New deals for Pickford and Garner set to follow Tarkowski’s renewal

Pickford is world class, nuff said, and Garner's stock is rising, we are seeing both his versatility and his quality in good measure this season.

The players all seem to love the new stadium and I hope we can do more business in January to improve our first season at The Dock.

Pickford is so good. Brilliant goalkeeper.

Garner has kicked on in a side with better players around him.

I'm extreamly grateful that they have not because he has kept us in the Premier League at least twice and he seems to be improving each season.

It's a little bit like Paul Scholes. Never seemed to be linked with any team although for him, staying at Man Utd generally meant winning trophies.

As for James Garner, hopefully, he'll prove to be another decent purchase from Man Utd. He's heading in that direction.

Although he seems to love being at Everton, he could become unsettled, or his agent might, if he is left on the current wages he is on.

I seem to recall an Italian club was sniffing around Ndiaye over the summer, talk of a £40M bid, but I agree with you, he is one player we need to keep.

Pickford also. I think he has got better at avoiding howlers, especially knowing when it needs a hood forward or out, rather than trying to 'play'. Even got a bit better defending his 6-yard box and he continues to be, imho, one of the leagues very best shot-stoppers.

Not so convinced about Tarkowski, though. He doesn't look the player he was, and I'd be concerned we might not be so thrilled with what he is doing at 35.

Garner was the urgent one because he would have been a free agent in summer 2026.

Interesting to see what we do with Mykolenko, also out of contract in summer 2026.

Everton midfielder James Garner has a one-year extension option in his contract, which the club is reportedly set to activate. He originally signed a four-year deal with Everton in September 2022 after transferring from Manchester United.

Key details about the contract option:

Original signing: When he joined Everton for an initial £9 million, the 21-year-old signed a four-year contract.

Extension option: This deal included the option for Everton to extend the contract for an additional year.

Activation talks: In October 2025, reports indicated that new contract discussions were underway for Garner and his teammate Jordan Pickford, suggesting the club plans to trigger the option and potentially negotiate a new long-term deal.

Performance: Garner has become a reliable and important player for Everton since his arrival, which has led to the club's desire to secure his future.

What a bargain Garner has been. £9M. Incredible business.

Fingers crossed they are looking to add more players in January, especially a striker-- the two we have have gone on strike!

It's worth reflecting on the upturn in form on several of the players in the squad since Moyes got here.

Keane, Garner, Beto and O'Brien are all significantly better.

This is what happens when you have grown-ups running the club.

It's because the Big 6 go in for tall, skillful, glamorous international keepers. They are not at all interested in a 6-foot short-armed Englishman. Even if he does happen to be England's Number 1 and the best shot-stopper around.

And you are absolutely right that, if not for Pickford, we would now be talking about our game this weekend against Preston or Derby or Millwall.

Or our new local rivals, Wrexham.

During the Moshiri era, we tended to over-pay on transfer and salary for more experienced players from bigger clubs who might accelerate us to regular European football - Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin, Digne, Gomes, Mina, Kean to name just a few.

Most were surplus to requirements at their clubs for a reason. We had to write off the investment in most of them and let them leave on frees.

I was reading yesterday that we spurned the recommendation of scout Dave Worthington to sign some high potential players - "A list of his firm recommendations for Everton in 2017 includes Pedro Porro, Bruno Fernandes and Rodri, then at Girona, Sporting and Villarreal respectively."

Instead, Everton decided to spurn Rodri and spend 30 million euros on Yerry Mina.

It actually made me depressed reading this!

I never mentioned him in my previous post on this thread but I'm very happy that he will be getting and signing a new contract; he certainly deserved one and the uplift in his wage packet.

The DoF is looking for continuity, players to fit a long term strategy, but that doesn’t mean the manager can’t have plenty of input or a veto as he has to make a functional team out of the players he has got to work with.

I’m guessing it’s much more of a collaboration than some people think.

At the very least, we should become a club that qualifies for Europe more often than not -- and genuinely competes for domestic and European trophies.

We sold a player to Rangers, who in my opinion was fairly bog standard. Was it Thelwell who did the transaction or Russell Martin?

The latter has now lost his job. I would love to know if it was the manager's choice.

It's even more depressing that we could have signed Haaland as well, and we could have got Wharton before Palace and for less, but still couldn't afford him.

Garner was a great signing for £9m, even Man Utd fans couldn't believe it.

New contract for Jordan Pickford on the horizon?

That was back in July! Three Months ago! What the hell is going on? Why hasn't this been wrapped up?? Is he doing a Calvert-Lewin???

Garner always puts a shift in and is the type of player that we need to retain on a long-term contract.

For Moshiri and Kenwright, substitute Marinakis.

This from the Sunderland Echo (emphasis added):

"The 31-year-old, who joined the Toffees from Sunderland in a then-British record £30million transfer back in 2017, is understood to be nearing terms on a deal that could effectively keep him at Goodison Park -– now renamed the Hill Dickinson Stadium –- for the remainder of his career."

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