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Everton could make up to six signings this summer but Marco Silva insists the club will only buy “quality” players.

The Blues are expected to complete the £40m capture of Watford winger Richarlison today after a deal was agreed between the clubs before the weekend.

Everton are also in pursuit of Barcelona defenders Yerry Mina and Lucas Digne with less than three weeks of the transfer window left.

Silva expected “new arrivals” at Goodison in the coming days and the signing of Richarlison looks like kicking off a hectic period of ins and outs.

The Everton boss has revealed that his shopping list includes up to six new faces but the 41-year-old is keen to stress that the club will not be panicked into making signings.

“First the most important thing is not the number,” Silva told the ECHO.

“For us to sign players we must be sure about his quality because this is most important for me.

“For us to sign players we must be sure they can improve our squad. In some positions we are clearly looking to improve to get more competitive in our squad, because we have to.

“Of course, if you are talking to me it is not the most important thing to talk about what are the positions because I need to be fair to our players but I can tell you four or five, or maybe one more, six, players, we have to sign.”

Silva and director of football Marcel Brands are in agreement over Everton's targets but the Portuguese coach insists they don't have to sign all of them for the window to have been a success.

But Silva hopes the Blues can complete their business before the August 9 deadline and avoid the January sales.

“If you sign three or four very, very good players then we are going to improve and it will be good for us and afterwards we can see, because we don't have to do everything now,” he said.

“We have other markets, this is the first season we arrive in the club.

“Of course, I don't want to change everything straight away and sign 10 players, it doesn't make sense in this moment. We need to be sure about things and the players to come in need to improve us.”

He added: “If you can do everything now it is better because, normally, January is not the best market to attack.

“If you go in January it is because we maybe didn't do everything well in the summer or if you have any injury or someone leaves the club.

“If you have to do something in the January market it's because you didn't do everything you had to do in the summer but if you can during the next two-and-a-half weeks (it is better). We don't have a big time for us, we don't have a lot of time to do it, but we have to do.”