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Woolly Blue said:
Oh aye, in the context of the thread title, things are changing, but heh, I've been saying that for some time now and this thread has surely moved on from the narrow remit if "Nothing Has changed" to a more general conversation ?

Within the more general context, the fact that we're top of the transfer spend table since Jan 2017 isn't that important though. Firstly, we spent money on Morgan in January, which is a time when very little business is done by the big clubs. Secondly, as I said before, it's early doors and the six clubs who finished above us are likely to spend big as well in the next month or so, so we'll likely slide down that table, and posting it now will come back to bite you.

What's more important is that we're doing our business early. Last summer was a bit of a shambles in that the club allowed the media to bandy about figures of 100 million being spent and also allowed the media ( and I include this place and other parts of the social media in that ) to give the impression that we were likely to sign better players than we actually ended up doing. That doesn't mean we weren't in for those players, but it does mean there was a lack of reality in the media, and almost certainly at the club as well, in who we were likely to sign.

This summer though it looks like the lessons have been learnt and we've identified our targets and ( relatively ) quietly, gone out and brought them in. That shows a degree of professionalism which was totally lacking this time twelve months ago, so things have certainly changed there.

The fact that we're getting deals done early also shows we havn't waited till the Summer to approach clubs, we'll likely have been putting feelers out since January, and will have had a fair idea of the sort of money we needed to spend to sign the likes of Keane, and we havn't penny-pinched in the traditional Everton way, we've just done what's necessary to get the players in. So we now have four first-teamers in for pre-season, which may have costs us a few million more than endless negotiations ending in August, but it gives the manager and the coaching staff a little time to work with those players and start to fashion a team out of them.

As an aside, fair play to @Sapie88 for starting this thread and managing to avoid it getting locked. It was plainly a piss take and is essentially a duplicate of the Moshiri thread, so not getting it closed is something he should be proud of, as is his faux indignation at people having a go at him. Sapie will never have the wumcraft of a davek, but he's doing pretty well.
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Woolly Blue said:
CLIQUE !

Danny's wish to foster debate by allowing threads to run is to be applauded, but that does present opportunities for the wise ... and you.



Meet me pre-match in the Peacock or the Black Horse and I'll happily buy you a pint, but I'm not built to work my way though the four deep queue that resembles a scrum in the TF and return with beer glasses intact.

I'll try to admire your arms, but I always get stuck at admiring the hugely impressive muscles in your neck, which are plainly needed to support that massive cranium.
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You mean my traps? Yeah! They're ace. I work on them with ridiculously heavy dumbbell shrugs.

Oh hang on, you mean to support my massive head don't you? Oh man.

MODS?
 

davek said:
God love him. I like the feller a helluva lot, but FFS he's off the charts inconsistent.

At least he's got his 2017/18 season analysis thread to fall back on.
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It's hard not to love the big bowl of custard but he offers nothing now man. Nothing but jarg YouTube scouting and formations. I've not seen him take another poster down since 2012, the fat heaving blimp. If it was back in the day @GhostOfDixie would be dancing rings round him.
 

chicoazul said:
It's hard not to love the big bowl of custard but he offers nothing now man. Nothing but jarg YouTube scouting and formations. I've not seen him take another poster down since 2012, the fat heaving blimp. If it was back in the day @GhostOfDixie would be dancing rings round him.
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The founder member last summer of TAMP - The Anti Moshiri Party - now he's his biggest apologist on here.

I haven't seen a bigger volte face since Derek Hatton traded in his Trotskyism for capitalism.
 

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