Everton Transfer Banter

22 Jun 2026 14:01:57
Good news. Am reading that Braiden Graham is being offered a new contract, well pleased with that.

22 Jun 2026 15:41:49
Great news, GB. I read that they are going to take a close look at him over the summer and decide if a loan move is the right option or if he needs to be around the first team training more to aid in his development.

22 Jun 2026 15:43:38
Hopefully he signs it.

22 Jun 2026 15:50:01
Probably best if he gets loaned out.

Can't imagine spending 38 league games on the bench will do him any good.

Even if Moyes comes out and says "he's not going to play".

22 Jun 2026 15:57:35
He could be used in the Hayden Hackney transfer saga, mate.

22 Jun 2026 16:22:22
Wouldn't be surprised if we give them Armstrong.

22 Jun 2026 16:28:04
Moyes gonna offer Armstrong, Dibling, and Graham plus £10m for Soucek and Mavropanos.

22 Jun 2026 10:04:12
My fellow Evertonians I am unsure why we have a scouting network
We have a scouting team. Just let Moyes sign any if his former players 39 or over. I can't believe he is asking the owners to back him only to identify players that are 30 or over and heading potentially to the tail end of their careers. Talk about playing it safe. His about unearthing the next set of gems for our club and built a squad that maybe capable of challenging for honours down the line that a team with ready made granite slow and predictable get to the byline and hope for the perfect cross to head home or trying to win a football match from dead balls and a set peace.



Pure anti football. This man is not a manager to help clubs progress possibly just to keep our heads above water in this league. Imwdt in Moye we don't trust.

22 Jun 2026 10:48:51
Which of his over 30s previous players did Moyes sign last season?

22 Jun 2026 12:57:25
Usual cobblers, JB.

22 Jun 2026 21:28:19
I thought the average age of the squad had come down a bit after the 13 (or so) players left last summer?

22 Jun 2026 09:16:19
Day #7 at Finch Farm. There is new face walking up the drive but sadly it's only a guy coming to read the meters. The wait continues

22 Jun 2026 12:55:41
I'm not sure what part the World Cup plays in all this, but I can't help, I'm sure. Clubs putting bids in isn't the same as signings. And, of course, how do we truly know that we haven't put a few bids in of our own?
I'm not concerned about our transfer budget or when the business gets done.
My one concern is the football we play! Surely that dross towards the end of the season will put off some quality players should we try to sign them.

Moyes said recently that they tried last summer to get some quality signings, only to be knocked back by the players. That's worrying, as the football toward the end of this season was way worse than the end of last season.
Hey Ho! I'll still watch on with hope!

22 Jun 2026 22:34:27
Problem is: we don't know who we tried to sign last summer. Moyes could have been referring to Messi, Ronaldo or Mbappe, but this is Moyes.. he probably tried to sign that injury prone Fulham fullback, Soucek and Dibling. Oh wait, didn't we get one of them? Not sure as only really saw Moyes' favourites play.

21 Jun 2026 20:40:44
I feel like I had the same moan last year; seem to be watching other teams do fast business (as if somehow they are prepared after a long season of planning) . While we yet again ponder over what could, but inevitably won't be (like we've been twiddling our thumbs all year) .

What on earth is going on?

21 Jun 2026 21:23:02
The reality, though, is that most Prem teams haven't done any business yet. Whether they sign now or in a month, they'd still have another month before the season starts. I'd rather we signed the right players than just do business quickly.

{Ed025's Note - that will be the telling thing JB...IF we get the right players, whether your a Moyes fan or not the quality of any new signings is paramount mate, going for experience and buying players who are in the last throw of their careers would be a massive mistake for me, yes maybe one or two who can offer something different but we dont want a plethora of has beens who are coming for a last pay day, now im being pessimistic here and just hope that we can get players in who will not only improve the side but also build for the future, if this does not happen and we dont get off to a good start the knives will be out for the manager very quickly and even those who can stand him will be baying for his blood...and rightfully so, but heres hoping that we have a good window and get off to a flier and all the negativity surrounding the club is put firmly to bed...cheers..

22 Jun 2026 03:38:47
We need to get this transfer window spot on to push forward next season. We all know the positions that need attention & I assume the club does too.
Getting quality players in is never easy & is extra hard when you can't offer European football.
Two full backs needed, maybe a replacement if Branthwaite & Ndiyae leave, definitely a reliable striker too.


