Everton Rumours 2

04 Aug 2026 13:12:07
Ridle Baku is the latest RB to be linked to us now. Surely this means we get one this window now at least.

{Ed025's Note - lets hope so SLP and we can get Jake alongside Jarrad in the middle mate..

04 Aug 2026 14:24:32
Wonder if it's like the number 10 scenario and we sign 3 in one window.

04 Aug 2026 15:10:42
Ed, I'm totally with you on that. I'm pretty sure almost every Evertonian would agree that us with an actual right back and O'Brien and branthwaite as the cb's is our best defense. For the life of me can't understand how Moyes doesn't see that. I bet he still plays tark or Keane instead of these two together.

{Ed025's Note - lets hope not John...barring injuries of course mate..

04 Aug 2026 18:18:34
We'd be well covered at CB, LB, LW, RW and CM if no one leaves and we sign Grealish.

Maybe we are buying two RBs!

That just leaves Strikers.

04 Aug 2026 18:32:01
Have you forgotten about Mykolenko? (Easy to do, I know.) Needs replacing and should be nowhere near the starting 11 in my opinion.

04 Aug 2026 18:52:20
The above post from Shropshire should have infinite likes on it. Couldn't agree more.

Still can't believe he is with us.

Nothing against the lad, from a personal perspective, but he is one of the worst LB's in the league.

04 Aug 2026 19:11:14
Is Aznou ready? I haven't seen him much since Moyes does not play him, but whenever I have, he seemed better than Mykolenko!

04 Aug 2026 19:52:53
He should be back up to Aznou. At least Aznou gives us something going forward. He just has to recruit how to defend.

04 Aug 2026 21:29:32
Play Tarks and Keane in the early rounds of cup games, give Jb and Job a rest, keep them injury free and fresh.

{Ed025's Note - works for me Brass..

04 Aug 2026 22:34:34
I like Ridle Baku, last year of contract so could be good value.
Pacey fullback, comfortable at rb, rwb and even rw.
Pretty good passer, solid defensively.

04 Aug 2026 11:49:45
Everton have opened talks to sign Atletico Madrid's Nahuel Molina, according to reports in Italy, with the club understood to have moved ahead of Juventus in the race for the Argentina international.

{Ed025's Note - can we please stop posting the same post twice, we dont want repeat ones clogging up the site...cheers..

04 Aug 2026 13:02:00
Repeat this one several times if there's a chance it'll happen!

04 Aug 2026 12:46:45
I think it's a timing issue Ed and people need to refresh to make sure they've got the latest version of the pages

{Ed025's Note - its pretty annoying to be honest mate..

04 Aug 2026 18:08:01
I've been guilty of this a couple of times, post something, then scroll down for ages, passing several posts and replies, to find a near identical post.

04 Aug 2026 10:23:58
Morning blues watched part of the celtic game and like others was surprised to see Johnson play the whole game then saw him waving at the end suggested he was leaving then one of the co comentater said he would leave after there champions league qualifier which the secone leg finishes august 18 so no time for him to get use to a system or players enviromen excetra before palace on the 22nd also yilmaz played a full game for galatasary on saturday its all gone quite on him any news on him from any of the eds

{Ed025's Note - not at the moment Alan..

04 Aug 2026 11:01:00
If only we had a system of play he had to get used to!

04 Aug 2026 11:09:42
It's looking likely that Job will be out starting RB against Palace. How has this been allowed to happen. It's bonkers. How many windows?

{Ed025's Note - too many Swinners..

04 Aug 2026 11:19:56
Some of these issues are beyond the club's control, we can only work within the systems.
I get frustrated when players that would improve us move to other Prem teams. The reality is, we could well have been in for them, but European football and being in
London seem to trump our current position. Our job is to sign the best players available to us.

It's also not unusual for clubs to hang on to players until they've gone through European qualifiers, then they sell and their budget improves for the season ahead.
From a buyer's point of view, we also save millions on player wages by waiting until the end of the window. More to come in, and we can ignore some of the names being banded about.

04 Aug 2026 12:42:26
Sorry, don't buy this European bull. Players go to whoever offers them the best deal.

{Ed025's Note - absolutely..

