Neal Maupay has headed back to his native France with Olympique de Marseille agreeing a deal to sign the striker on a season-long loan with an obligation to buy him next summer for around €6m.
According to reports, that initial payment includes a €500,000 loan fee and the transfer could be worth as much as €10m once all appearance-related add-ons are factored in. Everton have also negotiated a small sell-on clause for the 28-year-old.
Marseille were 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 could recoup a sizeable chunk of the £12m they paid Brighton for him two years ago and won't now lose him for nothing next year.
Maupay was 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 fee at the end of this season.
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2 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:28:15
3 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:33:50
4 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:36:24
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.
5 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:36:37
6 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:50:56
7 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:55:02
Good riddance.
Just need to get rid of Holgate and Keane now, as well.
8 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:56:50
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.
9 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:58:44
10 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:07:36
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!
11 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:10:14
12 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:19:05
13 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:21:32
14 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:24:49
15 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:25:04
16 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:25:04
17 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:29:38
18 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:36:24
19 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:39:55
Now only a few hours left to get rid of Holgate and Keane.
20 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:55:24
Like so many of the players we have brought in it turned out badly. Let's hope the current crop turn out better.
21 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:56:26
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….
22 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:01:48
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!
23 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:43:48
Probably one of the worst signings in our history.
24 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:46:52
Good fucking riddance.
25 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:51:35
See you later, you snidey little fucker. Pity you were shit.
26 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:22:27
27 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:23:52
28 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:23:52
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.
29 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:34:44
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 30 m.
30 Posted 29/08/2024 at 18:02:50
31 Posted 29/08/2024 at 18:37:18
32 Posted 29/08/2024 at 19:03:47
Good riddance, don't come back again.
33 Posted 29/08/2024 at 19:15:49
Nicholas @30, he has scored a few for Brighton, but he won't be the first striker to fail at Everton. He's too small to play the lone isolated striker. I have no problem with him leaving, it's just we have so few goal-scorers.
34 Posted 29/08/2024 at 20:01:53
If we sell Calvert-Lewin, you do realise that leaves us with just Beto?
Think about it, Beto upfront, on his own, all season!!!!!
35 Posted 29/08/2024 at 20:30:22
36 Posted 29/08/2024 at 20:41:00
37 Posted 29/08/2024 at 20:55:34
38 Posted 29/08/2024 at 21:11:12
No wonder we fight relegation every year.
39 Posted 29/08/2024 at 21:24:54
His lack of respect for Everton and for himself says a lot about his lack of class. There's many words but I'll save my breath.
Hopefully this is the end... and good riddance.
Things at Everton can and will get better, soon.
40 Posted 29/08/2024 at 21:46:20
I actually think he's not a bad player and he's never been afforded the opportunity to show his qualities playing with another forward in a side that creates chances.
He can be a menacing player and I thought he could be an asset in our team. When he is at his best he has qualities that I think our fanbase would've enjoyed. However, it is clearly a move that never worked out and we won't miss him and he us and we simply move on. Hopefully to bigger and better things
41 Posted 29/08/2024 at 21:54:32
42 Posted 29/08/2024 at 23:49:07
43 Posted 30/08/2024 at 00:15:44
Sadly Mason Holgate wouldn't be missed at all but if, as people are wishing, Michael Keane departs in this window we'd be down to 3 centre backs wouldn't we?
Keane has his faults but I think he's done enough for the club to be acceptable as a squad player and make it debatable about whether he would be easily replaced in that regard.
44 Posted 30/08/2024 at 01:34:40
Long story short, I kept in touch with a fair few, and they thought he was a decent player but as others have said he needs to play off a main striker - hence why he stunk Goodison out.
He never wanted to leave Brighton, and given our "style" of football I've no idea why a) we signed him and b) he signed, but his attitude has also been poor.
In terms of damage limitation, a good outcome for all parties.
45 Posted 30/08/2024 at 10:27:43
We have had some dud strikers but he must be the worst value in recent memory.
46 Posted 30/08/2024 at 11:11:50
47 Posted 30/08/2024 at 11:35:58
48 Posted 30/08/2024 at 11:49:31
49 Posted 30/08/2024 at 13:25:17
50 Posted 30/08/2024 at 13:38:27
Nothing in his Everton career became him like the leaving of it. (With apologies to Shakespeare.)
51 Posted 30/08/2024 at 13:42:56
Gobshite of the first order. Well rid.
53 Posted 30/08/2024 at 18:43:14
With a year left on his contract and turning 29 soon, that's not bad.
54 Posted 31/08/2024 at 00:03:41
55 Posted 01/09/2024 at 20:35:29
Maupay - you weren't Andy Dufrense emerging from the sewer, you were the raw sewage!
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1 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:26:35
All the best. Wrong player at the wrong time. Classic deadline day panic buy.