4 Jul 08:35
While football fans across Britain pull their hair out over potential deals, the current Life President believes that new signings outweight any negatives surrounding this time of year.
Speaking at the opening of the Everton Two store, Carter said: "I think it's quite an exciting time. As a previous chairman, I always found it exciting when you were looking for new players that the manager had indentified.
"When you secure them, you have a new element in your team.
Considerable work
"The work that goes on with the manager, the chairman, the chief executive and the board is quite considerable. The hard thing at the moment is the money that is needed to secure these transfers.
"It's difficult because you see that they are paying £80 million for Ronaldo, so the prices are increasing for the top players, so what David Moyes has done in indentifying players at an earlier level and spotting the potential is tremendous.
"From the point of view of what a player can now demand, they can make demands for things other than just their salary. And from that point of view, going back twenty years it was a much simpler job in those days."
The former Everton chairman then went on to trot out one of the infamous 'quotes' that is synonymous with players coming back from long term lay offs, with Mikel Arteta and Yakubu at the fore front of his mind.
"I think we are all looking forward to the introduction of new players.
"But we have to remember if we get players that have been injured during the last season back, they will be like new players for us. And with them returning we have to have a successful season."...discuss this on the forums Discuss this on our forums
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