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I was fascinated to hear about how the club manages quarantine. Hopefully, next time we will get to hear about how often catering buys tea and coffee, or how the accounts department processes expense claims.

I was looking for young strikers with value < £20m and came across Semih Kılıçsoy. That would be a marquee signing, his reel looks a bit like Vik, in the sense that he doesn't get knocked off the ball. Edit: looks like Calgari have a buy option. Shame.

I've spoken to Frank and given him our feed back that tactically he is quite good. He said thanks, and that you are quite good at excel.

I think his future is through the middle as a striker. I think he'll end up as a keeper, that's his best position. He just hasn't discovered it yet.

I think we win this and it could be by a comfortable margin.

There is, and it's a really strange one. Closest to earth on current trajectory on 19 December. I write current trajectory because there have been serious suggestions that it may be an alien spacecraft of some kind. It's called 3I/Atlas...

Has to be Isias, surely? I saw him barely move on his debut.

Has to be a penalty surely? From the flight of the ball after the challenge it doesn't look like the keeper got anything of the ball. Even if Wright doesn't score directly from there he could have pulled it back across goal. Not that that's relevant. Not getting the penalty calls this year at all.

I saw two stood ready to crowd out Torp and block his shots on the edge of the area yesterday. It worked, but should free up others once we realise what they are doing. Need to work on plan b.

Yeah, but if Milan is on he has to take them. He's not as good as Bobby in the box.

I'm listening to the phone in; some saying there's a conundrum about whether to buy to consolidate our Championship position or to buy for the Premiership. I think this is irrelevant. We will buy the best players we can afford and who want to come here. Buying for a different league doesn't...

We are playing well although Rudi is rather anonymous so far. Three great chances for us but Ipswich scored from their only foray into our box. I'm sure the red card has been discussed. Hurst should have gone; ref bottled it. We should raise it after the game. So much money at stake here...

There's so much contradictory information out there. Some sites state he's a Chelsea player.

Can only find this, not being reported anywhere reliable

But we won't want to sell right now, so we won't accept whatever fair market value may be. The only way I could see us being persuaded to sell is if it's an inflated sum we could use to change up: say get an equivalent in and buy a new left back.

It's a crazy sum for a team like Everton to pay for a youth player. Man City, Arsenal sure. But it's not like Everton don't need first team players.

If I were Doug, I'd be tempted to keep the model and only buy young players we can make a turn on. And maybe only five or six of them too: just enough to get our squad numbers up. And spend maybe only 70% of the TV money: an average of £10m - £12m per purchase. Let's face it, we could spend...

Despite being mocked here, I still think it's possible that Haji is sold in January (Leeds?) and a marquee striker signing arrives.

I'm planning on a meltdown. What about you?

A song for Dr. Roberts? Ready made by the Beatles. It's fate.