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Not in the Southampton squad for the weekend supposedly - Beto and Adams? Dyche 4-4-2?

Alan Myers has confirmed that this is close…

You do realise that we’re probably not after all of these strikers we’ve been linked to?! £25m - more than what they paid originally and his stock’s gone massively down - probably not accurate but I’d rather not! We need a striker so agents/ the media will make up ‘makes sense’ stories… the Daily Fail are notoriously shite for anything Everton - well anything really. I won’t say chill the fuck out as we’re all disheartened but don’t read every link as gospel as it’ll do no good for you

This is the one they’ll keep us hanging on until deadline day when it will magically disappear… Gnonto was going to take that role but he realised what was happening and just settled back to life at Leeds.

Partly because we can’t shift the shite already here for anything. I get it, he may do okay and we get a fee in Jan/next Summer but we’re so bad at shifting surplus players.

*no option to buy

Pretty sure the £2m was a claim made in the Gnonto deal when we were supposedly offering £15m or something - now there’s talk of £40m… basically, it’s all speculation and none of us know the finer details of negotiations and deals/structure.

Quick, get some ‘good news’ out to balance the real news - no one will notice when this doesn’t get done before 1st Sept then we can think of something else in January.

Imagine the response if he said any different.

100% this Administration and point deduction are at the forefront of my mind now… Looking at our signings, only Chermiti is committed (as it stands) for over a year add to that most of our squad only have 1 year left on contracts too.

The fact that they’d probably be a better option than the current shower of shite, speaks volumes! …and this won’t embed!!! Bloody MSP!

Onto the 777 group then… reportedly still interested - there you go - worries over Probably don’t look too much into the other clubs they run and the huge list of crimes hanging over them.

Another one who has bags of potential but has been plagued by injuries.

I was going to watch him for Troyes last season but Mama told me not to come.

Dick

A player with bags of potential but an Achilles injury can ruin careers - maybe he kicks on and fulfils that potential but I don’t think it’s a risk we should be taking.

Swap deal for Ever Banega?

Also, we need to move on from Doucoure in the 10 position… I’m grateful for what he did last season but he’s not a creator or finisher (even though he scores the odd cracker) - he still a useful asset but he needs to play deeper in my opinion which probably means not an automatic choice.

Nor me, I was pegging the washing out… had my dad round today to watch and in the time I pegged out, put another wash on and got the chicken out/ pre-heated the oven - he called me 3 times - Dobbin on, Iwobi off and 3-0 Villa… surprisingly, I returned to endure the rest. Best decision I made was turning down tickets today (in the Villa end).

I think it’s stopped working - it used to do it automatically for me and know there’s an embed link feature but neither seem to work recently.

I think Iwobi signs his deal or gets sold late in this window personally - maybe why we’re seemingly after 2 more wingers.

Ticks a lot of boxes for me - just watch his performance at Goodison last season. When DCL is unavailable or needs rotating, Adams is spot on in my opinion with the added bonus that we’ve got a prospect in Chermiti who can contribute too. I don’t know what this means for Maupay should we sign Adams but I do think Adams is more suited. Will split opinions but Adams is a solid option - once again, something we’ve lacked for far too long.

Maybe under Lampard but I doubt we’ll ever see Iwobi in a central midfield role under Dyche - number 10 attacking midfielder? Definitely, but not in a deeper traditional central midfield role, which is what I was commenting on.

https://x.com/evertonnewsfeed/status/1692203272159863112?s=46&t=hH9MW86Z7OdDqsQukrKMvA No-one’s getting excited about this and on the face of it, we’re well covered in centre-mid but this is the kind of back-up that we’ve been crying out for for years. He’s reliable, fits the system, bags of energy, tenacious and a bit of quality. Much better option than Gomes and we can’t go through the season with just Gueye, Doucoure, Onana and Garner. Would be a positive squad addition at the right price (under £10m) in my opinion.

I think there are deals to be done with City with their younger players as long as there’s a good sell-on and/or buy back after x-many years.