Idrissa Gana Gueye to sign a new contract with Everton imminently

Good news this. Best player last season and like a fine wine, ageing really well. Keane as well, apparently.

Obviously the travel expenses for the scouts will be minimal so far - Alcaraz, Coleman, Gueye, Keane and a couple of the kids, plus a rumour Jack Harrison is wanted by the Moyesiah, who must have sent them to Yorkshire to see if he's still working hard. The guy asked to checkout Barry, most probaly worked from home, watching the U21 competition, which is why the James McAtee rumour started.

Not the place for this but I see Partey has been charged with rape and sexual assault offences, after a police investigation which started in 2022. Parteys contract ended 30th June 2025. No coincidence ? Handshakes ? Sigurdsson must be livid.

Maybe we can have a report on this and other views can be expressed.

Jack (2) I’d welcome a good glass of Gana’s wine Jack I wouldn’t even taste Michael’s !

Great news to hear-a man with a real professional attitude and playing better than ever in my opinion.

Jack#3 Delighted about Gana, but off topic, I was going to ask the same question about Partey, everyone knew about the allegations years ago, but how is he only charged now after leaving Arsenal?

Great news about Gana.

Delighted about Gana. And Barry. And Jarrad. And Alcaraz.

…and we are only just into the window. Lots more to come.

How nice is it to have a club management that actually takes assertive action!

And Michael Keane has just signed.

What’s new? Has he actually signed?

The Partey situation is odd on the face of it, but I can’t believe the police / CPS would come to some accommodation with Arsenal to help them out. The player must have been unsellable whilst the investigation was ongoing.

Currently have the Denmark v Sweden women’s game on in the background. When did football commentating become the world’s easiest job? They are basically mute 90% of the time, and even fail to adequately comment on the bits they suddenly get excited about. You could pretty much just give a couple of fans a mic each and you’d get a better idea of who was on the ball, making a run, etc.

Yes Si. It's on the club official website. One year deal.

Si, isn’t that the way football commentary used to be years ago? I distantly remember games where the commentator would just recite the names of the players on the ball one after the other, and then exclaim “goal“!

One year deal for Keane plus an option for a second . Makes even more sense to keep him. Financially at least

Not that I remember Mike. I thought it used to be more detailed and descriptive about what was going on.
Now they seem to fancy themselves more as analysts (which they already have in the studio) or giving ‘background’.
They don’t even say whether a corner has gone near post, central or far post.
If you have good eyesight they are basically redundant, but it must be terrible for partially sighted or blind who don’t have another commentary source. It’s bad enough when you are doing something else and are relying on them to alert you to some skilful play / well timed tackle or such.
They give it their all on replays so they are are basically fixated on ‘chances’ and ignore the rest of the play. You don’t count as a proper football fan in my opinion if you don’t appreciate all that goes into it.