That's some list of possibilities and some undisclosed names might yet bolster this. My tea leaves haven't settled yet, so no predictions, keeping faith with a first choice right-back, a storming wing back would be excellent, better still a handed pair.

A pacy right winger with proven quality delivery, goal contribution and dead ball delivery.

Midfield needs a maestro or a general, both would be interesting but that's for the future. Spend well, Everton, quality counts.

In terms of what's needed for the senior squad I think we still need 5 additions, cover at GK, a starting RB (assuming Moyes doesn't fancy Patterson), cover at LB, RW and CM.

If we got some additional loan players in we could perhaps let Armstrong and Chermiti go on loan

MK said it best when he wrote his never go back article. I am getting feelings of deja vu.

I'm not surprised Moyes did what he did last season, he's a talented manager with 1 big flaw that stops him being a winner. He freezes when it matters.

I can't see that has changed and I feel my optimism draining away.

We’re 5 weeks away from the start of our season.

7 weeks until the end of the transfer window closes

2 signings made
A 3rd about to happen
Plus more to come

Branthwaite signed to a new contract
Gana signed to a new contract

Back room changes

Brand new stadium to open

If by the time the transfer window ends we have only signed 3 players I’ll be concerned.

Would spend a million and buy Lennon Miller from Motherwell. Send him straight out on loan to an EPL team for first team footy
One for the future

I'm with Ryan on this and rather than buy for the sake of it, focus on who we have identified.

Not sure about that John, although you must have seen those two mentioned. I've never heard of either.

I'm not sure Sunderland would be selling as they come up. Unless they don't think he's good enough for them in the Premier League.

I watch the odd game in Scotland on the and it's enjoyable, but I'll have to rely on our Scottish brethren to make judgement.

I think a few would have thought Branthwaite would leave. For me it’s a massive plus he’s staying

It’s 7 weeks to get what 5 more players in.

Things will pick up this and next week.

I’m happy they’re doing things behind closed doors and most things are not getting leaked

Most potential targets want Champion's League/Euro involvement from their suitors. All is not lost though I feel, especially if we target players who are almost unknown, but have potential to become the players we want them to be.

Risky business possibly, but better to have shelled out a small or modest fee, only to discover the player won't quite cut it with us, than to have paid a hefty fee and found the same !

I know it's early doors for the new Recruitment Team, but they would not appear, up to now, to be as good as Thelwell was. Again, hopefully, they may prove me wrong !

It quite obviously is.

Basically, you don't like Moyes. That's about it.

We will be doing business until late in the window. I expected this when we changed the recruitment up.

I suggest you temper your unrealistic expectations. We have been absolutely terrible for the last decade and are not an attractive club to play for.

I have no evidence other than the same feeling I had in Moyes first time with us. I'd be ecstatic if I was wrong because there is a great manager in there somewhere; history suggests he won't make it but we'll do "okay".

But I am confused why people don't see the urgency of recruitment when we need so many players and those players need to integrate and everyone needs to get used to a new stadium a new ways of working.

My biggest fear when Moyes came back was recruitment. I knew we'd be safe and move up the table, but I suspected we'd be slow to recruit and that recruitment would be uninspiring. Not bad, just uninspiring.

Hope I'm wrong, like I said.

I thought the U18s were only signing for 1 year but seems they are all 2-year contracts?

TFG appears to be doing some serious business on the down-low. I like it.

If you miss out on kubo I’d go for fellows and try get Chukwueze ( yes him again ) on loan, not the big signings we’d like but both sensible in true Moyes fashion

I know Rome wasn’t built in a day but it’s hard waiting, allowed myself to dream about adding bakayoko and Luiz into our starting 11 and was getting really excited, at my age I should know better

My prophesy is the Dick Stadium (as it will be "affectionately" known throughout the football world - more worldly friends assuring me that going down on the Dick is a well known sexual phrase) will on the first game that matters feature a starting eleven we've almost all seen before.

I further prophesy we'll only sign one or two more on loan or otherwise in the hours before the window closes.

Bitter as those in charge have made me in my allegiance to the club in the second half of my entire 70 year life - and WE weren't ever close to legendary status in the first half of it by the way - I just hope that Friedkin attends the first game and that the last song before "Z Cars" is "We Won't Get Fooled Again!"

At maximum volume!

As for transfer rumours; there aren’t any really. I don’t know if we’ll have a sudden influx of players or our traditional policy of dribs and drabs will continue. I think the latter but I’m hopeful I might be wrong.

But we have also just signed a young player who could have stayed at Villarreal, who have qualified for the Champions League next season.

