How much more business will Everton conduct before the transfer deadline?

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Any more to do for Everton?

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00:00 Well, finally on Everton, is there much more business to happen transfer-wise?

00:04 What can we say? Because obviously it's been a recurring situation where we thought

00:09 there could be a last roll of the dice and it will be very late from Everton.

00:12 What's the latest you can tell us?

00:14 Yeah, I mean, you'd like to hope there are going to be a good few incomings, certainly a striker,

00:21 obviously Chas and moving closer to signing, it appears, £15 million and, you know,

00:28 sort of the structure of the deal, Southampton's been negotiating, I think,

00:32 some have poured scorn on that deal because he hasn't been prolific as a goal scorer, but

00:40 Everton just need to increase the amount of goals they score, they don't need anyone prolific,

00:44 if they can keep Tom Ricard up there with this, then yeah, they need a good back-up as well,

00:50 and if they can get players chipping in with more goals this season, then that's a good thing,

00:56 obviously. Will he get on? They've been in hot pursuit of him, he's been reintegrated to

01:02 Leeds training now and Leeds have made it very clear that he won't be leaving the club this summer.

01:08 Yeah, a lot of the time there's player power, usually prevails in the modern day, doesn't it?

01:16 But Leeds, obviously, there's no relegation, no release clause in his contract and given how many

01:23 players Leeds have lost this summer, they can't afford to lose too many more, obviously Sinistera

01:28 might depart still as well, so they really can't afford to lose too many more, so Everton have got

01:33 to go and look elsewhere for another potential winger, I've talked about earlier, a centre-back,

01:39 for me, is quite important now. Some people are looking at the centre in the field and thinking,

01:44 do we need to strengthen there as well? But it's the folks who Everton can get in, ultimately,

01:49 the budget allows them to get in and to purchase as well might help with that.

01:57 Damali Gray appears at a fee with Al-Shabaab and Saudi Arabia's in a agree, but it's a case of

02:03 whether Damali Gray wants to go to Saudi Arabia because he might not fancy it, to be honest with

02:07 you. He's got young child here and he might not want to leave his childhood to go and play there,

02:15 to be honest with you. I mean, I know Everton need the money, but for me, actually, fair play,

02:21 to be honest with you, as someone who's willing to turn that sort of money down, you've got to

02:26 admire him for that because there's so many who are doing it, but if that's his reason, fair be

02:31 it, that's his prerogative, he's got a year left on his deal. Reports suggested that Fulham and

02:38 Crystal Palace both like him, so I think Everton will be happy to make a deal if they can.

02:44 Mason Holgate hasn't been featured in the matchday squad. He was injured earlier in the summer,

02:51 but he played two games for the under-21s and friendlies and he hasn't appeared. I don't think

02:56 he's been spotted in any training photos either, so I think Everton would be quite happy to offload

03:02 him. That gives you funds to maybe bring in another centre-back. You've got players on the

03:07 periphery like Andre Gomez, who's on a significant, you know, significant wages, so a year left on his

03:13 deal. Probably not in Sean Dyche's plans, not really a Sean Dyche player to be honest, we've

03:19 been sensing the feels. And you've got John Philip Gabaman, who's another one with a year left on his

03:25 deal and after spending last season out on the Traversland sport, you know, Sean Dyche, now he

03:30 has to go to the press conference last week, what's the situation with him? He hasn't even returned to

03:34 training this summer, so Sean Dyche said we're waiting for offers, you know, there's got to be

03:39 offers first. So that was Everton are open to letting him go, but no one's coming in for him yet.

03:46 Is that a case of, are his wages too high again? So it's hard for Everton to be honest with you.

03:55 A couple of youngsters like Tom Cannon, I think once another striker comes in, he'll probably be

04:00 allowed to go out on loan. But yeah, it's just the situation. They've set it all along, haven't I?

04:05 It's going to go right to the deadline and I think we can't expect a busy deadline day. I mean,

04:10 last look at January, we're desperate to get a tackle players in and we couldn't.

04:15 Yeah, I think that it'll go right to the wire again.

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