Season › 2024-25 › News The Rumour Mill The Blues continue to push for Kenny Tete despite new offer from Fulham Anjishnu Roy | 26/06/2025 11comments | Jump to last Everton continue to push for Kenny Tete and are trying to derail any contract re-negotiations with Fulham, according to Mike Delaney of The Independent. Transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano recently reported that the Toffees already have a verbal agreement with the player’s camp over a 3-year deal. He would sign as a free agent once his current contract with Fulham expires at the end of the month. However, the Cottagers have offered him a new deal with better proposals and are “confident of reaching an agreement.” Everton, though, are ”currently attempting to change that, as they proactively push for Tete,” stated the report. Patrick Boyland of The Athletic reported that the player is yet to make a final decision on where he will play next season. “The Dutchman, whose deal with Fulham runs out at the end of the month, has an offer on the table from Everton, who have made progress in talks,” said The Athletic report. “An offer from Fulham also remains on the table, though and the prospect of remaining at Craven Cottage has not been discounted by Tete and his camp.” Tete joined Fulham from Lyon in 2020 and has made 120 appearances for the Cottagers. Reader Comments (11) 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 () Jack Convery 1 Posted 26/06/2025 at 17:32:23 Forget that, then, he won't be coming. His Agent has used us to force Fulham's hand. Martin Mason 2 Posted 26/06/2025 at 17:47:35 As it often does, it's starting to look pear-shaped in several areas. I read that Calvert-Lewin's mooted move to Leeds won't happen now so he becomes a problem again. I've slipped to 50/50 on Dom and feel that overall it would be a good move for all if he moved on but who will replace him? I realise that most of our business will be done at the last minute but I worry now that decent targets may well be out of our reach and those that are within reach may only be so because they are irreparably injury-damaged. I really trust the club but I could murder the recent owners and managers for allowing us to get into such a dreadful state and making such awful buys. Si Pulford 3 Posted 26/06/2025 at 22:28:09 Jack (1), that's his agent's job. But even s,o there's no guarantee at all that he doesn't sign. All indications are that we have offered a deal that we think he's worth and he will sign it. And no more. If Fulham come back with an offer we don't want to match, then that's that. The same with every player signing or contract renewal. It's not anyone ‘using' anyone else. It's how football works and always has. It's up to the player and his team now but the consensus from Everton seems to be that they have verbal agreement and they're happy with that considering the offer. If Fulham want to give him silly money, then we will back off as we had a wage in mind for the player. I wonder if we went in and offered him silly money if you'd be saying ‘he was only on X at Fulham and we've had our pants pulled down etc etc.' We've offered the lad a contract at what we think he's worth. If he doesn't sign it and we don't offer more it's because we don't think he's worth it and we move on. Sam Hoare 4 Posted 27/06/2025 at 07:15:34 Martin @2, how does Calvert-Lewin become a problem? Either he leaves, as is expected, or he signs the contract we've offered him, in which case, we save a chunk of money we would have had to spend on a new striker. Martin Mason 5 Posted 28/06/2025 at 20:36:37 Sam, if he leaves then the problem disappears, if he doesn't leave then we still have the option, no the need, to try to offer him a deal that will get him to stay? Sam Hoare 6 Posted 29/06/2025 at 07:52:48 Martin, I'm still not quite sure I see the problem. I imagine there is already an offer on the table for him and the ball is very much in his court. He will no doubt be looking for the best deal he can get and I would be pretty surprised if he stays, to be honest. Mark Murphy 7 Posted 29/06/2025 at 08:26:54 Martin, at midnight on Monday, Calvert-Lewin's contract expires and he's no longer in Everton's employment.So he's not “our problem”.He's “his” problem. Steve Brown 8 Posted 29/06/2025 at 09:25:18 Same for Gueye also, Mark.Free agent on Tuesday. Martin Mason 9 Posted 29/06/2025 at 18:33:58 What I meant should be clear from my post 5 above. He has made the decision himself now so the problem from his side is no more. It would have ended tomorrow anyway at his end of contract unless Everton were still trying to get him to stay on board. I assume that this isn't the case now and that Dom is fixed up with a club. He could have walked away tomorrow and yet a still been a problem if the club were still trying to change his mind. As it happens, he, or should I say his position, is still a problem because we have to replace him. Jay Harris 10 Posted 29/06/2025 at 19:03:07 Park Tete and move on to Walker-Peters.That will put a bit of pressure on him to decide. Barry McNally 11 Posted 01/07/2025 at 20:36:42 He's re-signed for Fulham – unfortunately not resigned from Fulham. 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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