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affordable CF.
This post was taken from another site and mentions forwards from some of the European leagues ( a couple weeks have been linked to).
This is the window we are shopping in unless a Gem can be found from South America.

Just to follow-up my earlier comment - in the world's 15 top leagues, the only strikers who have already scored 12 goals or more who we could probably afford are:

Stassin of St Etienne (12 in 30)
Emegha of Strasbourg (12 in 25)
Parrot of Alkmaar (14 in 28)
Kalimuendo of Rennes (14 in 29)
Vanat of Kiev (15 in 23)
Barry of Villareal (15 in 32)
Kleindienst of Monchengladbach (15 in 27)
Burkardt of Mainz (15 in 25)
Ugalde of Spartak Moscow (16 in 25)
Arokodare of Genk (17 in 30)
Pavlidis of Benfica (17 in 30)

Of these, clearly quite a few are flattered by playing in a weak league. Arokodare doesn't look any better than Onuachu, who also starred in Belgium before joining Saints.

Troy Parrott has a pretty poor record at Millwall, MK Dons, Preston and Ipswich (although in fairness he was young and developing).

Pavlidis, after goals against Barca in the Champions League, will be very overpriced. He's a good finisher, but flattered by playing in an excellent attacking outfit.

The players more obviously suited to Everton are Barry, Emegha and Burkardt. The former two are big, strong athletes - with more ability than Beto but certainly still raw and in need of patience as they develop their game. I doubt they'd each score more than 12 for us in season - and are likely to cost £30m(+). They could however be good longer term signings.

Burkardt is very talented but less physical - and he's just come back from a serious long term injury.

Kleindienst, who we have been linked with, is only hitting goals now at 29 after a very humdrum career knocking about the German lower leagues and failed spell at Genk in Belgium.

Neither of these Germans looks likely to hit more than 12 goals in the Premier League.