RuffRob

It is defiantly going to be a massive season for DCL, he needs to show he is the real deal and be back in the goal and playing well. Lets hope last season was a blip in his development. At 25 year old he is now reaching his peak years, he now also needs to be a leader on the pitch as we seem to be recruiting younger player to the squad. I do think Lampard needs to get a bit of serious completion in the first team squad - I would like to see how far Simms has come since is loan to Hearts, give him 6 months in and around the first team proper.

Sounds like he will be far to expensive for our pockets and seems just too many teams after him.

Read that Brentford have paid £16M initial fee, up to £20M with add on for Lewis Potter. So pretty much setting the going rate for young offensive Championship talent. Morgan Gibbs White sounds like a lot more athletic, bigger and stronger player and also a possibly tad more quality from what I am reading - and I would personally take the chance on MGW over Lewis Potter any day of the week. So he is not unreasonable at around £25m + performance add on,

Reading up on the lad, he also seems to be a real work horse who covers every blade of grass and more than does his share of work when a team are without the ball. It sounds like he really does have the makings of a quality player. That kind of effort will go down well with the Goodison faithful. We will glad of this side of his game with Richy gone.

I may have been better rephrasing that - had a bit more serious focus been give to the academy from day one of the Moshiri regime you - 5-6 years down the line you would not thing we would be benefitting - In recent history there was too much focus on the immediate first team with the wrong players being brought in. I think we will now see some first team players come in, and now the Richy sale has been done (as our main cash injection this summer), I think we will now see the transfer wheels will start to turn.

We had a pretty frugal transfer window last summer and also in January considering Digne went out. Net spend probably next to bugger all, also lost some big player for wages Walcott, James and Digne himself etc. So far this summer we have seen big move for Richy and I doubt we will spend more that the £60M in total. As well as this seen another group of player on decent wages depart from the club. Given the magnitude of the Premiership revenues that do come in, then I would think a couple of frugal followed by sensible years in the transfer market should fairly quickly get a club back on track with regard to FFP. Being forced to do things properly by rethinking and buying good quality hungry, young players on reasonable wages and building from the low base of a fighting relegation as opposed to trying to get European football - might actually help us in the longer run.

I know the first team will need recruitment, but our main problem in the past 5-6 years be has lack of focus on the academy and developing top young players. The likes of Cheslea, Liverpool and Man City seem to be selling of top young players who can't get near their first teams for millions and making huge profits helping their turn overs massively, Chelsea especially. We seem to have lost ground massively in this department. Two of our best first team assets? - DCL and Gordon!! much much more of this please.

better then to try and get Alli playing rather and bring in Lingard for massive wages - can't have any sort of new wage structure and be paying Lingard more than his worth. My view is any player who come in need to earn big wage contracts, not be simply given them.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-conor-gallagher-transfer-24425286?fbclid=IwAR1mGxNuaQ-sA19UwYG0--8bQ0TyCd4n6uY1uAwJD71cDgjH4TgZoa3E1fo This would feel like a real kick in the teeth - losing out on Nunes and seeing him go to Chelsea and then missing out on Gallagher if Chelsea letting him go and Villa bag him .

doubt it's Patterson on the way out. Not been tested at all yet, so would make no sense what so ever.

not overly keen on Rabiot, as not sure he's the type of player we should be going for - However, would swap him for Gomes in a heart beat. it does sound to good to be true.

Spurs and Newcastle are sniffing about because he has the attributes of a seriously good player. They are not going to pay over the odd as don't need to, but they are trying to fuck us while our pants are down. The club just need to make sure we are not humiliated while everybody is watching on.

The sale of Gordon sends out the wrong message to pretty much everybody - Lampard and his staff, the players, players in our academy, the fans, players we want to sign, and to all the other clubs in the league. Spurs and now Newcastle are proper trying to take advantage of our financial situation. They are like vultures around us, we have to keep Gordon and tie him down to a longer term deal to simply show we are not dead yet and there is a still some life left in us as a club. His sale would be significantly symbolic for all the wrong reasons. We need to show we have now turned a corner and are now confident we are a club on the right track and on the up. A Gordon sale would look like we are a club who are throwing the towel in.

This sort of thing is good to hear, and a step in the right direction. If Frank and his team can reignite Deli Alli this summer and he gets anywhere near the player he was 3 years ago (talked about as the most valuable attacking midfielder in Europe) then that will be huge for us. If you can play to the strengths of a fit and fully committed Alli then he will put the ball in the back of the net. massive 6months for him to make or break his career. after staying injury free for the past 6 months and getting a decent run of games, I also wonder if there is any hope for Gbamin - is this pre-season one that could get him up to the pace of the premier League.

