Blues running out of time to sign players
YOU don't have to be a member of Everton's squad or work within Goodison Park to have been affected by this summer of frustration.
With no new faces having yet come in and a lengthy injury list, it is not hard to imagine that David Moyes has been pulling his hair out and he now faces a hectic fortnight before the transfer window closes to bring in suitable reinforcements.
There is no room for standing still in football, though, and at the minute, Everton are giving everyone the perception that is exactly what they have done. Surely pre-season was the time to be making signings so that they could have bedded in by now?
In fairness to the manager, he is someone who sticks to his principles and wants to take his time over the players that he buys; apart from getting as much knowledge as he can about the footballing ability of his targets, he wants character references too.
That's something I know only too well.
When I was in the process of moving here from Leeds, I know that Jimmy Lumsden had spoken with Eddie Gray about me, while Chris Woods had been in contact with Steve Sutton, who was Leeds' goalkeeping coach.
The actual deal could have been done two or three weeks earlier than it took to complete and when things went quiet after the initial contact, I did wonder whether something had gone wrong, but it was only the fact that the manager was meticulously looking at the fine details.
He is determined to explore every avenue and wants to ensure he does everything to prevent a transfer from going wrong, but it absolutely imperative that David does good business before the window closes.
If that doesn't happen, pretty soon the dark clouds that have been gathering will start affecting the players and impact on results - that shouldn't be the case but past experience tells me that shenanigans off the field creep across the white line.
Look at what happened to Leeds. There is nothing you can do to affect events in the boardroom or wherever and every day you go into training aiming to do you best.
But can you vouch for the rest of your team-mates?
After all, you don't know what they are thinking all the time.
I am not for one minute suggesting that Everton are on the brink of an Elland Road crisis, as there are too many good people in charge, but everyone can see the squad is short of bodies and needs beefing up.
Hopefully that will happen sooner rather than later.
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Im just gob smacked that we have waited all summer, thats 3 long months of speculation, to be linked with mediocrity in the likes of Tiago. Voted Serie A's 3rd worst waste of money and a flop at chelsea. Couldnt we have got mediocrity from day one?? I dont deny anybody a holiday but i remember reading that \Moyes was on a two week holiday abroad two weeks after close of season. thats already a month wasted. I wouldnt deny him this, but the timing was all wrong.