Even unproven talents are costing nearly £30-£40m in todays market (see Barry and Dibling)

The other problem is that attracting the proven quality player to Everton isn't possible at the moment so we need to keep what we've got and move up a level into regular European football.

I'd happily swap Ndiaye for a £80m quality centre forward, but that £80m striker would have options to go to a number of clubs, so the likelihood of us getting them would be low.

Ste