Everton: 10 Reasons Lukaku And Barkley Are Best Signings Of 2014

2. Rebuilding The Squad Won't Now Be An Issue

Everton have gone the other way to other top clubs in the Premier League: rather than signing multiple new players, integrating them into the squad and waiting for them to gel, they have avoided all of that hassle and retained the players who worked out so well last season. Southampt...sorry, Liverpool, face a huge issue in terms of rebuilding the squad to recover the loss of Luis Suarez, and the club may end up over contemplating. Brendan Rodgers' potential nine signings will all have to be integrated into a closely-knit squad and will have to adapt to his style of play. They could face a QPR-style failure in which the amount of new signings fail to gel. Tottenham also demonstrated that selling a star player and replacing him with multiple, supposedly top quality, signings doesn't work as we saw last season. Martinez may have got it spot on with the permanent signing of Lukaku and keeping a hold of Barkley, he also saves himself a whole lot of hard work. His squad can get straight back into a new season without having to worry about new players disrupting their flow of play.