World Cup Winner talks about Everton

If only the same attitude could be said of the English players who donÂ’t even come close to the German mentality of being "Winners".

Sadly the British mentality when it comes to sport will always be heroic failure.

After Lescott, it appears he swung to the other extreme and let anyone leave who wanted to.

We will probably regret this long term but let’s concentrate on who we are bringing in – not those we let go. All gone quiet on the Besic front and everywhere else...

Last-minute loan deals again?

Either way, itÂ’s a great story. And heÂ’s behaved with a bit of class in this interview. It would have been easy to say "Everton never gave me a chance and look at me now".

IÂ’d rather focus on the positive aspect (as he has) than the negative. In truth, he hasnÂ’t exactly proven us wrong yet; despite being on the fringes of an excellent national team, is he actually better than what we have? Would he have earned that experience with us? And players that even get to this level after getting dropped at a young age are very rare.

Good luck to him.

In the interview last week, Martinez seemed quite certain that we would "have two in before we play Leicester in Thailand on July 27, and another two before we play them on August 16". Make what you will of that but youÂ’d assume two would be Besic and Traore, along with Barry.

We are still waiting for that one big signing, most likely, hopefully itÂ’s the 20-goal-a-season striker, Lukaku or Bony perhaps? Unlikely to be either but fingers crossed...

We also need another wide player to bring some lightening pace like Deulofeu did (albeit cameos from him). I hope we can get something done.

I donÂ’t know about other fans but I wonÂ’t be too chuffed if our three summer signings are Barry, Besic & Traore. Nothing on those lads but they are not going to bring the added quality that we need to challenge the top 4.

Germans might be able to consider themselves lucky their only injuries were in positions they had depth. Like that unbelievable amount of talent they can put behind a striker.

Hmmm...well letÂ’s have a look shall we.

"Mustafi was originally left out of Joachim LowÂ’s squad, but an injury to Marco Reus opened the door to him. He was on the substitutes bench as Germany beat Argentina in the Maracana after sustaining a thigh injury against Algeria in the last 16 and today will take part in a civic reception in Berlin"

So in answer to your question, IÂ’ll say everyone on the planet didnÂ’t... including you.

By the way, hereÂ’s a mad idea: maybe, just maybe, Joachim Low is a better judge of a footballer than the ginger presbyterian, so when you say Â’he didnÂ’t impress hereÂ’ maybe that was because the person he was trying to impress thought Phil Neville could play in midfield and would have selected Ossie even if both his legs were broken (and on many occasions, it appeared...)

As for the Germans were ’lucky’ – dear me.

The second part may have been a dig at the fact that he came in to replace one of those unbelievable attacking midfielders they seem to be creating from thin air. A place they are well-stocked, as opposed to defence which I consider them to be slightly under-stocked, given they had to bring in the Sampdoria centre-half instead of a top-tier Champions League centre-half.

Sorry Jim Bennings, can't agree with the "glorious British failure" bit, there are many, many examples of British World Champions in many sports down the ages.

I suppose come late August we will here a statement from Bill saying all our transfer kitty has gone because the cost of Johnson's paint has gone up when painting the ground..oh dear

A little out of his depth at full back, in my opinion, but I think, if the Blues could rewind and have the boy back, IÂ’m sure things would be done differently. That said, it could be worse: we could have allowed Pique to go for around ٤m and Pogba to leave on a free –like a certain club did!!

Good luck to the lad, is my shout to him, and to all our fans, IÂ’d say "Be glad he left as we may not have bought Stones as a replacement, who, in my eyes, is miles better.