The fee involved is an initial £18m, potentially rising to £24m with add-ons. Everton are understood to have negotiated an initial lower fee than the proposed agreement in George's loan, having passed on the £25m purchase clause.

Chelsea will retain a 15% sell-on clause as part of the deal.

David Moyes is now working to make George his second summer signing, following the arrival of Hayden Hackney from Middlesbrough earlier this week.

The England youth international made 11 appearances after arriving from Chelsea during the January transfer window, though only one of those came from the start.

George has scored six goals in 37 senior appearances for Chelsea and has netted twice in six caps for England at U21 level. He was named Chelsea's Academy Player of the Year in 2025.

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2 Posted 04/07/2026 at 10:22:11

Personally, I'm not convinced with George. If the fee is low, I understand the move. I hope we aren't paying over the odds for him.

He will be a squad player come the start of the season and, although I know he's young and could improve, with a limited transfer budget, I think we need to be signing players who will come straight in and improve the starting XI.

4 Posted 04/07/2026 at 10:27:22

Good move.

If we keep signing young players and some of the old fellas depart, Moyes won't have an option but to play a young team.

5 Posted 04/07/2026 at 10:30:36

I'm not doubting George's potential ability – I'm more concerned that the manager won't play him to unleash any potential he may have.

Wrong manager for the player but right kind of player the club should invest in. When the manager's strategy and the club's recruitment strategy don't align, it's just strange.

6 Posted 04/07/2026 at 11:18:32

We need more players that get the fans excited.

I like George and hope Moyes plays him more often next season.

7 Posted 04/07/2026 at 11:23:49

Very strange... We had him for 6 months but know little about the lad.

We don't see any other clubs interested either.

8 Posted 04/07/2026 at 11:30:48

What we don't know is: Does Moyes have a say or not in who signs???

He did say he had the final say last season, so I suppose you have to believe him, although he could have said so to not step out of line.

9 Posted 04/07/2026 at 11:46:06

The optimist in me wants to think we're building a young dynamic squad for Moyes to handover in 12 months time.

10 Posted 04/07/2026 at 12:20:18

If we want success on the field, we need experienced players who can hit the ground running. Thanks to PSR, we have imbalance in midfield, defensive issues, and the attack is weak.

If we want go trade players to generate revenue, as per Brighton's model, so far we have bought leftovers and an expensive winger who is not living up to his hype.

11 Posted 04/07/2026 at 13:24:13

Obviously we need a right back if Patterson is still not rated by Moyes, even if he is we need another as first choice or back up.

That would free up O'Brien to be a centre back again, as Branthwaite cant be trusted to be fit so for me we need another centre back signed or maybe Rohl could play that position if need be. Both Tarks and Keane are probably past their best also.

We don't have any idea if Dibling or Aznou are ready for the first team yet so that's up in the air. We need the Grealish deal sorted too.

Other than that I'm not that concerned

12 Posted 04/07/2026 at 13:37:50

Made up about our signings so far. Seems forward looking at last...if they get played by Moyes before Christmas! RB will come and hopefully a good young one.

Of course have been watching "soccer" world cup. Been some good moments and shocks but the football world cup, despite or because of all the money, is already overshadowed by the rugby Nations Championship.. after just two games!

No hydration break, no little babies rolling around on the pitch if an opponent comes withing 5 metres, great attacking play and 19 tries in just two of the games so far.

And not described by the inspiring tones of Shearer!

Football administrators, refs, managers and players could learn a lot from their rugby equivalents and make football game so much better.

Hands up. I played county rugby. But family had Goodison season tickets when I was young.

I would love to see some modern footballers play a game of rugby. It would be 90 mins of VAR deliberations and a pitch with 30 players rolling around with Oscar standard acting!

For me this rugby championship over coming months and the Blues playing with fast "new" players makes me look to the future with buzzing excitement.

13 Posted 04/07/2026 at 13:43:02

What is the Everton recruitment model?

TFG clearly want to buy young, lower wages, develop and keep or sell on for profit.

Nothing wrong with this, provided, and it’s a big IF you have the right recruitment team who can identify talent early.

I’m not convinced this is the Moyes way.

He prefers tried and trusted, experienced PL heads, in the main.

Diblings value must have more than halved on little playing time. His confidence must be shot. George was used fleetingly. Rohl trusted occasionally. Armstrong retained 2nd half of season but never played.

A forward thinking Manager might well get more from trusting in these players.

I’m guessing we have a current hybrid model. TFG get their way with the addition of some youth. Moyes gets a few older heads.

A balance of youth and experience is often the answer, but only if you are prepared to trust and play both….

14 Posted 04/07/2026 at 13:53:52

The Echo says he's the third signing, after they counted Merlin Röhl as well as Hayden Hackney.

But we all know that's really only one new signing.

15 Posted 04/07/2026 at 14:05:13

Take the three of them.

Exactly the signings we should be making.

16 Posted 04/07/2026 at 14:16:37

Of course Michael. Forgot about Rohl and he is also a player to add to my oprimism.

Are my posts not going on due to this new optimism MK?

