Everton banter 5

06 Jun 2026 07:39:02
{Ed's Note - Seano_ has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool Squad Assessment and Summer Priorities

05 Jun 2026 21:55:22
I reckon by the time the window closes we will have.

Grealish
Hackney
Parrot
Norton Cuffy
Stones

05 Jun 2026 22:57:12
That would be a disappointing window tbh.

06 Jun 2026 07:59:44
Who would you like to see, Swan?

06 Jun 2026 12:28:11
LB - Diego Moreira £25/30m, or Antonee Robinson £20/25m.

CB - Rafa Marin £20m, Kevin Boma £5/10m, or Taylor Harwood-Bellis £20m.
or Taylor Harwood-Bellis £20m.

RB - We need 2. Jordan Teze £15m, Juanlu Sanchez £10/15m, Omar El Hilali £20/25m, Raoul Bellanova £20m, or Guela Doue £20/25m.

CDM - Kaishu Sano £35/40m, or Morten Frendrup £20/25m. More of a ball player - Joey Veerman £25/30m.

LW - Grealish £20m already looks like it is a shoo-in.

RW - Matias Fernandez-Pardo £40m, or Jamie Leweling £35m.

ST - Little - Nikola Krstovic £30/35m, Jonathan Burkardt £35m, Fisnik Asllani £35/40m, Ayase Ueda £25/30m, or Mohamed Amoura £25/30m. Large - Mateo Pellegrino £25m, Romulo Cardoso £35m, Tim Lemperle £20m.

Tried to keep it realistic in terms of prices and who would actually come to us.

Also think we need a 10 but more pressing areas and money won't be endless.

I believe we spent £120 last summer, so you would hope that another year out of the woods from FFP would give us some more wiggle room. The likes of West Ham, Sunderland & Forest all spent over 150m last year. If this ownership is serious about elevating us, I think this is where we should at least be aiming for.

I think we need to see about 9 or 10 new faces come into the squad, who all have the ability to be starters and would give us some very good depth. Ship some of the dead wood out and us fans could have some optimism that the people running the club now have ambition and a clear idea of how we progress.

06 Jun 2026 12:45:56
Do we get both Taylor Harwood-Bellis' for the price of one?

06 Jun 2026 12:48:01
Not heard of most of them, BN, but don't watch foreign leagues TBH and you seem to know your stuff. Do you not rate Hackney then??? How many of these players do you think are scouts have heard of.

06 Jun 2026 14:48:21
Hahaha, nice one, Swan!

06 Jun 2026 14:56:41
I think we are operating in a specific market, Ron. We can't be offering silly money to get the best players and we can't attract the best players. We need to act like the likes of Lille & Benfica do imo. Get them in before they blow up and then hopefully they take you with them or you sell them on for a decent profit.

I will admit that I don't know an awful lot about him, Ron. I did ask one of the posters earlier in the week that seemed to know a lot about him to sum him up as a player. I don't watch any Championship football really, other than when we are strongly linked with someone.

Hackney looks a decent enough player, mate, but his numbers for the Championship weren't anything to scream about. I think Hamer, who has already played in the PL, posted better numbers than him in a worse team for example.



I understand he seems to do a lot of the defensive stuff as well, but I just think we should be focusing on a proper 6 before anything else. We already have Jimmy and KDH, who are out and out 8's for me (Jimmy can literally play anywhere, though I think he is that intelligent) .

I would rather us get a ball-pressing machine, who can snuff the danger out like Idrissa did for us for many years, and Sano or Frendrup would be topping the list of my midfield priorities over a Hackney type, mate.

Couldn't tell you which ones our scouts have heard of with any certainty. Obviously they will know all about the domestic players, and we have been linked with Sanchez and El Hilali before.

I am not mad on who we have been linked with for RB atm - Holm, Norton-Cuffy are a no from me.

06 Jun 2026 15:57:50
Love your feedback, BN. Can you not offer your services to the club? ? We just have muppets on nice wages, I bet.

06 Jun 2026 20:46:21
Appreciate that, Ron. I suspect they would laugh my opinion out of the room, and rightly so, I guess, mate.

I do genuinely think there are plenty of signings out there that would improve us, though, and for reasonable prices in today's market.

