Season › 2024-25 › News Maupay on the verge of Marseille switch Lyndon Lloyd 29/08/2024 30comments | Jump to last Neal Maupay is heading back to his native France with Olympique de Marseille striking a deal to sign the striker on a season-loan loan with an obligation to buy the striker next summer for €5.5m. The Ligue 1 club are after attacking reinforcements after Faris Moumbagna suffered an ACL injury and initially tried to acquire Maupay solely for this season. However, Everton were insistent on selling the former Brentford and Brighton man on a permanent basis and rejected the offer of loan deal with a mere option to buy. Now, an arrangement that involves a €500,000 loan fee and could eventually be worth more than €8m has been reached. Maupay's transfer from the Seagulls has simply not worked out as hoped, with the 28-year-old scoring just once in 32 appearances but the Blues will recoup a chunk of the £12m they paid Brighton for him two years ago and won't now lose him for nothing next year. Article continues below video content Maupay is in the final year of his contract at Goodison Park but the Blues will exercise a club option to extend that by a year to provide the means to demand that initial €5.5m fee at the end of this season. According to Fabriazio Romano and The Athletic, the Club have also agreed a small sell-on clause with Marseille. Reader Comments (30) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer () Denis Richardson 1 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:26:35 Excellent - thought we'd get nothing back for him. All the best. Wrong player at the wrong time. Classic deadline day panic buy. Dan Parker 2 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:28:15 Good stuff. Pat Kelly 3 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:33:50 Nice touch by Everton to give him the ball he scored his only PL goal with for the Club. Peter Hodgson 4 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:36:24 Good riddance. Sounds like a trouble maker to me. Off the payroll for good even though the fee we will eventually get would hardly buy a round and some frites in Paris well done everyone.Not long to ship DCL out left now. Minik Hansen 5 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:36:37 The three-four year long squad clean up continues. Ed Prytherch 6 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:50:56 He scored 43 goals for Brentford and 26 for Brighton but only 1 for us. No wonder he is leaving. Craig Walker 7 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:55:02 I'll give it 2 weeks and he'll be slagging off our club and fans. Good riddance.Just need to get rid of Holgate and Keane now, as well. Ian Bennett 8 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:56:50 Maupay & Beto have proven to be duds. With the wages, agent fees and transfer fees, we've essentially squandered the Gordon or Richarlison money. Piss poor recruitment the club could ill afford after the previous garbage. Bill Fairfield 9 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:58:44 Good riddance frenchy, and no thanks for nothing. Jay Hughes 10 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:07:36 I don’t normally comment on here but I had to say something about Monsieur Mopey.When he spoke about “when is it normalised to get treated like that in a job”, my first thought was …. when did it become normalised to get 50 grand a week for a job you can’t do or can’t be arsed doing? (although those “fans” were a couple of knobs). He could not have made it clearer that he didn’t want to be here even long before his shawshank twitter message today.He reminds me a of a certain French chap looking over a wall shouting “I fart in your general direction…..”Good riddance Mopey! Paul Kossoff 11 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:10:14 Another Thelwell bum. Well done, NEXT!!! Pete Neilson 12 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:19:05 He made his views on our club crystal clear last year when he went out on loan. A terrible signing by Thelwell. Kev Wood 13 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:21:32 Please add me to the, undoubtedly long, list of people willing to drive him to the departure point of his choice. I'll even help him pack if that gets him away a bit quicker. Rob Dolby 14 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:24:49 I still can't believe we signed him in the first place what was Lampard thinking? Mark Ryan 15 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:25:04 Au revoir Pepe Le Pew, you stunk the place out. A terrible signing for us. Desperate. Mark Ryan 16 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:25:04 Au revoir Pepe Le Pew, you stunk the place out. A terrible signing for us. Desperate. Duncan McDine 17 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:29:38 Is there another profession where you can earn that much by being so poor? Les Moorcroft 18 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:36:24 I reckon we give them 5 million to take him. Waiting for someone to come and say we never give him a chance poor lad. Fk off. Soren Moyer 19 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:39:55 Thank you Mr. De Zerbi!Now only a few hours left to get rid of Holgate and Keane. David Bromwell 20 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:55:24 Not my favourite player, but never played for us in his favoured position. Like so many of the players we have brought in it turned out badly. Let's hope the current crop turn out better. Kevin Prytherch 21 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:56:26 Apparently he’s posted a video from the Shawshamk Redmeption about breaking free from Prison….Imagine earning £80k a week, being immune to being disciplined for poor performance, not having to perform the main duty of your job because of poor performance and then liking it to being in Prison…. Sam Hoare 22 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:01:48 Apparently we’re getting €6m fixed fee with potentially another 3m in add-ons and a 20% sell on. Given that we bought him for €11.5m that means we’ve probably only lost a million or two quid or transfer fees.That means that Maupay, whilst no success, is probably not even in our top 20 worst signings over last 4 years (at least from a financial point of view).Goodbye and good luck, a decent player who was a bad fit. Let’s hope he smashes it at Marseille and earns a big move that earns us more money from him! Dan Nulty 23 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:43:48 What a cretin of an individual, good riddance. Probably one of the worst signings in our history. Mihir Ambardekar 24 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:46:52 Maupay is total shithouse. Being paid more than 50,000 / week for not playing and known for being an indisciplined shithouse and posting a video from Shawshank. Good f**king riddance Liam Mogan 25 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:51:35 The shawshank video is quite humorous tbf.See you later you snidey little fucker. Pity you were shit James Newcombe 26 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:22:27 If you ever feel like you are bad at your job; just remember that someone scouted Maupay and decided that he was perfectly suited to play as a lone striker in a side that is built around having a target man up top. Dermot O'Brien 27 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:23:52 Another Schneiderlin. Dermot O'Brien 28 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:23:52 He missed a sitter vs the shite a couple of years ago, the game where Coady's goal was disallowed. Could have been an Everton hero. Instead he's a prick. Good business to get him out the door, getting a fee is great stuff. Mark Taylor 29 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:34:44 Glad to see the back of him.Not that opposition defenders saw much of his back. They could give him a 10 yard start and still get to see the front of him after about 30m Nicholas Ryan 30 Posted 29/08/2024 at 18:02:50 As I pointed out on another thread; he has scored the same number of Premier League goals for us, as Tim Howard did! Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. How to get rid of these ads and support TW © ToffeeWeb