17 Posted 04/07/2026 at 14:51:25

its a bit puzzeling with soft lad Moyes in charge are we going to have enough room on the bench for these young lads as Moyes will not play them unless we need to make a 85 minute sub and the older players take longer than that to warm up

18 Posted 04/07/2026 at 15:09:40

Yes, the Moyes-meh vibe is coloring this a bit. These look to be three solid signings for a club outside of European pressure. Clubs either in Euro spots or expected to have been are looking for immediate remedy not development. These players probably know they are not in that class yet due to lack of PL experience.

Moyes either figures out how to integrate them or he exits as one who held us and them back. Give it a fuckin go old man, you've really got no choice.

19 Posted 04/07/2026 at 15:18:26

He is a real talent and I think he will only get better with further development.

The one thing we need with all young players is patience, we need to see where we are with these players in 2/3 years time. How many superstars are there out there at 19 or 20 ? all the best players started the journey and tried to improve. I think the fact we appear to have Tyrique on a lower fee than originally quoted is a great piece of business.

I am really looking to pre season and to see how some of our young players kick on. Tyrique, Tyler, Harrison, Merlin etc. I think Everton are going about our business well and with "patience" ! I think we are in for an exciting future

21 Posted 04/07/2026 at 15:26:46

Bang on Dale. Totally agree with your second para but, my annual optimism, will not be beaten. Usually is but

Now back to rugby.

23 Posted 04/07/2026 at 15:59:33

Andrew #9, that's how I see it.

Adrian #10, we should be paying no attention at all to Brighton's model. We have revenue/PSR/SCR opportunities in coming years they will never have. Our owner is worth 10X theirs. Our stadium seats 52K, not 32K. Our new global partnerships are bigger than theirs. We should not be competing with them to generate profits from undiscovered players. Within a few years we should be aiming to compete with Chelsea et al for the Caicedos and Joao Pedros and Cucurellas they develop.

24 Posted 04/07/2026 at 16:09:19

You reckon we will be able to buy a £115 million player in a few years Mike?

25 Posted 04/07/2026 at 16:24:26

Ged @12. Get down to the ground this weekend. Watch some proper rugby.

26 Posted 04/07/2026 at 16:30:16

Good to see ya Ged! Keep posting.

27 Posted 04/07/2026 at 16:45:42

I think we should be paying rapt attention to Brighton, Brentford and Bournemouth now and learn off them, we can’t spend big bucks yet no matter how much we have got because of the rules and even in the future we should still take a gamble on potential as well as taking the risks, which they are, on big money signings.

28 Posted 04/07/2026 at 16:57:39

Me too Dave, they have a better record for coming up with what seem like bargain buys. OK It's not easy and they may have dropped lucky recently but they do seem to be a lot better than us at finding players. Plus there's a great deal of money to be made or saved if it can be done. We can't spend big even if we want to as you say.

29 Posted 04/07/2026 at 17:05:47

I don't know how the new rules work Raymond but Mike G expects us to be competing to buy a £100 million plus player in a few years?

30 Posted 04/07/2026 at 17:18:28

No reason why not, John #29. Increasing club revenue 15% a year would double it in five years, and bring us up to Chelsea's current level in about six. (No idea what SCR rules will be then, but...)

Whether we would ever choose to spend that much on one player is another question -- it hasn't worked out too well for the RS -- but if all goes well we should be capable of it by the early 2030s.

31 Posted 04/07/2026 at 17:29:51

As I said Mike, I have no clue how the rules work and what spending parameters are in place.

I was taking the £115 million example from your post when you said we could, in a few years, compete with Chelsea for the likes of Caceido signings.

32 Posted 04/07/2026 at 17:30:29

Raymond #28, of course they are. The three B's have all spent 8-10 years building up scouting/transfer/data networks to find these players and business models to leverage them. Brighton reportedly uses a combination of eyeballs and analytics to track players across 30 leagues.

We just acquired an analytics company last year, and James Smith joined us from City in October to rebuild our scout network. Gonna be a while before we catch up with the B's in this area.

John #31, yep, I knew that.

Personally I hope we build a scouting network to find guys like Caicedo and then keep them to build a team around rather than selling them on for profit. But time will tell whether that's possible.

34 Posted 04/07/2026 at 17:54:15

LB Gideon Mensah, who was starring for Ghana in WC, is available on a free.

35 Posted 04/07/2026 at 17:55:02

Id tip us to spend more than last year, but I think we are a huge distance from spending £100m on a player without champions league football or super revenue from big American football revenue/concerts etc like Spurs.

A £100m player is £20m in amortisation on a 5 year deal. That type of player is going to cost £10-20m in wages. We just don't have the capability of hitting the P&L with a £30-40m hit on one player, and meet football regulations, particularly when thete are so many gaps in the squad..

36 Posted 04/07/2026 at 00:27:40

West Ham are interested in signing Everton's English winger Dwight McNeil, 26, this summer. (Sky Sports)

37 Posted 05/07/2026 at 01:37:28

Ian 35, I was talking five or six years from now. Not this year.

38 Posted 05/07/2026 at 02:12:26

Excellent signing IMO. Only had a few cameo appearances to indicate his abilities but good signs there. One being he likes to shoot and has a good shot in him. Another is his pace.

39 Posted 05/07/2026 at 02:52:28

6 years?

Disappointed on that Mike.

You said a few years in your original post.

40 Posted 05/07/2026 at 04:40:35

John, the most common definition of the word "few" is about 5.

41 Posted 05/07/2026 at 08:20:00

Didn't know that Mke

3 in the UK.

A few plus one then?