Brentford man is next to be linked

Brett Angell....

Oy ve, so we are shopping in the bargain basement bin already? Wake me up when it's Christmas.

I love the way were always linked with all the top teams' top players!

A nice young lad who is hoping tio improve with Brentford. I wish him well. He wonÂ’t be coming to Everton.

We seriously need to start making more ground in terms of bolstering the squad.

So far itÂ’s only two in and, one of those a free agent and the other was here the year before last.

We are heading off to Singapore in a matter of dayÂ’s, IÂ’d like a central defender added and a creative midfielder.

Go all out to get Dann from Palace if Ogbonna is out of the question now.

Can’t understand the negative comments trying to sign a lad with bags of potential. He’s exciting going forward and for his age has already played well in two positions and holds down an England place. I wonder who sneered when we bought some Irish no-name from Sligo for £60k?

Fair point, Charlie, but Stones and Coleman linked with two of the big boys. McCarthy is complaining about his contact with clubs circling. Mirallas looks to have had his head turned, and weÂ’re linked with proven League One players.

IÂ’d like to see some proven quality in positions we’re short plus young squad players.

Quite right, Charlie, but heÂ’d be daft to come here and not get five minutes on the pitch. Right now he is very eager to improve his game, including more efforts on goal, and IÂ’m looking forward to seeing how he develops with Brentford.

HeÂ’d never get a kick here. I agree with Harold. I think we should see how he develops with Brentford first before we waste money on him.

Come on Jim,

The transfer window hasnÂ’t even opened yet! Just because the RS have signed 6 odd players.

WeÂ’ve done good so far, hopefully by the end of the window I can say the same thing.

This guy wouldnÂ’t be a bad shout. I donÂ’t know much about him, but if his future is as a right back, then he would be a good understudy to Coleman. But rightly as Howard points out, if heÂ’s flourishing at Championship level, and we already have one of the best right backs in the league, he wonÂ’t want to come to warm the bench.

Ben! How on earth can you say we have done good so far? We have brought in Cleverley on a free and part-loaned, part-signed Delboy for very small money. We have let both Alcaraz and Distin go so that according to my calculations is two in and two out. The squad size remains the same.

We also have amongst that number players like Hibbert, Kone, McGeady, Gibson etc, who will play a very limited number of games. Our actual squad remains almost intact only one year older. Players like Osman, Pienaar, Barry and Howard need replacing and we are only producing defenders from our academy.

I reckon that the players we are linked with are no better than who we already have and still we are looking at freebees and loans to paper over the cracks.

I posted on a thread the other day that we should go for this lad. I have friends at both Orient and Brentford, and have heard nothing but positives about him.

Depressing that we still scrape the bottom of the barrel.

Trevor our squad doesnÂ’t need to get bigger, it needs to get better.

WeÂ’ve made two good signings (Why make the effort to belittle them?) and released two players who contributed nothing last season.

And the transfer window hasnÂ’t even opened yet.

If we can get him cheaply and understand he is not developed fully yet and may have to be loaned out for half a season, then fine, get it done. I fear that Everton is loading a squad with players with potential rather than proven skills and our next signings (aside from loans) need to be proven players to steady the squad on the pitch.

I think if we are going to lose Coleman that Cameron is available from Stoke and plays right back, right center-back, and right mid. May not be world class but is a USA international and talented. We need a proven player not another potential star in the making.