06 Jun 2026 21:10:08
I like Jayden Oosterwolde for LB/LCB so can cover if Branthwaite gets injured and much better than Mykolenko at left back.

Harwood-Bellis is a good CB option, composed, ball-playing CB and has added being a productive goal threat from set pieces.
Charlie Cresswell is another option I like, physically imposing and dominant in the air.
Both in the £20-25m mark.

RB would also love Doue and Oscar Mingueza, who's available on a free, has a lot of suitors though.

CM Shea Charles offers a good option, product of the Man City academy on 12 months left on his contract, solid defensive anchor and progressive passer with excellent defensive awareness, tackling, and aerial ability, probably cost £20m due to contract.


Morten Hjulmand would be the dream, seen us linked but so are many others, would cost £45m at least.

Looks like we are trying to negotiate the fee on George, him and Grealish would be good.
And I would love us to sign Leweling.
Othmane Maamma is another around £15m and is said we have scouted him and made enquiries.

At striker I like the versatility of Parrott, good goal return both at club and international level.

Whatever happens there is a lot of work to fill the gaps in the squad and we need better depth to be utilised.

07 Jun 2026 11:39:45
If the club is going to progress to European standards, it is going to need to be prepared to spend money, as simple as, on four or five players, otherwise it will be more of the same.

05 Jun 2026 20:51:33
As we all know, my fellow Evertonians, what we get on transfer speculation is 2nd or sometimes 3rdhand at best at this time of year and any transfer negotiations are pretty much like a game of poker and should be treated with skeptism but if the current reporting of Everton's opening offer to Middlesbrough for Hayden Hackney are to be believed, 10 million for arguably the Championship best player is rather foolhardy to say the least of course we are not in the know and it could all be just BS but this is the time to tread carefully but not he absolutely ridiculous and dare I say it insulting with those in my humble opinion low ball offers but I am sure some other of my fellow Evertonians will hold different opinions.

05 Jun 2026 21:49:57
None of us mere mortals will likely have any idea about what is being done behind closed doors, save for old Ed001 who would have known.

Line up the team and 8 weeks and let's go.

{Ed001's Note - I think you mean Ed2! He was the man. I only wish I had his contacts and info!}

05 Jun 2026 22:15:15
We are his preference and he has 1 year left on his deal. Of course we will try and low ball them until we agree a fee of between 15 and 20m. Nothing to stress about mate

05 Jun 2026 20:51:25
As we all know, my fellow Evertonians, what we get on transfer speculation is 2nd or sometimes 3rdhand at best at this time of year, and any transfer negotiations are pretty much like a game of poker and should be treated with skeptism. But if the current reporting of Everton's opening offer to Middlesbrough for Hayden Hackney are to be believed, 10 million for arguably the Championship best player is rather foolhardy to say the least.

Of course we are not in the know and it could all be just BS, but this is the time to tread carefully but not he absolutely ridiculous and dare I say it insulting with those in my humble opinion low ball offers. But I am sure some other of my fellow Evertonians will hold different opinions.

05 Jun 2026 23:09:28
It's all part of the media game, isn't it? We know Boro won't accept that. They'll have asked for silly money and we'll meet somewhere in the middle.

05 Jun 2026 19:55:16
Understand our initial offer for Hayden Hackney has been rejected.

Middlesborough reject the offer of £10m paid over 34 years that included a signed Apostolos Vellios shirt and a strand of Jack Grealish’s hair.

05 Jun 2026 19:49:33
See Spurs have signed Andy Robinson, experienced defender, 32, on a free. My brother in law is well chuffed. Wonder if we had signed him what the comments would have been.

05 Jun 2026 20:43:49
Would never have happened.

I do find it a bit ironic though that they hate Trent for going to Real Madrid (for £8m) and Konate going to Real Madrid for free, but love Robertson for going to another Premier League on a free.

{Ed001's Note - Robertson wasn't offered a contract, so never rejected anything, whereas the other 2 kept stalling negotiations, that is why some hate them. Personally, I don't see it as a reason to hate anyone, but there you go.}

05 Jun 2026 21:03:44
Strange one, mate.

05 Jun 2026 22:45:43
I'm amazed Robertson wasn't offered a new contract tbh Ed, I know he's not as quick as he used to be but still think he's a solid backup, always in shape too so could probably play until he's 35.