That's my thoughts - some very tidy and consistent players ahead of him. Wolves did the right thing and sent him to get regular football in the Championship. Can only do well in the league you are in - Championship is a tough old league and I think picking up good young players who have performed in that league, is as good a hunting ground as some of the less competitive leagues in Europe for good players (French or Dutch leagues). At least the players have shown they can travel the length and breath of UK in rain and shine. I think Championship football is as physically tough if not tougher than the Dutch league. I agree, 25-30M is far to much - but £15-20M with potential sell on percentage or even adds should he turn out the dogs is what we should be looking at. How much for Gallagher? £50-60M, it not like we have the finances to 'pay the extra'. Especially as other players are going to be needed this window. I am not massively keen on just 'loaning' Gallagher for 12 months, unless money is that tight he a loan is all we can get.

Have to remember his age and the midfielders ahead of him at Wolves are not to shabby - so maybe just not getting the game time ahead of the Portuguese contingent at the club, Wolves's midfielders have been performing. He did very well at Sheffield Utd - who only got knocked out of the play-offs by Forest. Last year was his first run proper at consistent first team selection - and held his own very well. Like I said, it easy to focus on Gallagher as the shining star, and he will come with the price tag (even the like of me and you can scout Gallagher as a very good player!!) - Club need to perhaps be a little bit cleverer given our pockets are not that deep at the moment.

Yeah, discussed Tarkowski's number looking good (i.e best in Prem in a number of defending stats)- which they are. I didn't even mention Keane in my post, never mind his numbers - you brought them up. You said Keane had similar numbers when he came here and I said I haven't seen them - but somehow doubt he was top in lots of Prem stats in the season before we bought him. But happy to be shown otherwise. Maybe we are somehow talking cross purposes here.

A very similar player to Coner Gallagher, but likely to be half the price. Gallagher is going to be premium money and I guess wages as well. He is the current darling of the Premiership when it comes to young player - financially I think this season he is out of our league purchase wise as things stand. They type of player we should have invested in instead of Gyfi etc when we had money to through around. Buying a very similar player at half the cost who will be hungry to prove himself at Prem level is probably a good shout from the club. Gallagher or both Gibbs White and Broga for the same sort of money. I would go for the latter deal - that would be a good investment of the Richy money in my opinion.

I agree, but might be better to have some overlap, say 6-12 months - DCL say in January or before 30 June next year as counts in same financial year if that's what is needed. My worry of selling DCL this window would be we where so close to relegation last season that losing our two main goal threats in a oner might be to much. Burnley went down because they couldn't score goals. If Everton can get the old loan with an obligation to buy deal on Broja that would be ideal. I would love us to be building around Broja and Gibb-White types - if we do this along with Gordon, Godfrey, Patterson and Mykolenko - we start to become a team young players look at and think - if I am up to the task they will play me, I want to join Everton. It also help players see that if they cut the mustard after 3-4 years we are also amicable in transferring them to CL teams if the opportunity arises. Maybe in 4-5 years time we might be knocking on the door of CL ourselves, but we are a long long way of that yet. We need a proper long term 5-10 year plan in place and the board through to the fans have to buy in to it. We have half heartedly tied it before - but Moshiri gets over excited and take two steps backwards.

As it currently stands I don't see many Everton players at the World Cup. Which is not a bad thing, as we will get a second decent pre-season with the players together and a few friendlies to try stuff out on. Is is currently only Pickford who is likely to be going from our squad? Potentially DCL if he shows some decent form early in the season.

I really hope he gets a chance to manage away from Everton and does turn in to a good manager. I think it will do him the world of good, and allow fresh approach to our coaching set up.

can't see these number of before Keane joined us, but its not all about number - numbers don't show leadership qualities and than is probably the single biggest flaw with Keane, just not any sort of leader and is poor when he's not got one by his side. Tarkowski is a leader, more akin to a Weir type. It is what we where consistently lacking last year - hence defenders in each others way on more than one occasion.

I have got no idea what Keane 'numbers' were, but No, as Keane wasn't 29 at the time and had not got anywhere near the same seasoned experience or leadership qualities Tarkowski is coming in with. So Keane signing was nowhere near a potential 'Weir' type of signing. Given our problems last season at the back and our financial issue - this is looking like the making of a astute signing. But Like any signing, only time will tell.

not really a surprise he has not come here - all we can really offer a player of this quality is big wages and in reality this is what we are trying to move away from that. We missed the Eriksen boat in January. You have to feel a bit for Brentford - however Eriksen not being with them next season weakens them as much as Richy leaving us has done to us. I would much rather see Eriksen strengthen a team above us rather than those around us. Brentford will not easily replace a player of this quality. Direct competition of the Brentfords of this world - How our ambitions have fallen this past 12-18 months

From everything I have seen Tarkowski's number are very good, he is first and second in some many Premier league defending stats. He was in a team that was relegated, but Burnley's goals conceded number's where in the top 10 in last seasons final league table - defense wise they where decent. Burnley where relegated because they struggled to score goals. In a team like Burnley who will have been on the back foot in most games, Tarkowski will have massive experience defending against the Premier leagues very best, and has been very good at it. I have got a good feeling about his and will not be surprised to see him become a 'David Weir' type of signing for us - Didn't Weir arrive with us as a 29 year old? Could easily be a solid CB for us for the next 4-5 years and really help us get through this rough patch and allow our younger CB to develop.