Patrick Boyland 19/03/2025 24comments  |  Jump to last

With 15 first-team players, including loanees, set to be out of contract at the end of this season, the task before manager David Moyes and new chief executive Angus Kinnear, who will join the club from the same job at Leeds United of the Championship in June, is considerable. Daunting, even, if you look at the scale of what needs to be done.

But Everton will look at the 2025 off-season as an opportunity to fashion their squad in a new image. For the first time in a while — perhaps since the early days of Farhad Moshiri’s tenure — they will be in a position to invest under the new ownership of The Friedkin Group.

This is a much-needed chance to capitalise and push on. But to do so, Everton will need to be smart.

There is one obvious point to make: even with a much bigger budget, it would be impossible to replace all 15 of those players who could leave in the looming summer window. As such, it would be prudent to at least retain some of those whose deals are due to expire.

Here is The Athletic’s go at mapping out the state of play and what should come next.

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Michael Kenrick
Editorial Team
1 Posted 19/03/2025 at 10:48:58
Robert Tressell has already flagged up this issue with his own analysis last month (Everton's 2025-26 Squad – Looking up) but this piece provides another perspective.

I know many don't have access to this story at The Athletic but I'd rather promote intelligent writing like this than the utter garbage spouted by the likes of Everton News and Goodison News.

Dennis Stevens
2 Posted 19/03/2025 at 11:14:43
"... a much bigger budget ... "

Eh? I'll believe it when they've spent it!

Robert Tressell
3 Posted 21/03/2025 at 08:47:11
Dennis, was thinking the same thing - although a much bigger budget would be a £0 net spend.

We have been working with much less than that each window since 2021.

However, that does obviously pose a problem when you need to sign about 5 players just to scrape together a squad of about 18 players or so.

Keeping a vague tally on this predictions for this summer's net spend are:

Robert Tressell £30m

Sam Hoare £50m

Colin Glasser £100m

Any advance on this? Most accurate prediction wins an all expenses paid trip to the Maldives.

Jimmy Salt
4 Posted 21/03/2025 at 09:05:44
With the new owners, new stadium, and the prospect of expanding into the docklands, this really could and should be the beginning of a new era for this club. Part of that will be squad rebuilding and great responsibility lies at the manager's feet.

Rome wasn't built in a day and the same applies to our team but as a clever guy once said, "A society (football club) grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."

Over to you Davey.

Brian Harrison
5 Posted 21/03/2025 at 09:25:14
Hopefully the new owners will give Moyes as much financial help without transgressing PSR. I have no idea how much that budget will be, but I am sure Moyes will use it wisely. Why a club would get itself in a position of having so many players out of contract at one time is poor management.

Let's hope we don't ever find ourselves in this position again as this will need some sorting. I think its obvious that Gana Gueye gets an extension and rightly so he has been our best player since Moyes came in, not sure what will happen with Broja, Seemed absolutely madness that we signed a player on loan who we knew wouldn't be fit to play till late October or early November, maybe Moyes will wait and see if he can stay fit before considering extending his loan spell.

I would hope that we never get in a position were a saleable asset like Calvert-Lewin is allowed to walk away for nothing, should have been sold when he refused to sign a new contract.

I would also hope they tie Branthwaite to a long contract with no get out clauses, as he appears to want to extend beyond his present contract.

Robert Williams
6 Posted 21/03/2025 at 09:29:04
RT @3. I take it that at £100M Colin Glasser will play CF. We can do with his eye for an opening.
Robert Tressell
7 Posted 21/03/2025 at 10:01:55
Brian,

Q. Why are so many players out of contract?

A. No money and may have been unable to sanction contract extensions (additional liabilities for new owners) during the saga of takeover talks.

Q. Why did we sign Broja when he was injured?

A. No money and he was available at very low cost after failing medical at Ipswich. We didn't need him to be fit immediately because Calvert-Lewin and Beto were fit. Good player too but a gamble that didn't pay off (or at least yet).

When wondering why things haven't been so good for a while the answer always starts with no money.

Stephen Davies
8 Posted 21/03/2025 at 10:07:22
I see that The Freidkin Group threw their hat in the ring to buy the Boston Celtics Basketball club (unsuccessfully), which went for $6.1B.

They are now looking at an NHL Team, Houston.

Eric Myles
9 Posted 21/03/2025 at 10:50:59
Any advance on this? Most accurate prediction wins an all-expenses paid trip to The Maldives.

