Season › 2024-25 › News The Rumour Mill Everton vie with Newcastle for Gnonto Lyndon Lloyd | 15/07/2024 21comments | Jump to last Everton will make another concerted effort to sign winger Willy Gnonto from Leeds United after being priced out of the move last summer. The Blues lodged at least two offers for the Italian a year ago but failed to get near the Yorkshire club's lofty valuation and he remained at Elland Road through their failed bid to regain promotion to the Premier League. Now, according to Paul Joyce of The Times and El Bobble, Everton have reopened talks with Leeds for Gnonto but there are reports from the likes of TeamTalk that Newcastle could also enter the race to sign him. After being told he was staying despite handing in a transfer request, the 20-year-old played 44 games in all competitions for Leeds last season, scoring eight goals and providing three assists. Article continues below video content Having failed to land Jaden Philogene from Hull City who is set to join Aston Villa, Kevin Thelwell appears to have identified Gnonto as the best option to add creativity in the wide areas to Sean Dyche's squad. Reader Comments (21) 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 () John Graham 1 Posted 15/07/2024 at 18:28:39 Not as good as Philogene or Asprilla. Not really a winger either and too small for a striker role.Hopefully, this can be filed as just paper talk. Dennis Stevens 2 Posted 15/07/2024 at 18:36:55 He'll look taller in Newcastle's kit… Peter Warren 3 Posted 15/07/2024 at 18:45:16 I’ve never understood the interest in him. Stu Darlington 4 Posted 15/07/2024 at 18:47:48 Gnonto? Gnonto? Now where have I heard that name before?I remember now! Wasn't he the Lone Rangers sidekick? Or am I thinking of that Italian striker Kemo Sabe?I'm going for a lie down now. Paul Hewitt 5 Posted 15/07/2024 at 19:22:50 Hope Newcastle get him. Way better out there. Robert Tressell 6 Posted 15/07/2024 at 19:30:42 Gnonto has one of the best songs of any player out there.Philogene may well come to us on loan if Villa land him. They already have Bailey, Diaby, Rogers, Buendia and Dobbin for that role (which is partly why he left in the first place).I am a bit surprised that we have not (yet) been linked with Rowe of Norwich – who I thought looked more impressive than Gnonto in the Leeds / Norwich playoff match and who looks to be out of contract next summer. Jim Bennings 7 Posted 15/07/2024 at 19:52:21 Can't really understand the continued link with Gnonto, he's not really a Dyche-type character is he?Bit of a poor man's Royston Drenthe in my opinion but I'd be happy to be proven wrong if we did sign him. Billy Shears 8 Posted 15/07/2024 at 20:29:03 A decent enough player like... but the kid from Norwich maybe a better fit all round! Christy Ring 9 Posted 15/07/2024 at 20:31:46 I know he's only 20, but he spent a lot of the time on the Leeds bench in the Championship last season, not a great sign. Summerville looks a better option. Ryan Holroyd 10 Posted 15/07/2024 at 20:46:32 Summerville will have much better options than Everton Rob Jones 11 Posted 15/07/2024 at 20:58:44 The "rival interest" is the best argument for getting your business done early and quietly. Les Moorcroft 12 Posted 15/07/2024 at 20:58:55 Don't the media love trying to shoehorn some players into our club? Same shite this time last year. Joe McMahon 13 Posted 15/07/2024 at 21:02:50 Good call, Ryan. I wanted Summervile instead of Harrison. Joe Digney 14 Posted 15/07/2024 at 21:56:35 Thelwell loves going back in for old targets it seems, could see this one happening fairly quickly. Sam Hoare 15 Posted 15/07/2024 at 22:25:42 Summerville is now a 30/40m player, too expensive for us. Gnonto will probably cost around £20m and I think has the potential to eclipse Summerville (who is 2 years older).He threw his toys out of the pram a bit last summer and that contributed to an average Championship season but the lad has pace to burn and works hard. Would like to see him in an Everton shirt. Can play anywhere across the front and would help us on counters and win us set pieces. Yes please. Soren Moyer 16 Posted 15/07/2024 at 22:49:15 Why are we going for a left winger after being turned down by Philogene, a right winger!!? Ian Horan 17 Posted 15/07/2024 at 22:58:00 Can’t help thinking it’s a Lookman type player, hit and miss. It also flies in the face of the Dycheball 6ft plus player. As soon as DCL goes Chris Woods will be incoming Ian Horan 18 Posted 15/07/2024 at 22:58:00 Can’t help thinking it’s a Lookman type player, hit and miss. It also flies in the face of the Dycheball 6ft plus player. As soon as DCL goes Chris Woods will be incoming Sam Hoare 19 Posted 15/07/2024 at 23:05:04 Soren@16, Gnonto played about 90% of his games last season on the right, whereas Phologene played less than 50% of his games on the right. Both are versatile but Gnonto has played more there recently. Derek Knox 20 Posted 15/07/2024 at 23:19:43 Willy, or Won't he ? That is the question.Would prefer Asprilla, but have no clue if he we have even been in the running for him or even made enquiries. Colin Glassar 21 Posted 15/07/2024 at 23:37:56 Jim 7, I’d say a shorter version of Aaron Lennon 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. 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