Everton fan Mike Richards discusses the transfer window on BBC Radio Merseyside: “It’s been an exciting window for us. There’s been money spent. There’s been exciting players coming in and we look like a totally different football side.
“It’s all about future-proofing, we’ve got the spine of a decent squad, with experience. But you’ve got to look towards the future.
“From a business perspective, you can argue big money’s being spent on Tyler Dibling and players like that, but if they go on and have two or three good years at the club, then the price doubles anyway.
“That’s what we need to say and do – be better. I still think there’s room for improvements, but the new recruitment team came in fairly late at the back end of the window, so they haven’t really put their stamp on things.
“I think that the signings are a good mix of youth and experience, and hopefully that leads to us being that bit better in the market in terms of making decent profit going forward and then reinvesting.”
On new signing Jack Grealish: “Everyone always says don’t fall in love with a loan player. I think it’s far too late for that. We are all head over heels in love with him. He’s some talent. He’s some player. And hopefully, if this continues there will be cause to get him on a permanent deal in the summer.
“It puts more eyes on our football club because of the following that he’s got. And we’re going through this transitional period, with our new stadium, the manager being back for about six months or so and the fact we’ve spent quite a bit of money in the transfer market. This is the time when we really want to be getting eyes on our football club. And that’s exactly what he does.”
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