Spend, spend, spend

I've been sensing people all over the internet starting to get agitated because Everton haven't signed anyone. They're even allowing people to complain on the official club site, which is a surprise. Some kid has joined us from the Leeds United academy (that must have been a tough choice), we've lost three squad players, and it's only 5 or so weeks til our home opener with Arsenal.

The good news is that most other clubs are in the same boat. United have lost two excellent players and replaced them with poorer alternatives. Arsenal have done nothing. Liverpool blew £18m on a right-back, and everyone is predicting a rash of spending at Chelsea but the only big story coming out of West London is City's repeated attempts at pilfering John Terry - now that would be a story.

Everton's biggest rivals will be Villa, City and Spurs. City with all the money in the world, are struggling to spend it. Barry is a great addition alongside Santa Cruz, and it's assumed Tevez will arrive shortly and we wait to see if they'll do the right thing and offer proper money for Lescott rather than expecting Joleon to go all septic on us and start doing the Rooney routine, engineering a move. He won't.

So aside from City, nothing much seems to be happening with Villa or Spurs. Maybe Harry is still on holiday? This appears the case around the division with the only significant activity being made by the promoted clubs who are doing the usual and wasting small amounts of money on Championship-ready players or obscure foreigners that they hope may turn out to be OK.

Fingers crossed we'll see some action before too long.