Martinez hopeful over Stones and Mirallas

I want to believe RM... but, like most on this site, I'm suspicious any time he opens his mouth. Three new players this week and I'll have a better outlook.

I hope Mirallas is okay or we are short on wingers as well.

We keep, we build to get back into the top table.

It is a money game and a best players take the most money game.

Against our net value Browning will together bring another £30M to go with the £40M value of John Stones.

We really do have a conveyor belt of defensive talent, particularly at CB. With Garbutt as well - it looks really promising.

CM with Ross, Besic, Tom and Ledson looks good as well.

We also have an asset in Rom who should go for £30M plus, if we cannot match his progress/ambitions with CL football - then we can buy a replacement.

Any big TV money needs to go to attacking flair and cutting edge upfront.

I said,"the guys with the money are saying nothing". A straight true fact. If you read it differently, can see the word "expect" fluttering somewhere or want to flower it with other wild pieces of your imagination then please don't attach them elsewhere. Believe me, on a sharp site like TW, you do yourself no favours.

Who does the negotiation for our club? Is it B(Boys Pen)K?

When you have untwisted your knickers you can re-read what I asked relative to your "Nice speech but the guys with the money are saying nothing".

Nobody trying to be clever. You were implying that Martinez can say all he wants but that it's not his view that matters, but the view of "the guys with the money".

So in response, I am asking what you expect "the guys with the money" to say on the subject? If you don't expect them to say anything then what on earth is the relevance of them saying nothing?

If we do have any money, I suggest we spend it soon because we looked pretty poor in both the games at the weekend. Splash the cash board and bring in Van Dijk, Yarmolenko/Nolito and Austin!

I have been waiting awhile for Roberto to unearth something unknown and cheap, which subsequently proves to be "phenomenal", from the Spanish-speaking football world. I would have thought he would have been well-placed to do so.

(I am setting aside the obvious recent acquisition from Barca - in any case, their players at any level are hardly beneath the radar.)

That's the chance you take when you only have two recognised central defenders at the club.

Don't even want to know about the Mirallas or Lukaku injuries, looks like Roberto will have to play himself and Fat Bill will be on the bench...

It's pretty absurd, laughable, disgraceful for a club of our size, history and resources to start the season with only two senior centre-backs!! I'm sure we will bring in another in the next few weeks but it really should have been done already to allow the player to settle in.

Points lost in a tricky start to the season will come back to haunt us!

Left midfield still not addressed, nor the elusive Number 10 that the manager has admitted he needs.

The one striker we have at the club who looks as though he could at least provide some commitment and excitement is McAleny -- dropped after a stunning 45 minutes. 45 minutes where he did more than Kone has in all the time he's been allowed to pull on that Blue shirt.

Another goal follows for McAleny when he next took to the pitch. Good one lad... sadly that counts for nothing. Kone is the striking deputy and it's his position to lose. Get back in the reserves.

Martinez must have known as long as anyone that Distin and Alcaraz were leaving. How does it get to four days before the curtain-raiser with the matter still un-addressed?

There is so much wrong with our football club right now, I don't even know where to start.

And what's worse, our club have not come out and told camel gob to 'fuck off', they've actually repeated his comments on social media! Unbelievable.

With this and the fact the club are sitting around with their fingers up their backsides while other clubs are bringing in players and we ourselves are desperate to boost our squad, it just about sums what a bunch of spineless weasels we have 'running' this club.

It's on Everton's official Facebook page. The club post links to that prick Ferdinand's comments.

I would hate to lose the lad at this stage but must confess to be being far more comfortable to take 㿔M off the Mancs than Chelsea. (No Evans, though, please!)

This way, it won't be his fault if it all goes tits; he can point and blame. Just like last season with the World Cup and the Europa League.

It's obvious if you think about it.

Whoever it is Steve, I thank fuck it's not you if you regard Everton as "one of the Premier League's bottom clubs."

Steve (#29); nothing will happen until the Sky money clears at the end of August... if then.

My own pick is that we will have a groundhog season, we will pass and pass, averaging about 1.2 points per game over any given 10. The fine detail vis-a-vis last season might change, but not the overall impression come the end.

Didn't he give a good showing against our neighbours last season? Or was it the one before?

In an ideal world we would have 㿔m and spend the other 㿀m on a goalkeeper and a defender, but just can’t see it.

In truth, we will probably lose him sometime in the future, but in the meantime we can still hold onto him for a couple of seasons. He is guaranteed first-team football with us, and not a bench warmer waiting for Terry to hang up his boots.