The clock is ticking on the January Transfer window…

It's just khusanov, malen, philogene and agbadou. The others are youth development deals for u21 year olds between about £5m and £15m.

Most clubs are figuring out what they can sell before they know what they can buy - so it goes down tp the wire.

It's not that we're badly run, it's more that we just don't have the money to select a primary target or two and pay what it takes to get them.

In the last few days of the window agents, selling clubs, players and buying clubs will give up the brinkmanship and start doing deals.

We will probably sign 2 maybe even 3 players.

It's understandable that the targets and strategy may have shifted with Moyes coming in. A fortnight ago I would have said that a LB and a RW were the clear priorities but actually Mykolenko has been improved for the last two games and Lindstrom was arguably MOTM against Spurs.

I can imagine there may also be a tussle between Moyes and Thelwell for transfer control. Moyes is reputed to have clashed with Tim Steidten who was Techincal Director at West Ham over targets and between them they probably had more flops than successes there. Thelwell's long term future at Everton is still unclear and no doubt TFG will want to wait till they are happy with all key decision makers before committing to large spending.

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Even on a free his wages would be problematic. For a fee it makes no sense at all.

Hopefully we never return to this disastrous strategy of 2016 to 2021.

If TFG is serious about restoring us to our former glory then this is the man to do it.

Melo is a crock, Edward.

Summer will be very interesting.

Sadly you’re spot on mate

We will probably be looking to sell one maybe two of our own players to raise some cash, who knows.

If deals can be made for them then we could put a decent sized down payment on someone like Cunha.

Before you start with the PSR argument, remember no one pays the total amount upfront.

The second challenge, (which becomes huge in the summer), is the low sell on value of players now, and for many that is zero come summer.

So it's a really big challenge at this time to make player upgrades, getting the most

out of what we have, through fitness and rotation will be order of the day.

The loan situation, with Broja especially, is very frustrating, we don't really know what Chermiti can do, so can we risk selling Beto?

So its get a balanced squad in this window by any means possible

Players like Cunha need to found before they've made their mark.

It is somewhat worrying that nothing has happened up to now, and of those we have been linked with, they have either gone elsewhere, or are no longer of interest, or available. PSR worries lifted but still limitations on what we are able to spend. Moyes is historically fairly astute in spotting players, but is it his job to do so ?

No way he'd come to Everton - we're no better than Wolves in reality.

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I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see someone like Evan Ferguson from Brighton on a loan deal.

Despite seeing a much better performance from Lindstrøm for first time, we still need pace and width… options without loan spaces are limited… Willian, short term deal ?

Midfield will have options on injured players returning but I would hate to see Mangala injured.. or Gana for that matter.
Centre backs fine, O’Brien provides another option at right back but we remain exposed at left back. We won’t buy Chilwell, possible loan if loan space frees up, but Walker Peters who plays left and right available at knock down price as contract expires in the Summer.

I expect a lot more ifs and buts in remainder of window, and maybe a couple of deals to emerge.