Ancelotti plans on Kean and Gbamin being important figures next season

Moise Kean doesn't want to return, he wants to stay at PSG or return to Juventus. If PSG pay an acceptable fee he will go. King looks like he will go too. So I would say we seriously need to be scouting and sourcing replacements right now.

With regards to the midfielder, we all want Gbamin to come good but how can we build our season around him? Allan and to a lesser extent Doucoure will not play a whole season in the central midfield.

We need a massive shift in pace, goals, assists and dynamism from our midfield or we will not progress and likely to remain in our mid table quicksand.

We need some pace , quality and more goals up front from a right sided forward Sarr? , Bailey? we need a right back Aarons? without any doubt.

But above even these two absolute necessities we have to address the perpetual slowness, sideways and back passing of our midfield. It's inability drive forward with the ball and it's turgid, self defeating conservatism, lack of imagination, speed of thought and risk aversion.

Two midfielders with the qualities of Buendia, Ward-Prowse (or can Brands source even better than them two ) are needed to change the whole nature of how our midfield operates. We need that dynamism faster passing and forward drive, and goals and assists from midfield to progress.

Is this an acknowledgment that Gomes, Sigurdsson and Delph are going nowhere? And as a result of that no new faces can come in? Or is it about keeping any suitors honest?

To say we are relying on Gbamin to rescue what is the poorest functioning midfields in the Premier League and possibly in Everton's entire history is naive in the extreme.

The possibility of Gbamin being a success less than 20% in my book. There's far far too many variables , to put our eggs in that basket is sheer folly. Any success from Gbamin has to be treated as a bonus and can definitely not be relied upon.

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I just want to publicly state which positions we are absolutely desperate to get cover or replacement and how much money we have to spend. I am also glad that Mr Brands will have to conduct the negotiations with the other clubs who now they realise whether we are just fishing or whether we are absolutely desperate to buy their player at almost any price. Marcel, do you want to add anything to my statement?

I am so glad that you lot are not doing the press conferences and I am also so upset that you were never the salesmen sitting on the opposite side of the desk when I was doing my buying job. And if any of you would like to play poker with me, please let me know but I need assurances that you will play by the rules you have set out above and put all your cards on the table face up.

It is still going to take two or three transfer windows to get what Carlo/Marcel wants and hopefully we can then in two years time can say we have the quality to challenge Europe

All we need now is to know Mr Brands thoughts on how much they won't be fetching.

Remember our surprise when he finally announced the signing of James Rodriguez and some kid called Godfrey?

It's all in the past now, so let's just try and get top dollar like other clubs do and not undersell. He is a wanted player, and Rooney and Lukaku went too cheaply IMO.

I agree that what is said to the press may only be for the benefit of certain players and not necessarily the plans that will be carried out.

At least that's what I'm hoping!

The season is practically over, unless we go on a 5 game winning streak (still stupidly dreaming) I'm more interested in what players we bring in and dispose of in the summer.

Having watched Kean for PSG he's a lucky boy to get so much game time.

If people thought Lukaku was raw when we signed him then Kean is about half as 'developed'. IMO he's another season or 2 away from being Premier league quality. £50M YES PLEASE!

Roll in next season..

I remember players like Desailly, Petit and, more recently, Giroud saying they would only play for London clubs for the glamour and social scene. Even Abby Clancy had a nervous breakdown when Crouchy left London to play for Stoke!!

So to some, location is everything.

Midfield-wise, James and Sigurdsson fill the Number 10 slot and that won't change, I think, but we need another Doucouré badly. Gbamin could be that but, as others have said, it'll be hard for him to come back.

Centre-back I'm happy with and the whole Koulibaly rumours don't make sense to me unless Financial Fair Play is scrapped and we go for the jugular.

In an ideal world I'd love Aarons, Lamptey, Leon Bailey, Bissuma, Rabiot and maybe the lad at Barnsley or Ivan Toney as an understudy to Calvert-Lewin but, whilst FFP is a thing, it'll rely on freeing up wages and selling players. Tosun being crocked again is a mare.

We could sell Walcott, Bernard, Besic, Kean, maybe Iwobi and I can see Gordon going too.

Who knows!

I think it's a big pity we did not give Kean a fair crack of the whip.

If he did go to Celtic she ain't gonna even take to somewhere nice (but very cold) Loch Lomond.

Pickford / Romero
Aarons / Kenny
Godfrey / Holgate
Keane / Mina / Branthwaite
Digne / Nkounkou
Allan / Davies
Rabiot / Loftus-Cheek / Gbamin
Doucoure / Gana / Onyango
James / Isco
DCL / Kean
Richie / Zaha

6 in too much to hope for? Probably...but 3 on free maybe, one on loan. Maybe Kean out and Toney in to help fund.

Whether Moise Keane has suddenly become the player we all thought we were getting, or as I suspect the boy has had a mixture of raw talent and opportunism. The fact (?) remains that he clearly didn't, after initial settling in, either appear or display that he wanted to be here.

I know many would say that was because he wasn't being played enough, but do we, as fans know what goes on behind the scenes in training at Finch Farm? I know also that Carlo has made some peculiar first team starting and substitution choices, but is there a reason for it, or is he doing it for some other motive?

Gbamin, who we all hope and pray has seen this third and slightly more minor injury, add to an almost unbelievable catalogue of bad luck, or again is he one of those players who seem to be more at home in the Treatment Room than on the pitch playing?

Obviously Gbamin's injury problems could be a factor yet again and Kean won't have Neymar or Mbappe alongside him when he does play. He had his chance to do his own thing here but didn't show anything of merit.

Carlo must be cash strapped if he is not going into the market as what we have is a big bunch of underachievers.

I do hope they have already made up a list of experienced people they will let go on free transfers and then we can get some youngsters into the team.

Time will tell if these comments are his real thoughts though, but just looking at our bench last night compared to Spurs is a true state of just how bad our very bare and mediocre squad is, compared to our nearest rivals in the Premier League.

Of course he's going to say that Kean is an important part of his plans. If you can't see through that, and the reasons behind what he says, then I've got some magic beans to sell – 50% discount to Evertonians.

Big summer for Marcel and the owner needs to look long and hard before offering any sort of new contract. No matter how much Niagra Falls is blubbering next to him.

That's Buendia, Cantwell and Aarons. They play great football, they move with pace and they should, in theory, boost our goals from midfield numbers.

Surely we'll get £30-odd million for Kean, the TV money and the wage bill should be drastically reduced with Besic, Tosun, etc leaving.

We might even get a few quid for Delph!!!!

Most clubs from man city downwards will be looking to strengthen. Keeping the same ie staying still is taking a step backwards if all around you are improving.

Hoping 2 or 3 injury ravaged players will stay fit and take us from top 10 to challenge the top 4 is foolish. We all know it so I'm really looking forward to see what other top class players we bring in to support James.

He's always 2 steps ahead but there's no one else on or near his level so he joins in having to slow play down or playing backwards.

I'd love Hazard or similar, a player that can create, score and take on and go past a player or two.