No movement on three deals as Everton stand firm over Deulofeu

I would imagine we have £20m-plus to blow on Depay this window but I don't think Koeman/Walsh were convinced it was worth the risk.

Tough titty lads. Now bugger off. Maybe ECHR might help.

Belfodil deal has been largely played out in the Belgian media. So who knows? Who cares?

Koeman said he liked Depay pre Christmas, but that's the only evidence we have that any further discussions have taken place. If we wanted him on loan and they want to sell move on.

QPR it is said wanted Kone but jibbed at having to pay any of his wages. I know we take our civic obligations seriously but given the kings ransom they have spunked up the wall in recent times, if true, they have a bloody cheek.

But again, we don't know. All in the press, overwhelmingly bullshit.

Believe it when it happens...

I can only hope that we can find a home for McGeady, Gibson and Lennon this window and if Jags is allowed to go to Sunderland as I've read today, that a big name is set to replace him because they are big boots to fill.

Yes, he's past his very best days but he's been solid overall and we will need a Van Dijk or similar to replace and improve because it's not about like for like anymore. We have to move up a grade to compete at the top.

“Will I go to Spain to talk with Barcelona? I'm ready for anything, the only thing we can't do is a loan with obligation.”

So if you want him and the only thing you can't do is a loan with obligation – buy him then!

He has sat on the bench without a complaint so, unless we get more mobility (Ademola is a work in progress) then I think it would be best for Geri to go somewhere where he can shine.

We still need better players as we need to build a squad to compete for the league and finish top 4 as a minimum. Finishing 7th is not and should not be acceptable.

Looking at the present situation it seems that the boardroom want to ship a few out before we bring in more quality. Moyes cannot loan in any players and I cannot see him letting Kone go whilst this relegation battle is going on I would try for Smalling as he is proven at the top and I rate him higher than Cahill and Jones. He does not need to be brought up to pace in the Premier League so would be an excellent acquisition.

The only other centre back in his class would be Van Dijk but he would cost more I think. Not because he is better than Smalling but he is playing regularly.

Okay he hasn't been consistent... but he has bags of potential.

If we really are a "rich" club now, we should hold onto him. If Koeman feels he has enough players after this window, then maybe, just maybe loan him (but with no option to buy) for the rest of this season to another Premier League club to see how he fairs.

Quality players need quality time on the pitch to which he hasn't had. At this stage it won't hurt to play him. Makes no sense to loan him to anyone.

This will bite us in the arse. Frustrating he is but he does put in a good ball and scares the shit out of defenders. For me he stays, it's a no-brainer

Deulofeu is too inconsistent. Perhaps he will get better but he has not really shown much improvement in the last 2-3 years, has he?

I'd be disappointed to see him go, more for the promise he has not yet delivered on than the loss of him as a playing option.

Maybe the game in England is too tough and strong for him, but like others would like to see him given a few games just behind Lukaku, in the position he plays for the Spanish U21s.

I think he can be a very good player in the future; I would like it to be with Everton.

We are actually short of wide players because Valencia is only on loan and Lookman is an unknown so far in the Premier League. Losing Bolasie was a tremendous blow IMO as playing in front of Schneiderlin who knows how to pass the ball would bring the best out of him. We really only have Mirallas to play out wide so Deulofeu leaving will leave a hole.Lennon works hard enough but he is nearing the end of his career and his best days are behind him, otherwise Spurs would not have unloaded him.Man Utd have some decent players who are not in favour at present and I would be looking to Smalling at centre back if Jagielka is on his way out. Deulofeu should stay until the summer. McCarthy has supposedly said he wants away but I would keep him until the summer too. McCarthy is a good back up at wing half (defensive midfielder) for Gueye, Barry or Davies.

Our priorities in losing squad players is getting rid of Gibson, McGeady and to a lesser extent Kone. I don't think that buying Valencia is a good idea as he is not top six standard and that must be our aim.

Smalling is proven, for sure. At being decent but not top class, and accident and error prone. Van Dijk is not in the same class as Smalling. He is streets ahead of him.

Another thing is that he lacks that defensive side that many managers want from wing players. He can be electric on his day but the Premier League may not be the place for him. Probably Holland or Belgium.

The Lad needs to accept he has to put more effort into pressing and general work rate to succeed under Koeman, and I think the boss is right.

Trevor (#15), I saw several rumours about Smalling two weeks ago but nothing since. Granted, he'd be an upgrade on what we have at CB, but perhaps not enough of an upgrade to be worth what he'd cost, and I'm dubious Mourinho would sell him to the team one place behind Man Utd. And most of all, I just don't believe for a minute that RK will sell Jags in this window.

Jason (#21)... regarding "Usually whenever he plays Lukaku scores"... you need to step out of that time machine, son. You're stuck in 2015.

