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• Another take on the delay, it causes Moyes to spend valuable training time on plan B, Rohl at right back. This could payoff in the long run as it has with Garner, but it seems like we give up much more going forward with Rohl on the back line. Fortunately, we may have resolved the CDM issue with Norgaard. So, at least it is down to one position where we are cobbling together something. Still though, our strength will have to come from an internal chemistry between the midfielders. We won't be able to buy our way to the top. Our most gifted players need a period of settling into positions, generating familiar runs and ball distribution. If Rohl is the only position wanderer, maybe alright. If we end up with another unexpected injury like Dewsbury-Hall's v Chelsea, we could lose substantial time and waste some asset valuations scrapping to find our way through it....
  Dale Self in Everton's deal to sign Alistair Johnston hits a brick wall
• Mark Wilson 27: Moyes pulling off a small miracle keeping us in the league. \'rnrnI just can\'t stop chuckling at this latest bout of Moyesturbation....
  Paul Griffiths in Everton's deal to sign Alistair Johnston hits a brick wall
• Of course this deal is in trouble. It's for a right back innit! I find it hilarious that under new deep pockets owner that we haggle about three million quid. Three million quid when we desperately - DESPERATELY - need a right-back. OK, so Saint Daniel walked away from the table and walked back - a real risk, by the way - to buy us at a very agreeable price. Erm, you can't do this all the time, not least when it comes to transfers. If we keep on doing this we will lose players and our reputation for wheeling and dealing like this will spread like the oil to get those cars started home and abroad. This negotiating erm 'strategy' for a club like us is not sustainable, especially when the fee is 'just' 15 million. We do not look like smart negotiators/recruiters in this particular deaL (and if we continue like this we will become a known entity). This back and forth might work in Toyota-land but there is no guarantee that it will do so in the cut and thrust of the transfer market. I ...
  Paul Griffiths in Everton's deal to sign Alistair Johnston hits a brick wall
• The fact that Johnston is keen for a move to the EPL means Everton has the upper hand in the negotiation. And there\'s no other club chasing means they have to come back to us if they want the cash. rnrnJohnston is not Riquelme. Just move on to next if we can\'t get him....
  Lester Yip in Everton's deal to sign Alistair Johnston hits a brick wall
• Brendan, thanks. see what you mean. I guess whether saving £2-3m is a good idea depends on 1) The total transfer value and thus the % saved and 2) what you bought instead of(if anyone at all)...
  Mark Taylor in Everton's deal to sign Alistair Johnston hits a brick wall
• Mike Gaynes #19 spot on. Do many managets and not one vote of confidence in Patterson, who even found himself with a brief bit of World Cup experience, not to mention qualifying. Nobody at Everton seems to rate him and recent mgrs have spent a lot of time trying to sell him.rnrnWe have spent three years replacing Coleman. You rarely see transfer policy managed like this. However admitting that frustration it feels equally frustrating because the infamous transfer committee of such repute I cant name any of them, may still be on the verge of pulling off a £75m fee for a player we paid £15 for just a few minutes ago..,,,,rnrnIt’s all so bloody Everton. Moyes pulling off a small miracle keeping us in the league is the very very notable exception but nothing seems to change and hope is all we ever start a season with and most of all know itd fruitless and pray to be proved wrong.rnrnTransfer mgt at our club is the main cause of soul destroying activity from an alr...
  Mark Wilson in Everton's deal to sign Alistair Johnston hits a brick wall