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We had his best years and got an incredible fee for him. Don't ruin it.

Not really surprising from somebody who still thought he was going to play for France until he was 30. More fool Everton for ever putting him on that sort of money in the first place.

Reported for fibbing.

It'll be tough for you in the summer, but think of all the excitement when his new club realises they've had their pants pulled down and he's being linked with a January return on loan.

I'd like to think I'd have stayed until the very end, but then I did almost turn the telly off when Alcaraz and Branthwaite ran into each other like the Wet Bandits.

Seems like he can't miss at the moment.

Well, that was very enjoyable.

Scraping the barrel for guests now.

Moyes will pick him once he's fit. It's a tough league for players with no real physical attributes to truly excel in, but McNeil is both a good technician and a hard worker. He may end up being used similarly to how Ward-Prowse was at West Ham.

Depends entirely on the ambition of the new owners. If they're serious about competing for Europe, we're talking virtually a whole new team. It's only really Pickford, Branthwaite and Ndiaye who look good enough for that level, although a few others have shown flashes and could cement...

Barry Horne cracked me up on the Merseyside commentary. 'David Moyes has had a dream start since coming back, but he'll now be waking up to the harsh reality of Beto.'

I was thinking it feels like a long time since I've been content with the manager, and then I realised that's because it's actually been three-and-a-half years.

Again, these are decisions that he's paid a huge amount of money to get right. It doesn't matter what anybody would have wrote on this forum; his job isn't to win personal victories over the fans. The academy produces players that are as much use as Beto, Chermitti or Maupay have turned out to...

The reason he's paid £1m a year is because he's supposed to know that somebody like Beto isn't good enough to contribute, and that a £25m albatross around the club's neck is worse than signing nobody.

I've had plenty of negative things to say about him down the years, and that'll no doubt be the case again before the season is out, but there are times where I have to appreciate what a pro he is.

He seems a bit hit and miss on the ball, but a player like him can always contribute if the motivation to keep working hard is there.

Don't know what came over him for the goal. That was a great bit of work. Obviously, normal service resumed straight after, but so what? Just squeeze any contribution we can out of this lot and, hopefully, be ready to move on from most of them in the summer.

Can only hope that this is about having somebody to intercept hospital balls between their defenders and goalkeeper, rather than the more likely scenario that he's just going to be first choice under Moyes regardless.

I'll give him last season, but his rescue job upon taking over was even worse than Lampard's post-Benitez.

Well, Stoke came up from the Championship under Pulis and got 45, 47, 46, 45 and 42 points playing the sort of football Dyche produces. Alex McLeish got 50 points one season and won the League Cup the next at Birmingham. Palace got 45 and 48 points in consecutive seasons under Pulis and Pardew...