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• James Tarkowski built his reputation at Everton largely by playing with Jarrod Branthwaite. Michael Keane had his reputation destroyed by playing with Mason Holgate and then more recently, with James Tarkowski. Keane did relatively well alongside both Kurt Zouma and Yerry Mina in days gone by. Tarky has been a decent, solid, free transfer signing, but in my opinion, he is now the worst of our four centre-back options. David Moyes sees things differently. It is like Phil Neville at the back end of his Everton career all over again....
  Graham Hammond in What we learned from Crystal Palace 2 - 2 Everton
• Looking from the opposite viewpoint Mike, that left more available.rnI consider Patterson to be a poor defender, there are most definitely improvements on him available. ...
  John Collins in Everton's missed opportunities
• Not totally sure why we are talking about buying a RB in January - the mistake was made way back in the summer.rnrnAt one point from recollection we seemed to have signed Kyle Walker (like him or not he\'d have made a difference) but he chose Burnley, which would suggest to me we didnt try hard unless I missed something. ...
  Stu Gre in Everton's missed opportunities
• Keane playing instead of injured Branthwaite. That\'s why we\'re not picking up wins. The stats don\'t lie. Keane has always been a liability and games are won with small margins. rnNdiaye needs to be more effective or be sold. Right now there is no difference between him and when we had Demarai Gray. 5 points in his last 23 premier league games since oktober is just too bad. You put me in there I would do more....
  Halan Tolen in What we learned from Crystal Palace 2 - 2 Everton
• Annika #8, make them an offer they can\'t refuse? Are you advocating that TFG should have overspent for a RB? Isn\'t overspending what everybody\'s complaining about with Dibling? rnrnWe did have an RB target in mind, but Botafogo reportedly declined our interest in Vitinha and TFG declined to overspend with an offer they couldn\'t refuse. rnrnJohn #9, I am the farthest thing from an expert on world football. I draw my conclusion that top right backs were unavailable in January from the fact that only one right back was bought/sold anywhere across Europe\'s top 5 leagues in that window -- Villareal purchasing USA\'s Alex Freeman for £3m. ...
  Mike Gaynes in Everton's missed opportunities
• Some facts -- one of which is we have no idea what they could have legally spent in January.rnrnWe have a good idea of what they did spend Mike.rnrnThere will be one or two players in world football you don\'t know about. ...
  John Collins in Everton's missed opportunities