We are linked with some good players, but I'd prefer us to just go & buy who we need before it gets into the papers. Don't be the Everton of old where we lose transfers over a couple of million. If we want them, pay the money & get them.

UTFT NSNO. ? ? ?

22 Jun 2026 07:40:45
Agree with JB, plenty of time to bring in recruits. TFG will back him. If he gets it wrong, then he will be gone by Christmas, I would think.

22 Jun 2026 10:38:41
Look around at other teams, Spurs putting in bids, Leeds being pro-active going after Wilson. Meanwhile, a lot of the players mentioned are players we've 'held an interest in'. If you keep saying no to pieces of pie, hoping you'll get the perfect slice by being patient, quite often you'll find yourself eating crumbs.

22 Jun 2026 11:43:19
Leeds haven't signed anyone, they're no further ahead than us. Look, I get the frustration, but let's judge the signings when they happen, not on paper talk, which we know from experience is just click bait.

22 Jun 2026 12:03:15
I'm with you, JB, but I'm sure you were saying similar last year. We ended up with still no Rb, Grealish on loan (only bit of good progressive business in my opinion) , Thierno Barry, and young Rw that we haven't seen or heard from since. It is worrying, and I'm a little fed up with the attitude of "they know what they're doing, have patience" when it rarely turns out to be the case.

I'm pretty sure Fulham are further along in their business than us, having put in a bid for Wilson, and Tottenham are going after players aggresively. Not even a rumour of a bid from us, JB, does feel like much of the same.

22 Jun 2026 12:20:49
We can look back now and say that not all of the business was good business. At the time, Grealish, Barry, KDH etc seemed to demonstrate a step in the right direction. No Rb was, as you say, criminal. Going for players and getting them are two different things. We can go in for as many top players as we want, but we have to accept that we are not top of the pile.

As I've said countless times, I understand the frustrations, and I am not at all saying that Moyes is blameless or untouchable. We can't do anything but sit back and watch. Whatever players we sign, we have to do the business on the pitch from August to December, or I suspect he'll be gone.

22 Jun 2026 12:33:16
I don't think Moyes or TFG are bad appointments at all, compared to 3 years ago I'd much rather be where we are now thanks to both of them. KDH was as well a great bit of business (one I left out in my previous reply through having a brain like a sieve) . I just feel we all urgently want to push forwards, and I do not want to get to the middle of August again, watching other teams re-building their squads whilst we've only just decided to start being serious about players, but it's too little too late.

I honestly hope I'm wrong to feel that way, and that I'm moaning about nothing, it just feels like we've been here before. Thanks, JB.

22 Jun 2026 13:02:26
You're on a hiding to nothing, JB, with some on here, mate. DM will have at least till Christmas; if our results are poor after the new signings, he will be gone, of that I have no doubt.

22 Jun 2026 13:26:46
I do share the concerns of Welsh and others, GB. We have a lot of work to do, and some of the gaps we have in our squad have been gaps for a long time. I keep telling myself that Moyes and TFG will want to be successful. He'll be pushing for the owners to sign better players. Fingers crossed it works out.

22 Jun 2026 14:08:32
So do I, mate. If he gets it wrong this time and the squad does not get improvement then he will be gone by Christmas, our current crop of players several of which are not good enough.

22 Jun 2026 17:41:49
Sorry, guys, rant over, I promise. I know you've both been around the forum for a long time, and you've probably seen the ups and downs and the emotions run high on here plenty. Onwards and upwards, I hope. Next year I can be on here celebrating a good season and hoping he doesn't let any players go rather than begging them to bring some in!

22 Jun 2026 18:44:48
No apology necessary mate. We all want the same thing. Some green shoots in the first half of the season, easily forgotten with our dreadful run-in. Onwards and upwards, let's hope.

21 Jun 2026 20:27:35
My fellow Evertonians. I am unsure why we have a scouting team. Just let Moyes sign any if his former players 39 or over. I can't believe he is asking the owners to back him only to identify players that are 30 or over and heading potentially to the tail end of their careers. Talk about playing it safe. His about unearthing the next set of gems for our club and built a squad that maybe capable of challenging for honours down the line that a team with ready made granite slow and predictable get to the byline and hope for the perfect cross to head home or trying to win a football match from dead balls and a set peace.

