Progress on signing Abdul Fatawu from Leicester City appears to have stalled

Still hopeful we can get 'teenager of the year' Tyler Dibling over the line. Now the Grealish soap opera is concluded maybe we'll get back on the case.

Moyes needs to pull his finger out :)

Some Everton fans may have been starting to think happy thoughts; let’s put a stop to that.

We need a right winger and a right back. I’d then say we actually need another right winger but there’s a school of thought (which Moyes seems to agree with) that we need a new ‘6’ and Dewsbury-Hall will sometimes be a ‘10’ and sometimes an ‘8’.

We’ve added quality to a team that finished with 3 wins and was 6th in the form table over nearly the whole of the second half of the season. The players who’ve left hadn’t contributed much (other than Doucoure) and none will be seriously missed.

Sure, some of the new signings will need time, but Grealish and Dewsbury-Hall will make us instantly better than last season. We should be playing hardball over the new signings, not taken for mugs as we know where that gets us and every penny we spend now is one we can’t spend in the future.

We’ve got three weeks to sign the right players and in the meantime (3 fixtures) we can use McNeil, N’Diaye or (at a push) Alcaraz on the right wing and have 3-4 options for right back.

Or, wasn't that how we got into this mess?

I like that we have improved on the players that have left, with the exception of RB.
We still have the time and, hopefully some cash, to recruit what we need. And in the usual final week rush, there will be deals to make for players who can fill in the gaps.

To those who think money grows on trees, and Rome was built in a day, I can just say: "caaalm down!"

Since the Freidkin Group takeover, it seems our cards are nowadays being played pretty "close to the chest".

Some of our dealings / approaches are in the public domain e.g. Dibbling and Fatawu - but it would be almost impossible to keep everyting out of the press.

However, do contributors seriously believe that the professionsl staff and First Team coach are not aware of our needs at RW and RB?

It has emerged the David Moyes was working on the Grealish deal from May this year.

I dare say we have a number of other "irons in the fire", as far as potential RW and RB signings are concerend, but have /are managing to keep these enquiries out of the public domain, for now, for obvious reasons.

I'll bet Fulham, Brentford, West Ham, etc have fans who are screaming out loud that they need to buy in certain positions and are worried about the upcoming season.

I agree we need something on the R side, but I don't think it's as much of an issue as some see to. If we get a good RB who can overlap effectively, then playing McNeil on the R will work just fine. Someone for him to work with and build an understanding together.

McNeil cuts in, the full back gets the crosses over...simple...in theory.

A new RB with O'Brien to cover if necessary, could easily transform that side of our team.

I'm a big fan of McNeil and I'm surprised so many on here seem not to rate him. Without his goals and, especially, his assists we could easily have gone down over these last (terrible) few years.

Everyone knows we are desperate for a RW, so they’ll play hardball to get as much as they can for them. Pace and trickery come at a premium, I’m sure we will bite the bullet at some point this month and get one of our preferred options.

I made a comment about football and what I perceive to be a team that needs strengthening. Why is it the both of you feel the need to make smart or unfunny sarcastic comments? Does that make you feel better? I guess so.

Did I make any sarcastic comments about anyone on here with my original post? Between your smart jibes send me a photo of the cup we won for being 6th in the form table for most of the 2nd half of the season.

If you want to reply to a post then show some class and respect.

I wouldn't want Fatawu personally, as he had a really bad knee injury. Also, aren't we supposed to be blown away by a player's best bits on Youtube, but I wasn't. I think he is one of the weaker options out there. I'd be happy to take him as a second right sided winger and not the sole one we buy.

Still hoping we get Dibling as that blend of him, Ndiaye, Grealish and KDH interchanging at the top, will be quite entertaining for the fans.

As with Nike - Just Do It!

My guess is we are trying to play poker and set the two bids off against each other because Southampton also need to sell and if they have no interest above our latest bid it will have to be to us.

We are in a position to turn the screw a little here but also have our own mandatory, to actually sign a RW. We have two birds in the bush, but we do need eventually to get one of them in our hand.

Obviously if you add a right back we suddenly go from being one injury from a crisis to having options in two positions. A signing there will make sense.

While we as fans want to see the team improve, I always wonder what's in it for owners. Avoiding relegation is worth investment but how much would you gamble just to improve your league position? Is the right wing spend really justified when Alcaraz or Ndiaye could fill that position?

Kind of depends on what you think we can achieve this season.

