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Why would we have to wait to buy the players we want? Was Barry a player that we didn’t really want?

I'm saying that buying players isn't difficult. There are players available that we could have bought. But we are waiting to buy the players we want. It's not rocket science.

You mean 21 year olds won’t want to join us even though we won the CWC before Ashley Young was born?

We need to change the perception that we are a club that lose out on players to Forest, Bournemouth, even Southampton in recent times. That does mean spending money rather than pointing to trophies from 40 years ago.

I guess we don’t need signings after all.

Yeah this is why I don't understand the patience argument. Most of our business in recent years has been at the last minute. And I think we would all be in agreement that most of our recruitment in the last 5 or 6 seasons has been pretty poor -...

Especially when we signed Pickford before him.

I think the ‘Everton signed Michael Keane at the start of July once, so all early signings are terrible’ argument doesn’t really stack up for me I’m afraid.

Mina was great but he was still a £30m signing that left for free. Bernard was our highest earner while contributing little on the pitch and we struggled for 2 years to get rid of, so I don’t think you can say those signings didn’t contribute to...

A halcyon day full of excitement and optimism.

I’d like to think that isn’t a particularly complex deal to do if true, in fact I’d think it so uncomplicated that I’d wonder why it’s nearly August and we haven’t done it.

We brought Bernard, Gomes and Mina in on one deadline day.

I admit that waiting til the end of the window doesn’t mean we will get better footballers in, yes.

All of the windows where we left it til the last minute to bring in players were a disaster as well mate.

Why wouldn’t the principle of better players becoming available later in the window apply in this case mate?