Will he use us as a stepping stone? Who knows? But he's on a 4 year contract, so the club is pretty well protected in getting a return of investment if he hits it off.

The only one remotely linked to Everton was that apparently Watford might be taking the now 40-year-old Ashley Young back to where he started.

Huge caveat, I said 'reliable'. That was on TalkSport as I went to fetch dog food this morning.

They also discussed Liverpool's alleged pursuit of Isak for something in the region of a reported £130M. Apparently Newcastle will resist, with that coming from Eddie Howe.

If there's any truth, it would be interesting to see who wins that one. Player, Manager or Owners?

I don't like to needlessly criticise players, certainly not descending into personal insult. I try to keep it relevant to performances in each game, and for all his admirable work rate and effort, he just wasn't very good most of the time.

I was fair with him and even gave him man of the match against Palace away (I think). He also played okay against Bournemouth in the FA Cup defeat against Bournemouth, hitting the post from a free kick, which I don't think he meant, but it would have been spectacular but for an inch or two and got us back in the game.

Thanks for his endeavours during a difficult time, but not for me.

So I hope this one goes the same way!

Glad we moved on.

I just hope things are happening secretly and we will be pleasantly surprised.

I have not heard if any provisional agreement has been reached with Frankfurt.

Ipswich have turned down a £35M offer from Brentford for winger Omari Hutchinson.

Allegedly, going back in for Jack (the kack) Harrison. If it's to help cutting the grass, or cleaning the toilets, then Yes, no problem, but anything football related, a definite No!

Eddie Howe today.

Could leave Conceicao available…

Resigning Harrison would be a hugely disappointing event to me. I hope we have moved on from players whose only attribute is two Duracell batteries shoved up his backside, a Duracell Bunny with its head chopped off.

Not remotely good enough. Like those we let go, few have found a new home, I understand the reasons to keep Keane as cover in case Tarkowski has longer-term issues but not the bunny.

Ex-Everton chief makes James McAtee transfer claim as Juan Roman Riquelme memories evoked

It seems as if if he is likely to leave City.

If rumours are to be believed, Premier League competition will come from Forest, flush with money after the sale of Elanga and he plugs that gap for them. They can offer European football, at least for a season, but I can't see that if the player is thinking long-term.

But he's also attracting interest from the Budesliga and Serie A.

Here's hoping.

Hopefully his uncle Alan, has spoken to him from beyond the grave, to tell him all about Everton, because I’m sure he would be a fantastic addition to our squad 🤞

Anyone watching the woman’s game? She could have won it for England, by showing a little bit more awareness in the last minute, but the effort out of the centre forward, Russo, has been incredible. She has rarely stopped running and her running is very powerful, I hope her endeavour gets her the winner, and I hope our new French, centre forward, Barry, has got exactly the same attributes🤞

Thought she should have squared it to the player on her left who was completely free, with that chance.

Fits the type of player Moyes has liked. Leon Osman springs to mind. For me, better in the middle, but often used wide.

It be a really great signing. And reinforces the front 3 behind the striker.

They can all interchange, so no need to be ridgid.There will be 2 behind them to cover.

Got to feel for that teenage Swedish player who skied the deciding penalty over the bar.

14 taken 5 scored ! 3 - 2 England through.

Yes Danny, McAtee would be another of those midfielders who can play inside or out.

We already have a few of these interchangeable players in our squad, with my own opinion being that you can never have enough of this type of player.

Not like the time we just signed loads of number tens!

Entertaining though.

This tournament bodes well for promoting the women's game.

Hopefully the blue girls can carry the momentum to Goodison.

I thought we had tried the Harrison experiment and it didn't pass mustard. there is surely better quality out there. Dig deep TFG and get the calibre of player we need rather than fill holes.

2 years of watching him struggle to control a ball was more than enough.

If Charly wants a translator to help him order his bacon and eggs, then he is the man.

This lad is decent and we are, once again, failing to make a move. This club drives me mad sometimes.

If he's on a free, I would make a guess that we will have inquired.

And if what you have read is true, then maybe it's down to the player's choice.

West Ham finished in a similar position to Everton last season (one place separating us). And he's a London boy, which may give West Ham the edge.

Didn't we just do that with Barry?

He loves his tried and trusted.

What I said @69. There could be a home-boy decision if he's gone to West Ham.

I know he was at Southampton, but that's hardly relocation. On a good run, I can be there from where I live in about an hour, give or take traffic.

He would have been a useful squad player but let's see who we get for right-back.

No Premier League clubs seriously tried to sign him when he commanded a fee, therefore why chase him simply because he is a free transfer?

