Vitalii Mykolenko suffers injury in the final pre-season game

For Leeds, expect either an all-centre-back backline (6'4" or bigger at all stations) or a guest appearance by Seamus at left-back.

Either as Mike says or I can see Moyes going with 3 centre-backs with Garner and McNeil as wingbacks stiffening up the midfield and hope for a draw.

Once again, the squad is ill-prepared for the new season.

O'Brien Tarkowski Keane Branthwaite.

Moyes needed a right-back and left-back who could come into the team and has neither.

Aznou has potential, but he has a lot to learn before he is ready for the Premier League. His defensive positional play reminded me of Nathan Patterson.

Played 45 games for Besiktas last season. Current DR Congo international. No idea if he's good, bad or indifferent but Sunderland see something in him.

As an emergency cover for Mykolenko he might have been useful, especially as money appears tight.

So I'm led to believe that, over the last few months, Mykolenko has started to look the business. And then this.

Surely to God there can't be two Native American burial grounds in North Liverpool!

We don’t want three left backs

We have just spent 9m Euros (I think) on left back cover. If Sunderland have been arranging that loan and it's happened, it would have all been in advanced stages for a couple of weeks and agreed. We only found out Mykolenko was injured yesterday.

It looks like left back will be a toss up between Aznou, maybe Seamus and as I've said elsewhere, I wouldn't be surprised see Michael Keane in there or we play with a back 3.

Sam @10, a debate we've all had for years and long before TW. All opinions, but it's always a balance and blend. As well as developing younger players, all clubs buy players approaching at their peak, or those with experience.

I like nothing more than to see young ex-academy players breaking through, but our academy has hardly been tearing up trees over the past decade. The only realistic one coming through now is Harrison Armstrong.

Arsene Wenger was good at it. But, wet finger in the air, I think a lot of those he brought into their youth set up came from other countries. He even had Harry Kane for a season, but mustn't have rated him as his released him. It just show's you that you can never tell, and it's down to opinion and judgement.

We've done okay with younger players the past couple of seasons. Not academy players, but we acquired the likes of O'Brien, Branthwaite and Alcaraz. We've done it this summer with Aznou, and Barry, again from other clubs.

He is a left back. Just saying runs for cover

Getting further up and recovering is where you earn your Spurs.

Moyes will just have to adapt to circumstances and that is where the real change will come. He can buy and have a wish list all Summer long, but constraints will mean he will still have to be innovative during the season.

Everton's problem is that they have not negotiated enough young player contracts early enough, including Dibling. Teams want to keep their young players. Trying to negotiate at this stage of the season gives them better opportunities in negotiations to keep them. They cannot lose. It pushes up their value with tangible benefits to their current teams.

Jerome, yes, the manager will need to look at what he's got and play a system that suits the players, not make the players fit the system he may want to stick to.

If we get Grealish and Dibling in, I don't think we're looking too bad for options in the middle. Still a bit thin, but he will have selection dilemmas when all fit. Not a bad thing compared to what we've been used to over the past few seasons. We also have AFCON to consider.

Those 2 take us to 7 new signings. Not quite the 9-10 Moyes initially cited, but not far off. Throw in Branthwaite; not a new signing, but getting him to commit to 4 years, when others were reportedly sniffing could be considered part of our summer business. So an argument for 8th. Nearly there, no a right back, whoever that is.

We both know that better players usually cost a lot more money, unless they’re younger and need developing, but in the very harsh environment of the EPL, you also need players with experience, especially in a squad that is embarrassingly short on numbers.

The first summer for TFG, is definitely going to see a lot of people being a lot more understanding because of the shit-show they inhabited, but the alarming lack of numbers, seven days before the season starts, is taking me back to the times when Bill, always found Dave, at least £5million each summer.

When Roy Keane came out with a sentence that is automatically ingrained inside the minds of people who ‘need’ to be winners, then it saddens me when I read or listen to Evertonians, who have forgotten the words of the late, great Sir John Moore’s, and have become way to accepting of mediocrity

It's like the more money we come across, the more problems we see

That gives us 10 midfielders to choose from.

It doesn't mean we're finished and still need to add the depth we've needed for years.

I wasn't too concerned about the defence prior to pre-season, but as we saw on the US tour, it only takes an injury to Tarkowski and/or Branthwaite and now Mykolenko and we look thin.

In terms of aspirations for this coming season, I was, what felt like, one of the lone voices on here that said why can't we have a go push for a European place and go on a cup run? With the right players, right mentality and belief, I stand by that.

As you say, a lot of supporters have accepted mediocracy for too long, probably because it's all they've known. I've never accepted it, I've just had to endure it.

That Sir John Moores quote is my Everton favourite.

Most of the midfielder players we are putting together can play out wide or come inside to play, which means we should be a lot more exciting to watch and a lot more interchangeable.

This will hopefully give our opponents more problems when they play against Everton!