I see where you are coming from bickster, i would love both bellamy and distin at villa just for that fact of some new signings which would improve our team so i hope your right!
Its just Everton have there head screwed on at the momment and are working there way through decent transfer targets some of which just happen to be ours.
This is one of the reasons i think we issued a statement about malbranque when we still are alittle interested in him, this along with Strides "Hopefully there will be some players in shortly"