Everton manager David Moyes said at one point this summer that he wanted a total of ten new signings, and in the end, he got nine, with the only downside being the fact that a new right-back was not added before the window shut last night.
In addition, I think that the Toffees should also have brought another striker in, with Yousef Chermiti joining Rangers, leaving the club short of depth up front.
Overall, though, Moyes seems to be very pleased with the work done by Angus Kinnear and his team behind the scenes, and he certainly has a much stronger squad than was the case, for example, when the Toffees were over in the US for their pre-season tour.
At that point, things looked a little worrying with the Everton boss himself saying he was struggling to put a starting eleven out for the matches against Premier League opposition, and with players out of position and glaring gaps all over the pitch.
Names had come and gone on the endless rumour mill, and the Blues were seemingly finding it very difficult to persuade their first-choice players to come to Merseyside, with only one major target, Thierno Barry, arriving.
However, Everton finally managed a breakthrough in the transfer market with the additions of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and then, in particular, Jack Grealish and, eventually, Tyler Dibling too, all players Moyes was adamant he wanted the club to sign this summer.
These individuals do represent so-called "statement signings," something which the owners were supposedly determined to bring about in the summer.
In his first spell as Everton manager, Moyes was constantly having to scrap together funds to buy one or two players in each window as the club was so hamstrung by debt, and majority shareholder Bill Kenwright did not have the resources to compete with other big-spending clubs.
After that came the chaos and drama of the Farhad Moshiri era, with money seemingly no object at first, and huge outlays made on often frankly average talent, which too often failed to gel on the pitch. Meanwhile, a managerial merry-go-round meant a constant lack of stability and direction.
Now the club has heavyweight financial backing from US owners, The Freidkin Group, and much greater stability with most debt repaid or restructured, and a fantastic new ground, the Hill Dickinson Stadium, to raise revenue significantly going forward.
But it is not just the numbers added but also the quality of talent that is joining now that represents a genuine breakthrough for the club.
Indeed, one of those new signings, Dewsbury-Hall, has been speaking again about why he and Grealish joined the Blues, and being part of this exciting project is a key reason.
Grealish is, of course, a world-class talent and a genuine superstar who will help to raise Everton's profile further and hopefully attract other similar quality players to the club in the future.
So far, the results on the pitch indicate that a real improvement has been made at last, and the future for this club is surely a lot brighter than it has been for years.
Now the challenge is to maintain and improve upon that good start to the current campaign and push Everton back towards the top end of the league and competing for trophies, the place where this club has so often been in the past.