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I doubt Moyes is being naive. He said what he intended to say. This is not his first day at the office. In the past, mutually-assured destruction was his friend. He knew he needed Kenwright as he built his career and Kenwright knew he needed Moyes to be his trusty sword, scabbard, and shield. It...

Far better a Moyes not in the pocket of the club than the previous iteration who was embedded. A bit of tension is no harm.

I agree. In some ways, it's unfair to compare Moyes to Ancelotti. But for all of his advantages, Moyes also comes with downsides. All managers do. Right now, this is not about him - we should still be able to sign good players. This is on the Friedkins and their "football leadership team". We...

What if we got a new manager and he could attract players? What if we got a new manager and he succeeded? This is how we needed to be thinking: not playing the percentages and writing off a trip to Leeds because we have half a squad.

Nobody is demanding they solve all of our many issues in one window. But let's be honest here. If they can't make a significantly positive impact in their first window, that tells a tale on their competence and vision. So, yeah, right now: they are failing. Moyes himself has intimated as much...

Indeed. I said as much in another thread. But that also applied to Carlo, and he had less trouble getting in names - whether we thought they worked or not.

The Friedkins are mismanaging this. Their decision to bring back Moyes was an unqualified success. He got us safe in quick time. However, Moyes is not the face to scream "come to Everton, we are in a new era!" He isn't a beacon for signing players we otherwise could not get. Not his fault...

Every club bar Real Madrid is a stepping stone. If we hold ourselves to your understandable but sentimental standard, we'll be going home virgins forever. Pure and untainted. But lonely.

Well, if they'll come, and we are serious about them, it's only a matter of time before we'll have to stump up. But it seems to me that we can't get players mainly because we are viewed as a big history Coventry City after 30 years of Kenwright.

Yup, I won't be listening to any excuses if we go there and lose. A largely unchanged side (even allowing for a few knocks) is an advantage at this stage of the season. Moyes is no fool. This is not his first rodeo. He'll know if recruitment fails this summer he's toast. He'll have to come up...

But asking prices mean nothing if a player has a better option. I'm all for paying the asking price of a single player who can act as a beacon for others, but it won't matter if they are waiting on more attractive offers. We should be paying the asking price for players who are willing to...

Moyes can rightly moan about recruitment (even allowing for his own involvement or attractiveness to players), but his team should be good enough to go to Leeds and get some kind of result.

It seems like that doesn't matter if a player is waiting on a Champion League club. At least, it doesn't matter until the player has no better options. So if we get players like this in, it will be at the end of the window.

It's clear that we've made a mess of recruitment. It's one thing being ambitious, it's quite another executing on that ambition. We seem to have over-reached and are now panicking. This means bad decisions - made in haste - now become more likely. We need someone to add a little magic dust to...

Dean, Ball, and Southall are our greatest players in whatever order you're having yourself. Nobody else comes within an ass's roar of these.

The Everton way.

Just the nine to go then…

Welcome, Little Richard!

Is your source Alan Myers? They don’t call him “Deep Throat” for nothing…

Yup, beggars can’t be choosers. We would appear to be minted beggars, mind. “I want to live with common people…” 🎶