Everton sign goalkeeper Tom King from Wolves

He is 30, has 1 Welsh Cap and stands at 1.94m. He's played for 9 teams, not counting spells as a youth player with Man Utd and Crystal Palace. He's made 1 Premier League appearance and his most appearances were for Salford - 64 games.

He has played more games in League Two, than any other division / competition - 123 games. In total he has played 222 games. He is very much a 3rd choice keeper. No doubt this will mean Harry Tyrer either being sold or loaned out.

We need a right back,right winger (2), central midfielder & an experienced striker too!

Pay the Dibling Money! This will cost us league places and therefore millions of pounds. False economy as usual.

Brilliant!!!

Simon, two major signings in 7 days (and one minor one) is how you define "things grind to a halt"??? I think you've locked up Odd Post Of The Day and it's only dinnertime.

We have bought a goalie, why do we need yet another??? Our academy keepers (U21) must be really disheartened. We have at least 3 of them. There was one called Pickford (no relation), I don't know what happened to him.

Typical Everton. Don't fill the desperately needed positions. But waste money on places we just don't need. And if I am correct, there is an exemption in the rules for keepers. So if Pickford gets a long-term injury, the club are allowed to go loan one on top of the squad they have.

Bloody pay for Dibling and some defenders at right- and left-back. Muppets!

We probably do need 3 goalies (1 to sit on the bench) but we are screaming out for a right-back and a right-winger.

Many of us are frustrated because this has been a problem for years now and is not, apparently, being solved.

We should've kept Begovic.

As for Begovic, apparently Moyes shares my opinion of him... not good enough to count on. I used to call him Bungles Begovic, although I will readily concede he has done well with us.

Martin, George Pickford is only 17, so I don't think he's had time to get disappointed. And as for Jordan's possible heir apparent, do you think Tyrer would rather have a loan back to League One, where he played 38 superb games last season, or sit on the bench and watch Pickford?

As Jack says, King's signing is Tyrer's ticket to a full season of action -- which a young keeper desperately needs.

It’s better for us, and Tryer, if he spends a year in the Championship rather than being 3rd choice.

Douglass Lukjanciks will be the one if any of the goalkeepers makes it out of the Academy.

Tyrer looked competent in the friendly at Accrington; if he returns on loan to Blackpool, I’m fairly sure that he could be recalled if there was an injury crisis.

I still don’t understand why Virginia was released.

Now we can have 2 keepers on the bench every week again

So it's 2 keepers on the bench at Elland Road then? We certainly don't have any problem getting very average keepers over the line.

I think there were three or four new caterers brought in at Finch farm as well that might also be included in the numbers.

Welcome to this great club Tom.

We really need you as that bench ain’t gonna warm itself.

We need a right back and a right winger as a priority.

Beto is off and Chermiti is just not worthy of a place in the squad so an experienced striker is also needed.

If anyone seriously thinks the signing of a back-up keeper has any impact at all on whether we sign a right winger or full back they really need to give their heads a wobble. It’s not just one guy in an office only able to have one deal ongoing at a time! if you worked in an estate agent would you think that the £3m mansion was neglected because someone bought a bungalow that week?

Seriously, can we all grow up a little and show a little patience and understanding for the process?

The club is very clearly trying hard to get quality signings in key positions, like right wing, right back and forward, but it’s not as easy as popping down to the spar to buy a snickers. The player has to want to come, the selling club needs to agree reasonable/affordable terms, and there needs to not be better funded/ higher ranked opposition waiting in the wings.
Just look at Newcastle! They’ve got tons of cash and CL football and they are struggling to retain existing players never mind secure top quality new talent!

We have made solid progress with KDH and Grealish, maybe Barry will turn out a good investment too, given time… and this was built on securing O’Brien, NDiaye, Alcaraz and Beto the previous year.
We also kept hold of Branthwaite and Gueye and got rid of a load of dead wood like Holgate, Young, Maupay etc.

Doucouré and DLC were both solid squad players we could have kept at the right price, but they were hardly world beaters and they rejected contacts offered, so they’ve moved on. Likewise, I didn’t hate Harrison or Lindstrom, but nor could I argue they improved what we had and make a case to renew. Others like Broja and Mangala were injured so we had no choice but to cut ties.

We may still get Dibley or we may not, either way it’s not clear he’s the finished article. I think he’s still very much in the ‘rough diamond’ category and certainly doesn’t have the data under his belt to justify a fee of £50m, so I have no issue with us drawing a line below that.
Those who want to spend with abandon may want to remind themselves of how that worked out for us in the last decade… penniless, PSR fined and battling relegation!

Right now there are lots of reasons to be cheerful! We have a manager I trust who has once again returned some pride and hope, new owners who seem credible, and a fabulous new stadium. Yes the team is light and def needs a few more bodies in key positions, but this stuff doesn’t happen overnight. We have another 2 weeks before the window shuts, can we at least give the club the benefit of the doubt til then?