New owners. New stadium. New chapter. Don't blow this opportunity, Everton.

I don't know who will come and who will leave, but let's start on the right foot.

If so, yeah.

He was voted Championship Player of the Season.

Alcaraz is £15M, but they're chipping that fee payment structure.

Hamer I'd think is sub £20M. He isn't going to want another season in the Championship. It's just whether someone offers him silly money from Leeds, Burnley or Sunderland.

For £35M, it would be a sensible way to spend some of the money. They'd settle quickly.

Spend the other £65M on two players of good quality in wide right and striker, and a couple of loans.

I like the optimism though and hope your figure of £100M rebuild budget is accurate.

Perhaps he thinks Soucek is a better option down the middle.

The Friedkins have the cash and, if PSR is in for next season rather than squad-cost ratios, then the increased revenue covers a £20M amortisation charge (£100M over 5-year contracts).

Never seen him centrally, always seemed wide left whenever I saw him for both Villa and City.

Free the lad and he will produce.

Doesnt last the full game

Over weight and not fit enough

Bad disciplinary record

Injury problems.

That said, player of the year in the Championship.

Plenty for Davy to work on there.

Cant see us pay anywhere near £30m for Doaks, remember Brewster ? Liverpool rarely slip up releasing young players or the over inflated price they get for them, one to swerve.

It is a risk, and the question I always ask of any transfer, is why are they letting a player who is good, leave? Often due to the player wanting regular starts, still a big chunk of the budget to splash out on potential!

Hamer looks like a good Championship player but he's hit his ceiling. Alcaraz is definitely an upgrade.

Might disagree with you on Hamer. He's only 27 and Moyes will definitely get him in top shape. Good gamble for me.

John #19, the Alcaraz option is still in place through Saturday. Only the obligation to buy has expired.

He managed just 4 goals for Southampton in a lot of appearances last season as they finished bottom of the Premier League... and they want £60M for this "Saints prodigy Tyler Dibling"???

They are 'avin' a larf, methinks.

It’s been refreshing seeing Spurs and Utd have such shitty league seasons, and other teams getting a look in. It would be great if that could be us next season with hopefully a bit of luck and aggression in the transfer market to bring in a few exciting signings.
Would like to see Cherki sign but Hamer wouldn’t be a bad alternative.
Surprised not more rumours about Walker peters or Lamptey as free right backs.

Nick Woltemade, striker at VFB Stuttgart is interesting. 17 goals in 35 matches, 6'6" and reportedly on 23k/week.

Kylian Mbappé!!!?

Erm... no, actually Maureen Mbappé, she’s a 17-year-old Cameroon international, but I should probably add there’s another 15 clubs after her, including Inter and Barcelona… Actually, I should probably (ie, definitely) add that I just made all that up and the player doesn’t even exist.

"Well what was the point of that, you daft twat?"

I’ll explain: This summer, there’s no World Cup finals; and no Euro finals.

This is always a bit of a problem imo, because when there’s no (proper?) summer football – apart from an England World Cup qualifier against Jibrovia and/or Everton playing a friendly against the Mississippi Oven Chips (in The Biloxi Soup Bowl) – newspapers and websites are under (even) more pressure to fill gaps.

And when they’re under pressure for ’content’ (?), the level of buIIshit reeeaaally increases.

"Delap to turn blues down!" – Monty Trousers, The Mirror

Now a story like that might turn out to be true, or... it might not (50/50, I suppose) but remember, when Monty (or whoever) writes these stories, they don’t give a toss whether they’re true or not – when they’ve filled that empty space, it’s job done and… “Huzzah, large ones all round!”

No one ever takes them to task or fires them. So what can we do? Simply this – ignore all the nonsense.

100% fact: Moyes and Everton will sign a few players this summer and miss out on a few others. When players are pictured wearing a blue shirt (with a Castore logo hanging off it) you’ll know they’ve deffo signed. Until then… relax.

If you ignore every transfer story linked to Everton this summer, your general health and stress levels will benefit. And if you can’t completely ignore them, at least look for the tell-tale signs letting you know ‘this ‘story’ is defo bollocks.’

What should you look for? What (specifically) will let you know - ’This lazy hack twat is just making up shizzle’?

Certain phrases you’ve seen a million times…

’An insider yesterday informed us..’
’Sources close to the player...’
’Friends believe...’
’Those close to the player think..’
'It’s believed the player won’t be...’
’Club officials are thought to be...’
Etc etc et-bleedin-cetera.

It is all hack-speak for "We know nothing, but we’ll take a guess, then we’ll present our guesses as fact and hope you mugs swallow it."

It could be a long old summer. Up to you how much of it you spend reading invented shiiiiiiiiite.

Up The Toffees! ’Go on, Maureen Girl!!’

Okay, I'll also get me coat🥸

There are a few players who will soon be free agents like GKs Robin Olsen and Freddie Woodman who would be great backups for Pickford. Tariq Lamptey is also available who can play either side as fullback. A very talented albeit injury prone player. Walker-Peters definitely worth a shout as well (as others have mentioned)

No, please.

If BMD is not ready for opening day, can't we just play at Goodison in the meantime?

Joking apart, this is embarrassing if true.

We have to have a third test event yet before we can "officially" use the stadium that I would imagine has to be somewhere near capacity.

The obvious one would be a pre-season game so, if we can't use the stadium in early August for that, I'm not sure what sort of event, or when they could hold one, to get the certificate once the season has started.

I've thought and posted for a while now that my fear is that the headlines after the first game will be about off the pitch issues and also that the stadium will not be ready.

There are going to be loads of teething problems so I guess we'll just have to be patient and hope it's ready before the weather starts to turn.

Please don't tell me they've fecked up and provided enough lockers for every bleeding player?

Where have these rumours come from?

I would have thought if true, the club would have announced it.

We've sold season tickets, so I doubt very much our first game of the new season won't be at the Everton Stadium on Bramley-Moore Dock.

Same as in offices. More people than desks. Same here. First to arrive gets a locker. Only 8 in each changing room. Last 3 to arrive, plus all the subs have to change in the toilets. They can ring in and say they do not need a locker as they will be playing in their back garden this week but not admitting they will be watching Sky Sports on the tele or being sly and actually being on Football Manager on the PlayStation.

That is such a good idea, I hope for Man Utd players that Radcliffe is not reading this because it would be something he would do.

On a more serious note, my kids, and maybe my grandson as well, are walking GP to BMD in early July and then trying to find my dad's commorative stone. Do we reckon wait until late August?

I may be back on the cigarettes tonight...ok... early tomorrow morning.

Does that mean the players will be knackered by the time they get on the grass?

Hopefully nobody forgets there socks.

"Moyes shows a secret. The dressing room has a little backdoor that opens on to the Gwladys Street End. Few know it's there. “You can always hear the Gwladys Street out the back. The noisiest day was Wayne's goal [when a 16-year-old Wayne Rooney scored against Arsenal]. After, you could hear the supporters singing down the street. It was unbelievable.”

This is a top article:

David Moyes: Secret door, cramped away dressing room — why I love Goodison

Here, I’ll start one, albeit only on here as I don't do Twitter or Facebook or whatever else there is out there……….

Man Utd are reportedly set to announce the sacking of Amorim and are looking at taking Slot from the RS, who would like to take Salah with him to Man Utd!

See how easy it is! 👍👍👍😀😀

John I was told that by a good mate, a club employee who deals with ticketing.

He's not one to make up daft rumours.

He did stress that the club had "asked" but hadn't had a reply at the time from the EPL.

test events would not have happened if the stadium was not ready. I think mainly just housework left to do