Lonergan agrees a 1-year contract extension

As soon as we've sold off the assets, we can start visiting pub teams for potentials 🤡🤡🤡 ru(i)nning the club. 😡😡

Now here is another, a 39-year-old keeper who hadn't played a game for nearly two years before we got him is signing a new contract.

Yippee, once again our squad is strengthened! What with all these academy players and 30-plus signings, surely we are safe for this season. Yes, I'm being sarcastic again.

Do you think we are being fattened up for the kill, or taken to the cleaners?

What makes you think anything is about to happen, takeover included. About the only thing we can bank on is a visit in October from the Independent Commission.

I've said before that, if we are still a Premier League club and solvent in a year's time, I'll be surprised. I don't expect anything from those two bastards – let alone anything good.

Thank God I support every single team on the planet that come up against the Red Shite, then at least I have something to fall back on.

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum and all that

Keep smiling.

Very soon, Usmanov will team with that bloke exiled in Belarus and the one Putin locked up and ride into Moscow to take charge of all Russia, withdraw troops from Ukraine, and hold democratic elections and be welcomed at Bramley-Moore Dock on his white charger, with Blue trimmings of course, and a big bag of money defying the powers that be to enforce P&S regulations. Moshiri will go back to his accounts and Bill will make a box office hit musical out of it with his Jenny playing the headlocked Denise.

Well, it will take at least something of that ilk to get us out of this present mess.

At least it means we can't possibly be thinking of selling Pickford. Right?

Negative, here?

Are you watching the cricket? Everton aren't providing the England selectors, are they?

Hang on, it is sad. If Kenwright makes a stage show out of this shit show, it has to be a comedy because otherwise no-one would believe it.

His other loans at Reading (2 appearances) and Sporting (1) were a waste of time.

Would our resident experts Sam or Robert have any thoughts on Joao's suitability as a replacement for Begovic?

He's got as much Premier League experience.

I'll bite. How on Dyche culpable??? He's only been here long enough to keep us up?

Or maybe you're one of the cover clogs that thinks he should have got us relegated?

Jog on.

This place goes beyond stupidity sometimes. Sometimes I think we've got the club we deserve when I read nonsense like that.

Because he's in charge of transfers and Donny should not have gotten a new 1-year contract.

We all have our opinions, Benny.

How do you know Dyche is in charge of transfers? By all accounts it's Kevin Thelwell and possibly Moshiri sticking his oar in for shits & giggles.

Where have you seen or read that Dyche is in charge of transfers? Please source your material.

I'm sorry, pal, but you blaming the one half-decent thing about our club based on conjecture makes no sense. Indeed it's a nonsense.

I stick by my words: when I read comments such as yours then I wonder if we've got the club we deserve.

I don't want hearsay, nor your opinion or poverty-stricken speculations, I want convincing evidence.

Hint, you won't be able to provide it.

If he keeps us up again then he must get freedom of the city!!

Although Dyche is likely to have some say in the matter on players he doesn't want. I can't see Chairman Bill selling players without Dyche's say so or Dyche could just walk.

Can anyone at Everton explain the reasoning behind this situation.

Nero did a better job looking after Rome than anyone seems to be doing looking after Everton’s affairs.

God help Dyche trying to get a squad together for next season.

Sean Dyche must have been the one who made those decisions. He doesn't strike me as a fella who would just stand by and let those decisions happen.

I don't have evidence, I have a gut feel that Sean Dyche is not going to just let anyone come to Everton if it's not been okayed by him. What's he tucking there for – to be a yes-man? I don't think so.

He will have the deciding say on who comes and goes into this club. If you believe otherwise then more fool you. Who the fuck takes a manager's job and then doesn't manage.

We have got the club we deserve but it's not because of posters on here with opinions.

I agree with Bobby, that no players will arrive or leave without the approval of Sean Dyche and the input of Thelwell.

Bill is only in charge of negotiations, once the player has been identified to arrive or leave, there will be absolutely no chance that Dyche, without consultation will allow anything else to occur.

If the directors or owner believe that they can play Football Manager with Dyche, I'm fairly certain that he wouldn't hang around to play their patsy and it would be beyond foolish for them to think otherwise.

Mind you, I did read somewhere that Bill would like to see Frank return, because he would be able to attract younger players to the club, but that was probably made-up nonsense from whoever wrote it.

Harry has to be a first choice goalie, otherwise he will become known as ‘the spare tyre-r’. Joking aside if he gets 40 odd games for Chesterfield next season going for promotion, that’s got to be better for his development than twiddling his thumbs on the bench for a year.

32 - 3 years younger and has some Premier League experience… 🤷