SimonButtle

a bit late i know mate, but happy birthday nevertheless Mark.

SSN are saying that Benfica have accepted a £9m bid from us and it's now down to personal terms

I see the fat controller is already making excuses that the £50m they have spent probably won't end their drought for glory. at least he's prepared anyway.

i rekon we'll get yakubu but not fernandes, i find it a bit strange that moyes has said that at the start of the window he was not looking at a striker, he can't honestly have thought that aj,vaughan,victor and beattie would see us through next season plus europe.

OVER RATED: Ashley Cole UNDER RATED: Gareth Barry

Moyes and his mental subsitutions against spurs, which cost us the game.

it does'nt matter if it's italics or not, anything off football-rumours is usually just a load of shite anyway. according to them earlier on in the season we were signing fabregas.

he'd be the best choice out of any of the strikers we've been linked with, better than nugent,smith and yakubu imo.

it's from blue kipper so take it with a pinch of salt i think.

me too, wages might be a concern though.

i like the look of that brazilian Alfonso Alves. i think we have been linked with him in the past

Does anyone else think that maybe DM said he would walk if he was not given money to cover the injuries to cahill and vaughan? it seems very strange that all of a sudden we are making these wild moves in the transfer market, 10m on yakubu another 6-8 on manny and now there is a link to darijo srna for 6m all very strange if you ask me, i suppose it's just part and parcel of being a blue!

if Moyes decides to play Jags at rb instead of Pip, then i think a back line of Baines,Lescott,Yobo,Jags is as strong as anyone else in the leagues.

this would be some coup if it came off, it would certainly give us a strong first 11.

thats an old story that one, their bid was knocked back as far as i can remember, and the copa america fiished weeks ago.

i just knew this would happen, does'nt mean we won't sign him though.

what are all these positions that smith can play in? as far as i can see he is an ok forward, his stint as a midfielder was an absolute joke, where else does he play?

good luck to him, but i could never see why we bought him in the first place, he needs people to cross balls into the box for him and we've never had any real wide players whilst he's been here, a bit of a wasted buy imo.

Yeh the "everton way" we get all excited for a week just to find he's failed his medical because of a broken toenail or something.

i thought he was the PM of Austrailia?

closing the gap defo, just to show everyone else that we're not the inconsistent team everyone thinks we are, squad is to thin on numbers and quality to mount a serious euro campaign.

tribalfootball is saying that Vogel is on his way to Cadiz in the spanish SECOND division!!!!

Everton will complete the signing of Baines in the coming days. He wants a move back to Merseyside and sees Everton as a better option than Newcastle as there is European football on offer. After finally getting rid of Beattie, Moyes needs a striker with only Johnson and Ancihebe the recognised fit strikers. Expect an offer for Robbie Keane, if not he will follow through with the signing of Lucho Gonzales from Porto.

it will be an interesting signing if we make it, he plays in cahills position, but he's probably a better player all round than TC.

i reckon baines is gonna sign for us this week some time.