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We're playing well and I think we can do damage. However, I won't be getting my hopes up even slightly as we know how this usually goes. I don't really care how crap a referee is as long as they treat both teams equally but we know at Anfield that just doesn't happen. A couple of years ago we...

I’ll go for a 7. The true value of this window in terms of overall success may take several seasons to realise as it’s entirely possible that some of our young players may not make major contributions this season whilst they’re finding their feet. I don’t think we did enough business in terms...

We need a defensive minded midfield player who is comfortable at collecting the ball off the defence and progressing it to the much improved attacking options in our team. That profile in no way describes Tomas Soucek. We all know exactly where Soucek will play if he signs. For all of Moyes’...

Don’t think Baines was, I think Wigan had played a season or 2 in the Prem before we bought him although he was certainly seasoned in the Championship prior to that. Pickford was similar to Dibling in that we bought him from a relegated team, also the case with Jagielka and Idrissa Gueye so...

I very clearly referred to both Everton’s history of buying from that league as well as other clubs who have had plenty of recent success. Joleon Lescott would be another example, excellent player for us (up until he downed tools) and we received an enormous fee for him.

Well if you want a recent case study look at Crystal Palace, Eze, Wharton and Olise just off the top of my head in recent years. All brilliant players, a trophy in the cabinet and massive fees for two of them so far with Wharton probably a year or two from the same. No transfer strategy is...

He broke through as a Premier League player, which is why he’s cost £40m as a 19 year old.

I long for the days that we start raiding the Championship again. Some of the brilliant players we’ve had from that league, coupled with some of the gems that have ended up at other PL clubs in recent times, makes our seeming refusal to do business in that market all the more infuriating.

Sky Sports seem to believe it’s Burnley after Florentino Luis. I think we have been linked previously so you’d hope we have done more than enough research on him. Get him boxed off on loan and we’re nearly there.

All good RT. I realise off the back of a good win the last thing people want to read is something that can be seen as negative, but I think we all, myself certainly included, need to stop giving the club praise when it does something that should be considered the bare minimum. I have been...

Giving the manager the tools he needs to compete is the absolute bare minimum of what should be expected going forward. Our squad is still short of essential reinforcements in two positions. In my opinion, only when those two areas have been covered, can the window be deemed anything above...

Still need a right back and centre midfielder for this to be an adequate transfer window. Bolstering all areas of weakness is the number one priority and I’ve overlooked far too many transfer windows before where we haven’t addressed key problems just because it seemed at the time we did good...

That's one rough debut, especially when it was so vital that he hit the ground running. It's hardly a surprise though, he has absolutely terrible goalscoring instincts and he can't strike a ball properly so he routinely misses guilt-edged chances. He used to bring a lot to the table aside...

It's why we desperately need a proper right back which would allow O'Brien to properly compete for his natural position, the exact reason why we bought him in the first place. Tarkowski has been brilliant for us and I am sure he will continue to be but he should have to fight to keep his...

Currently shaping up to be an absolutely classic Moshiri window this, leaving all of our key business to the last minute placing far too much pressure on deadline day and then we get sent packing with nothing but Enner Valencia and a ‘James McCarthy is family’ shout to show for it. God only...

The only way that Ake rumour made even a lick of sense was if Branthwaite was badly crocked, and there have been no suggestions that has been the case. Quite the red herring for Bobble to cook his reputation on. Then again in his defence, we have been working backwards through our list of...

Unless Branthwaite is badly crocked then this just seems utterly ridiculous, to the point that I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a ruse to flush out the mole. Right wing, right back, centre midfielder - in that order. We shouldn’t be looking at anything else until those voids are filled.

I think there was to be honest. I don’t blame fans getting excited at the fact a top quality player (at his best) arrived but at the same time there was not a lot of room for reasoned debate around the time he joined. Strategy is all important when building a squad, and you can tell we don’t...

I think it’s important that concerns are raised when similar patterns that have led to us circling the drain for many years emerge. If any posters grind your gears to such an extent, you could always mute them.