David Moyes interview: Everton ambitions, transfer troubles and pre-season differences

It's not going to be easy to attract big players; it's going to be a tough season ahead, if we can't get better players in.

The club needs to be a lot more creative and analytical in its transfer business, rather than just “going for” players.

Jack Harrison incoming.

I suppose Moyes has to say something in these interviews but this is depressing.

There's players out there who don't even know who we are, let alone want to sign for us. We haven't won nothing for 30 years, we've got lads who go every away game not even older than that, and yet the usual suspects ridicule other teams who feature constantly in the so-called holy grail of football, ie, the Champions League, something that we've never seen at Goodison.

Sorry, I've got news for them; we are a distant memory from yesteryear who basically just make the numbers up in the Premier League — a place, by the way, we are still lucky to be considering the shite we've had to watch over the last few years.

Yes, not good, is it? And I doubt it's changing any time soon.

Also, it begs the question: What have Moyes and TFG been doing since January? There is no DoF in place, yes a new recruitment team and CEO have been hired but surely there have been conversations and targets identified between Moyes and TFG in regards to new players during the last 6 months.

If TFG have told Moyes to wait until the new people are in place, then are these the right people for this club? They clearly are finding it a struggle to bring in those players.

That's all you need to know.

No one has been stuck on their hands. Effort has been made since Premier League certainty was gained. It's not Dithering Davey, we wouldn't be doing any better with Kevin Thelwell or any other shite posted.

Bottom line is: no player is going to move to Everton, or frankly any other club, until they've worked out that's the best offer on the table.

It was pure madness creating a brand new DoF structure where almost all the new faces didn't start until June.

6 players to Sunderland, Burnley 10, Brighton 7, Leeds 7, Brentford 5.

Business is being done and the lack of European football doesn't appear to have been such an impediment elsewhere.

Granit Xhaka for £30M commitment on a 3-year deal, when he's 33 in September? I'd be furious if we wasted that amount of money on a player like that.

We need better players, not just more bodies for the sake of it.

The window is still open, and the players we want in the main are still available.

Josh #8, yeah, but look at who those clubs are signing. Run down the list and ask yourself how many are players you'd have wanted for us. Diarra for Sunderland? Yes. Couple others. But most of these signings were in single digits to fill out squads. We're not going that way.

Xhaka is better than most of our midfield players, even at 33.

There are no excuses – the club knew what they had to do when they were planning on Young, Doucoure, Calvert-Lewin, Mangala, Lindstrom and Harrison being let go. Let alone the right-back we have been needing for over 3 years.

I am sick of hearing "We really tried but we can't get the players."

And the excuses: "We have to wait till 1 July because of PSR" – Rubbish.

"It's only pre-season, it doesn't matter" – Rubbish.

"We have until 2 September" – Deary me, we could be 9 points down by then, much worse than a PSR deduction.

In the meantime, we are charging highly inflated sums for Club membership, tickets for the new stadium, and for the new kits.

So come on, "new" recruitment team – get your finger out and sell the club to players that will want to come here.

There are surely better players than we have that want to come here.

The club could have signed any of the players Burnley have signed but they wouldn't improve us at all.

Xhaka might be better than what we have now, but the idea that we should have done what Sunderland have done is not what I want to see.

For us to move forward, we need better quality. To get possession of the ball and carve teams open, we need better players.

I am sure we will miss out on some targets. But this has to be better than a diet of picking up bang average players or those over the hill.

Hopefully, the days of attracting such players with silly pay are over. That's why we nearly ended up in administration. Yes, I'm disappointed we haven't had more incomings… but we have to be patient,

I'm with Ian. I'll judge it on 2 September.

If that is the best we can do, then so be it. I'd still prefer that the manager was more upbeat in his media engagements and talked the club up.

Back to your earlier post, I don't really care how many players those clubs have signed or who they are. That looks like a numbers game.

We could do that, but I'm assuming that we are trying for the right players who can improve the quality of the squad, as well as add depth.

I don't think he does have to be negative and manage expectations, that's just him.

We have a manager who did very well last season, but we know and shouldn't be surprised by his demeanour.

Yeah, we can wait until the season is underway before truly judging, but the bottom line is he would have had numerous irons in numerous fires and had proved himself adept at playing the market.

When Moyes says 'we need 9 or 10 players.....' I have zero interest as his fingerprints were clearly all over that decision. Get on with it.