Pure anti football. This man is not a manager to help clubs progress possibly just to keep our heads above water in this league. IMWDT in Moye we don't trust

21 Jun 2026 20:00:13
Wonder if Moyse is scouting the Iranian team, average age of 32.

21 Jun 2026 20:26:43
Moyes is a dead man walking. It's only inevitable that he will be sacked, we might as well get shut now and reset before the start of the season instead of wasting another year and more money on players.


His comments on X, if true, are astounding.
It's only what I have been told as I am not on X or any other social media sites, except this one of course.

{Ed025's Note - its on Toffeeweb mate..

21 Jun 2026 21:03:30
Whatever it's on, and if he did say it, if I was the owner, I would sack him now.

22 Jun 2026 01:51:36
Be careful, Skylark, you might face the wrath of GB for that. I did ponder on the train from London, "what if both Starmer and Moyse resigned tomorrow", but then I don't drink Carlsberg.

{Ed025's Note - love it Nick..

21 Jun 2026 17:31:47
Well it's Father's Day over here in the US so happy Father's Day to all the Fathers on here.
Hope that we have a very successful season, play exciting attacking football, recruit some exciting new talent, play some of the youngsters, send on substitutes in a timely fashion giving them an opportunity to change the game if needed and for Moyes to grow a pair.

{Ed025's Note - love it Mike, same to you mate..

21 Jun 2026 18:54:06
With you on that, Mike. All the best, mate.

21 Jun 2026 14:21:53
I had always been a Moyes supporter and was pleased when he came back again "to steady the ship" which I thought he would.
However, he concerned me last season on two accounts, the refusal give any of the youngsters he signed (we are led to believe he has final say on transfers) , a decent run of games, so we still don't know how good they really are.


Also his persisting with OBrien at RB in the latter part of the season when Patterson was fit and could have been played to allow OBrien to move to central defence where he was badly needed.
My initial patience with him has now worn very thin, and worry that he may be given to Christmas to see what happens this season.

21 Jun 2026 16:11:10
He said at the time of signing them, they would not be playing in the first team. It's been well documented.

21 Jun 2026 18:30:55
So why sign them at all?

Why not loan them out?

Why loan in a young player just to not play him?

Makes absolutely no sense.

21 Jun 2026 18:38:06
Do you think that was a good strategy, GB, sign expensive players to sit on the bench when we have needed a right-back, for example, for years?
If that is what he did, and he had complete control of recruitment, he should have been fired.


The only mitigating circumstance is that others determined that we should spend money on, for example, Dibling, and Moyes did not want him.

21 Jun 2026 18:57:25
No, I don't understand it, Mike. We need the players we bring in to be brought into the team quickly, if this isn't sorted in this window, and we start badly, then his day will be up, mate. He has a hell of a lot to prove.

21 Jun 2026 13:19:55
People's thoughts on Bowen?

21 Jun 2026 13:48:30
He plays a position we need depth in. Knows Moyes. Doubt he'll come and will go elsewhere. Spurs seem to be spending money like it's going out of fashion, so could end up there.

21 Jun 2026 14:06:31
He would be a big improvement on what we have. I'd sign him, mate.

21 Jun 2026 14:27:54
Yeah, agree Gents. I am not really too fussed about his age as we need players who can improve us now. His goal/assist record in the PL is brilliant and hasn't shown any signs of slowing down really.

Can see us needing double what we have supposedly offered though.

21 Jun 2026 14:29:50
Is he for sale? If so, how much? Would West Ham do a swap including Dibling.

21 Jun 2026 15:12:43
Not sure he is for sale, dms, but every player has a price. He is their captain, talisman and best source of goals, so I expect it will be tough to get him out of there.

I think maybe around the 40m mark would do it, but that is just a guess.

21 Jun 2026 16:10:03
Sure he's a nice fella.

21 Jun 2026 12:52:28
So the price is set £40 million for Delap from Chelsea, no thanks, not for that price.

21 Jun 2026 13:22:54
Yep, keep him. Look elsewhere.

21 Jun 2026 16:10:16
That's about £38m too much.