I actually like your point but I would like to offer a counter point:
Ppl like you who actually think that Everton are so good and so respecte that we can actually scoff at other players and deem them as being not good enough for us.
What on earth have you seen in recent times to show that to be true? We are a bad team with a bad squad and an awful recent history. Will this get better if we can sign better players? Maybe. Has that happened. No! Therefore here we are in August talking about the likes of Brownhill and others as being potential squad fillers. We are fighting among ourselves over stupid crap when in all seriousness any anger should be directed at the anonymous owners for not providing the aforemenioned better players or at the very least we should stop making comments ( myself included) until September first and then maybe we can start playing catch up as a team
Which is much more of Everton's history these day than the glory years.
Now im going to follow the lead of our owners and recruitment team and not say or do $h$t until Sep 1st.