We’ll see how that pans out, but that shouldn’t stop us looking into the transfer priorities, because whether or not Everton get Hackney over the line, there’s still some clear needs for this squad.

There’s simply no way Everton cannot sign at least one right-back this summer.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka is an option, but so far, one Everton have not bitten on, and he is now set to take part in the World Cup, so that could delay a deal, too.

Guela Doue is a much more exciting, mooted target, while there has also been talk of interest in Atalanta’s Raoul Bellanova, who can play up and down the right side.

There’s a genuine case that Everton should sign two right-backs, but their absolute priority should be getting one in swiftly.

Regardless of Hackney coming in or not, Everton need a top-class, dominant midfielder.

There are question marks over Idrissa Gueye’s future, while Tim Iroegbunam could possibly be moved on if the right offer were to arrive.

Someone like Manu Kone of Roma would be the dream profile; a player who can both sit and bomb forward, and generally just run the show.

If Hackney arrives, he will be a fine addition but would not solve the issue of Everton still requiring a big, powerful presence who can sit in the middle of the park — a number 6, as it were — and a player who instantly elevates that area of the pitch.

While Everton’s need for a right-back is desperate, they also really need to realise that a left-back should also be a priority.

Vitaliy Mykolenko has just penned a 3-year deal; while that protects the asset, it’s understandable that fans are frustrated to see a frankly mediocre player sign a long-term contract.

Mykolenko should not be Everton’s starting left-back. If Everton do sign Jack Grealish again, then the need for a more attacking full-back in that area is even more obvious.

David Moyes’ handling of Adam Aznou was pathetically bad, and the Moroccan now really needs a loan if he is not viewed as being ready for the rigours of Premier League football.

So, in that case, Everton will need to dip into the left-back market.

We do not yet know whether Tyrique George and/or Grealish will be returning to the club for next season.

If both of those players sign, then it probably means Everton are okay, numbers wise, even if Dwight McNeil is sold. In that case, Moyes would simply have to play Tyler Dibling, and a four-player unit of the former Southampton winger, George, Grealish and Iliman Ndiaye would be enough.

However, if a big offer comes in for Ndiaye, then there seems a chance Everton could cash in, and that would necessitate a move for another, top-quality wide option.

Everton have a decision to make when it comes to their two centre-forwards.

Thierno Barry had an up and down first season at the club, while Beto only has a year left to run on his contract.

A versatile attacking option who can play in a couple of positions could be a smart move, especially if Ndiaye were to go, but that does not solve the issue with the strikers really.

If Beto stays, then he has to be offered a new deal in order to protect his value. If Barry stays, then he has to show more of an understanding of what’s needed to be a successful, all-round forward in the Premier League.

But we cannot also fall into the trap that scoring goals is all on strikers. Chances need to be created with consistency and quality — it’s worth noting that neither Barry nor Beto underperformed their xG in 2025-26.

Bar the right-back and number 6, I do find that all of these other positions of need are about as much of a priority as each other.

Jarrad Branthwaite’s injuries hugely hampered Everton in 2025-26, and there’s certainly a case to be made that Everton need a better option to back him up.

Yet with Michael Keane having been given a new deal, and the urgency to sign a right-back, it seems more likely Everton will view Branthwaite, Jake O’Brien, James Tarkowski and Keane as their four options.

However, perhaps signing a development player in that position would be sensible. Someone in the 19 to 21 bracket, who can come in primarily to play under 21s football and then be on the fringes of the first-team squad, a bit like Branthwaite back in 2020.

That would change, though, if an offer were to come in for Keane, as unlikely as that seems right now.

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3 Posted 09/06/2026 at 16:22:26

Am happy to be disappointed but just can't see it, not unless they raise it by selling at least two of Ndiaye, Garner and Brathwaite. But then it wouldn't be £180m, it would be more like £50-£60m net which I think is likely closer to the reality.

Set aside the owner's appetite, I'm not sure we'd even have the financial base to do that after £100m plus spent (mostly wasted) last year.

4 Posted 09/06/2026 at 16:36:12

I still have a dark horrible feeling that Jake O'Brien will start next season at RB.

