Broja out for up to 12 weeks with ankle injury

On this transfer alone, Thelwell wants sacking.

I'd just give full control of transfers to Moyes and sack the DoF role off in the summer. It hasn't worked for us at all since bringing one in (ie, Walsh, Brands, Thelwell).

Only a club as desperate as Everton would have taken on the likes of Broja and Dele Alli. I just hope that, under the new ownership, we leave this kind of thing behind.

Best wishes to him, clearly a talented player and clearly the only reason we signed him was because nobody else was stupid enough to take a badly injured player on a short-term loan.

Crocks R Us has been our motto for far too long…

EFC paying millions to players who seem to treat the club as a recovery clinic; no wonder we're in dire straits.

Remember, footballers of playing age now have never seen a good Everton side apart from the 'best of the rest' team under Moyes. The rest of the time, we're a footnote in English football and mostly fighting relegation so we can't attract good players.

Hence why we end up with the likes of Gazza, Ginola, Eto'o, Rooney etc at the end of their careers. The rest of the time, we're lucky to pick up decent younger players who can't get a game at their clubs for various reasons.

As a result, Thelwell has had no choice but to take a punt on players like Dele and Broja. It was either them or some unknown player from the lower leagues, which is a punt in itself.

By the same token, we have also picked up players like Garner, Iroegbunam, Lindstrom and Mangala who also couldn't get a game at their respective clubs, so to lay into Thelwell over Dele and Broja seems a bit harsh.

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

That is Thelwell's job — to recruit better players. Less so-called glamour clubs seem to do it.

Those less so-called glamour clubs are actually way more attractive than we are. If you're a teenager, or a kid in your 20s, all you know of Everton is how we're a total mess, and a rubbish team.

Brighton, Brentford, Forest, and any London club has an advantage over us, in that young men see them as well run clubs, and they are. So therefore they have little interest in us, and we get players who come for the money but with little motivation to succeed with us – or use us as a stepping-stone like Stones, Lukaku, Digne, Onana etc have done.

It's not as simple as, "Everton have a rich history, therefore we're attractive". No, we're not. We've been a mess for nigh-on 30 years, we play awful football under managers like Dyche and Allardyce, and we're in Liverpool in a shit old stadium (about to change obviously).

Young players would much rather live in London and play for Fulham, Brentford, Palace or West Ham and there's nothing we can do about that (never mind Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs).

We have to modernise, change everything, ditch all the old watery-eyed shite and become a modern club if we're to attract good players and compete again.

Wow, even by your standards, that is a beaut.

Seems to me we did better with a Chief Scout, probably cost less too.

It would be a serious dereliction of duty if the terms of the loan force us to keep him. Harrison can drive him back to Chelsea and pop back up the motorway to Leeds. Then we can sign 2 crocks!!

I have said for ages now that Harrison must go back as being not fit for purpose, past sell-by date!

We need to steer clear of these types of signings in the future, too many times over the years we've signed players who have had horrific injury records.

He needs replacing before he does more damage.

He shouldn't have been here in the first place.

If you really need to satisfy your desire for a witch-hunt, surely the medical assessors would be the place to start.

A) Run
B) Hit the ball into the net

Classy passer and a deadball expert.

Provided the Premier League don't attempt to block it…

I expect Broja to go home and Ferguson to roll in.

Palace and Bournemouth are both after a young lad from Millwall called Esse. He's absolutely rapid, plays on the right, and has a couple of goals and assists. But guess who we would prefer?

Even if they haven't previously done so in the Premier League.

The issue may well be payment arrangements to the selling club and the player's own preference.

All of our transfer activity since Ancelotti has been driven by what is available on the market in light of crippling financial constraints and PSR.

That will probably ease in summer but possibly not in January. Thelwell can't just sign who he'd actually like to sign. We're miles off that.

"Having a go at Thelwell for Broja being injured is a bit ridiculous"

Not when you consider that he was injured when he signed him — and not expected back on the grass for 3 months!!!

He is only 19 and, like I've said, he's rapid with 5 goals this season.

Just what we need. Another player in his 30s in our midfield. We already have the third-oldest squad in the Premier League. Adding more aging legs to it will not improve the situation. Unless we want the oldest squad in the Premier League, of course.

What we need is more players like Iliman Ndiaye. Young, fit and aggressive. So let's start moving these overpaid older players just running down their contracts out and start bringing some younger fresh faces in.

We need players to seriously come in and hit the ground running.

What Moyes was probably known best for was bringing players in that made Everton a better side.

