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• PG (#53) you and I are of the same mind. We\'ve been bullshitted for decades from the boardroom (with Moyes as manager for half of them) forever extolling the need for patience whilst all those so-and-so\'s at the top, players and everyone behind the scenes included, except hard-working minions, consistently show us they\'re only mediocre at a rare best.rnrnThe few better than mediocre move on to enhance their careers.rnrnAnd what of the USA\'s wealthiest Toyota distributor?rnrnWill his few TW worshippers tolerate some criticism if his inertia remains on display this season or more?rnrnIf so, dream on Danny boy!...
  Don Alexander in Everton's transfer inactivity could finally make sense
• Great work Stan and Brent. Perhaps someone might video this on their phone for people like me who will not be there. Brilliant quick work.rnrnBeautiful George (166).rnrnHope that you\'re well....
  Paul Griffiths in Danny O'Neill, ardent Evertonian and traveling supporter, has died
• Paul 53rnrnI don\'t think there is a chance in hell we will spend a further £60-90m this window. I\'d eat my hat if we did. I don\'t have one but I\'ll buy it specially. We\'d have to sell Ndiaye to do that (and maybe we will).rnrnOffloading Tim for £15m was designed to free up a bit more (and actually more than £15m to spend given how SCR works) but that has fallen through. I suspect we are looking at loans, maybe with a buy clause next season....
  Mark Taylor in Everton's transfer inactivity could finally make sense
• Worse than we thought.rnThe manager has told them what he wants, he\'s well aware of what we require.rnEveryone else is well aware of what\'s required also, we have been for a few years now. ...
  John Collins in Everton's transfer inactivity could finally make sense
• AN ODE TO FRUSTRATION. I'm sick to the back teeth of the word "patience". In HD''s conjecturing the club might be exhibiting "patience", just as we are told to be "patient". I'm sick and tired of the "P" word. I'm impatient about patience. Recruitment team "patience", if that is indeed the case, is simply not a strategy and if anyone seeks to elevate it to that status it is full of risks and danger. “Patience” might be a dead handy cloak for not very competent recruiting and a lack of proper planning. It is a foul-smelling ointment. I had imagined – naïve me – that one of the reasons that we have assembled at cost a crack recruitment team and diagnostic technology was precisely to avoid the sort of late/end of window last gasp wheeling and dealing that we have done for years now. Am I being unfair, but has anyone seen anything "crack" and "professionally and creatively diagnostic" in anything that this team has done so far in this window? Were the numbers crunched...
  Paul Griffiths in Everton's transfer inactivity could finally make sense
• There’s clearly a stand off between Moyes and the recruitment guys about the right back position. It’s just a hunch but I imagine the recruitment boys are proposing younger, progressive right backs. And I imagine Moyes wants a solid Hibbert-type defender with experience. rnrnHopefully someone will arrive in the next few days before the season starts. But it’s far from ideal. To my mind, the recruitment guys should know exactly what type of right back Moyes wants, and they should then crunch the data and come up with players that fit what the manager wants. This stand off doesn’t help, does it?rnrnThat said, I do believe that we will bring in at least 2 players on loan towards the end of the window. Hopefully decent players…rn...
  Danny Broderick in ''We’re well aware of what’s required and we’re working hard to try and make it happen.'' — David Moyes