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triple crown, lukaku, barkley, and a stadium all in one. a man can dream!

i love how they always say spurs are monitoring him. we are a better team than spurs, why would he go to a worse team?

agreed, i wouldn't be surprised if they go down. 7 of their players gone. 1 signed.

thanks romey, you make perfect sense of it for me, gotta soften up this hard head of mine :dont know: well i guess the next thing is, who's going to take a punt on him. surely at a cut rate now due to the heart condition he would be 8m to us. as a second striker with lukaku (fingers crossed) we would have quite the tandem.

made up for this, our CM positions are stocked and locked for the present and future!

yeah i meeant atletico, sorry. good pickup for them, i hope they're able to compete again this year with the barca and real.

it still doesn't make sense. liverpool has plenty of money, borini's contract isn't that much, surely you'd rate remy over borini. so why not just bring him in and put borini on the bench. how can the players dictate the lineups? so strange.

liverpool said to be in for Rodriguez and Arsenal for sure for Chambers but also Sneiderlin. Question is: Will Soton even have a team next year? they'll need at least what 7-8 new players? They've signed 1 so far. Ouch.

if you're liverpool and splashing the cash don't you just buy remy and force borini out or play him with the U21's and then he will leave on his own in january? i don't believe that one bit from sky.

i have no clue who these people are to be honest, but you are a great story teller john and i love reading them. glad to have you here and you make me proud to be an Evertonian.

yeah. the thing i learned is that we play well as a team and sometimes that flatter individuals. like bedoya and zusi. if we are passing well and moving the ball and attacking, they look like world beaters, but when that doesn't happen they look like crap. the key thing i pull from this is that we need a standout attacker, someone to either take the team on their back and go, or someone who will be double covered and leave space for someone else to score. we have a fantastic supporting cast, if we could just find a star to support we'd be golden. maybe yedlin, green, fabian? we'll see.

yes i was as well. he had the assist for JAB goal winner on the free kick right? other than that he really didn't do anything the rest of the cup. he's too slow, and versus good competition i think it showed, he couldn't get to the byline to cross. meanwhile bedoya who i had high hopes for was fast enough, but he just couldn't put his game together enough.

arsenal sign ospina (colombia GK from Nice), red shite get origi, he'll be loaned back this year though, and real madrid get antoine greizman. wow what a day

if he's off then good luck to him. he and de bruyne will be able to link up over there. time to get bacca or something

where's mirallas and steve E, also what's with RM love for the belgians?

16.45 BST Some big news now on Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku with reports that Wolfsburg have emerged from the shadows to steal into poll position for his signature. The Bundesliga side signed Kevin De Bruyne from Chelsea in an 18 million pound deal in January and they could be about to sign his Belgium teammate for a similar figure. Will Everton or Juventus respond? Good news for VfL Wolfsburg! Romelu Lukaku is really near to joins VfL for a 25mio transfer. More info to come. From espn fc

Club Brugge's talented winger Maxime Lestienne has also been offered to Everton, though Sunderland and Swansea hold an interest in the 22-year-old From espn fc

Surprised this hasn't been wrapped up yet. Ole bill k is probably trying to drop the fee another 50 quid so he can take elstone out for a lunch

fantastic article and insight.

I'd take another loan for sure. Why not? Save the kitty for someone next year who isn't inflated by the World Cup. Or for in January. Y'all be getting antsy up in here

espn reporting yedlin is off to roma. he's being loaned back to seattle to finish out this season and then will link up with them. tough move, i don't know who their right back or right winger is, but hopefully he's able to learn, get better and start some matches.

you find the next zusi and besler and promote them. simple as that. besler was a late bloomer, yedlin an early bloomer. MLS needs to adjust its transfer rules and such to make it easier for teams to get guys. if zusi and besler left, KC could just go buy some good youngsters (like teams in every other league around the world) from another club or academy. instead in MLS they try and hold on to players for dear life because they don't want to go get new ones. the scouting departments must be terrible or something. re-signing an old donovan who doesn't care anymore? LA galaxy will surely regret that. especially with the 3 DP rule (terrible rule) that MLS has. Look at LA, they have donovan (bad move), Gonzalez (really shouldn't be a DP), and Keane (He's a DP for real). In the grand scheme of things, Gonzalez is a better than average player, but he's not DP material or a world beater. for me, the thing holding back MLS is MLS. instead of the DP rule, have the homegrown rule like EPL has, or make rules like the Bundesliga about homegrown talent. Not to mention, we're (and Liga MX) the main league for all of Concacaf, so for however much we want MLS to be about America, it never will be. When coaches can go get some young central american who's been playing all his life and is technically better than an American, oh and wait due to the dollar they cost NOTHING compared to the american who is expensive? they're go to those players all day. And look at MLS, they do.

agreed. steve cherundolo was signed by a bundeslia 2 side hannover 96 when he graduated from university. he played there for a couple years, they got promoted and he stayed there till he just retired this year. broke the bundesliga record for caps, he's an american (played WC 2010) but they call him the mayor of hannover. we need more people willing to take the risks. instead they all go to stoke and we never see them again (brek shea, juan agudelo). some espn pundits wrote about moves to Europe after the WC "more americans need to move to European sides to better their growth, as long as they are not Stoke City" haha

welcome! he looked good at the World Cup, hoping he brings the same form for everton.

read the above link i put from the team website its done. he's being unveiled next week, maybe with the 3rd kit.