How he and us could do with an inspirational window like January 2012 – what we'd do for Pienaar, Donovan, Gibson, Jelavic this month.

Do we ever learn? The Darron Gibson experience obviously was a lesson not learnt.

I'm guessing we'd have to offer quite a big sweetener to Millwall and much higher wages to make this work in practice.

Thelwell will be exploring all sorts of options like this I expect.

Let's be honest…, Bournemouth and Palace are both far better clubs to go and play football at than we are.

Send him back at once and get an experienced loanee in.

The only thing that the unlucky Broja proved was that playing as the sole forward in this squad is the worst job in the Premier League.

Maybe, just maybe, the Premier League will allow us a special dispensation to sign a Broja replacement but we're stuck with Harrison, I'm afraid.

Moyes referring to the possibility of sending Broja back to Chelsea probably just refers to him being looked after by Chelsea staff in his recovery rather than a cancellation of the loan agreement. After all, players are loaned out often to offload salary costs in order to comply with PSR rules, so teams would be compromised by loan players being sent back.

It's hardly Thelwell's fault that he's been forced to operate in the cheap end of the market with such loans due to our parlous financial situation.

Part of me though thinks selling Branthwaite for £70M in the summer and re-investing the money on better players might have been a better option – much as I'm glad we kept him.

One thing seems certain, though. Moyes instead of Dyche alone will not keep us up, unless we buy players in this window. There is currently simply not enough goal potential there to survive.

Unfortunately, Moshiri ruined us and it is seriously hurting our ability to bring in the players we desperately need.

I imagine, ever since Usmanov was sanctioned, he was unable to bankroll his employee Moshiri, plus we had to return his money paid to us, for naming rights on the new stadium, and sponsorship of Finch Farm.

This pickle, caused by Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the UK Government sanctioning Oligarchs and seizing their UK assets, is the reason I suspect, that:

1) There has been a net recuperation of many millions from player trading, with zero net investment for several years now.

2) Beto was brought in instead of Gyökeres two January windows ago, when Gyökeres was desperate to come and play in the Premier League.

Beto was available on a 'buy now, pay later' ideal, wasn't he?

Sadly we missed that boat and he went abroad instead in the summer. What a player missed by all Premier League teams that is.

I suspect – given that player's quality, strength, pace and most of all finishing ability – we could be in very different shape now, table-wise, had big Viktor been on the end of the chances created. 'If' is possibly the biggest word in the English language though.

3) A none productive player like Harrison was brought in and renewed the next year, due to affordability constraints to get better.

4) We brought in Broja, as we had Hobson's Choice. The once mighty Everton, in desperate need of striking reinforcement, forced to sign not just an unproven player, but a severely injured unproven player. The risk was massive he would breakdown after such a long time out. It's no surprise, but given our state, we probably could not get a better option.

5) We are in Shit Street right now, teetering just above the trap door with a seemingly very toothless team.

In light of all this, whilst McNeil and Chermiti may help, we surely need some fresh blood to help us, with some real quality. Over to you, The Friedkin Group.

If they fail to act now, and we go down, what a disastrous situation that would be. Surely it's too great a risk for them to take???

If he's as good as I think he is, you'd have to wonder why Brighton seem willing to loan him out with Welbeck being as injury-prone as he is.

Out for 10 to 12 weeks would mean a possible return towards the end of April, so with what, about four games remaining. Not enough time to make any impact, in fact he wouldn't make any impact whatsoever.

He would need to regain fitness and match fitness which isn't going to happen. So send him back and free up a loan space for somebody else.

Obviously, we neither of us know the terms of the loan agreement.

At least we'll have someone who can take a free-kick. Something that seems beyond the present squad. Didn't Moyes bring him in at West Ham?

His acquisitions in the main leave a lot to be desired: Beto, Chetmiti, O'Brien for example (over £50M not on the pitch – accepting some of this is being paid on the never-never).

Again he's shopping in a market place for the cash-strapped and buying players befitting of that market.

Loans disappoint me. It is critical to us with no cash that our 4 loanees make a real difference. Mangala I see as a positive, but Lindstrøm, Harrison, Broja are hugely disappointing and have added nothing, just wasted opportunity.

None of us really know the murky financial world Thelweall has had to operate in, and credit is due in part, but I'm not convinced he can pick a player (unless obvious) and I'm hoping Moyes, with his intense scrutiny of acquisitions, will change this.

It's not as simple as us just wanting to send him back.

And it's not as if Chelsea cannot afford his wages, after all they've sold their women's team and two hotels they own to themselves!

Unless Chelsea find something else to flog to themselves meanwhile!