We really have to improve quality and standards in our recruitment now TFG are the owners. If not, we will keep scraping along at the lower half of the table.

If that is what David Moyes and the recruitment team are doing by passing on Kyle Walker-Peters then fine by me.

A below average defender and by all accounts wants London anyway.

Swerve.

He would be an improvement definitely… but without actually being particularly good.

These sort of signings will do nothing to progress the team. Please no journeyman signings.

Exciting young players only. Let's build a force to be reckoned with. Let's take the long view — build for the future.

We already have the nucleus of a young team, blended with experience. O'Brien, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Garner, Ndiaye, Alcaraz, Armstrong.

Between them, an average age of 23.

We can't hang around endlessly chasing the end of the rainbow. We need to win something soon. Ideally next season. If not, certainly the one after. Time waits for no-one.

There is nothing wrong with bringing in established and experienced players to go alongside what we have in my opinion.

Keep Armstrong here, don't loan him out and he will ‘be like a new signing'.

Letting Young go is more baffling by the day.

He can and will feature and I don't fear throwing him in. More importantly, he won't fear it either.

We will need him for numbers and he'll get chances.

I personally don't like that name David @90.

For me it's the Everton Stadium. Thats what club were calling it before naming rights.

Officially, for as long as they are around, it will be referred to by the club by the sponsor's name. Some will call it Bramley Moore Dock.

Anyone advocating anything “Dixie”-related should do a bit of Googling.

So, if Armstrong replaces him in CM we might have our RB solution already in house?

Obviously, we still need to get further back-ups in for the other critical postions that have been identified.

However, with Jake O'Brien also available as a RB back up, things might not be as bad as previously thought.

The one thing we do know about DM is that he likes "versatile" players, who can cover more than one position.

Garner can stand-in at right back, as can O'Brien, but it's not their position.

On Garner, although different players and different characters, in a way, he reminds me a bit of Phil Neville in terms of positions and versatility.

As for Phil Neville, you are right. He was versatile. He was also useless, in my opinion, in whatever position he played in.

There is a rumour that we are actually dormant in the transfer market. No smoke and certainly no fire.

If memory serves me right, wasn't his last appearance for Everton in the FA Cup home humiliation against Wigan? Pulled at HT, and I don't recall he played again in Moyes' last few fixtures?

The team of the 80s had Alan Harper as "Mr. Versatile" - but that was when there was only one or two outfield substitutes. Having versatility today is essential if you have a small squad.

I'm old school - but I see it as being a sign of a very good footballer. Some of us will remember when we signed Ian Snodin from Leeds (who turned down Satan's XI for us!), he looked like a fish out of water in midfield. Then circumstances forced he was tried at right back, where he excelled - to the point he was called up to the England squad as a right back - before the hamstring injury that so blighted his career flared up.

Never my favourite player but not sure he was useless? 59 England caps, 6 league titles, 3 FA Cups and a Champions League at United and 500 odd Premier League appearances would suggest he had something going for him?

Although tbf to you, it wasn't his first touch or passing ability 🤣

He did score some good own goals and that tackle on Ronaldo was legendary. For the life of me, I will never understand how or why he had such a long career as he was bang average.

I'm not sure why he got so much stick at Everton. He put the effort in even when the team were dreadful.

The one thing I always liked about him was his leadership on the pitch. In that team at the time, his presence was missed when he wasn't on the pitch.

And he used to wind the Kopites up!!

Good enough to earn all those major honours at United because of his versatility, but never good enough to ever make a position his own.

He was probably a better footballer than his brother (I’m sure he was selected at right back ahead of his brother, the day united done the domestic double at Wembley, against their white suited opponents?) but I think his brother was more successful because he had a lot more inner belief and desire.

He suited Moyes, both decent, both hardworking, but I think both of them lacked that natural confidence or real inner belief when it really mattered?

That’s very subjective but I always think back to Philip talking about the half-time team talk, when Everton had Liverpool on the ropes in the fa cup semifinal at Wembley, even though it depresses me.

I thought Phil Neville was a decent versatile player but like you said I thought he was a “Jack of all trades and master of none” — although, as John (@102) says, he would be very welcome in the squad now.

From the player's perspective, as mentioned, it becomes difficult to make a position your own if you continuously get moved around the pitch.

I get needs must, but one a player gets that tag, it's hard to shift.

Pros and cons I suppose. Some just want to be on the pitch regardless of where. Others want to play in their preferred position.

I remember him getting pelters on this website whenever he played in midfield.

Memory plays funny tricks sometimes.