5 Posted 09/06/2026 at 16:46:20

If Jake O'Brien is our starting right back at the start of next season, then it would be crystal clear that Everton and Moyes haven't learned a thing from this season.

6 Posted 09/06/2026 at 16:51:29

We spend only £50 mil, and Moyes is still manager, we will finish lower than this seasons finishing position.

7 Posted 09/06/2026 at 17:27:39

Mark T, spot on. Quality players only. Top half caliber, no Kenny Tete this time around.

And there are no worries,none, about our financial base. For the first time ever, we have massively wealthy owners. The concern is our PSR/SCR ceiling. What can we buy for what we are allowed to spend under the regulations?

That's when the question of selling kicks in, and that can be accomplished by selling lesser players, not our best.

8 Posted 09/06/2026 at 17:39:23

Our turnover should exceed £200M and based on last year's accounts our wage to turnover was 74%.

If we get Grealish, McNeil, Gueye, Patterson, Alcaraz off the books and Aznou and Dibling out on loan we have quite a bit of wiggle room to bring players in.

Over to you "The recruitment team".

Let's see if you can do a better job this preseason.

9 Posted 09/06/2026 at 17:42:07

Off topic, apologies. Does anyone know ( ball park figure ) what EFC as a club recoup for the game at the HD tonight. Is it purely on ticket sales ?

10 Posted 09/06/2026 at 18:01:33

Mark, no idea how it works in the UK, but in the US the women's national team program promotes the game, sells the tickets and pays the stadium a rental fee plus staff and security costs, keeping the remainder.

Division of revenue from concessions, parking et al is pre-negotiated at each event.

11 Posted 09/06/2026 at 18:03:53

12 Posted 09/06/2026 at 18:04:07

I mean, we could always sign better players, as none of ours are the best in the world in their position. But central midfield is basically the last position we need a player in.

Garner, Iroegbunam, Röhl, Dewsbury-Hall and Armstrong. 5 good players for 2 positions, Garner was statistically one of the best in the division last season despite coming 13th.

In N’Diaye, Alcaraz and McNeil (not a winger and never has been, but all the main attributes to be a good ‘10’) we have three reasons why Dewsbury-Hall should stop being played out of position.

We need a right-back to replace Coleman, and a second right-back if the frankly weird persecution of Patterson continues. We need a second right-winger as Dibling is the only player at the club for whom that is his best position. We need two left-wingers So that N’Diaye can play centrally where he’s more effective.

After that it’s about upgrading. Barry would be the first one I’d replace. The rest would be a bonus.

If we keep Moyes as manager, which we clearly are now, it doesn’t matter much who we buy as he won’t play them and we’ll go out every week with 2/3 players out of position, even if that evidently doesn’t work.

13 Posted 09/06/2026 at 18:08:55

Well if dithering Dave is on World Cup duty then he's going to be busy. So it's last minute bargain bucket again I suspect.

Morons on sky sports like kids in a sweet shop trying to persuade all they have contacts at football clubs 🐕 absolute bollocks.

14 Posted 09/06/2026 at 18:13:25

Mike.

If he signs Hackney, Garner is the right back for next season

15 Posted 09/06/2026 at 18:57:21

Jay, wouldn’t it just be easier to get a manager who will use players properly?

Keep Moyes, need 12-13 players

Replace Moyes, need 4-5 players

Sign George, get another LW on loan

Sign a RB, treat Patterson as a decent option

Sell McNeil, sign a RW, also use Dibling

Sell Barry, sign a CF

Use N’Diaye & Alcaraz as the ‘10’ options

Dewsbury-Hall & Garner in midfield

That would do me, but if there’s anything left:

Sign a LB, loan out Aznou (or sell Mykolenko)

Maybe sign a CB if we don’t trust Branthwaite to stay fit.

Everything else is likely to have to wait.

We’ve got players, Moyes is failing to use them properly.

16 Posted 09/06/2026 at 19:11:22

Mike #15, do you enjoy having the thinnest, slowest squad in the PL?

"We've got players" but not enough good ones.

Quality is crucial. And the quality we want and need to challenge for Europe doesn't allow, for example, using "Patterson as a decent option" or Ili and Charly as makeshift #10s (neither is a natural there).

I say we need six quality players no matter who the manager is.

