Anjishnu Roy 28/07/2025 2comments  |  Jump to last

Signings are the need of the hour and manager David Moyes lamented the lack of reinforcements off the bench following the 3-0 loss to Bournemouth in the first match of the Premier League Summer Series.

On a sweltering afternoon at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, the Blues went toe-to-toe with the Cherries for the first half and created several chances. However, Andoni Iraola was able to rely on his substitutes for a fresh dose of energy and three goals from Philip Billing, Dango Ouattara and Daniel Adu-Adjei in 15 minutes sealed the game.

Speaking about the lack of signings at this stage of the transfer window, Moyes said, “Yes, but let's be fair, it's not just players missing. We need to sign a lot of players and we're hugely aware that we need to bring a bunch of new players in as well. I wish we could have had them earlier because it would have helped us now and helped us prepare them for the team.

“But I thought [Thierno] Barry came on and actually did well for us as well. He came on and held the ball up quite well, looked as if he was going to work in behind. So there was a wee bit of a positive from that.

“We're fully aware that we've come here with a really limited squad and numbers and quite a few injuries as well.”

The Blues had to make the trip to the US without star centre-back Jarrad Branthwaite, who suffered a minor niggle in the friendly with Blackburn Rovers. Michael Keane and James Tarkowski not being at 100% fitness meant that Jake O’Brien was the only centre-back available for the first match of the US tour.

“I think five players had to play out of position. We've had to play with three centre-halves injured today and find a way of getting a team that could be at least competitive. We always knew there was this possibility that we could lose like this because of the lack of defenders we've got out of the side at the moment. But we've tried to put them out to give us the best possible chance,” Moyes added.

Before the match with Bournemouth, the Everton manager said in an event in New York that the club needed to sign “nine or 10 players before the start of the season.” Asked to clarify his comments in the press zone following the game, Moyes felt justified in his assessment.

"Well, we've signed three, so if you take that off, we're still in the need of maybe five or six players," he said. "That's what we have to try and do.

“It’s one of these times where I’ve never had to sign so many in one window, like we’re doing. We’re sort of picking up a little bit where we’re at the end now and there’s a lot of people out of contract and a lot of loan players we had in because of the financial situation so we’re having to sort of find a way now.

“Look, we’re trying really, really hard behind the scenes to get things done and as you can see, we’re going to need it.”

So far, the Toffees have signed French striker Thierno Barry from Villarreal, goalkeeper Mark Travers from Bournemouth and made Charly Alcaraz’s loan spell permanent. However, they still need several additions after losing a whole host of players this summer including the likes of Abdoulaye Doucoure, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Ashley Young, Jack Harrison and Jesper Lindstrom among others.

 

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Paul Kernot
1 Posted 29/07/2025 at 02:55:07
Another regurgitation of what we already knew, sorry Anjishnu.

I know we're like hungry chicks in a nest, demanding more even immediately after we've just been fed (Barry) but that's our nature. Give me more – now!

Frank Thomas
2 Posted 30/07/2025 at 16:25:56
With due respect to Leicester when they won the premiership they were fortunate with the fixture list and the players played well.

The manager played a system were player A played for 70 mins of the 1st game and player B played for the rest of the game and 70 mins of the second game with player A coming on for the last 20mins of the second game. Thus both players played at top level every week.

Think back to last season when Garner came back from injury his first game was ironically against Leicester and his passes and play were fantastic. Was that because he had not needed to be playing at full speed during his recovery games?

Every player we should wish to recruit would want to play at Champions League level, win lots of trophies, play every game, score lots of goals and have a brilliant salary.
Right now we could guarantee them to play 90% of the PL games. This would help them to get into their countries World Cup 2026 squads by playing against World Cup players every week in the PL.

They would be in a squad whose performances from the middle of last season would have us challenging for the CL. Finally with experience from our coaches many players have left us to easily join teams that are currently in the CL. Players like Onana, Gordon, Lukaku have done this to name a few while others such as Pickford, Branthwaite and Ndiaye have been courted by teams in the CL but they have stayed why? because they want to play every week and know we will very soon be in the CL.

To show our belief put a release clause in their contract valid at the end of 2025 / 2026 season if we do not qualify for the 2026 / 2027 CL.

Quality not quantity. This should be our aim our neighbours have shown this works and is very profitable. Buying a 24 year old Diaz for£34M + £16M add ons and selling a still very good 28 year old Diaz for £65M+.

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