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I worry for anyone who is not enjoying us throwing around massive wedges and signing actually boss players left and right whilst the rest of the league looks on dumbfounded. Everyone we have signed/are on the brink of signing strengthens our starting lineup whilst that Onyekuru lad will go get champions league experience and keep slotting in Belgium for a year whilst we've got actual money for Cleverley, McGeady and Del who can't last more than 20 mins in the league!

I can't wait for Koeman's first press conference where he walks out like nothing's happened and is just like 'ok... we sign some players, we sell some players... this is football'
 

longers said:
Nice to finally be spending money, will have to keep spending big and keep our best players if we ever want to get into that top 6 though, let alone top 4.

Even with all our new signings and keeping rom/ross we still have a weaker squad than those above us.
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I agree totally. It's going to be very difficult to even get top 6 but at least we are attempting to get that bit closer. Our initial target is to get the points deficit lower to show improvement and carry on from there. We just might sneak in with a bit of luck but it's not a given.
 
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No. I'm not talking about a David Bowie best of compilation, I'm talking about Everton.

So we entered the pre season shrouded in mystery, who will be our new manager, will we spend loads, will we get a new stadium, will Cleverley leave, so many questions.

So far we've had one question answered, we got a new manager and to be fair it is a thoroughly underwhelming appointment for a club that supposedly has renewed ambitions. This is a man who thrives in ordinariness, a so-so man from a so-so nation, Mr. Average, Mr. Grey, if he was a colour he'd be magnolia, he's neither here nor there, he won't set the world alight, nor will he do any worse. If we wanted to send a message to the footballing world that we are back we needed to do better than Ronald "Flavour of the month" Koeman.

Instead we have done what we do best, go with what we can get, not push for what we supposedly can't get. A bad start for things to come.

So on to our transfers, so far we have made one, an undisclosed fee for a keeper who is that bad Fulham who have just finished above relegation in the League 1 find him surplus to requirements. Great.

We've been linked with two other signings, Witsel and Mata, so going off everything that has preceded this what is the honest likelihood we will sign them? We have no European football to lure them, we have a bog standard manager, maybe they want to join Gianluigi Stekelenbuffon? Ridiculous.

Apparently we have had negotiations with Witsel but true to form they've stalled. Everton that.

So on to the actual elephant in the room. Are we rich? So far I'm going with no, all we've done is catch the likes of Stoke, West Ham and Palace up in terms of money we can offer players.

Same old Everton? Yep.
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The thing is with the 'Top6' thing is that there's not much separating any of them. Really, any of them could win the league next year with probably Arsenal and the RS the least likely as it stands but if we can finish above even one of them then, unless one of them has fallen away massively, we're in the elite of the country with not much to separate us from the top of the league.
 

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