David Moyes has already spoken about the need to strengthen the Everton squad with incoming transfers this month but has stressed: "if it’s not going to be someone which makes the team better then there’s no point in wasting our money."

Having new faces come through the doors lightens everything up at Finch Farm and increases the competition. It freshens things up and gives everyone at Everton a boost.

If it’s a player in your position, it ensures you have to lift your standards and that’s something healthy. Unfortunately, January is always a difficult window and in the past, I think we’ve been guilty of bringing people in, just for the sake of increasing the numbers because the squad hasn’t been the biggest.

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You want to bring people in who can come into your starting 11. I think the whole point of recruitment is bringing in players who are good enough to go straight into the team.

What Moyes is saying is common sense. Whether we can fulfil that is another matter.

It will make the squad more competitive. If you’re bringing someone in to sit on the bench for four or five games or on loan and leaving them out, that’s not going increase the competition to keep people on their toes.

We want to improve and I think the new manager has got an idea over where he wants to improve so now it’s up to Kevin Thelwell and the recruitment staff to identify who these players are and whether the money men at The Friedkin Group can get them in before the window closes. Hopefully, before now and the end of January, that can happen, however, I am also confident that Moyes can get more out of this group of players than what they’ve been shown already this season.