Transfer deadline day has become an overhyped and hysterical circus, serving only to send supporters into frenzy. This orchestrated 24-hour soap opera wrongly defines the summer, with a drab ending overshadowing any progress made before the manic final stretch.
Everton were one of those to suffer a poor deadline day. A couple of fringe players departed as Enner Valencia signed on a season-long loan from West Ham, but it should not distract from a summer delivering far more positives than negatives.
Too much focus on fees rather than the actual importance of the business carried out has supporters lamenting a negative net spend, but this is a much-changed scenario to the days when ending the summer in profit was a regular Everton occurrence.