17 Posted 09/06/2026 at 19:25:54

At this time you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know what Everton need to be a better more competitive side.

Enough was seen last season to tell the board and the manager what the failings were.

The initial defeat at Leeds was seemingly put right with a good display against Brighton but as things progressed it was clear there were loopholes that were never fixed especially when Grealish got hurt and the midfield attacking sparkle of he, KDH and Ndiaye started to be less impressive.

Everything then fell on Beto and Barrie who failed to deliver what was needed. Garner was the only bright spot and the defence after the loss of Branthwaite started to capitulate far too often.

Moyes had no answer and failed to recognize the options from the bench.

What is certain is that after the World Cup players valuations will become dis-proportionate and anyone Everton are looking at will cost too much.

Everton have some emerging talent but if Moyes hangs around they will be looking elsewhere soon enough.

Grealish coming back is a plus at least for one more season but he does get fouled a lot which can cause injury absences.

It would be nice if Everon's scouts could find one or two class unknowns that other teams seem to find regularly but do they want to play under the rigidity of Moyes.

18 Posted 09/06/2026 at 19:31:29

We won't be changing from 4-5-1 or 4-3-3 (however you see it), so either he continues with Dewsbury-Hall as attacking midfielder (or No 10 if you like the 'number' thing), wants Hackney as centre-mid (No 8 if you like) and Garner sitting in midfield (No 6 if you like).

If he moves Dewsbury-Hall back, then we need an attacking midfielder or supporting striker (No 10 if you... oh fuck it -- I hate the numbers description of players).

A central midfielder should be able to play, tackle, shoot, score, create, get back, get forward and do it all. Dewsbury-Hall would be the big miss if injured, an attacking goalscoring midfielder is needed too, I think.

19 Posted 09/06/2026 at 20:22:52

A new right back is essential, no more shite from Moyes playing players out of position, also a new striker, because swapping Beto/Barry every game didn't work, and start Armstrong in midfield and give him time, he's a huge talent, with pace, skill and great passing ability, he needs a manager who believes in him. Moyes use of his squad, or lack of use this season, was appalling.

20 Posted 09/06/2026 at 21:25:30

Christy, they scored 17 goals between them and were never on the pitch as a duo except for Brentford.

If it is because the rest of the team are unsettled, I agree. But if you are moaning about their goals then "Barry Beto" is the 3rd best striker in the league and Thiago scored 8 penalties so that puts them 2nd.

That said, they are a bit Oumar Niasse in the sense many of us think they are not footballers, but they do score regularly.

21 Posted 09/06/2026 at 22:01:24

If we look at last season, we did better than most thought up to the last 7 games. We had a few difficult fixtures among those 7 but we did underperform in some of the others.

We don't need wholesale changes but we must sign a good right-back and another centre-back.

Will Dibling and Aznou prove good enough? Moyes obviously didn't think they were ready last season. We need to hang on to Ndiaye if possible but I'm not sure about Grealish, maybe chance another season.

22 Posted 09/06/2026 at 22:14:20

‘Central midfield is basically the last position we need a player in.'

I agree with the OP; there is a type of midfielder we don't really have (Tim Iroegbunam is just not quite good enough) and should be looking to get, so the likes of Dewsbury-Hall and Garner can really shine.

23 Posted 09/06/2026 at 22:25:53

Recruitment has been an issue with the Everton board for a few seasons... we don't go for the kill straight away. Apparently £7M was the initial fee offered for Hackney -- that would be an insult to the Championship Player of the Season.

I think the transfer fee being that low would dampen any enthusiasm for joining us. I know you have to start with a low bid but I would have thought minimum initial fee would have to be at least £10M to £12M.

To me, three priorities are: first a striker, attacking midfielder, and a right-back. Anything after that would be a bonus.

24 Posted 09/06/2026 at 23:18:29

Somewhere else, I posted that we needed 5 players but the way things are looking, we are stuck with Moyes, so I will be surprised if we sign more than two players.

If that is the case, the positions I would strengthen are right- and left-back. A pair of the quality of Jimenez and Truffert of Bournemouth. Those two make that team tick.

25 Posted 09/06/2026 at 23:49:37

As ever I like your optimism. I'm not as sure as you as regards to either the owner ambition or the strength of the current financial base (though to be fair, it would be realistic to expect that to improve over coming years).

