The Prophet

Who's the forth seeing as we're trying to bin Smith?

Why? He offers us very little, especially if we're after Matuidi and going to play a 4-3-3. Aye, lets start the season with three central midfielders in the entire squad

Can't see Guthrie going

I would imagine having two defensive midfielders who are good in possession, unlike most of the defensive midfielders we've previously employed, would give us insurance to play a very attacking front 3. front 4 surely ? I was thinking 4-3-3 thats the confusion, if matuidi comes in i'd see more of a 4-2-3-1. could answer the barnetta situation. could be holding off on him for matuidi in the way we did arveloa (sp ?) for tiote. Completely different types of player though

Reads as 1/2 more flair players to me like

In other words: 'I don't know'. It's become pretty obvious he's only getting information when the club drip-feed him it

£20 million for Sturridge is about too much for my liking. £15-18 million tops for me. You'd worry over £2 million, even if it made the difference?

It'll be at least double that.

In today's market he'd be worth it There's no way Moutinho would cost that though

He'll no doubt raid them for players too. Can see Guarin, Hulk and Falcao being on the shortlist.

So much for his Porto 'dynasty'

I can see him going next summer following a contract dispute

There's no way Jonas is up for sale

For me, Falcao is nailed on for Chelsea if gets the job

He's in the last year of his contract, so I'd imagine around £5-6m

I'd give detailed reasons why but my keyboard is f***ed. Basically we need a proven goal scorer greater than a proven provider. I also think Barnetta would take to the Premier League like a duck to water.

The latter.

Everton hardly spend a penny and they don't keep their best players. Their squad is absolutely tiny. Hence Kenwright being a hate figure. The only thing that keeps Everton where they are is David Moyes. I won't disagree that the man's been a miracle worker for us. It stands out more than a rah in the Percy Arms that what we need is some money to get a quality striker in. There are other issues but if we can add a quality striker to the ranks (sound similar to anyone?) then I'd be delighted. Aiming for us next year (well, that 7th/8th spot, whatever you want to call it) is a perfectly understandable and realistic target. However a word of caution: every summer I read "yeah, Everton will fall away next season", and every year, we don't. I don't see us falling away next year either but we've obviously got a massive wall in front of us in terms of moving forwards. I'd be keeping hold of the Yak, there's still a decent striker in there.

It'll hurt but the lad obviously wants to move onto bigger and better things. I say cut our losses while we can still bring in a decent replacement.

It's nice to get some decent bosmans in for a change, but it'll be interesting to see how we spend our cash.

He would of been my number one target, given it's our priority position.

Nah Jol is a member of the Spurs ITK Council.

So according to Douglas: Taylor is imminent Barnetta is the furthest progressed from the rest We're still haggling over Erding and Matuidi If we somehow got all four I'd be chuffed

We want to sell Routledge, man.