On that same note, Paul (#22), you're the latest to propound the hoary old legend that Geri "scares the shit out of defenders." Fact is, he hasn't scared anything larger than a stray cricket in over a year... the defenders now have him well-scouted and completely figured out. They know the pony's one trick. I don't have a problem keeping him because he might contribute again if he can grow his game, but for right now he's a late-game novelty act.

I also think we should avoid Depay and this striker. The worrying thing for me is that our spending could have come to an end. I would be pissed if that was the case. And it would show a real lack of ambition. We need two to four more players in.

He may be out of the fold at us, but he's on display every time Spain U21s play!

I for one would keep Geri, but if that's not to be I'd be demanding a fee of over 㾶m, or loan him out to a club who cover our loan fee for Enner Valencia.

It's about time we learned to play hard ball.

"To be honest, it wouldn't break my heart of we are done for this window" – it would mine well I'd be not that shocked but utterly dismayed.

Two weeks ago most were screaming for five or six quality new additions and shipping the dross, of which there is a lot, out of sight. Now, after one brilliant win over the richest club in the world, and a shining performance from the clearly very promising Tom Davies .and ..well we don't need anyone else ???

We are actually desperate for a quality No 2 striker. Lookman looks ace, I say that after watching him for four minutes. But have a feeling he will be useful but he's not the ready made No 2 striker yet. Valencia, nah, well okay occasionally yeh, but mostly, not the quality we need now.

Morgan alongside Gana and increasingly I think Davies, well that's starting to look tasty I will grant you. But injuries, suspensions and almost inevitably Tom having a dip from his sensational level of last weekend – that's going to leave us with Baz and McCarthy, providing McCarthy hasn't been sold, which I suspect is going to happen if his makeweight status grows – part-ex for Kone at Sunderland or please, Dembele at Celtic.

Davies and Holgate have to be fair muddied the transfer waters a little. Koeman and Walsh must be thinking that their form and growing confidence suggest that we may have bought some time here. But this is Everton and shit happens to us all the time. We have to improve squad quality / depth and tho it's not the best transfer window to do it we really have no choice given the mess we made of it in the summer.

I have seen some saying what's the panic, doesn't look like relegation dogfight now does it? Maybe not and yes it looked iffy for a while. But consider this, scrape into Europe this season on the back of a 7th place with top six providing different League Cup and FA cup winners, and top six losers, and we will look a much better option for the second tier of quality available in the summer. Don't invest more now and slip back, even to mid table and it looks different.

Have to say the apparent solid rumour, if such a thing exists, about the six foot five centre back at City, now there's where I'd throw stupid money at. Last six months of contract, available on a free but with compensation settlement in the summer. Loads sniffing around him. If we spent a silly £10 million and accepted the risks it would I suspect look like bargain basement stuff in a year.

It's going to be an interesting last eleven days of the window but here's hoping the club surprise us and go for it. I'm not holding my breath !

The teams below us are struggling to add any quality at all – in fact, we have already done more this window then the likes of Burnley or West Brom. And we do have "the kids" who simply won't get a chance if we stuff the squad full of expensive new toys.

I'd like a couple more. A swap involving Lacine Kone, Jags and McCarthy (and presumably a bit of cash to Sunderland) would allow us to add a monster Centre-back that we need to deal with the clod-hopping sides like Watford and Palace and Stoke.

Cover for Lukaku is also necessary. An attacking midfielder also appears to be on Koeman's wish list, presumably to replace Barkley/Mirallas – they'd need to be very good players to do that.

In the grand scheme of things I'd let Deulofeu go out on loan as this is likely to increase his value as I'm sure we will sell him in the summer. If we play 3 at the back we don't need any out an out wingers and there are others that can provide skill and trickery – Barkley, Mirallas and Lookman

We have Lukaku, Mirallas and Barkley up top, if we let Geri go then we have to fall back to the likes of Lennon. Sorry, I hope that never happens again. He might be a nice guy, but he is in no way good enough in attack.

If we can get another attacking player, a skillful player on the ball who can also contribute some goals, we should absolutely be trying to do so. We should be fighting for every point possible to set the stage for next year. If we can get one of those players in now it only helps us establish our goals for next season and hopefully make us that much more attractive to top players in the Summer.

But we have half a season left to play. Any players we can get that can improve our chances to win as many of the remaining games as possible should be signed if possible. Settling for 7th is a very poor mentality.

The finishing position is what is recorded but improvement doesn't just happen once a year. So we should absolutely be strengthening in this window and I'd hope for at least striker backup and a couple of players to challenge Ross and the wingers.

We might still finish 7th but it's not just about this season.

The guy has what you would call a languid (fancy word for lazy!) style but he knows where the back of the net is. He knows the area having played for Man Utd and wouldn't cost us a huge amount in wages. Interesting.