What you're targeting needs £200-250m. Even if we sell a few bits and bobs, it's still 150-200m My bet is on John C at £50m net.

Hope I'm wrong and we can truly look upwards for a change.

26 Posted 09/06/2026 at 00:04:53

Mark, I don't think we need to spend £40 million per player. For a top quality striker perhaps, but nowhere near that much for a right back or a young central defender. One of my very favorite young right back targets, Juanlu Sanchez of Sevilla, can be had for less than £20m. So can Hackney. Wan-Bissaka's reported price tag is £10m.

Nor do I expect the club to spend up to its entire available ceiling in one window. As I've said before, I think this management has a "slow and steady" plan.

And I think the Dibling foolishness will prove to be a one-off, the result of a partial staff working under a time crunch.

27 Posted 10/06/2026 at 01:09:37

Jay #8, under SCR aren't we allowed to spend 85% of our revenue on the team?

So by your figures we have an extra 10% available which is £20M, plus 10% of any incremental value, so not a lot.

We're going to have to sell to buy so the team won't really change that much. The ghost of Chairman Bill is still with us.

Perversely, the SCR for Uefa is 70% so we would have to reduce our costs by 10% if we'd have qualified.

28 Posted 10/06/2026 at 01:17:49

If O'Brien is at right-back for the first game of next season, I'll lose my mind.

I like the lad and he should be at centre-back next to Jarrad, or maybe in a back 3…

Sign a right-back, for fuck's sake!…. And get rid of Barry. He is the single worst player I have ever seen play for us.

Those two things alone would improve us.

29 Posted 10/06/2026 at 06:14:52

Eric (#27); I don't know if this current system, SCR, is an Accountant's dream or nightmare.

As I understand it, you can spend 85% of revenue on wages and transfers — but how do you show the transfer fee in which year's accounts?

Amortization spreads the transfer fee over the length of contract with the player (and wages in the year they are paid) but if it is agreed (in an Iroegbunam - Dobbin, Everton & Villa sort of way) and is payed on the never-never, in which year do you include what amount?

Albeit that it will catch up eventually unless inflation increases your revenue disproportionately or you qualify for one of the European kashcows.

30 Posted 10/06/2026 at 07:11:08

For what it's worth, here's my predicted line-up for the first game of next season:

Wan-Bissaka Tarkowski Keane Mykolenko

Ndiaye Dewsbury-Hall Grealish

Beto.

Bet I'm not far out.

31 Posted 10/06/2026 at 07:21:34

Anybody who thinks we have seen the last of Jake O'Brien at right-back hasn't been paying attention.

This boy gets clubman of the year for me. No complaints, no griping, He just gets on with it. He may have limitations going forward (he's built like a basketball player, for fuck's sake!), but in the most competitive league in the world, few wingers have embarrassed him. Not many full-backs can say that.

For some reason, this country does not produce right-backs. They're all flawed going one way or the other. That's why Gary-fucking-Neville was able to hold down the England spot for an eternity.

It doesn't matter if 100% of ToffeeWebbers think we need a right-back — Moyes (that fella who picks the team) doesn't and, unless one who nobody else wants becomes available, we won't be signing one. We're far more likely to sign another centre-back.

The contract extensions handed to the two lighthouses are speaking to you. Listen to them. Big Jake's willingness to put the club first will count against him (amazing how often that happens). He will have to start all over again when Moyes has gone. Any new manager will have very little previous to go on when trying to assess him as a centre-back.

They praised him, they apologised for him, and now it looks like the club think we are happily dissatisfied and are giving "us" what "we" wanted.

This is what it looks like...

32 Posted 10/06/2026 at 07:58:16

Right back quality seems to be in short supply, with a number of clubs looking to fill that position.

Villa will want to challenge Cash, City are after an upgrade on Nunez, Arsenal replacing Ben White, United not convincing with theirs, Liverpool possibly have issues with the injured Bradley and Frimpong who looks like a winger.

Doue will probably go from Strasbourg to Chelsea, to stop a rival taking an asset. Wan bisakka is steady enough, but we were hoping for something a bit more dynamic.

