Saints1976

That's ridiculous, it just shows you how much clout United have in the transfer market, they've effectively paid £75m with £15m addons and funded the Rooney's wages because he's taking a pay cut to move to Everton. So it's £90m to Everton and Rooney on a free on reduced wages, the world's gone mad. Now we'll get to see if the £90m Everton have already spent is the Lukaku money, if not, time for people to reassess.

This window alone is £30m Pickford, £30m Keane, £23.6 klaassen, £7m Onyekuru, Sandro £5.2. That's £95.8m by my bad maths. so I don't know where you're getting £67m from for everything. Then add the two previous windows, Morgan, Bolasie, Williams, Lookman etc = £72.6m, Morgan was £24 not £20 as stated so that's £168.4m, and whatever else is spent because let's face it, there will be more. I'm counting three windows because that's purely down to their new owner. Then the owner took all of the debt over with no repayment date and is building a new ground.

I got that from adding up like someone who can't add up. It's £170m, plus the payouts for Martinez, Koeman and Walsh. £191. On top of that is the clearing of the £80m debt. And whatever the ground costs. (which will be a manageable debt) Nothing has come of what? The ground.

Everton have spent £241m since last Summers transfer window going by these links, to say they've simply spent the Stones and Lukaku money is ridiculous, they've been the two biggest sales by some margin (when Lukaku's goes through) but they'll continue to spend going by the players they're still being linked with. Also they paid off Martinez (£10m) Us (£6) and Leicester for Walsh (£5m) to go with that, so that's £262m. Then take into account their owner wiped of an £80m debt on top of that, with no date to repay it. Then combine that with a new stadium they're going to build on their waterfront. I think these Lukaku money comments are a bit premature, especially seen as they haven't received any money for him yet. people just repeat what they've read. Also, no £60m loan has been taken out, that facility acts as an overdraft, you can use it if you want to but you don't have to. The fact that the World's biggest bank is willing to give them one is the news. http://www.skysports.com/everton-transfers http://www.toffeeweb.com/season/16-17/transfers.php

But in the same breath, they got Cleverley on a free and sold him for £8m the other week.

But in the same breath, they got Cleverley on a free and sold him for £8m the other week.

But Everton had two bad seasons under a clueless manager, you'd have to go back years when we finished above them before that. They had two bad seasons, got a new manager (and owner) there was a huge gap in points between us and them considering only one place separated us, and not a lot of points separating the rest behind us. The new owner has already spent over £100m this calendar year and he isn't finished, and shipped out so much deadwood in the process. On top of that, they're going to build a massive stadium with a 55,000 capacity upwards, if you think having a couple of better players in a couple of positions their equal more power to you but personally I don't see it.

But Everton had two bad seasons under a clueless manager, you'd have to go back years when we finished above them before that. They had two bad seasons, got a new manager (and owner) there was a huge gap in points between us and them considering only one place separated us, and not a lot of points separating the rest behind us. The new owner has already spent over £100m this calendar year and he isn't finished, and shipped out so much deadwood in the process. On top of that, they're going to build a massive stadium with a 55,000 capacity upwards, if you think having a couple of better players in a couple of positions their equal more power to you but personally I don't see it.

The league table didn't reflect that by quite a margin and they've improved from by buying a good goalkeeper, good defender, and various midfieldfielders and they're still going to spend by all accounts.

The league table didn't reflect that by quite a margin and they've improved from by buying a good goalkeeper, good defender, and various midfieldfielders and they're still going to spend by all accounts.

Sky Bet‏Verified account @SkyBet Everton sign Sandro Ramírez. Since January they are the HIGHEST spending #PremierLeague club at £92.85m. They mean business. #EFC

Salah has signed for Liverpool for £34m.

Everyone seems happy with him then, not let's see where he takes us.

True but I don't think Lukaku is anywhere near as good as Suarez was. It's always difficult putting together a team after making so many wholesale changes, time will tell. Investing money in your squad is never a bad thing though, even if a player flops, more often than not you'll get your initial outlay back, especially these days. The window isn't properly open yet, we'll see where we all are in August and who's done the best business. The papers are just spouting rumours in most cases at present.

Martinez would be a disaster for us, hopefully that's just a newspaper trying to fill column inches, he thinks having 70% possession and losing 3-2 is a good result. We must avoid him at all costs, he's a complete fraud.

Oh and Bolasie was 20 odd million.

They must be approaching 100m net spend since January, I'd hardly call taking the Ajax captain for 24m, Morgan from Man Utd for around the same price and Pickford for 30m 'replacing their players with cheaper ones'. Lukaku cost £28, Stones cost next to nothing off Barnsley and Barkley came through the ranks and cost them nothing. Sandro if they sign him only never went to Athletico Madrid because of their transfer ban and they're getting him cheap because of a release clause. And besides, it doesn't look like they've finished spending yet either.

Most teams everywhere have 11 players that have no connection with the club including us. The difference is our owners have the money but they're not prepared to bankroll us. Many teams have the odd local player. Be honest, we wish it was us spending big bucks.

You're surmising that none of the new players will chip in with goals, you can see the logic in Koeman's thoughts, he's planning life without Lukaku.

But the money would've been there regardless, this season has proven that. Stones was promised a move the season before and he got his wish. City got the short straw there, he's been awful this season.

Harry Maguire has signed for Leicester for £17m and Jordan Pickford has signed for Everton for 30m.

I think that will include add ons, to advance or at least hold your own you have to spend these days and look out for the next generation of stars.

We still finished eighth, it the supporters who fall apart.

Someone will have Forster I'm sure, I thought he'd be going there too, they're obviously more ambitious.

There's some great talent in the English team too. They're now World Champions.