Absolutely hilarious how Man City can tie up a 40+ mil deal for a top class CL player faster than we can sort out a free transfer for a Southampton reject.
The slow pace within which the major decision making is made at Everton really is astounding sometimes. May becomes June, June becomes July, July becomes August, Deadline Day disappoints, and we are average yet for another season.
No offense to old Cuco but this really should be a 5 min conversation. He's had a sh1t season, he's never really done anything of note in his career, and he's been released by his club, who are considerably smaller than EFC. He now has the chance the link up with his old boss and compete (I hope) with Kenny for the Everton right back spot until Seamus (an infinitely better player) is fit and ready, at which time he will never get another minute of play until his contract expires.
When Everton ran the "nothing will ever be the same" marketing slogan I didn't genuinely believe it, but at the same time I thought things might be able to move a little bit quicker than they have done over the last 15 years. Sadly I feel a more accurate slogan may have been "go back inside, everything will remain exactly the same. Forever!".
The fact that nothing seems to have changed suggests one of two things is happening to me. 1) Farhad is not going to be the type of owner to spend money on players without selling first. Or 2) Bill (too tight) and Ellstone (too incompetant) are still slowing things down at the top trying to negotiate an extra 2% off the agent fees. My head says Bill and Bob are still the problem, but my heart keeps telling me it would be just Everton's luck to find the first football billionaire owner who hates spending money.
If we really want to I think we will tie up a deal for Martina but I won't be dancing from the rooftops if it goes through. I then think we'll spend the next 3 weeks waiting for Wayne Rooney to decide he wants to go to China for x3 the money he'd get with us, and x3 less stick from the terraces as his burger/cig-addled body struggles to cope with the prem.
Then we'll be playing catch up and will see most of our preferred targets go elsewhere before Watching Bill wheel out some semi-decent prospect in mid-late August claiming "this was the one we always wanted!"...
Having said all that I'd love to be proved wrong.