That leaves Norton Cuffy, Holm, as other links. That's a worry. After 5 years plus of not having a right back, there is a shortage of links in an area that looks under whelming.

The alternative is you find a player with the right characteristics and retrain. Snodin came in as centre midfield player and moved to right back. Nunez & O'reilly are central midfield players that have been moved back. Surely a good young, quick centre midfielder can retrain as a right back?

There are literally loads of academy players that played in X position, only to go and have brilliant careers in a different position. The idea that young players can only play certain positions is a short sighted, when most have only played that professional position for a couple of seasons at most.

Without wanting to ruin in his development. Do we have somebody in the squad that could take that Rohl? Decent on the ball, can get forward, pace, good stamina. Is Merlin the player with the characteristics that could slot into that troublesome position? Garner has done it with ease, whilst Merlin looks quicker & stronger.

Mick O\\\'Malley

33 Posted 10/06/2026 at 08:07:20

Slow and steady, I know its not TFGs fault but you cant get more slow and steady than no trophy and a couple of European excursions in 31 years, I think the fans have shown tremendous loyalty and patience and want to start remotely looking like we are making progress, last season wasn't progress, points wise, position wise and playing style wise

Its ok saying get rid of him and get rid of the other but someone has to want to take them off our hands.

34 Posted 10/06/2026 at 08:08:21

Bill @ 5, they've learnt that you can play somebody like O'Brien out of position to save a few quid and still stay in the Premier League.

35 Posted 10/06/2026 at 08:09:49

What are the odds we start with a back four of O'Brien, Tarkowski, Keane and Mykolenko?

We'll probably get in one or two loans, and only sign one midfielder. Oh yeah, and sell Ndiaye, so we show a profit from our summer dealings!! This is Everton after all... Jeez, I can't wait for the season to start!!!

36 Posted 10/06/2026 at 08:17:17

Mark - 30 - absolutely zero chance of that team or anything like it starting on August 22, zero.

First, Ndiaye is going, Grealish will not be here, if Wan-Bissaka comes, O'Brien will be centre-back, Gana will not be here.

You leave out the 'Boro lad who seems likely. Where is Rohl? There will be half-a-dozen incoming.

Hopefully you were being ironic, you nutty wool, you.

37 Posted 10/06/2026 at 08:33:34

Ian @ 32;."Surely a good young, quick centre midfielder can retrain as a right back?"

Garner?

But that will not even be on Moyes's horizon. If he doesn't stick with Jake O'Brien, he'll put Rohl there.

Moyes is the problem and, as such, should have no part in the solution.

38 Posted 10/06/2026 at 09:15:13

We're fucked.

No right back, who would be an improvement to our starting XI, exists. There is not one player in de hole wide world we can sign.

39 Posted 10/06/2026 at 09:53:29

We all know, regardless of who we sign, the same back 5 will start the new season: Mykolenko, O'Brien, Tarkowski and Keane in defence... we know it.

If we do sign any full-backs, they'll either not be ready or not be trusted to be ready by Moyes.

The striking situation no doubt the same, Beto will start and get replaced after 70 minutes by Barry.

This is Everton; status quo is the modern day motto.

40 Posted 10/06/2026 at 09:57:55

PG -- no, not ironic -- more a mix of defeatist and hopeful. Hopeful that Ndiaye and Grealish will both stay. Hopeful in that, if Wan-Bissaka signs, Moyes will play him (but as Darren says above, I fear O'B rien will play right-back again).

Moyes will pick Tarkowski and Keane as long as Branthwaite is out (or sold). Hackney will start on the bench and probably play the Dibling role. Gana Gueye will start.

I'm sure there will be incomings... I'm not sure Moyes will start them.

41 Posted 10/06/2026 at 10:05:32

The new stadium was supposed to give us the bounce to move forward.

I can't remember a season I least looked forward to than the 2026-27 one.

42 Posted 10/06/2026 at 10:09:35

Let's hope it's not a case of Down Down Deeper and Down!

43 Posted 10/06/2026 at 10:48:24

If we start next season without a radical overhaul of the back four, we will be in real trouble. O'Brien is not a Premier League right-back and it's a waste of Garner's talents playing him there.

Keane and Tarkowski will be a year older and slower and, if we get 20 games out of Branthwaite, I'll be surprised. So a right-back and centre-back are essential for me.

