Leeds accept Everton offer for Byram

Very good signing at £3m.

Stones may well move on soon – but stocks are looking good!

He should be ready to go straight away.

I understand we must plan for the future, but surely we have more pressing issues. Coleman is good for another 5 years!

Building a great young squad, in a short space of time, and also at a time when The Premier Lge has never been so poor. If you could start to get your system right, then anything is possible Roberto. because for the first time in a long time, their really is no standout team in England right now.

Got the boy we have wanted for ages!! RM is giving himself a real selection headache very soon!

I've rated this lad since he first emerged about 3 years ago. At that time the critics and newspapers were coming up with fees around £12M so I'm very happy we've got him for a relatively modest fee. Especially for a player who can also play on the wing.

I really think we're only a couple of players away from being a team that could win something. Buy Yarmolenko this window and give the fans and players the belief we can win the League Cup and move up the table.

Still a way to go on this, I think.

Sure someone who has the time can make a list of the no-marks who've gone for many times that in the last transfer window.

Versatile too and scores goals.

He's been one of the – if not the – best players at Leeds for some time.

Goalkeeper, left winger and striker more important, but too cheap to say no as far as Byram is concerned.

Very good piece of business. We're on the verge of something special here if this sort of youthful recruitment keeps up and Martinez can get keep them all, get them organised, motivated and to start collectively believing in themselves.

COYB!

I guess you're right, Joe. And of course, to the extent that the club does keep things quiet, people complain that we're not doing anything. Can't win.

I like Seamus but the lad Byram will be serious competition and that itself can only be good for Coleman and Everton.

I want two good players in every position at my club!

Going forward if we are targeting European qualification and the extra games that entails; we need quality back-up in each position on the pitch.

It's also great that the lad knows Seamus is the incumbent but still wants to come. Shows a lot of self belief.

It would be superb if we could get Yarmolenko in as well. But sadly I can't see that one happening. The Kiev president is too eccentric and the player himself apparently sees himself at 'a big club'.

And as an aside - well in Tim Howard. Life in the old dog yet?

Sorts out one of the weak positions (cover for Seamus) and the lad's versatility will help us too.

There's a rumour circulating West Ham are trying to gazump us with a players plus cash deal! Hopefully it's bollocks and it's all done and dusted tommorrow!

It can only be a positive move getting young talent in, only January as well. Got to give RM credit for his no-nonsense transfer dealings, if it happens.

Whilst Stones can play full back, I would prefer him in the centre especially as Jags also has injury problems and is getting up in age.

With Howard getting rave reviews last night, it would seem unlikely that we shall see Robles in the near future. Martinez now has a wealth of players to choose from in every position other than up front.

We are accumulating a fine crop of young talent. Next season is going to be a defining one for Everton FC.

Wonder what the transfer ban on Real Madrid for the next two windows (IF upheld) will do to the rumours of Stones being a target for them? Maybe he stays put. Move Stones to midfield with Besic, or teach him to defend as a center back, and along with this kid, Mori, Galloway, Garbutt, and Browning, the future defense looks good post Baines, Jags, and Coleman.

If Everton can get a striker in January then the only needs to be addressed in summer are a left-sided midfield/winger, a third striker, and Howard's future replacement as the No. 1 keeper. Wonder how much Udinese would want for either Meret or Scuffet? Perin would be good at 23 and is in the Italian National side but is valued at over 17 million Euros. Maybe get one in now before Roma locks up Scuffet.

We were having a discussion about Martinez's transfer dealings in the ale house the other night. If he sold all the players he has bought tomorrow, would he get back the £78M he spent on them?

We'd easily get £45-50M for Lukaku, but to the outside world Besic has only played three good games, would that be enough to tempt somebody into paying a fortune?

As for Bryam, excellent signing if this happens, Seamus will have to up his game which I'm certain he will.

1. Byram wanted to go to Everton. Talented youngsters want to play there. It feels really good when other players want to play for your team. How many times have we read this in the past year? Many.

2. As others have said. Give him some time: "You've got to give him a chance because he's still quite inexperienced," sad McDermott who oversaw Byram at Elland Road for a year and a half.

Ivanovic's future at Chelsea is far from secure and he has long been linked with Chelski.

This lad Byram is a ready to go player, which makes a welcome change to the defensive reinforcements RM has brought in previously. He has bags of experience in the Championship and will be well equipped/prepared for Premier League football.

Since RM's first season what exactly has Seamus contributed that wouldn't mean a bid of say £20m wouldnt be attractive? This is typical of Everton's business model.

On the back of the Euros and in his supposed prime Seamus's value will peak in the summer, move him on, push Byram in and allow Browning, Pennington and Holgate to compete to cover.

As for poor Hibbo, we haven't had a better all out defender at the club since Dave Watson, so get him in alongside Unsworth to help coach some of these exciting defensive prospects we have at the club currently.

What Roberto is building at Everton is simply "phenomenal". He's creating one hell of a footballing and economic model. Young and talented players who's ROI is simply off the charts percentage wise.

He may get some footballing, in-game things wrong but I'm squarely behind this man as his plan for Everton is superb.

