Since returning to Goodison Park for a second stint as Everton manager, David Moyes has not been shy about declaring that the Blues need to bring in new faces before the winter transfer closes. Following the 1-0 home defeat to Aston Villa in his first match back, the 61-year-old said: “We’re desperately needing to add some quality in certain areas, mainly to create and craft goals, and it looks like to finish as well, we’re needing to get those levels up,” adding: “we’ll definitely need to do something.”

Director of football Kevin Thelwell has got until 11pm on Monday to get deals over the line and Everton’s need for additional firepower has become even greater since their main striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin went off injured early on in the 1-0 win at Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday and with midfielder Orel Mangala also being forced off late on, Moyes admitted the pair “don’t look great.” As the clock counts down towards next week’s deadline day, here’s a look back at the Scot’s previous buys for the Blues in winter windows.

2003

Moyes’ first ever purchase in the January sales was compatriot Iain Turner for just £50,000 from Stirling Albion following just 13 first team appearances for his home city club in the fourth tier of Scottish football and a successful trial at Bellefield over the festive period. The goalkeeper would go on to make just half a dozen outings for Everton, suffering the ignominy of being sent off on his Premier League debut at home to Blackburn Rovers, for handling the ball outside his area.

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Another of his early recruits, defender Ibrahim Said, on loan from Egyptian side Al-Ahly, didn’t even feature at all and after claiming he’d been axed from the squad ahead of a Merseyside Derby for dyeing his hair red, he branded Moyes “a dictator.” The Blues boss’ third signing that month was someone he could trust more having previously brought him to Preston North End.

USA international striker Brian McBride would enjoy a four goals in eight games loan spell from Columbus Crew but Everton couldn’t extend his stay and the Illinois-born player would instead complete a permanent switch to Premier League rivals Fulham, registering 41 times in 154 matches for the Londoners.

2005

With Everton on course for a fourth place and their highest ever Premier League position to secure Champions League qualification by finishing above their neighbours who won the competition, Moyes made some significant mid-season tweaks. Bringing in Guillaume Plessis, the older brother of future Liverpool player Damien Plessis, from Lens wasn’t one of them as the midfielder from the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion never turned out for the first team but there were a brace of more prominent arrivals.

Mikel Arteta replaced Real Madrid-bound Thomas Gravesen in midfield, initially joined on loan from Real Sociedad before completing a bargain £2million permanent switch in the summer but a club record £6million outlay on James Beattie proved less frugal as the striker failed to recapture his previous prolific form shown at Southampton.

2006

Despite captaining Everton to the aforementioned fourth place finish in 2005, lifelong Evertonian Alan Stubbs was surprisingly unable to agree a new deal with the club and had joined Sunderland on August 2. The move to Wearside didn’t work out for either party and the Kirkby-born centre-back returned to Goodison Park on January 20, and helped the Blues fight back from an awful first half of the season as they picked up two thirds of their final points tally in the second half of the campaign.

2007

After spending the first half of the season on loan at Portsmouth, Portuguese midfielder Manuel Fernandes briefly returned to parent club Benfica before returning to the Premier League with Everton. Despite impressing in a nine-game temporary spell, scoring twice, Moyes was not sufficiently impressed to pay the Lisbon giants’ £12million asking price.

2008

Having now been sold to Valencia, Fernandes came back again in the January but although he ended up playing twice as many matches for the Blues second time around, his form was less eye-catching. Moyes’ other recruit that month was Plymouth Argyle youngster Dan Gosling who would go on to score the winning goal in a Merseyside Derby the following year, knocking Liverpool out of the FA Cup, although many television viewers missed it when ITV accidently went to an advertising break early in several of their regions.

2009

Manchester City had paid a club record £19million on CSKA Moscow’s Jo in July 2008, a month before the Abu Dhabi United Group’s takeover was completed but the Brazil international striker failed to gel at the Etihad Stadium and was allowed to be loaned out to Everton at the end of the winter window on February 2. The rangy frontman scored five times in 12 outings for the Blues that season but after going goalless in 15 Premier League matches the following term, Moyes cut his losses after the player returned to Brazil without permission over the Christmas period.

2010

Moyes pulled off one of his biggest January coups when drafted in legendary USA international Landon Donovan on loan from Los Angeles Galaxy and mostly deployed down the right wing for Everton, the California native scored twice in 10 matches. Arsenal’s Swiss international centre-back Philippe Senderos made less of an impact, turning out just three times in his Blues loan spell.

2011

Now with Bayern Munich, Eric Dier would go on to play 365 times for Tottenham Hotspur and has been capped 49 times by England but back when Everton signed him on loan from Sporting CP, he was an untried teenager. The rookie centre-back who had moved to Portugal as a child only played academy matches for the Blues in what was described as “an opportunity for the athlete to grow in a more competitive and demanding environment.”

2012

There was the second coming of Donovan that was agreed before the turn of the calendar year but this time the American failed to score in seven matches. More spectacular was the loan return of Steven Pienaar, a year after he had joined Tottenham Hotspur.

The South Africa international left winger was signed five times by Moyes over his career, two loans and two permanents for Everton, and once for Sunderland. The Scot also handed over £2million to take central midfielder Darron Gibson from Manchester United while he exploited Rangers’ impending financial meltdown by snapping up Nikica Jelavic for £5.5million and for a time at least, the Croatian striker was prolific, scoring 11 times in 16 games that season.

2013

Less than four months before his departure to Manchester United, Moyes made Barnsley wonderkid John Stones his parting gift to Everton. Although he’d have to wait until Roberto Martinez was in charge to get his chance as a ball-playing centre-back, the Yorkshireman was plucked from his home town club for just £3million and was sold for £47.5million to Manchester City, winning six Premier League titles, two FA Cups, a League Cup, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup with Pep Guardiola’s side.