Updated: Blues linked with Capoue

Not happening, though.

Old Harry does more business than Del Boy everywhere he goes.

He seems to only move to clubs who don't mind spending money so he will never manage EFC.

Its a good job the media don't rely on us for transfer activity, the pages would be blank !

A significant correlation between this man and increased transfer activity at every club, especially bringing them in from abroad. The other one is Allardyce whose son just happens to be a football agent! It's not the value necessarily, or probably the need of the club, but the sheer volume of deals they do at every club they manage that causes me suspicion

We never did find out who the two Managers were that Sven was talking about in his secretly recorded conversation on that yacht did we?

I don't get why we are so slow in the market, surely we should have identified targets and started talks by mid month.

Now I am not asking for 15 million pound signings, but there are some real bargains out there, i.e. Diame from West Ham, Sissoko from France amongst others. Jela needs a bit of competition and needs a good right winger, as Mirallas has been out forever.

We definitely need to sort out the defence; I think part of that though is Howard on the wain (he seems to have no command of his area... Butland maybe). Also, a tough tackling midfielder.

I just hope Moyes has something up his sleeve, as all the teams directly around us are strengthening.

We may be one of the lowest spenders in terms of signing players every year, but that is because Moyes has already spent it all. The amount of cash we spend on players per season is probably more than most. There is nothing left to sign new players except what Moyes generates through turning over the playing staff, just like he did with Rooney, Lescott, Arteta, Bily, etc.

Personally I think he should quit griping about lack of cash, make use of what he has and generate funds by selling Heitinga(with his £3m a year salary) and anyone we get a really good offer in for. We don't need world cup finalist defenders who can barely get a game being paid a fortune to sit on the bench. We need a half decent centre mid so phil neville can be benched and someone with pace and trickery on the right wing. Cover can be made up by using our academy players.

I'd be delighted if BK buggered off tomorrow and was replaced by someone who really cared about the club, or was prepared to clear our debts and give us a pile of cash, but that's never going to happen. In the meantime, BK should definitely NOT be borrowing more money to give Moyes a few million quid extra to work with. Our club needs to live within its means, rather than spend while banking on a CL push and then do a Leeds.

You only have to look at todays BBC transfer window deals ("Strachan appointed Scotland manager...") to see that hardly any business is being done by anyone. There's been the odd loan signing, but apart from the usual culprits (e.g. Chelsea), the window hasn't exactly been busy.

Probably because no-one has any money to spend. The old days of being able to borrow dosh from the banks on the never-never are long gone. It's no coincidence that the busiest transfer windows coincide with the arrival of TV money for the next period.

So to moan about Everton being slow is a bit unfair, really.

Given the income they generate, neither Man Utd nor Arsenal flash their cash above their means. Liverpool appear to have wasted all of their "new ownership/honeymoon period" cash last season, the rest of the clubs are just as prudent as everton currently are. Ignore clubs that will desperately spend in an attempt to avoid relegation, thats just a gamble.

Look, I'd like to buy players too, but I think there needs to be some pragmatism from fans when looking at what we have/have not. We are in the same position as the majority of clubs in our division.

There is rarely spare cash in january. And thats how it should be - managers should have used all the available transfer funds in the summer, so that players can be bedded in and get a pre-season in. And be in their plans for the full season.

So when January buying action happens, its quite often down to unexpected player movements which has freed up cash. One transfer kicks off another, which leads to another, and then another...etc. In the absence of sales, its just loan signings which don't cost much. This is the way its always been pretty much, so I'm amazed at the incredulity over how quiet it's been.

Regarding QPR, I think they made a massive mistake by sacking Warnock and appointing that chequebook manager Hughes. How many of his signings have really performed at that club? Remy and M'Vila are decent players but they should have strengthened Warnock's promotion squad, not ditched them for a bunch of overpaid, uninterested has beens. In contrast look at how well Norwich and Swansea have done by trusting the core players from their promotion sides. Some want too much too soon!

Odjidja-Ofoe has been giving the manager trouble at Club Brugge so maybe he's another one with his bags packed.

Even without Fellaini, we still have a pretty good squad. They just need to be coached and used properly. We're still lying handy and it would be wrong for me to say that I haven't enjoyed the footy this season, because I have. Nevertheless, with so much money at stake, it's going to be a real no-holds-barred dogfight all the way.

As for new additions. I'm not the slightest bit worried We'll do fine. I'm an Evertonian so I can dream. It's what we do. A new tall commanding goalie would be fantastic but BK loves Howard. Someone who can supply constant crosses from the RIGHT wing. Mirallas and Coleman like to come inside. A strong midfield dynamo who can win the ball and move quicker than Gibson.. Odjidja or McCarthy perhaps. We missed out on Dembele... what a player.

Surely it's better to bring young players in rather than give jobs to the likes of Hahnemann, McFadden and now Hitzlsperger? We do not need other teams' cast-offs, it's embarrassing.

Lukaku and Livermore are both young and have distinct promise, especially Lukaku who has looked excellent at West Brom; he has more promise than either Wellbeck or Sturridge and would have been fantastic business. I'm sure we would have won quite a few of those drawn games if he had been up front for us.

Bringing in the three mentioned above has shown a distinct lack of real ambition. All are stopgaps and have not enhanced the team at all. I want us to keep the players we have and get in a couple of decent loan players like the two mentioned and stop wasting what little money we supposedly have on paying wages to crocks and has-beens.

As I understand it in order to get Lukaku WBA had to pay a loan fee in the region of £2 million for the season and also pay the players wages (estimated to be £30,000 a week). I doubt we could afford that during the summer when the loan was agreed.

Even loaning players has its cost, and if they are already considered Premier League quality that cost isn't insignificant!

Our friends across the park lost £5 million over all on Nuri Sahin!!!!

I didn't realise he controlled the money at the club as well as the players contracts... hmmmm, no wonder he gets paid so much a year, he does everything!

Just to add to Steve's point, I imagine its because of Steve Clarke's history with Chelsea as well. He was assistant to Mourinho for a while.

And with Livermore, well, aint that obvious? Spurs are probably our closest rivals to us, it wouldnt make sense for them to give us a player to improve our squad.

This Capoue is very good though, do hope we get him. He's that midfield dynamo we have been missing for a while.

I suspect that unless we make CL then this summer will see a bit of a clear out with high wage players (like Fellaini) making way for more affordable alternatives. Certainly we cannot carry on as we have been.

Could that be us? Would be a hell of a buy if we got him. Maybe getting a little too excited, but Moyes does always pull these loan deals out of the bag, and it is exactly what we're looking for in centre mid.

How about we penetrate the US and Asian markets more?? Why do we never have jerseys for sale anywhere?? After all of the bloody Americans that we've had over here, we should've been "America's Team". Instead, we haven't capitalized on any of it. (We signed Joe Max fucking Moore for crying out loud!)

20 years of Americans coming though the system yet it's Liverpool who have a fucking series on TV in America. Beyond ludicrous. We'd have a lot more money if we just had some brains.