Our right-sided attack has been non-existent since Coleman's decline. So a pacy right winger who can shoot and cross the ball would be another essential for me.

An attacking midfielder and a goal scorer would make up the rest for me. So that makes a minimum of 5 players. Even if we get 5 with what we will lose, it will still leave us with a very thin squad, so my bet is that we will need to be looking at the loan and free market yet again.

I can't see any magic wand being waved by the Yanks, and our recruitment philosophy has a track record of always being £10M behind the asking price, so I don't hold out any great hopes of progress on quality and depth for next season.

Depressing, I know... but can anyone convince me otherwise?

ps: If we do sign Hackney, is he really what we need?

44 Posted 10/06/2026 at 11:12:21

There are different ways of looking at it, John, but I'm not sure there are as many people who are going to put up with watching unexciting and unadulterated boring, put-you-to-sleep football for much longer.

I'm obviously speaking for myself, but I have spoken to enough people who have voiced a similar opinion.

I understand why you have given O'Brien the accolade, Darren, because it's not the player's fault he has had to play out of position, and it will also get you in Christy's good books.

When I look back at the season, I still pick out the biggest turning point as being when Ndiaye got his goal chalked off against Liverpool because our “out of position right-back” (for a full season) never had the nouse to look along the line, check his run and keep himself onside.

How could the manager blame the player? But I'm certain if it would have been the natural right-back who, in the eyes of many, is never a right back, making the same unprofessional and inexplicable mistake (it was something you would expect to see a 13-year-old kid make), then I'm certain David Moyes would have had a completely different view.

Stu, I agree with your first sentence and it has got me thinking back to the struggles we have had since Marco Silva couldn't play a high line because his central defenders lacked pace.

Every other manager bar the inexperienced Lampard has mostly played with a very low block since Silva left, and this has definitely played a major part in us not being very easy on the eye, but the lesser of two evils because it has helped us stay in the Premier League.

45 Posted 10/06/2026 at 11:16:33

Okay, let's sort our club out.

Firstly, stop banging the drum against Beto and Barry — they're going to be our main strikers. I don't have an issue with that.

Secondly, if we can buy a good right-side pairing who can get to the byline, then maybe Beto and Barry will get a few more goals.

Thirdly, I don't get this Garner thing... he is average at best — not many goals, no assists, and just runs for 2 hours; surely you want to see better than that.

Fourthly, Moyes only has this season left and he will probably get us to Top 8 because I think we will win more games at Hill Dickinson Stadium. With Aston Villa, Brighton, Bournemouth, and Brentford in Europe, I think they will find it hard going.

Fifthly, I think Chelsea, Newcastle and Spurs will improve because they spend big money and have big squads.

Good luck for the season: 8th or 9th has our name written all over it. £80M is the maximum that we will spend... could be a bit more if we sell Ndiaye, which won't worry me — get as much as we can.

46 Posted 10/06/2026 at 11:37:28

Status Quo would have been the perfect band to have performed the first concert at Hill Dickinson Stadium.

47 Posted 10/06/2026 at 11:49:27

Tony.

I've already given my season ticket away for next season to the kid who used it 7 games last season.

I have to renew because I don't want to lose it for future seasons when the current manager is gone.

48 Posted 10/06/2026 at 11:49:35

People asking about Hayden Hackney — Is he worth it? Well £15M to £20M will probaly get him.

Looking back at the Championship Players of the Season and some good players have stepped up from winning it, the likes of Ollie Watkins, Mitrovic, Summerville, Buendia...

So it might not be a gamble really. I think we have to wave good-bye to Gana... maybe Hackney is the man.

49 Posted 10/06/2026 at 12:08:25

We need cover for Branthwaite, we can't rely on the lad staying fit.

Moyes won't have Patterson so we need another right back and that frees O'Brien to be a centre back.

It wont surprise me if Ndiaye leaves, so he will need replacing.

I hope Armstrong is deemed good enough to play regularly next season, Moyes recalled him and wouldn't play him, so that's up in the air. I like Rohl so I would sell Alcaraz.

We will get another year out of Guaye and I would keep Irogbunam. and although they get plenty of stick I would also keep Beto And Barry.

