take before many people posting on a forum.

So we’ve replaced Jacobsen with Heitinga, a huge improvement. Lescott with Distin, just about as good in my opinion and at a very good price. And Van der Meyde with Diniyar, who just by the fact that he is actually still a professional footballer is a huge improvement.

What a wanker... where's the money, you cunt?!?!

Haaaa fantastic, I’m going to do one on the Messi page, say his mother was a prostitute from Toxteth, and got knocked up in the 70s, hey it could have happened.

Mark my words, come January, we will get the usual, "we dont like doing business in January" blah blah blah... Another Midfielder would have been nice. But then again Kenwright did get rid of Peter Johnson....

Or according to Simon Walker, you can be a fucking idiot by thinking we should sign players of Defour's and Banega's quality when we've got Osman!!!!!

At the end of last season I thought we might push for 4th this season but the temporary form of Spurs & big spending City has kind of tempered that feeling, I honestly think we want to be looking at another 3 or 4 years of consistent Europa qualification and a domestic cup in that time, all the while improving then hopefully breaking into the top 4. You gotta work to your means and our means ain’t much.

I never said I think Osman is good, I just said that I think he might look better when he’s not playing in front of Hibbert, that’s until Bily can add some weight cos he looks proper lightweight to me, I could be wrong and he’s a right little tricky fecker but he just looks like he’s get muscled off everything right now.

Personally I am sick of the lies that eminate from our luvvie chairman and can categorically state I will not be going to some medium ranged ground in Kirkby. Wonder how quick it will be before Billy Bullshits 8 year, 24/7 search for invest comes after we have moved.

I'd like the chairman to tell us were the money is going to (Sky, Kitbag, Sponsor), even if he tells us... YES it is ring-fenced for our virtually free stadium.

On a positive note, gotta be happy with who have come in, for a central midfielder though. Kranjcar was a missed opportunity...

Let’s believe in Moyes because I think this could be his last year before he gets fed up of the Bull from Billy! He’s been 80% right in the past!

One more thing: Never, Ever do I wanna deal with Valencia again... In the past we had the Fernandes fiasco and now Banega? We must have been given some sort of green light to loan him before we got the work permit so I don’t see why they changed their mind so dramatically, AGAIN!

There must have been at least 10 million more available to Moyes considering the bids put in for players before the Clingon money came on tap. What will now happen to that. I’ll tell you, you’ll never see it again made available for players. It will probably swell the coffers of destination Kirkby, which will no doubt please a few on here or maybe not.

Get used to it and get over it.

My concern is bolstering the midfield with the kind of strength, speed and skill necessary to compete with the rest of the Prem. We have already seen the frailties that exist and was so apparent against Wigan.

I like Pienaar but he is far too often put on his backside by fouls and without Arteta we waste so many of the free kicks he has gained. Osman, Cahill and Fellaini lack the tackling qualities and the speed to chase back when necessary.

This is the area where we will continue to struggle unless this Russian lad has something special to offer.

Moyesey in fairness signed three players of quality over a week; they all have a decent number of caps for their countries, and two of them will get a lot more. Two left footers to boot (pardon the pun), with Distin a virtual like-for-like defender. He's older, yes; he's more experienced, yes... and he was only about a quarter of the Lescott fee (take off Wolves' 10%).

£20 million for three players and not an Aquilani or a sprained ankle anywhere. Surprisingly a day when we paid the most for a player and all the top four were quiet, which made a nice change. I'm actually typing this one hour after the deadline and that guy Burton (with the moby on Sky Sports News), is enthusing over the Heitinga signing.

Bily will actually change the way we set our stall out, which will be nice, add Jags in and now we are looking strong at the back, so I for one look forward in anticipation; keep smiling our kid.

The EFC Board have therefore got away with a summer of negative investment. Please sell up as soon as possible in November when the outcome of DK is finally known.

I have Lescott, and maybe you could throw Jacobsen in there with his I think 5 appearances last season. Other than those two, very generous two, who are the other three first teamers? Please don’t tell me you’re including Valente and Van der Meyde in that, because they were not first team players. Castillo I suppose you could say was a first team option, but he also hardly played.

Meanwhile, we have brought in Jo, Heitinga, Bilyaletdinov and Distin. These four players are replacing Lescott, Jacobsen, Valente, Van der Meyde and Castillo. That is a huge improvement made to our team. And we also signed a few very promising youngsters in Garbutt, Mustafi, and one from the end of last season. We’ll have to see how they develop, but they were signings and money spent.

And add to that the fact that Rodwell is now an established first team player, when last season he was not. Gosling is a first team player, when last season he was not. This is not negative investment if you take the time to actually look at it player by player. We have a far stronger team this season than last.

Personally, I am quite pleased with the outcome as Lescott's best blue days were as left back anyway, when he got his favoured position back he was no better than most central defenders in the league.

But it does not hide the fact Billy Bull has got out of jail, milked a big transfer and that player will get all the stick whilst he will come out of his hideaway the next time we have a good run. I am just waiting for Ken Doddy to post how Bill yet again found the funds...

You seem to be making out that it's just the way it is, we’re skint. It's nobody's falt, how could I possibly think we could have some money to spend on players. The point is we did have some money to spend and we didn’t spend it. Another £10 million player may just have bought us that bit of class that may have made a difference to our season. I just think it is another wasted opportunitly.

So it’s well done to Davey and congrats to Chairman Bill for once again being true to his word — every penny went back in signings!

All my worst fears are coming true under Kenwright: we sold Rooney, we failed to build on a 4th place finish, we’ve failed to build on a 5th place finish, we’ve sold Lescott, we’re moving to Kirkby. If he sells Rodwell in the near future, I swear I’ll buy a gun!

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever felt this let down. Here we were in a fantastic position to build after last season and Kenwright has not been able to back his manager in the transfer market. It’s time to go.

5 years on and we still have to play 4-5-1 because we can't combine 2 of our midfielders to be effective in a 4-4-2. Or we can't adapt to play 4-3-3... IF — and it's a big if — Heitinga & Bily solve our problem areas of right back & right midfield, the money which some of our fans believe we have to spend in January must be spent on a powerful midfielder.

And, speaking at a press conference ahead of Thursday’s Europa League play off second leg against Sigma Olomouc, Moyes said he is confident Everton are making headway in their pursuit of additional new faces.

"I would be disappointed if we didn’t get at least four, maybe more," he said.

Well, he got two 1 that’s at least two players less than "four, maybe more." Maybe he was stiffed, and disappointed, by the board.