04 Aug 2026 12:53:03
Good post, JB.

04 Aug 2026 13:18:33
Most of these so called professional footballers can't play 1 game a week, so I agree the European thing is a load of crap. Most want to be top earners and sitting on the bench, no fight in this generation of players, it's getting worse each year.

05 Aug 2026 15:25:47
You can discount wanting European football all you like, but most players, especially foreign players, do want to be playing in those competitions. We lost out on a few last season because of it.

London is always a factor too. Some players don't want to play north of the Watford gap.

We can't be paying over the odds on wages just to get a player to sign. We've been down that road before.

04 Aug 2026 10:14:40
From Chris Sutton. Well, he can f*** right off, loser.
Absolutely loved seeing [Cameron] Carter-Vickers back.. he's been missed. The club should not sell Alistair Johnston unless it's silly money..

04 Aug 2026 09:32:51
Another rumour, folks
FootballEverton considering RB Leipzig right-back Ridle Baku.

04 Aug 2026 10:02:12
Looks quick.

04 Aug 2026 09:20:12
Baku from Leipzig, another RB we are supposed to be looking at.

04 Aug 2026 08:57:40
So reading this morning it’s official we were stitched up over PSR so says our Everton fans advisory board, nothing new there then that we didn't know.

04 Aug 2026 09:33:25
We all knew it, and most footy fans knew. A fans advisory board doesn't quite have the muscle of a proper apology from an association that actually matters, though. It's like your funny Auntie telling you you're handsome when you're 12. Pointless literally.

03 Aug 2026 20:41:14
Everton scouts up watching AJ tonight.

03 Aug 2026 23:20:48
Let's hope he beats some sense into them.

04 Aug 2026 06:48:12
If we were on the cusp of signing him, do you think he'd be starting the game? I wonder how close that deal is.

There was an article on BBC saying most deals start well before the window opens, even some in the Feb after the winter window closes. O'Neil said he was called two weeks ago by Moyes to say a bid was coming in.

This is why I get the impression we are disorganised.

The RB issue has been going on for years. Moyes said he'd tried to sign players in the past (think it was mainly regarding strikers) , but surely we could find a RB better than Patterson and O'Brien ready to sign at the start of the window.

Rant over.

04 Aug 2026 08:59:03
I did think the same, if we are close or agreed anything surely he wouldn't be in the team. I still think we are interested in someone else and he's the back up, still think we want Rico from City and are just waiting to see if he's made the grade with them or the Spurs chap Spence.

03 Aug 2026 20:19:06
Manchester United academy striker Ethan Wheatley has emerged as a surprise permanent target for Everton, with the Merseyside club exploring a deal that few expected earlier this summer. The Manchester Evening News reports. Still can't get my head around this one if true 🤔. What are my fellow Evertonians 💬?

{Ed025's Note - what i have read he is very much one for the future if anything TB, his stats are very poor mate but somebody must see something in him, but we need players for the now imo and if he cost any money then its a no from me..

03 Aug 2026 20:41:01
Yep, as with Dibling, one for the future.

03 Aug 2026 21:06:50
Manu will be sniffing after Ndieye, so will be giving us all their crap as their skint.

04 Aug 2026 00:18:22
Wheatley is supposed to be a great prospect, we've raided Nick Cox and a couple of their other academy coaches, so likely have good insight on him, one for the U23s.

03 Aug 2026 23:31:42
We have Graham as a young forward and, to an extent, Barry as 'one for the future'.m if he is loaned out. Rather we saved our money and went all in for a RB and a 'now' striker like Ed25 says.

Unless this is all a subtle ploy to make signing Delap look like a superb decision

04 Aug 2026 09:01:05
It may be we are also upgrading our youth for the future and this isn't a first team signing, which to me is a good thing. Yes, we need players for the first team, but we are a club, and players need bringing in for all the teams. The papers have made this into a thing nobody else.

{Ed025's Note - the trouble with that Pasty is that we are not a regular top 10 side which is the time to think about the future for me, we need to concentrate on the present for now because we dont seem to do very well when signing these young players mate, can you name someone in recent times who has broken through and established himself as a first team regular?, i just think its pie in the sky..

