Believe me, I'm certainly not delighting in Everton being skint. I'd LOVE us to sign players - quality ones at that. But Moyes has come out and said time and time again that we don't have money to spend, and we're only interested in the loan market. He said it in the summer too pretty much, and the rose-tinted spectacles people seemed to think it was a smokescreen. Did we go out and spend anything? No.
It is crystal clear that we simply don't have money to spend in this transfer window. The Pienaar money might give us enough to pay a loan fee and wages, but not much more than that. To bid 7m euros is just not possible. I hate that. We all do - not least Moyes. But people need to get used to the idea that that's how it is at the moment. There's no point in being all 'glass half full' about it - because that doesn't generate any cash for us. By the same token though, I don't believe that I'm being negative and pessimistic. I'm being realistic. In other words, the glass has the amount of water in it that it has. No more, no less.
And I also totally disagree with the assertion that 'penny pinching will be our downfall'. Clubs who have tried to buy their way out of trouble have ended up in a terrible mess. Look at Pompey, Newcastle, Leeds etc. It's not the right way to go. We need investment or we need to sell players for big money. In the mean time, us fans need to be realistic, and cross our fingers that Moyes can get some success in the loan market.
Finally - no, £3m won't make a huge dent in the debt, but it will help to pay our running costs, player wages and some mortgage payments.
