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he definitely came to talk to us and had a good look around finch farm.

if the club have known about him for a while you would think they would have decided before the end of last season if they were gunna try to sign him. doesnt seem very organised to me.

ah, now i see. i'll support that

the club has come so far over the last seven years, getting back to where we were before the bad days of the 90's. we've all come far with the club, we've watched players come and go, board members come and go, we've won derbies, we've lost derbies. we've pushed fiorentina to the brink of a brilliant come back only to be kicked back down by a penalty shoot out, we had a great day out against united at wembley, we've had a bad day out against chelsea. we've heard parents and relatives telling us what the good old days were like. we dont want to go back to the final days of the season (some of my worst childhood memories are being sat in goodison with my old man on the final days praying for the right result) we want to see this progress continue, i for one can not imagine going back to them days. im enjoying being at the right end of things. the thought of a second year without spending a penny to improve the squad worries me. im not even sure where im going with this, im just thinking about good and bad days ive gone through as a blue, and im not ready to go back. rant over, i think.

i think just to be safe, without improving, im with Moyes. we need a centre half and a left back. then we'll have cover all over the pitch (pretty much) but if we want to improve we still need a centre half and a left back, but we'll need better quality players where ever we can get them, but the right hand side would logically be first choice for replacements. im a bit disappointed that nothing has really happened yet. moyes complained that the money wasnt there until late last year, im only assuming were in a similar position now. hes said where he wants to strengthen, id hope he knows what players he wants by now. if he does have the money there and knows what players he wants, i dont understand why he hasnt got them yet. im not going to complain right now, but if we dont have cover by august 15th i'll be worrying, if we dont by 1st September i'll be calling for heads to roll. not david moyes as i dont believe it will be his fault if we dont strengthen. after all, its two years since we actually spent any money on players.

seriously though, he does keep saying he's looking for investment. he doesnt say hes looking for a buyer. i hope the next twist in this will be a more public one "we want to buy everton football club" would be nice. but that would then be followed by bill saying "oh no they dont"

he looks pretty big in that pic! i know soccer is taken very seriously at college level in the US, so this could be revolutionary of moyes to start picking them up. getting them when they are 21, by the time they are 24 they could be very good quality players.

merged the onouha and lescott thread, three pages of lescott discussion on the onouha thread.

i looked up on google whats going on, and looking at this picture i dont see the problem. if im wrong, someone pelase inform me, but this looks quite tidy.

id be made up, he was showing a lot of potential at barca. He needs to leave the southern grave yard asap

he was still working for the club back then at least. Keith harris must be looking for investors under the couch, other clubs have found them! Or maybe its because they want investment, bk never mentions selling the club, just someone to pay for his little fairy tale to last a bit longer. If i had billions i'd buy the club, but i wouldnt be giving money to someone like bk

not as futuristic as made out, but its tidy

got to ask, why can even notts county get a take over and everton ...................

i rate him highly, but you have to think, thats the sort of money liverpool paid for torres. not even in the same league!

im always scared to get my hopes up with these stories. read into that what you will, but if its true, i gather a few things. they find the kirkby plans interesting, but they want a football village. well that cant mean kirkby is appealing, as the surrounding retail park will not be a football village and is there to make a profit for tesco, not EFC. if they want a football village they would have to start again, i imagine, somewhere else. im trying not to see that with a tinted view as im anti kirkby, but from a business sense, there is no scope for profit for the football club or its owner. maybe all my dreams will come true and walton will become the football village and GP will be rebuilt to the highest spec i can imagine and the team is built up in to moyes dreams. edit: the echo kills off my dreams http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2009/07/22/everton-fc-deny-takeover-rumours-from-united-arab-emirates-92534-24219840/

looking at our squad, thats the best choice of forwards we've had for quite some time! but five senior defenders (not including neville) one of which is injured, leaves us massively massively short, with no room for rest or injury. we really only have six senior midfielders (jack and gosling are still learning their trade). i am very very worried. moyes was talking up jack at the end of the season, is he going to be "like a new signing" this year? im worried at the lack of quality defenders we're being linked with while we look like losing lescott. starting the season with the squad we have now is not an option, take lescott away and we are bang in trouble. no point in having all them strikers with no one behind them!

theres not much to say, but football is an insignificance when real life deals you a hand like that.

i've always been a big fan of his. looking like a young yak in them training pics. if he can score 8+ goals this season i'll be very happy. hes due some luck, and the time dr steadman has spent on him, he should be indestructable by now! hopefully a full preseason will set him up well

there was a guy on citytalk before, made a lot of sense. lescott is probably looking at city moving forward and getting interested, arteta has been asking for players to come in, how long until the players feel like us and want to get off, and worse, how long until moyes does? i've not lost the will to live, but looking at this http://www.evertonfc.com/match/everton-squad.html gets me close

i was hoping for a new name for the back if moyes is reading this, im pleading for you to help me get moutinho/cana/defour (delete as required) on the shirt.

is this some sort of sick joke? michael turner! i at least hope its a hoax to get harry to buy him

maybe the online team read toffeetalk

im hoping this is a typo, but has anybody ordered a new kit with premier league badges? £78.29!!! someone please tell me this was a mistake