What I really admire about Everton's style in buying player's is their respect for player's at other clubs. You never hear the talk about any other team's players at all. They also quietly monitor players, if necessary for quite some time, and the loan and see mentality works well, Barry, Deulofeu, Lukaku, Pienaar etc.

Nothing needs to be said about their invest in youth policy which is up there with the best in the country, if not the best.

Well done Roberto and the team behind the scenes.

Great signing, but no way will he be coming to sit on the bench as Coleman's cover. He has been playing week-in & week-out in front of passionate Leeds fans in a bloody tough league. He's coming believing that he can force his way into the first team.

Buying a young player with considerable experience and potential will likely see Coleman moving on within the next 18 months.

My guess is that he'll get close to that figure with a few provisos.

Lukaku will go in the next couple of years, hopefully for two thirds of your figure. The rest of it is wrapped up in ifs. Will Galloway and Besic develop? If so, sales with outstrip fees paid. Will Funes Mori build on his good start in England? If so, his value will increase.

Seems to me Martinez makes two types of signings: the short-term quick-fix (Barry, Kone, McGeady, Atsu, Lennon, out of which Barry and has been the only success) and the ones for the future (Lukaku, Robles, McCarthy, Besic, Deulofeu, Galloway, Funes Mori, Holgate).

The second group is the one where we'll make any profit, so only time will tell with them. Hopefully we'll also buy more players for right now, which will increase your £78m considerably.

The other question is whether we should be aiming to make a profit on player deals? Makes good business sense to me, but how many of the clubs above us do this regularly?

Meanwhile, our 'directors' will be happy, knowing that they got £32m back for Fellaini and Anichebe and are sitting on a potential windfall for Lukaku and Stones.

Get him signed we don't want to lose this player.

"He's first in the building and he's the last out. On days off, he comes in and he makes sure his recovery is right. He's always with the staff stretching and being prepared for training and when he trains, he trains with real intensity and real quality so I'm not surprised that people want to take him."

The story goes on about this.

I also don't believe that Yarmolenko will come to us. For the reason that we can afford him.

Why are we always broke?

We seem to be masters at identifying players and then watching on as others take the initiative and steal the player from under our noses. Even if it means paying a little extra to get the deal done quicker it is worth it. The Yarmolenko deal is a great example of this.

The whole world knows we have wanted him for about a year now. We are trying to haggle over his price instead of just paying what their chairman wants.

I know it sounds a bit blasé but we may save about £2 or 3 million if we're lucky. Just pay the full amount before somebody else does!

We have to accept the fact that these days deals don't happen overnight. Lots of people want a piece of the pie and until everyone is happy we will just have to wait.

If he does eventually sign for another club, then they must have offered him a better deal than we did. Such is life. We don't break our wage structure just to get another player.

This young and talented team needs one more year to gel. Hope we get it.

Glad to see everyone has a positive attitude.

Why is it never straight forward, and other clubs in the mix now?

What are we waiting for I wonder? Maybe some money from the sale of Naismith?

That is reserved for the Champions League clubs who play 60 odd games a season. Every season.

Looks like we'll be cashing in on Seamus, which obviously makes sense financially given our outlay and his age, but I'll be sad to see him go. A real rarity these days, Coleman has been a fantastic signing for us.

Up there with Cahill and Arteta as the best value for money signings of the 'Moyes Era'.

I should think he'll sign for us over West Ham. We've moved on a lot since the dark days of Walter Smith when we couldn't even persuade Steve Lomas to sign for us.

Gut feeling is that we've not offered quite enough wages to make it a dream move financially... doubled his Leeds money, I suspect, but looking at things he's not one of our seemingly endless "reserve development" buys that we often never see on the pitch for the first team. He's a proven performer at the level below us and has a lot of game experience in a tough league. There's an element of gamble, yes, but he's got to be worth what feels more than a "punt" at £4m and maybe £30k pw?

Fingers crossed it's done Saturday, not bloody Monday, by which time half the league will be in for him and all offering more wages whilst we "refuse to be blackmailed"... sigh

Alternatively, lots of worry about bugger all. He's been tapped up for months... is hidden away in the Marriott, Queens Square right now and will be ours before you can say "Will we ever do lighting-strike surprise deals ever again, like we used to about a hundred years ago?"

I don't think any one was looking to make a profit, I think the guys were trying to gage weather Martinez has been a success with his transfer dealings.

Many were critical of the boss's signing (including me) but the Lukaku gamble seems to have paid off; while others dithered, Martinez acted. Besic seemed to be out of favour, but he too looks like he could very easily become a £20m + player.

I think it would be churlish to say all of Martinez's young signings have been gambles; there is always a gamble when you are buying potential, if it backfires he gets lambasted, he should therefore be credited for his judgement if that potential is realised and I'm happy to do so.

I was worried about his early signings (still not 100% convinced by Macca) but the second intake has been better.

For me, he is just about breaking even at the moment, but as you quite correctly point out, there is more than a hint of a chance that value of players signed will continue to rise.

Fair play to him.

The agent will have leaked the "bid accepted" news to alert other clubs. He alerts other clubs so he gets time to gauge the market value, including what wages he can get for his client. All part of the process we are going through.

It surprises me that people are still surprised by this. It's how it is these days.

Relax. He will come to us or he won't. I'd say he likely will. All fans can do is watch it play out, sadly.