Out of all of the teams in the Premier League in the summer transfer window, it was Everton and Arsenal who were biding their time the most.
Seemingly both going through many weeks whereby fans of either side were only faced with rumours without any true signs of players arriving, both clubs eventually signed what they needed.
With Maarten Stekelenburg and Granit Xhaka representing those clubs’ sole arrivals for quite a while, both Ronald Koeman and Arsene Wenger got what they needed at the final reckoning.
In reality, summer recruits for either side have fitted in well suggesting that carefully adding new players is the best policy versus clubs like West Ham United who frantically added new players who just haven’t fitted in so far.
While Yannick Bolasie hasn’t scored a great deal, he’s looked an exciting value-adding addition while at the back, you know what you’re going to get from Ashley Williams.
In the middle of the park, Idrissa Gueye has looked a snip with his energy and enthusiasm and the Toffees really missed his presence when the Senegalese was suspended from the club’s 5-0 humbling at Chelsea.
With the winter transfer window fast approaching, This Is Futbol have today devised a list of FIVE of the most believable Toffees January transfer rumours.