I'm in Robert #3 - £35M.

But can I have an all-expenses paid trip to Liverpool as my winnings. I lived in The Maldives for a year I am not in a hurry to go back.

Robert Tressell
10 Posted 21/03/2025 at 11:06:08
Of course Eric, the Maldives voucher is completely transferable.

Do we have any bidders going higher than the £100M net spend?

Ian Bennett
11 Posted 22/03/2025 at 22:15:07
There was a fair amount of debate around how many loan positions a club could take on in January. Posters were adamant it was 4.

Just looking at the updated premier league squad list, which I assume is correct, does indeed show 5 registered 'loan' players with Mangala still shown. So there does appear to be a quirk on overseas loans somehow.

25 Squad players (*Home grown)

1 Alcaraz Durán, Carlos Jonas

2 Begovic, Asmir*

3 Branthwaite, Jarrad Paul*

4 Broja, Armando*

5 Calvert-Lewin, Dominic*

6 Coleman, Seamus

7 Doucoure, Abdoulaye

8 Garner, James David*

9 Gomes Betuncal, Norberto Bercique

10 Gueye, Idrissa Gana

11 Harrison, Jack David*

12 Keane, Michael Vincent*

13 Leban, Zan Luk

14 Lindstrøm, Jesper Grænge

15 Mangala, Orel Johnson

16 McNeil, Dwight James Matthew*

17 Mykolenko, Vitalii

18 Ndiaye, Iliman-Cheikh Baroy

19 Neves Virginia, Joao Manuel*

20 O'Brien, Jake Patrick

21 Patterson, Nathan Kenneth

22 Pickford, Jordan Lee*

23 Tarkowski, James Alan*

24 Young, Ashley Simon*

Tony McNulty
12 Posted 22/03/2025 at 23:17:09
£85m.

However, I would always guess too many sweets in the jar when I went to fetes.

Paul Kossoff
13 Posted 23/03/2025 at 00:28:09
Apparently we are already after a "replacement" for Jarrad B.

Everton will make Genoa's 22-year-old Belgium centre-back Koni de Winter a top target if England defender Jarrad Branthwaite, 22, leaves this summer. (Teamtalk)

Gossip, I know… but who knows?

Steve Brown
14 Posted 23/03/2025 at 00:30:32
£25 million net spend, plus money from player sales.
Ryan Holroyd
15 Posted 23/03/2025 at 00:44:20
£125M net spend.
Si Cooper
16 Posted 23/03/2025 at 01:14:15
Steve, do you mean £25 million gross? It can’t be net if there is ‘plus’ any other amount.
Si Cooper
17 Posted 23/03/2025 at 01:19:42
Paul, ‘a replacement if' is fair enough as long as it is a big ‘if'.

If there is a trip to The Maldives up for offer, then I'm playing; £28.75 million net spend over summer.

Ralph Basnett
18 Posted 24/03/2025 at 09:38:34
£125 mill which will be made up of £59mill from owners and £75 mill Branthwaite money.

Further to this we will get another £50 mill in the January window.

Maldives, here I come.⛱️

Ray Robinson
19 Posted 24/03/2025 at 10:23:00
Ian #11, not sure what your asterisks mean. They’re certainly not all “home grown”!
Eric Myles
20 Posted 25/03/2025 at 14:45:22
Ralph #18, I don't think you've grasped the concept of net spend.
Brian Williams
21 Posted 25/03/2025 at 14:49:46
Brian #5,

I would hope that we never get in a position were a saleable asset like Calvert-Lewin is allowed to walk away for nothing, should have been sold when he refused to sign a new contract.

Hmmm, not that easy. Take a look across the park.

Tony Cunningham
22 Posted 25/03/2025 at 15:11:18
Eric (20) I don't think Ralph (18) grasps the concept of maths either!

Jay Harris
23 Posted 25/03/2025 at 15:20:28
I think we have to bear in mind that with 5-year amortisation £30M headroom becomes £150M but then we would have to manage those 5 years during which time you would hope the incremental income for BMD and a place in Europe (being optimistic) would cover any squad additions over the 5 year period.

Wages would be covered by the outflux of overpaid out-of-contract players.

Looking good?

Paul Kossoff
24 Posted 04/04/2025 at 23:56:40
Get Richarlison back in. Given the chances Beto gets, he would score.

A big clear-out is what's needed, but, no more silly signings, with over-the-top wages for cast-offs.

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