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We've done some good business and that shouldn't be overlooked or forgotten, but the truth is we don't look any better than we did last year (arguably the starting XI is actually worse). For a window to be anything more than average you need to come out of it stronger, so it's a 5 for me.
 

if we signed a good striker and another good CB its a solid 10, we didn't so im saying a 5, a striker was needed for about 6 weeks how it was left until the last minute is still baffling, if sandro flops we will struggle to score goals until January

worrying
 
Would have taken not signing 1/2 of the players we got if it meant getting a proven pl top class cf in, disappointing 6/10
 
I think we might see the emergence of DCL until January in the same way we saw it with Tom Davies last year. He will get game time as our striker hopefully now.

Overall I give the window a 7. Hearing we'd spent £50m on 2 players in June was an unbelievable night to be a Blue! Then Rooney coming back. I'm excited by Sig, Pickford and Keane.

Rom was already out the door and we haven't replaced, true and disappointing. Everyone knows we need a top striker. But are the quality of strikers we want available in this window and do they want to come to Everton? I think we'll bring one in January or next Summer and kick on from there. Raising our profile in the EL with qualification from our Group will really help our attractiveness. We knew this window was a massive rebuild job, we've shifted some of the dead wood with others still to shift, but we are much stronger in key positions than when we went into it.
 

If we're reaching for the stars (which we should be) then 6 to 7/10.
We probably got the best signings in the window, in two crucial positions - Keane and Pickford.
Looking back a couple of seasons from now, how much will we be saying this was the moment things started to change? not to mention what their market value will be by then.
Throw in Rooney and Sig and its pretty good business.
But can't overlook lack of LCB/LB and of course, CF.
Have to put it in context though. We all now expect top quality signings in those positions (we shouldn't expect anything less)
But we are only now just getting in a position to have these expectations. We didn't/shouldn't have had these expectations last window.
Expectations have to be real, not deluded.
Top quality players attract other top quality players. The classic eg being Neymar went to Barca because of Messi.
It's good we didn't sign some of the names being bandied about. They aren't what we should be targeting. It would have reeked of desperation. Without getting all RS, they are not good enough for us, for what this club is striving for. Things take time.
The fume is understandable though. How are we going to make Europe next season and continue to attract top players - if we can't score goals, if we don't have the pace to create the opportunities.
Well we've got what we've got (at least until the next window). And its not that bad. There is a lot of ambition amongst the players and there is an abundance of natural leadership. (the Barkley situation is interesting within these contexts; you can see how he might have felt rubbed up the wrong way by some of the other lads)
If they develop the faith, as a team, to match the individual ambition then there more than half way there. Add the mixture of experience and youth and the prospects look very healthy.
Will Everton make the leap as quickly as Spurs. Probably not, but I definitely believe they will get there.

Transfer window for under 23 players across both squads - 8 to 9/10 as per last couple of seasons.
Can't wait to see Henry and DCL together ripping it up and reaping the rewards of the established base being built now.

If there was one player I would like to have seen Everton get it was VVD. He's the one we're missing (and maybe Robbie Brady at LB/LW).
But a question - would we have stepped outside FFP rules if other players weren't sold?
 
Gave it a 6. Made some very good additions at the start of the window but we did seem to buy the same type of player when it came to attacking positions when we are crying out for pace and a forward. We knew Lukaku was going months ago so to not replace him is scandalous. CL has looked great but he is only young and Sandro is new to the league. Can't believe we are relying on them up top. Really struggling to see where the goals are coming from.

Also we have not bought a back up to Baines and should have gone for another CB after Mori was injured long term because Williams is awful and Jags is getting on. We are a few injuries away in certain positions from looking quite weak.
 
I've gone for a 6. But if by January ross barkley has started playing well again and signed a new contract and niasse has been given a chance and scored a few then the window would be good and an 8.
 

Pretty good. We'll obviously miss Big Rom's goals and influence against the teams in the top 6 but other than that it's difficult to be too disappointed.

Even Daveck would agree that Pickford, Keane, Rooney and Sigurdsson were good signings.

Vlasic looked good against us. Martina hasn't let anyone down yet, Klaassen, despite some crazy rhetoric has looked fairly decent as well.

Sandro is still carrying an injury but will come good..
 
Good window, deadline day puts it down to a 7 though. We needed players, we didn't get them so deadline day was a failure really. The fact that we couldn't sell all the players we wanted to hurts a bit too.

But overall, it's ok. Need to get the players in sync with eachother, that will be a difference from where we are now.
 
There is no doubt that we have made some good signings in this window but we needed someone to put the ball in the net. Our manager knows it, we all know it.
We will come up short this season because of it.
I would like to think that between now and January we are putting everything into acquiring a centre forward.
 
Pickford, Keane, Sigurdsson, Klaassen. Most Evertonians would have been in rapture at those signings a year or two ago. Now they represent a bad window for some. Like it or not, our first priority is making it a 'Big 7', then close the gap. I'd have liked another CB and a striker, but better than we have isn't available (£26m for Sakho, WBA fight off City to keep Evans, Giroud prefers to warm a Champions League bench and Costa prefers to be on his jollies, yada, yada, yada ...). The window represents progress not a failure.
 

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