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Complete meltdown on twitter. Why do we leave it so late every year? Enner Valencia? Bloody hell. Rather hold on to Kone until January.

 

Is this the first sign of an excuse?

 

https://twitter.com/JimWhite/status/770945352920920064

 

I hope not.

Yeah, cause Jim White does know what he's talking about...

 

BK, FM, SW and RK in a meeting looking at transfer targets....

SW: This transfer window is insane...

BK: Would you be willing to pay that for him Farhad?

Farhad?

FM: Huh?

BK: Put that phone away now - the clock is ticking. Who are you texting anyway?

FM: No one...

 

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Jim White: I've just been in contact with Farhad Moshiri and he's told me this is an insane transfer window.

Watch this space Everton fans....

 

Do one Jim White.

Big rumours that Big Sam will go with Jordan Henderson as England captain. Jesus bloody christ. I thought things couldn't get much worse for England supporters!!

Official Statement from the club.

 

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2016/08/27/club-statement

Tragic. His son was with him as well. Awful news.

Gueye was absolutely everywhere. Awesome. Looked much more solid with both Williams and Stekelenburg excellent as well.

One thing that's for sure is if one of our players doesn't give it his all then they'll be out of the club. I expect a big clear out during the next 12 months including the likes of Oviedo, McCarthy, Barry, Kone, Cleverley, McGeady. He won't put up with average players.

"He loved a tussle, loved that old school element born from his non-league days. He was once asked why he had squared up against Moussa Sissoko in a middle of a match, replying later that the Newcastle man had done nothing but the game had been too quiet and he felt the need to fire himself up!"

 

Love that bit. We have needed someone like this for years!

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/everton-fc-lucky-man-like-11732641

Agree about the ones you've mentioned but there's plenty of keepers out there we could buy. Why not test Leverkusen with a 20 million bid for Leno? Why not test Koln with a 10 million bid for Horn? Cilessen at Ajax? Sirigu at PSG? There's 4 there and they're all massive upgrades on what we currently have. We don't even have to break the bank for them. We massively need a proper keeper and I'm not confident in Stekelenburg as our first choice if that's the case.

When Howard left I honestly thought that a top quality GK would be the main priority. I was definitely expecting us to pay more than 500k on our new number one... I hope we'll have someone else in by the end of the month.

Will be a great signing if we get him. Thing is he's very comfortable on the ball as well. He won't hoof it for the sake of it but he will if needs be. He usually plays as a left CB. Captain material as well.

Fuck. Stones has actually gone. All happened too quick for my liking. There's a part of me that's absolutely gutted but then we need to be stronger defensively and I don't think he'll be that big of a miss.

Mourinho showed why he's a grade one prick. Substituting a sub is humiliating and it looks as though his intention was to humiliate Mata. With the arrival of Pogba I'm sure Mata is now available. I'd love him to come here. He'd be appreciated and adored by us as I think he'd be a fantastic signing for us.

 

I stopped reading where the text goes bold.

In terms of actually using the ball, Gibson is by far the best out of those. Is he the best player? Probably not but Gibson can actually pass forward and set up attacks. Doesn't mean I want him to stay but we need to get rid of most of our centre midfielders as I don't think they offer much apart from running around.

I just hope that he can pass forward as well as defend and do what he does best. The problem with our current midfielders is they're all too 'safe'. I'm sick of the sideways passing Martinez developed and I'm bored of McCarthy, Besic, Barry, Cleverley and Gibson (to be fair Gibson is the best out of them at actually setting up attacks but he's always injured). We definitely need one more in there and then we can offload 2 if not 3 of the others. I've been so disappointed in McCarthy lately that I wouldn't be fussed if he left. I think the novelty is starting to wear off with Besic as well. He's not that good on the ball and we need more than his aggression in midfield if we're actually thinking of doing something this season. Will be very interesting to see what Koeman thinks of our midfielders.

Would certainly improve our defence and no need to worry about his fitness because he is literally made out of steel!

 

https://www.dreamteamfc.com/c/does-this-ashley-williams-stat-prove-hes-been-superman-all-along/

I just hope that Koeman has seen what he has at his disposal in the last 2 games... A squad filled with a handful of quality players but mostly average squad fillers. Besic and McCarthy have done themselves no favours. McCarthy was dreadful today, his distribution is awful. Cleverley is a squad player, as is Lennon and Oviedo at a push. We need a new goalkeeper ASAP. Kone and McGeady need to leave and a decision needs to be made on Stones. Nearly in to August now so I'm slightly panicking as I know how long we take to conclude our deals.

I've just seen people say get Verane instead? I might just lose my mind!!!

Ha!! Varane will be the best CB in the world in 3 years so I very much doubt we'll be seeing him here. If he was available, every top european club would be interested.

Right now Koulibaly is a better defender than Stones and signing him would no doubt make us stronger defensively. He's only 25 as well so if we get around 50 million for Stones and sign Koulibaly for 40 million, I only see it as good business. His only issue is concentration but I think that's due it being too easy for him at times and that tends to make him switch off. He's 6'5, two footed (right footed but plays as a LCB), strong and quick and very good in the air. He's like a Sylvain Distin but a few levels above. I still think he'll sign for Chelsea though unfortunately.

How will a director of football benefit us? Geniune question as I'm okay with having one but just don't really know what will be different if he arrives. Is it that he has ridiculous knowledge of world football and players therefore able to forward these on to Koeman??? Because lets face it, Koeman has his targets in mind most probably and if they're pretty good, Walsh will just agree surely...

He's a very good player who hasn't been given any kind of chance.

He might of done okay in Russia but from what we've seen here he's no where near good enough. £14 million we paid for him... You could get a proven European striker for that price but we chose to spend it on Niasse instead... It's embarrassing really and whoever scouted him and gave this deal the go ahead should hang their head in shame. His touch is awful, he has no composure whatsoever and labelling him awkward with the ball would be very kind indeed. There were strong rumours that the players couldn't believe how awful he was when he started training. Rom called him raw which lets face it is a nice way of saying he's quick but he has no other attributes at all.

It was a disaster of a signing full stop.

I'm not having a go at Pennington, he did quite well last year but with talks of another CB coming in I just can't see where he features. If he's happy to be 4th/5th choice then great but I doubt it he will. Holgate looks a class act as does Galloway and I think they're both streets ahead of him.

How old is Pennington? I'm sure he's only just out of the academy, surely he deserves a chance to prove himself?

He's 21. I'm not saying he doesn't but we also have Holgate and Galloway. He's not going to make the match day squad if everyone's fit.