{Ed001's Note - his legs were gone 2 years ago and he was paid very highly, too much for a back up.}

05 Jun 2026 23:01:40
Can have Mykolenko if you want mate.

{Ed001's Note - I would rather put my ma out there at left-back, at least she might actually put in a challenge with her walking stick....}

06 Jun 2026 09:19:39
And there lies the problem. We would accept a 32 year old right back who's pace has gone, but they wouldn't. There's no oh, he knows the club, let's keep him on. It's thanks very much, now we move on and get the next best right back.

06 Jun 2026 14:36:14
We will probably give Keane and Tarks another contract, they are only 34, I think.

05 Jun 2026 18:07:56
FFS Hasn't Moyes got the balls to tell Pickford and Tarkoswski that neither of them are good enough to captain the team. Tarkowski is constantly getting into trouble with ridiculous tackles when caught with or without the ball, and Pickford's concentration is limited at best. Constantly ranting and gesticulating to team mates. The opposition must be made up. The bickering that goes on amongst our back four.

Garner is best just doing what he does without other distractions, so I don't know who else ganna if he stays. But as a former poster said there should be 11 captains on the pitch because the amount of times the armband gets passed about in games now is riduculous. He comes on, gets the armband, then somebody else comes on and the armband is passed again. So as I stated I have no idea who should have it.

06 Jun 2026 09:25:10
Dare I say it, we needed someone like Granit Xhaka at Sunderland. Came into the club and totally changed the feel of the team. Guy is a natural leader. I don't personally think we have anyone in our squad at the moment who could do that job.

Agree about Garner, he just needs to be left to do his job. Don't see him being strong enough as a captain.

05 Jun 2026 13:49:39
See we are looking forward to a new Captain after Seamus, my vote would go to James Garner, excellent player for us.

05 Jun 2026 13:03:02
I know that there are other positions that need to be filled, but I really wouldn't like to trust Moyes with signing another striker.
I really wanted Franculino Dju last summer when he was available for about £15m, but instead we wasted £27.5m on a bag of ****.
The current names in the frame appear to be Jesus and Delap and to be honest neither fill me with confidence.
Our 2 strikers aren't good enough and need to go, but I have a feeling and hope that I am wrong, that Moyes will keep Barry. If that is the case then we will still need 2 strikers.

I would still love to get Dju, but our failure to get into Europe will go against us and his price will have doubled also. An experienced striker would also be useful and I gather that we tried to get Lukaku in January. I would certainly take him on a 2 year contract as if he could stay fit he still knows where the net is. He is also rumoured to be available for about £12m. Conte has just left the club and it has been reported that the owners want De Bruyne and Lukaku gone.

05 Jun 2026 15:04:07
I am with you on Dju Shropshire. He would offer us something completely different up there as he can actually play football.

You are spot on. I think we missed the boat on him last summer and then he suffered the serious-ish injury in winter.



Can see someone like Lille or Benfica going for him. They always seem to get the lads in from the lesser leagues that are about to explode and then sell them on for a ridiculous profit.

Isn't Lukaku on ridiculous wages?

05 Jun 2026 17:53:24
He spent the season on the training table. Send him to MLS.

05 Jun 2026 17:57:12
He will be on a decent wage BN, but I think that he's desperate to have another crack at the Premier League and he did play his best football in this league with us, so may feel that he has unfinished business.

The other advantage is that TFG will know all about his demands, having had him at Roma. Definitely think he is worth a punt.

05 Jun 2026 12:44:09
Reading today who should be our next Captain, my choice would definitely be James Garner, he has been excellent.

05 Jun 2026 14:22:01
Kdh, I'd like to see as captain. Think he would be more vocal than Jimmy.

05 Jun 2026 17:32:12
Your captain has to be a leader, not sure it would suit Garner as he's not the most vocal of players.

05 Jun 2026 17:56:08
Would be a slap in the face for Pickford if it's not him. World-class keeper, England's number 1 for years, loyal when others would have moved on. He gets my vote.