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Carlo taking over the first team, Unsworth now officially ruling over the academy. Looks like we're doing what we did with our last architect, saying thanks but no thanks...

Probably best wait for them to actually play some games before we decide that hadn’t we?! I’m happy with the signings in theory but it will only be a good window if the players make us a much better side. I was happy with Sandro and Pickford when we signed them.

On paper I’m happy with the players we’ve brought in so far, but where I think brands deserves credit is the structuring of the deals. If nothing else he’s made sure we’re not saddled with people on 5 year deals.

Yeah that's exactly how it seems to me; people decided that they wanted Brands to sign a load of Argentinian teenagers and somehow forgot that it was just a thought in their head and not his actual job description.

I'd say you're under analysing it a tad. Brands signed up knowing full well he was going to be working with Silva. I would imagine that sort of set up suited both him and Silva in theory, an old fashioned training ground coach/tactician and a behind the scenes transfer guru. In practice it...

Yeah I agree with that. I said in an earlier post, I'm not criticising Brands at all, and you're right that he may be behind or at least very much on board with the change. I just don't really get why people are saying there hasn't been a change. It's really quite an obvious one I think. I've...

Or you could say we have a first team squad containing Pickford, Coleman, Digne, Keane, Sigurdsson, Gomes, Walcott, Delph and Bernard. We don't really need experience at all, we've got bucketloads of it. What we needed was more quality, and hopefully we've got it. I don't think they've gone out...

There is a slight difference though isn't there. Richarlison could have been a Silva suggestion (in my opinion it's pretty obvious that he was) but he still fit the criteria of a Brands signing. Brands had a template, which he was quite clear about, and Richarlison's profile was very much within...

Find it difficult to argue with him to be honest. It hasn’t worked so far, clearly, so why get worked up about people saying it?

'Just judge him on the players'? I doubt he'd hire you as his lawyer, you'd have just got him sent down.

That's what I just said? Him, King, Hunter, Bascombe. They are the crew, they always were. He was never on his own, he's one of a handful of journalists the club trusts and tells things. The conversation started with you saying that Joyce wasn't a good source when saying that something has...

I'm not sure it's ruffled anyone's feathers, it's just that a lot of people think you're wrong. It's like you're expecting him to be breaking news a month before it actually happens, but I don't think he ever really did that. The point is he's reliable. If he says Gabriel came for a medical then...

I didn't mention Iwobi and Delph? You said we were transforming the squad into one that's comfortable in a couple of different formations, but we haven't have we? I wasn't doing a detailed tactical analysis, I just mean they don't really look very good in any formation. I get what you mean...

They're not capable of playing either of those formations though? And this squad is anything but dynamic. It's not even particularly young to be honest, it's just full of players in the same age bracket. It's not really a squad that's growing together and likely to get better, it just doesn't...

To be honest I'd have no problem with them being at the club, I just don't want them to be regular starters. Iwobi, Walcott, Sigurdsson and Delph giving depth to the squad is fine really, the problem is that we bought them all to play.

I’m genuinely confused that there are people saying this is the worst Everton squad ever, and there’s no way a manager can be expected to get a result at home to relegated Bournemouth With these players, and also saying that the DoF - who’s bought enough players to put out a full balanced side -...

Look at his thread between Christmas and the end of last season and you’ll see that really isn’t true. Lots of people questioned whether we should make it permanent, the revisionism is that this only started with his injury.

Wahey!Another of my favourite type of post. ‘He can’t win, if he signs players we already know are rubbish you moan, and if he signs players you originally think will be good but they turn out to be rubbish you moan aswell, what do you want him to do?’ Buy people who aren’t rubbish perhaps? I...

Not quite. I was talking about how much we’d get if we sold him. To do that, you kind of have to work on the basis that he’d be available for sale. It’s a hypothetical situation.

I’m sure you’re right, but I’m not sure what point you’re making in relation to my post?