Transfer Deadline Day

It's embarrassing to be a fan... the players and all connected to our club are laughing all the way to the bank.

Have we had one decent 90 minutes of football this season???

There's even this quote "Sam Allardyce told the press that exploiting his weakness was key to West Ham United’s strategy in their 2-1 win over City on Saturday."

Sign him up.

His comments were all about Man City not protecting him.

Your post is a prime example of today's people in general. Reading headlines and speaking without a fact in mind.

Williams's & Jagielka's days are gone; Holgate lacks experience and is not a first team player yet. Funes Mori is still way off match fitness, so this guy could partner Keane for the remainder of the season. He's strong, experienced, and played Premier League football.

Why can't we support our team and welcome players, rather than chew them up before they've even donned the jersey.

I think you will find Sam referred to letting Manama have the ball.
He was never going to fit in at City with his ability on the ball.
Good defender.

"Why can't we support our team and welcome players, rather than chew them up before they've even donned the jersey?"

Agreed... but where's the fun in that? :)

In the modern day game, with a match day squad of 18 plus possibly others who may have been selected travelling, so up to say 20 players involved, there are always 6 who have not played.

The issue with ours and many other teams' squads is that unless you have players who can't be left out of a team for obvious reasons, you are left with a huge squad of disgruntled players.

So loan them out, keep them fresh, and then take a decision in the summer.

Am I the only one who thinks we can still get relegated this season. All the bottom 3 sides are showing signs of improvement where as we are regressing and are finding our antiquated style of "agricultural" football has seen its day in the top flight and is easily undone.

Not buying a left back for instance can only be described as Gross Negligence by the powers that be, Kenwright is stinking the place out at this stage and there needs to be a concerted effort by the local Blue fans to get shot of this guy

Easy for me to say from the sofa in Dublin, I know, but you guys are the only ones who can put together a concerted effort to ignore the always favourable spin Blue Bill gets by the media and protest and demand he step down and, for want of a better phrase, fuck right off!

It doesn't look like any signings will happen now though.

Loans with the option to buy are the way forward. Think all the players we bought in the summer. Had they be loans we wouldn't be £200 million worse off.

Give the guy a break and actually wait to see him in a blue shirt before judging. This is the reason we have written Klaassen off and still play every game, regardless of opposition with two defensive midfielders.

Obviously failed to find out who was behind those signings – doesn't sound like us does it?

It is indeed a funny old world...

I'd take almost anyone at the moment, we are a joke and everyone knows it. It will be a long time until we get rid of the shit players and bring in better ones; sadly we need patience that we don't have... Sigh.

I am gobsmacked at how much the club has disturbed the minds of lots of fans.
Or is it just the fact they can spout stupidity just because they have a keypad? br>Its sad and awful to see as a fellow fan. It used to be the others across the way that spoke before a brain cell was awake.

Are you genuinely gutted we'd letting players who've proved utterly ineffectual (and whom you've been balling out at the start of the season) go?
Are you clamouring for Klaasen, Ramirez and Besic in the starting lineup? Seriously? Or are you outraged we may be letting David Henen and Galloway go on loan?

I can understand that splashing £40-odd million on Tosun and Walcott up front, hanging onto Niasse and looking at the prospect of adding an experienced left-sided premier league defender would outrage any fan. I mean what IS the board playing at...sigh

Were's the fun in supporting our players!!! Beam me up, Scottie.

I don't want to spoil anybody's fun but I take football seriously, like many others. If I sat and thought "Let's type 'Mangala useless' into my toolbar," I would instantly get up and do something else.

What a life.

This does smack of a complete gamble.

Talking of which, I heard Mourinho was talking about potentially loaning out Zlatan, no pace but a goal scorer. I'd take a chance on him.

Sam said on TalkSport this morning he was expecting one in on loan and possibly one out. Sandro and Mangala could be the sole bit of business.

Way back in the field he's too old, slow, small guy.

Oh he's gone, Steve Walsh fallen at the first hurdle, was strongly fancied when taking the reigns.

The clock is ticking, I am sure we will have an outright winner later, whipping boy and not good enough for me.

In his reign, we have wasted so much money on transfers, sold some of our most gifted players for peanuts, and replaced them with hacks, most of the Premier League clubs seem to pick up gems. Clubs like Monaco, Dortmund actually challenge the big guys by doing it; why is it we only get everybody's dregs and has-beens?

The Everton Board of Directors... Christ, why is it you can't see what every Everton fan sees, week-in & week-out? The team are playing the worst football by any Everton team I can recall in my 52 years of supporting Everton!!!

I can't think of any game this season that you could say at the end of the game, "Yeah, we dominated and outplayed them today."