I'm not sure it will be worth paying Grealish all that money when he is coming back from his injury, the jury's out on that one.

We also need Dibling and Aznou to step up this season if they are given their chance.

If we are to do better we need higher class players, if we can get any all the players with a few exceptions are replaceable.

Whoever sorts the ins and outs of players has my sympathy because its no easy task.

50 Posted 10/06/2026 at 12:12:30

Flipping heck John, that's a bit drastic mate.

51 Posted 10/06/2026 at 12:15:58

Not really Raymond.

I get no enjoyment whatsoever watching tails between the legs, scared football.

It aggravates me coming out of the ground, and ruins my day mate.

Self inflicted punishment not for me,easier to give it a miss.

52 Posted 10/06/2026 at 12:18:02

Jaden Sancho's a free agent apparently. If you get the player he was from his first spell at Dortmund he be a good deal, but not sure now...

53 Posted 10/06/2026 at 12:55:20

Mark @ 45, just 2 right sided players and we will finish 8th/9th? That's hugely optimistic. Although Moyes would class that as a major step forward and akin to winning a trophy.

If we start the season with O'Brian at right back, with Tarkowski and Keane the centre back pairing, we are more likely to be in a relegation battle.

I just can't see Moyes sterile football attracting any decent players. We need pace throughout the team and, apart from Branthwaite, we haven't got any.

54 Posted 10/06/2026 at 13:07:31

My lads step daughter "looked after" mine for me after my surgery last season. She's already been told she can use it next season.

To be fair. She is Star struck, Enthusiastic and besides herself with excitement before every game. I'm a cynical arl bastard who is finding todays "standards" and Moyes's expectation management increasingly difficult to accept.

The seat wont go to waste. The right person will be sitting in it.

55 Posted 10/06/2026 at 13:16:46

Nice one Darren.

I know exactly what you mean John.

56 Posted 10/06/2026 at 13:23:03

The kid who uses mine is me half a century ago Darren.

Full of positivity, full of dreams of what his heroes will give him.

Breaks my heart seeing these kids, who haven't seen a trophy lifted, continuously going home and away mate.

57 Posted 10/06/2026 at 13:34:47

https://www.football365.com/news/liverpool-very-keen-geertruida-leipzig-diomande-offer

There's not a right back in world football available apparently 😁

58 Posted 10/06/2026 at 13:51:05

In our last 6 games of the season, we got 3 points out of 18, 3 draws and we lost 3 by a goal. So a really good right-back (we've not had one of them for about 10 years ) and a fast winger on the right would improve us no end.

We only finished 4 points behind 8th, so not asking for much. Also, can anyone tell me why they keep banging the drum for George? We don't need him, he is rubbish.

Go give Harry Wilson what he wants. And I wish we could get Gibbs White as a major signing -- the best midfielder in the Premier League -- no one gets near his stats. Goals, goals, and more goals.

59 Posted 10/06/2026 at 13:59:14

It makes me laugh reading some of these posts when people are even suggesting the market is that bad we might be better trying to convert a player, from a different position into a fullback - like Jake O'Brien🙈

The Liverpool manager will definitely find a fullback because he understands the importance of stretching the pitch and playing with width, whereas this has never appeared to be that high on the agenda for David Moyes, except for the time when Baines and Pienaar, really hit it off.

60 Posted 10/06/2026 at 14:14:19

Hes found one Tony.

Lad on loan at Sunderland.

Took him all of a week.

We are being told on here there are no right backs available in world football. 😂

61 Posted 10/06/2026 at 14:24:33

John#58 I was reading about the £40m? I can’t get my head around’ aren’t the Premier League in charge’, is it not down to them not Everton individually?

62 Posted 10/06/2026 at 15:06:31

just watching a program called "Sams Bolton" on sky Doc's.

How did such a miserable twat put such a side together ? Wonderful individuals ....And how good was good was Jay-Jay Okocha ? Somebody asked him to embarrass Ray Parlour so they could take the piss out of him. The resulting trick absolutely mesmerised Parlour and drew gasps of disbelief from a watching Alex Ferguson.

Nobody would be giving their season ticket up if we signed a Jay-Jay Mind you Moyes would probably think he has found the solution to his right back problem