04 Aug 2026 22:58:56
There has been a complete overhaul of the youth setup so we can look at bringing players through Ed which that Nick Cox is overseeing
Modernize Structure: Streamline youth progression to fix a system that had been scaled back over the previous five to six years.
Pathway Clarity: Bridge the gap between youth ranks and first-team demands, creating a sustainable talent pipeline for both senior selection and future player sales
We need to become sustainable through that recruitment as both for players progressing to the first team and also to generate income through sales.

Needed that to happen now alongside first team recruitment

{Ed025's Note - i have lost faith in our youth policy ST, its not just us its every team now that have moved from bringing youth through to buying foreign imports because of the cost, i would of course love to see the next Rooney coming through the ranks but i feel that ship has sailed mate..

05 Aug 2026 08:17:13
I understand the viewpoint Ed, but I am trying to be optimistic and it does look like TFG have looked to change our youth development. Players like Wheatley will come in for nominal fees, like Braiden Graham who we paid a fee to Linfield to acquire, and recently that Kai Hutchison as well.
Some of these payments are minimal transfer fees some are payments agreed between the clubs to avoid going to a FIFA training tribunal, is my understanding
Hopefully we start seeing the benefits in coming years but these are not going to be here and now fixes but it's the foundations for the future.


The recruitment for the first team is being smart for me, bringing in some experience like the KDH Grealish and Norgaard and complimenting with younger talents like George Rohl Aznou Dibling and Hackney.
Hopefully Aznou and Dibling push for more first team game time this season

{Ed025's Note - i would love to see it ST but im still very sceptical, the idea is great but for this sort of thing to work the club and especially the management all have to buy into this ethos, young players have to be given the chance and ours at the moment dont seem to be on that same page mate, you only have to look at the likes of Aznou and Dibbling to see that..

05 Aug 2026 11:39:16
I don't think Aznou and Dibling were bought into immediately start though. I look at them as succession planning.
Aznou was a little bit light for me, but he's looking much better and more capable to handle the physical side, add the ball skills going forward. I expect to see the shift at LB this season, especially if we can keep JB fit. In hindsight we probably should have loaned him in Jan for game time.
Dibling, I think, is a mental thing.

He comes across as needing an arm round him and encouragement, something I don't think we see from Moyes. He's often the tough love type. But with a season around the team I am hoping he comes out of his shell and shows what he's capable of, because I feel there is a talented player in there.
But with all that said, I do also get the scepticism, we have been let down a few times! Ok, a lot of times.

03 Aug 2026 17:48:56
Why Everton would be playing with fire amid Tim Iroegbunam exit talk as numbers prove true value

I agree, pal. I like this player. I would get rid of the winger O'Neil and CharlyA before this player. I like how he handles the middle of the park.

03 Aug 2026 18:13:18
He is a big and powerful boy, but it doesn't matter how well you win the ball back if you give it away in the next second.

He is too wasteful with the ball for me, Toffebwoy.

With Norgaard coming in, who is usually very reliable, and Jimmy being able to play there.

If we can get around 20m for a player that won't be a starter, given we don't appear to have much money to chuck around, it is a no brainer to let him go imo.

We can then reinvest that money into the team.

03 Aug 2026 18:41:56
He does give the ball away, but also, in my view, he is getting better. McNeil, I don't understand why he is still here. Is Alcaraz better than Tim?

03 Aug 2026 18:49:02
I think if Alcaraz stays, he has a big season. First summer off in 3yrs, and no injuries, fingers crossed.

03 Aug 2026 19:15:55
Yep, not good enough. £20 million will help us no end.

{Ed025's Note - not a starter GB but a decent back up imo mate..

03 Aug 2026 21:35:36
Young player with scope to develop further. Yes, he needs to improve his passing but so do a lot of others. Mistake letting this one go.

04 Aug 2026 09:05:57
Problem is he's in his last year, next year leaves for nothing, we need to make our minds up weather he gets a new deal because he has a future, or sell and get the money while we can and move on. I personally can't see him being the answer moving forward, plus if he had promise surely it wouldn't only be the teams who have just come up interested in him, surely a few established teams would want him, but there not, so I'd say sell, get the money, we have Harrison, Hackney, Rohl and of course Garner, so we are well covered in young midfielders.