Mark/David, I can see us doing business with Sunderland. Jags and McCarthy are players that Moyes knows and will add confidence and bite to what is a very fragile Sunderland squad.

McGeady is playing out of his skin at Preston and I think if we looked for a nominal fee, Preston surely can't have huge transfer funds, we could at least clear McGeady from the books completely.

With Dembele, Celtic may hold out for the cash value so looking for a player swap using McCarthy may not work. Rodgers knows the English leagues well enough to be able to pick up a decent player on the cheap and then generate a profit. He has already done it with Dembele.

A free role behind a centre-forward would be perfect position for him.

Personally I don't know anything about him but he gets my vote., I really hope we buy him as I get to see "BAILEY" wrote on the back of and Everton shirt... Get in.

Schneiderlin and Lookman look good acquisitions but I'll be really underwhelmed if we're still trying to strike last-minute deals on Deadline Day.

This season, he has just one assist and no goals so realistically why persevere with him? If Koeman felt he had something to offer then he wouldn't be available for loan / sale.

If we want to break the top 6 then we have to consider who has the ability to take us there and Geri doesn't have the game to help in that. Put it this way: Would he get a game for any of the teams above us? Not a chance, in my opinion.

Every 5-10 minutes of dazzling cameo in a game is always accompanied by 50 mins of going missing, blowing for tugs, and pointing for the ball to go elsewhere because he is too knackered to take a pass or to press for the whole game. He never plays a full game, so there's only an hour to judge him on.

Take the Leicester FA Cup game: a dazzling bit of skill which led to our goal was followed by going missing which left our right side horribly exposed to the rampaging Redmond and Musa doubling up on Coleman which led to both Leicester goals.

Surely there is the contrast? Redmond has far less talent than Deulofeu in my opinion but is far more effective and I'd have him every day of the week over the show pony Deulofeu. For all the comments about him being a game changer, you can count on the fingers of one hand the games he has actually turned in over 70 appearances, and none recently.

An expensive indulgence in my opinion; we could spend his wages and fee more wisely on more effective players for the team.

Like Bilyaletdinov before him, the odd flash isn't good enough; if he hadn't come from Barca, he'd have been long gone.

He's a likeable lad and I wish him well but, if he was good enough, he would be playing for the first team – that's a team with very average widemen.

Okay, he can be erratic at times but not as often as some of our 'regulars' and given more game time and intensive training routines he could be a star turn for us, just a thought.

I would look for a beast to play in Funes Mori's position and have Ramiro as a decent back up. Holgate has to keep his place in the side, no question.

I love his down-to-earthness, lack of sentimentality (where it's needed) and his understanding of us fans that we want to see hard work and aggression from the team!

I think the manager has been more impressed than he thought he would be with Lookman. My prediction is: We will all say "Geri who?" once Lookman plays two or three games within the next month. I think this guy will make Premier League defenders look poor. COYBs

Personally I've always said he's not up to the job in the Premier League but I think he is a good player to come in to change a game or add a bit of pace and magic. He probably wants to go himself and he believes he deserves to get more game time but isn't prepared to work for it.

Koeman is not the sort of manage to put up with any laziness or lack of effort and also doesn't seem to be the sort of manager to put his arm around him and ask is he okay like Bobby was.

I think Geri would do a lot better in a league like the Portugese where tackling isn't as robust and you win frees for getting barely touched. You can see from his body language he doesn't like the tough tackling English style.

Hopefully Mirallas will stay focused and work hard now. I think he likes playing in behind Rom and, of all our players after Rom, he knows where the net is.

Letting him go and keeping Lennon is just ridiculous.

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2013–2014 → Everton (loan) 25 (3)
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2015– Everton 37 (2)

In 5 years, he has scored 6 goals at senior level. This is from a young Spanish lad with loads of pace and skill and who was hoped would be the next Messi for Barcelona. Yes he does well at underage level but the lad is now 22 but he hasn't moved on.

Last season, Ross Barkley was 22 and he scored 12 goals in the 2015-16 season. Loads of us give Ross a hard time and say he should be doing better and get annoyed when he loses the ball. When you compare Ross to Geri, you would say Geri has the more potential.

You can see already that players like Davies and Lookman who are only 18 & 19 have a very different attitude to their game. They realise, to make it as a professional footballer, you've got to work hard and play for the team, not just for yourself.

Lookman has not shown us too much yet but, when you look at where he came from, you can see he had to work hard to go from playing for a local youth team to being a professional footballer at 18 with Charlton.

I would love to see him do well as he's one of the most talented players we've ever had but I just can't see him apply himself enough.

He has failed to establish himself in a very average Everton side under 2 managers so I guess I'm not the only one with this opinion – and I don't see Clubs queuing up to buy him.