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My thoughts on Coady are - well I wouldn’t want Holgate, Keane AND Coady. Sell Holgate and Keane and then sign Coady would be shrewd(ish) business to me but having all 3 would be a bit silly!!! Even better - sell Holgate and Keane and Coady can go to Sheff.Utd while we sign a pacy centre-back better than what we have currently.

He’s not officially gone… so until June 30th he’s still our best centre-back!

I disagree - sell Onana if the price is right and sell/remove less effective high earners - that’ll create plenty to invest wisely on younger/ fit for purpose players. Add in potential investment and the guaranteed sale of Moise Kean. Pickford should be the last player we sell while he’s happy and committed.

I’ve been critical of Pickford in the past but the last 2 seasons he’s been incredible. I look at Leicester and just feel that their GK situation was the main factor of their relegation. How many points has Pickford been worth to us this season? We need to keep him at all costs in my opinion. For what it’s worth, I think we need loads!!! Cover at both full-back positions Another centre-back in addition to Branthwaite and Coady (I’d sell Holgate and Keane) Gueye’s replacement to be eased in over the season Another ‘fit for purpose’ central midfielder in the mould of Garner 2 wingers with high work rate and a bit of quality At least 2 attackers who can put the ball in the goal As many as 10 in my opinion - maybe there are players in the academy ready to take some of those spots but I think we need a proper overhaul now and actually with the wages out already and hopefully a couple more sales, we’ll be able to be very active.

We need players with pace, strength, work rate and leadership - they obviously need to have the quality but we need to be realistic of where we are. Outgoings will be key - how do we get rid of Gomes, Gbamin, Alli, Maupay, Holgate and Keane? Probably £500k in wages every week there. Give me more McNeil/ Garner type signings - good age, probably not breaking the bank, resale and most importantly quality.

Makes sense to keep him with Mina going and potentially Keane and hopefully Holgate. Branthwaite needs to be integrated - Tarkowski will once again be first choice (not missed a minute all season) and Godfrey will get his fair share. Coady is a leader - we lack these already and with Mina leaving we’d be losing one of our biggest characters - £5m isn’t a lot even in our position and he’s steady and reliable and usually fit.

I’ve lots of talk that Wolves lead the race for him but I’ve also seen that Wolves need to sell a few to keep on the right side of FFP.

Lockyer obviously- he’s been brilliant for them this season. Pretty sure he made Championship team of the season too. Fingers crossed on a healthy recovery - the videos of him after the game in hospital with his family looked encouraging.

There’s been flashes of a top player but we’ve not seen them recently - very poor today. Thankfully, I think the highlight reel will bring us a healthy profit in the summer.

I think being part of a group could be the best move for us as we ‘navigate’ FFP and future trading. They’ve got Genoa C.F.C. in Italy, Standard Liège in Belgium, Red Star F.C. in France, CR Vasco da Gama in Brazil and Hertha BSC in Germany. I can see it as a way of not making the Gbamin, Tosun type mistakes e.g they’d always be a ‘buyer’ - it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a lot of trading between the groups and I’d imagine it’d be to our benefit as the highest valued £££ club in the group. It will help with ‘unknown’ talent with work permit issues too. I, for one, am all for the ‘partner’ clubs idea.

Standard Liege - who Price is supposedly joining - are part of the 777 group - who are supposedly buying Moshiri’s majority stake in our club. Interesting… or maybe not.

This - I can’t remember the last time when that was the case but that performance made me proud again! Unbelievable performance and an incredible result - just WOW!

I’m in the minority but just feel that we’re much better with him (and Tarkowski) in the team. Proper leader - proper shithouse - liability fitness wise but if can help get us over the line we can all move on happily.

That 1st half vs Leicester was a wake-up call - excellent tonight.

Some good news at last…

Signing Maupay rather than someone like Gyorkes or some 6ft4 unknown (both would have cost the same when wages are considered) in the summer has cost us dearly - we don’t have a consistent style of play when Calvert-Lewin is out… well we don’t when he plays either but him and Maupay are far too different as our only senior strikers.

Brands could have been great for the club. Walsh could have been great for the club before him - I remember many dismissing his comments about who he could have signed - what we ‘know’ now about how our club’s being run suggests there may have been some truth in what he said. Maybe Kenwright is still a good negotiator and well thought of in footballing circles. Arteta would have failed like every other Everton manager - I’d have loved him - I think he’s great - he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to apply his blueprint like at Arsenal… all of the above have clearly had their hands tied and been hamstrung by our majority shareholder and those unofficially above him - WHAT A MESS! …and if anyone thinks for one minute I’m defending Chairman Bill aka Blue Bill aka The Biggest Evertonian in the wweeeeerrrrlllldddd - I certainly am not! For him to stay as chairman and watch what’s going on - clearly getting overseen himself as ‘his’ club spirals dangerously towards relegation and financial disaster. I know I, as The 2nd Biggest Evertonian in the wweeeerrrrlllldddd, couldn’t sit there and watch this demise - I couldn’t be part of that. I almost feel sorry for some of the people who have passed through our club in this time who will never be able to fully tell their story because of some very rich and dangerous people, who clearly don’t give 2 fucks about OUR football club. Does relegation worry me in a footballing sense? No, it may actually help us reset and rebuild and could be a lot of fun going to new grounds and (hopefully) winning consistently. Does relegation worry me in a financial sense? Yes, I’m petrified that it could spiral out of control and we could go through what Coventry did with the Ricoh to raise funds.

Deal agreed in principle for him to join Brighton in the summer. What a well run club - I’m so so envious of how they do it - they deserve success.

He’s in the match day squad today - doesn’t mean he’ll be on the bench necessarily but he’s travelled down with the first team.

They’d just had their first child months before said incident involving the unnamed Premier League football player that may or may not be Gylfi Sigurdsson.

Fulham - we should be winning with or without Dom so hopefully we can manage his minutes initially because Palace, Newcastle, Wolves, Leicester - these are the games where I see Calvert-Lewin making the biggest difference.

Ireland have, all of a sudden, got themselves potentially 2 quality strikers for the next decade (at least) with the emergence of Ferguson and Cannon.

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Either kick on here or make sure we sell for a decent fee with clauses to suit us. With made the wrong choice on far too many of our youngster and they’ve just walked for free - look at Bowler, Kenny, Dowell, even Ledson and Lundstrum - all should have brought more money in. We need to get it right with Cannon, Simms and Dobbin (probably needs a Championship loan) as all are worth a decent fee potentially- Brewster for £23.5m shows what a purple patch can do - I’m not saying we’re getting this kind of money for any of them but if they’re not going to be first team options here, we need to sell while their profile is high.

He’s got so many because Lampard built his whole set-up around Iwobi - and while Iwobi looked incredible at the start of the season, the results didn’t follow. Under Dyche, Iwobi looks less effective from the the right but the whole team looks a much stronger unit - I still believe Iwobi is a more than useful component but not irreplaceable. The role Lampard played him in was a luxury are team couldn’t ‘carry’ - he could definitely play the role at a top European club though - I personally think he’d flourish in Italy.