Except, we haven’t got any kind of bundle to spend unless or until we sell… and that’s likely to be arguably our best centre half in Jarrad Branthwaite.
Selling Everton should be his absolute priority in both financial and timescale terms. The longer he continues to drag things out, the more problems he's almost certainly bound to run into.
If DCL is still an Everton player at the end of this window... he'll be able to sign a pre-contract with another club from January 1st - as he'll be a free agent - and we'll get zip for him.
It’s not something new either… fans were, shall we say, less than polite towards Harry Catterick for dropping the Golden Vision to play a young Joe Royle at Blackpool.