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Got lucky here. Coleman not concentrated yet.

I'd like to see Osman move to the left, Mirallas up top and Naismith to the hole. Osman is a nifty player who can hopefully try to recreate the Baines-Pienaar dynamic a bit, Naismith can join in to form a triangle. Mirallas and Lukaku offer the pace on the weak side and we can switch play to them on the break. Mainly I'd like to add a bit extra pace up front centrally as Naisy has been really quiet so far (up until the goal).

Offside, but I don't care!

Yeeeees, great job, Rom!

Should we put Lukaku up top again? Naismith been ineffective so far in that position.

Coleman, you beauty!

Wonder how they'll do without a real striker though, not a fan of those kind of line-ups.

Alcaraz is the other sub.

Everton (to face Arsenal): Howard, Coleman, Jagielka ©, Distin, Baines, Barry, McCarthy, Mirallas, Naismith, Pienaar, Lukaku. #EFCvAFC

Hans Vanaken scored apparently. He's pretty good, a lanky number ten. The big Belgian clubs are after him but Lokeren's owner says that he wants €8m. Junior Dutra is pretty good as well.

How is it a set up? Disgraceful behaviour by both Mackay and Moody.

Not being broadcasted anywhere apparently. Wanted to see that one as well.

You know he is training and settling in.

It took ages for the Galloway deal to get done as well. They're just trying to get a deal done, but it's probably not priority number one right, now. I have no idea why everyone is so anxious for everything to get resolved as soon as fucking possible.

Until there's an official confirmation on the official website (not on @FourthOfficial_), "may" is indeed the operative word. That's nothing new, is it?

Why did we give McAleny a new three year deal at 22 when it doesn't look like he's any closer to being a genuine part of the first team than he was last year btw?

We always try to play high tempo. A build-up using short passes and a high tempo are not mutually exclusive. Just look at the first half of our last game, like Bailey said. And for anyone who's gonna argue that Barcelona's tiki taka is boring regardless, we don't play like them: we still emphasize wing play and still put in a shit-ton of crosses for example, we do try to blend the two styles. It's also got nothing to do with how agressive or conservative you defend, just think of the 1-1 draw at the Emirates last year where we barely allowed Arsenal to get out of their own half for the first 40 minutes of the game or so. Playing direct football with lots of long forward balls doesn't always result in a high tempo either, just think of all of the times under Moyes where we were working the ball around the opposition box going nowhere after we hoofed it forward and managed to bring the ball back under our control in that area. Also with Fellaini and Cahill gone we simply don't have the player that could make that work imo. If anything, we needed to control possession better and needed to slow things down against Leicester. That would have allowed us to rest and defend (they can't score if we've got the ball) on the ball. Anything can happen in an open, uptempo game and we conceded an equalizer.

Well, it would be foolish for him to make a big deal out of nothing, wouldn't it. Really think you're reading too much into this.

And like Romey said, Jags, Baines and Arteta were all under 25 when we bought them, as were Lescott, Mirallas and Gibson for example, and we have always bought young players, like we did with Coleman, Oviedo or Fellaini.

We're doing what we have always done and what every club in the league does and has always done: try to keep your best players, try to sign players ready to contribute now and try to sign players that might contribute later (in case Cornish doesn't know about the youngsters we signed when Moyes was still managing here, I think we got Matthew Kennedy, John Stones and Ben McLaughlin in his last window in charge of Everton, didn't we?).

He had a nasty disease that kept him out for over a year and hasn't really come back from that. Feyenoord are interested in getting him back, but even they are hassling about paying £3m for him and he scored 20 goals in 23 games for them and was by far their best player.

Glad they're getting him. They could have gotten a professional for that money.

That's what he's been saying from the start. He's never been part of anyone's first team squad, so it'd be weird if he walked into ours.

You're forgetting to mention Robles has made mistakes in pretty much every game he's played and doesn't seem to have the leg to be able to kick the ball out of our half of the pitch as well. To be honest there's not one area where he has impressed me.

Didn't he start for Spurs last weekend?