pgheverton sorry your reception hasn't exactly been warm, but you gotta admit you're wrong on this one. don't get me wrong, i think gattuso is worth a bid but he'll be valued at too much and its not worth it to pay that much for him
never ever ever disrespect players like tim cahill again. ever.
players from top teams in other european leagues tend to only go for Big 4 play, it makes a lot more sense to buy the superstars of tomorrow then to splash out a bunch of money on a player who's career is winding down. when we pay someone's transfer fee, we need a long term return, Chelski can afford to offer loads of cash for a 29 year old player (we all know how that turned out), but we can't.
everton's players are not midtable quality, we broke the top 4 pretty recently, still have a lot of those same players, and as far as i'm concerned we've only improved since then.
our defence is solid, we've invested in it substantially this season and we don't need an italian star to improve, we need greater team chemistry, which will come with time.