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This is fabulous. I mean the timing's not great, but we do need to clear the decks and get surplus players off the wage bill. Forest are doing us a solid.

You would imagine we would only bring him on loan with a view to signing him permanently. I'm pretty sure Howe has already said that he's not interested in bringing players in short term.

If he's that much of a London boy he'd rather go to Palace than come to a club on course for CL qualification, he's not got much of a future. He should just sign for Palace full time.

Everton fans are rightly delighted to get £40m and Dyche as a manager. Halcyon days for the Toffees!

Not going to lie, I love his shit haircut, and his refusal to grow a beard to hide the acne. Come on lad!

It's exactly what I said as well.

Surely this is a wind up. Trustworthy Luke already told us Gordon was going to be our only deal this window. Unless we signed someone else.

We've been spoiled by Callum Wilson and Schar. Time to look beyond the superficials lads, we loved Longstaff in his first season under Rafa, and he's hardly an oil painting is he?

I see you couldn't deny the 'crawling with potential mackems' charge though. You know it's true.

I fucking hate it tbh. Dark, dingey and crawiing with potential mackems.

He's never going to live down the takeover fail is he?

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It would be Willock surely.

What makes anyone think Maddison is coming this window?

Not sure if Merson was there but it was the other two football masterminds Clint Morrison and Tim Sherwood giving their expert opinions. What would Eddie Howe know against their expertise and the knowledgable Everton fan base.

West Ham have rejected the bid for Ashby according to the Sky Sports ticker tape.

Just listening to the Sky Sports Saturday clowns discussing the Gordon move, basically chiming in with the Everton fans view that Gordon is well overrated and they've robbed us blind. Howe vs the world on this one. I wonder who will be proven right?

There can be no other explanation. He can't be his son as I don't believe he'd get withing 20 yards of the opposite sex without getting maced.

It's not sad, just a really old fashioned take on things. One which probably belongs in amateur leagues, not in the cut and thrust of CL football.

Sometimes releasing the ball quickly is even more effective than trying to beat the third person with a stepover or three.

Exactly. Previously we didn't have much competition for Wilson, now we have him and Isak fighting for the shirt. What's wrong with having Gordon and Maxi doing the same for that left wing position? Why do we need to sell?

The fee really isn't that huge going by today's standards. Even abroad they are putting in release clauses of £100m for players who are still teenagers and barely made a name for themselves. Ratboy is going to make us a nightmare to play against, he's got pace to burn, and he does look like he's got goals in him.

I think it will turn out to be a great signing.