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I will say with what's going on with the striker market, getting Barry early and for the price we did seems extremely extremely good already. We'll see in a year or two but we may well look back on that as a great bit of business for this summer

The idea that players make decisions on a Manager's comment during pre -season friendlies is genuinely hilarious.

Never understood the hate McNeil gets. I understand he's slow and one-footed but he gets decent numbers every year. Always high on chances created too. If we sign a great right winger he can become a really solid bench option for attacking mid/wing.

Probably because the harder bit is convincing the player, so that's what the focus is on right now. If he gives the go ahead, you match the asking price and then move forward from there.

Think him using the word 'desperate' is a bit over the top tbh. It's like he's going out of his way to shift the blame onto the new recruitment team early doors/'pander' to the fans. There's still a month of the window left, so it doesn't really...

I am assuming either 1; we are no longer in for him and have moved on 2; he has indicated he is up for it and we are negotiating We wouldn’t just be sat there doing neither

I say we just announce it. Like when Fox called the election for Bush. Worry about the details later.

Wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to stay - he'll get as much football there as he will here - but, in that instance, it's whether Lyon need the money and push from their end.

Interesting non-update from Romano. Are his camp losing patience with the Champions League clubs that have been sniffing around? Nobody came for him after rejecting Forest at the start of the month and clearly not been any movement since Saturday.

I do get what you mean, but the issue is that in reality pretty much every player is going to see things exactly the same way. None of them would be coming here because it's always been their dream to play for Everton - the only difference...

Definitely. I had this discussion with a City fan at work a few times. At Villa I think he mainly got the ball on the counter with maybe only 2 or 3 player between him and the goal, with space to attack and he was very direct, drove at the...

Can’t wait for the first photos of him staggering out of The Krazyhouse the night before a match when we’ve paid £15m+ to loan him for the season. Absolute scenes in here.

There are as many reports saying we've had encouragement from him as there are saying he wants CL football. Both can be true. He'd rather join a Champions League club, just as we'd rather sign Kubo. Eventually he might have to compromise...

I like him in the middle. Would he be my first choice? No, but he's definitely got something to offer as a squad player. He performed well in the middle last season (good numbers) and his set piece delivery is not something to be sniffed at -...

no chance we sell him. I don't love him but he's of our most reliable attacking players in terms of assists and goals, and he's also pretty reliable defensively. In a season where we need to be growing the squad, selling him would make zero sense.