Kalvin Phillips rumour resurfaces

If he can get back to where he was then I have absolutely no issues with this signing, he was a top drawer player.

I am ready to back him.

It would seem to be a pity for us to revive the old and sadly failed model of bringing in older players who have seen better days, but now seem to be sliding into the doldrums of football.

According to Transfermarkt, his value has halved since he secured that £42M move to Man City back in July 2022. He seems to me like Dele Mk 2 on steroids.

He needs some massive motivation and I just don't see PE Teacher Sean Dyche being the man to whip him into any meaningful shape, even through his notorious Gaffer's Days, which he has probably now missed anyway.

I hope we don't do this.

I think, with Dele, we already have one player who we hope will find his old form.

I think one is enough.

I agree with you, Andy.

I too hope Dele can rediscover his lover for football. He has too much ability for it to be thrown away.

This is a player who, for whatever reason, couldn't cut it with Moyes at West Ham.

There's no reason he should cut it at Goodison under a similar type of manager.

Thanks but no thanks!

Everton have carried enough baggage over the years and only in recent times have they been able to move them on. They all cost a fortune.

I'm on the No side for both Alli and Phillips.

He left Leeds for what he thought would be the bigtime at Man City but, for whatever reason, he couldn't cut it. Maybe too much pressure and competition for his position. So, if Pep and Moyes couldn't get a tune out of him, it's hard to see how Dyche will.

He would be a big risk at £150k per week so I would expect City to either pay at least 50% of his salary during the loan period or waive any loan fee. If City want him off their books, and to give him a chance to revitalise his career at another club, then they have to help grease the wheels.

Joel Matip is also being mentioned, which goes along with Dyche saying he needs more experience.

Another one is an Italian club wanting Beto, which is something that must also be considered, so maybe there's quite a few comings and going's still to happen this summer?

No, just no. And as usual, we need goalscoring strikers.

That should always be priority but, for some reason, at Everton it never is.

Tony, sounds like we're going to have a Moyes summer.

Glued to the box until midnight and then waking up the next morning to find out what's happened!

If the finances are right then we will make an approach, we need an additional midfield player and Phillips has to end up somewhere.

I would like to think at 28 he still retains ability and his tenaciousness in the tackle.

If Sean and his crew can't get him fit (a previous issue with Pep) then no one will.

Allied to his friendship with Jack Harrison which hopefully will spur him on, he will feel in a great place to make a new start.

I believe he will be an Everton player very soon.

Danny, we may wake up to the news that we have finally beaton off competition signed Lee Trundle.

This would be a disaster for Everton.
If this guy cannot make it with great team like City then he won'help the Blues much and besides he is no better than Garner.

He was over-rated at Leeds and somehow the idiot manager picked him for England.

Apparently he earns a fortune at City so surely Everton won't pay his wages even if he comes on loan.

Possibly echoes of Fabian Delph ?

What worries me is that he was tried at West Ham and failed by all accounts, now a year on and City still want to offload, do they know something, we may regret, with another drain on the wage bill !

Its simply not true that our club has not tried to find a solution to our goal scoring problems.

Vlasic, Tosun, Walcott, Richalison, Klassen, Moise- Kean, Iwobi, King, Maupay Chermiti and Beto have cost well over 300m - wages included

Take Richarlison out the equation and DCL has comfortably scored more that the rest of them put together. Yet still we have people saying "we just need to sign a top forward" What, on our budget ? As if it was that simple ?.. Why not sign "a pacey winger with an eye for goal" while we are at it ?

Top Marksmen are not coming here in the foreseeable future.

Unlike Deli Ali, and I've-already-made-it Holgate. Kalvin Phillips has not been stumbling around in the football wilderness for many years. Its only 2 years - including a serious shoulder injury - since Pep Guardiola instructed City to part with 40 odd million for him.

Get him signed FFS

Sounds like Kalvin Phillips might as well hang his boots up, as apparently he won’t make it anywhere.

Amazed how quickly people are writing him off. Some say he's overrated... maybe, relative to what City paid, but he was an excellent player at Leeds and England. One of our best players at the last Euros. Did he really get a chance at City? There's definitely a question mark over fitness, but otherwise I'd be very happy to have him.

I think his time at West Ham went downhill about two minutes into his debut, think it was against Brentford (?) when he gave a bad back pass from which they scored. After about his third or fourth game he was sent off, and the fans started slowly turning against him. I guess his confidence would have been shot after that.

In total he played eight premier league games, and two EL games for West Ham. There is no reason at all why he cannot be the player that convinced Pep to splash out £45M for him. A loan deal is fine by me, with Man City paying a fair portion of his wages, after all, they can easily afford it.

Old pineapple head rears his over rated, over paid, under performing, useless body again. I can't believe that people on here want him at Everton. It dosn't make sense. Moyes left him out of the first team squad when his coaches told him about his shocking attitude in training. He must be the luckiest footballer in the last twenty years to have won by default his medals. If he comes to us I hope he's sent off in his first game, that's how much I rate him I would rather have Tom Davis back, at least he's an Evertonian.If he signs, check S D,s bank account People on here wanting him, give your heads a very big wobble.