Jake was really good at right back last season. A few, not many, wobbly moments, but he performed really well there. Not too dissimilar from Lescott, his natural position is centre back, but it's good to have him as an option if needed. Like Lescott filled in as left back for nearly a season.

Well done to Moyes for spotting it and plugging that gap.

It still bemuses me that Dyche never used him. Did he not rate him? Was he being stubborn because it felt like it was a Thelwell signing? I suppose we'll never know.

I'd expect a couple of loans for the back ups needed.
RW&RB is where our funds should be spent now, whatever is left !
Loan a CM,Rb,Rw for cover and really we will have made excellent progress in 1 window.

Not going to please everyone all the time, never going to please TW none of the time !

Maybe he wasn't playing when I have watched highlights of Leicester (weren't many I must admit) but all of a sudden he is a £25 M answer to our right wing solution ?

Plus he will be another doing the Houdini come AFCON !

Get Dibling in and stop quibbling, don't be grealish about it either ! :-)

Your logic and reasonability have no place here! Please stop doing that.

Who knows how he would have done had injury not prevented him from playing in more than 11 matches last year. Worth pointing out that his 2 assists during that period is 2 more than Dibling managed in 38. So why is he worth £50M all of a sudden?

The club were absolutely right to walk away from that and it looks like they aren't going to be mugged off by Leicester either.

I still think we could be taking cheap punts on a few failed players as they and their clubs become more desperate to move them on and they will be desperate to get in world cup squads. Must be some bargains to be had.

Tyrique George looks a prospect too, loan possibly ? Florentino Luis looks decent (well on paper and Youtube he does). good ball carrier and hard to dispossess.

I won't forget in a hurry how badly mismanaged the club were and the consequences of that, I do not want return to those days!

All depends on the prices and the value for me. If Fatawu is £25m and Dibling is £50m, I'd take the former but if they are both being priced around £40m then I'll take the Dibbler.

The fact that no formal bids have been reported by reputable sources for other wingers make me think we are holding out for Dibling. He's not playing at Southampton and with only 2 years left on his contract they won't want the risk of their best asset running down his contract Marc Guehi style.

I reckon we'll get him for around £35m with another 10 in add-ons which would be very exciting.

Mike- I'd be very surpised if there's anything in the Dobvyk rumours, not seen it from anyone reliable yet.

Hoping DCL doesn't do a Josh King and make us look like fools in his first game against us.

Saints are now making noises they want to get back to the negotiating table by offering us a new counter offer. I think he will be our next signing.

Ashley Young filled in admirably at LB and RB, Seamus was available for a number of games and Jack Harrison despite his shortcomings going forwards worked his balls off to help the defense.

Because of the 5 sub rule most top clubs now have 2 first teams, we don't even have 1 yet with glaring deficiencies on the right side and an untried kid to fill in at LB.

Let the professionals get on with their jobs & reserve judgement on incoming players until the end of the month.

BTW, I won't be happy if Mbappe signs up, lazy bastard never tracks back.

Everton were prepared to go to 40m but Southampton wanted 50m

Now looking at Omari Hutchinson.

We went from leaking goals, to being very hard to beat once he returned last season, so hopefully we can sign a few more forward thinking players because I think we will definitely start conceding a few more, without the kid

Hutchinson will cost £40m with add-ons included and we could buy Doak and Fellows for that money and they're proper right wingers.

We’re looking at strikers, a different profile of striker to what we already have. Vardy has been offered to us and others.

Dibling - we’re still trying and it’s not dead
yet.

Hutchinson - we know what it would take to sign him but we no approach as yet.

Mykolenko - hasn’t trained. Outside chance for Leeds as it’s not deemed serious.

Coleman - tight thigh.

Patterson - Hoffenheim (!)want him but we can’t sanction it as things stand.

Iroegbunam - Sheff Utd want him but same as Patterson. Can’t agree to anything yet.

I think I'd still go with specialised right wingers further down our list if we don't get Dibling or Fatawu.

I think there's better value out there than Omari Hutchinson, and didn't Ipswich turn down £35m for him from Brentford?

Apparently Leicester want £30m on Fatawu and we value him at £20m, so maybe we can meet them in the middle.

But given his recent major injury, let's make sure the medical is thorough

In an ideal world Chermiti, Armstrong, maybe Tim Iro need to go out on loan for their development. Aznou will need plenty of time to be PL ready.
We need to strengthen down the right hand side, improve our full back options and have centre midfield cover.
A busy two weeks ahead to add some further quality and use incoming loans to provide squad cover.
Time to get busy.