We have had a lot of lucky results; it only takes for the luck to run out and guess what? We have a lot of expensive wage earners we can't get rid off.

I pray we can one day play football again and enjoy watching Everton.

Hate isn't strong enough a word, for anybody who begins a post with "am I the only one"

I couldnt agree more bring back the death penalty I say, Adding it in the second paragraph on the other hand is perfectly acceptable of course ;)

"am I the only one" & "don't you just hate it" are pretty close I would find

Wish I could forget that easily too.

I'm glad the Rugby's back – might divert some of the attention away from what will surely be another mauling, as the side sit deeper and deeper.

We have brought in Cenk Tosun who looks a decent player and can hopefully improve with a few more games under his belt, whatever you think of Walcott he has scored goals in this league and at 28 still has an awful lot to contribute. Outgoings have been acceptable, I have no problem with Lennon going, especially if we gained financially and it will hopefully free up some minutes for Lookman to get onto the pitch. Klaassen can go, looks as though he has a good football brain, but physically he is not up to the mark, weak on the ball and no pace. Bit gutted about Sandro, hasn't really been given enough chances, but we don't see him everyday at training so there may be a reason for it.

I think one thing that this window does highlight is that we are a VERY long way from challenging the top 4. We are nowhere near the standards of the big clubs, on the pitch or off it, even with a billionaire backer. Look at Arsenal as an example, they lost their best player to Man Utd, got Mhkitaryan as part of the deal and have now broke the bank for Aubameyang, all of which will probably convince Ozil to sign a new contract. That is how a big club does it. We on the other hand sell Lukaku for a record fee and replace him with Rooney and an unproven Spain U21 striker, for good measure we then spend the best part of £100m on Davy Klaassen, Michael Keane and Gylfi Sigurddsson. It just doesn't match up.

This season started with so much expectation and we're all just deflated. We need to just get through the season and get in a manager that can play the football we want to see.

Good to see Morgan has another career option though as he's not much of a footballer !

But in our hearts we remain optimists about the future of the club, which means for some of us we hope and expect that we will soon be doing better than having messrs Kenwright, Elstone, Walsh and Allardyce running this great club. That might come across to you as derogatory but it is simply a strongly held belief that we can do a lot better than this.

The real worry in the reducing of the size of the squad:- by off loading non Moshiri involvement players and not addressing the actual weaknesses in the team.

By off-loading promising younger players that where brought in and those coming through the ranks. These players are readily accepting and in some cases asking to leave. Its obvious they don't see there future with Everton Football Club. They won't be back.

What are we left with after this transfer window's unsightly rush of loans?

Allardyce's:
Unsuccessful tactics;
Under-performing players,
Obvious weak areas in the team;
Motivated, good-performing players no longer available – or gone;
Youth development policy and future evaporating before our eyes. . .

I’m not going to rule Tosun out yet but we have paid big money for a striker to instantly score goals and add firepower to this season, if another three or four games pass by with no decent contribution from him then I think fan frustrations (not so much at Tosun but the board) will start being heard for again throwing considerable money on a “unknown risk signing”.

Anyway let’s just see how things develop.

Slimani would of hit the ground running maybe but we’ve a few new players and others back from injury so let’s see what Allardyce does with the players who looked even worse under both Koeman and Unsy.

I agree, the juries out on Tosun. On the little we've seen he looks a grafter who can bring others into play but we needed a striker who can guarantee goals and Tosun is still a huge gamble in that respect! There were questions over Giroud's pace and age but he would have got us goals and would have been the target man to get the most out of Sigurdsson's dead ball ability. Like you say though, it was never going to happen when his missus put the kosh on anything happening.

And on what we could have won. It makes you wonder why we never tried to make a big offer on Mahrez. His stocks risen again but I'm sure Leicester would have bitten our hands off for the money we spent on Sigurdsson last summer. Mangers usually raid their ex clubs for the best players. Steve Walsh isn't a manager but he's responsible for transfers. I don't know why we didn't have a go. That goes for Vardy to a lesser extent too.

Shame about Callum Wright. Don't blame him though. It looks like our model now is to buy younger players, emulating Chelsea, who farm them out and sell them for profit. No a bad thing, but I think the days of us bringing in players like Stones, Holgate and DCL for little and fast tracking them into the side will happen less and less. Plus we've currently got a manager who is sceptical of playing youngers players when not necessary.

Perhaps he'll shine given we bought other team's good/best players only for then to flop. Let's hope.

Everton rejected a swap deal offer from Inter Milan including Marcelo Brozovic & Morgan Schneiderlin, according to Sky Italia

Seriously? What do managers actually see in Schneiderlin?