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Osman ready to welcome arrivals

Jul 24 2007 by Nick Smith, Liverpool Daily Post, in LA

LIKE many Evertonians, Leon Osman feels a few new faces won’t go amiss at Goodison Park during the transfer window.

But the midfielder insists Everton’s squad still has the quality to continue the impr-ovement of recent seasons that has twice seen them qualify for Europe.

Osman, now one of the longest serving members of the squad following Gary Naysmith’s switch to Sheffield United, says: “We have got a small squad, but it is a squad full of quality.

“We all think we need more players to come in if we are going to be playing more games – but these are the players that have got us into Europe and I am sure we will do all right.”

Osman is happy with the way the pre-season build-up has been progressing.

He said: “We have come back to this pre-season pretty much where we left off last season so we are starting from a good place and hopefully we will progress.”

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