As Everton prepare for transfer deadline day, Nigel Martyn has cautioned that even with an ambitious owner like Farhad Moshiri, the club must box clever to secure the kind of signings needed to take them to the next level.
Martyn, who played for the Blues between 2003-06, hopes that Frank Lampard’s contacts within the game can make a big difference in terms of transfer changes at the club but he admits that they find themselves in a delicate position.
His fellow former Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall was damning about the club’s recruitment earlier this month – proclaiming: “You can’t go short-term anymore. What’s the point in signing some nugget who is not going to win you the league? ” – but Martyn takes a more pragmatic approach.
