The negotiation of a loan deal for Jack Grealish has drawn many headlines and changed the complexion of this Transfer Window as Everton appear to be making some giant steps toward creating a much stronger team for competing in the Premier League, which starts this coming weekend.  

The arrival of Jack Grealish on Tuesday tops the list of new players who have signed for Everton:

  • Jack Grealish, attacking midfielder from Man City (1-year loan)
  • Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, midfielder from Chelsea (5-year deal)
  • Adam Aznou, left-back from Bayern Munich (4-year deal)
  • Mark Travers, goalkeeper from Bournemouth (4-year deal)
  • Thierno Barry, striker from Villarreal (4-year deal) 
  • Carlos Alcaraz, midfielder from Flamengo (2-year deal)

Confirmation that, in addition to Charly Alcaraz, Everton have re-signed four senior players whose contracts expired last season: 

  • Idrissa Gana Gueye has signed a 1-year contract (2-year option)
  • Michael Keane has signed a new 1-year contract
  • Jarrard Branthwaite has signed a new 5-year contract
  • Seamus Coleman has accepted a new 1-year playing contract

While in the transfer market, Everton have been linked with:

  • Artem Dovbyk, striker at AS Roma
  • Dion Lopy, holding midfielder at Almeria  
  • Kellen Fisher, right-back at Norwich City
  • Zuriko Davitashvili, winger at Saint-Etienne
  • Abdul Fatawu, winger at Leicester City 
  • Ainsley Maitland-Niles, right-back at  Lyon 
  • Juanlu Sanchez, right-back at Sevilla
  • Gabriel Sara, midfielder at Galatasaray
  • Franculino Djú, striker at Midtjylland 
  • James Justin, right-back at Leicester City
  • Florentino Luis, midfielder at Benfica
  • Assane Diao, winger at Como 
  • Malick Fofana, winger at Lyon
  • Tyler Dibling, winger at Southampton
  • Carney Chukwuemeka, midfielder at Chelsea  
  • Lyanco, defender at Atletico Mineiro
  • Maghnes Akliouche, right-winger at AS Monaco
  • Florentino Luis, midfielder at Benfica 
  • Samuel Lino, forward at Atletico Madrid
  • Jacob Ramsey, midfielder at Aston Villa
  • Bilal El Khannouss, playmaker at Leicester City
  • Sergio Reguilon, left-back formerly at Tottenham Hotspur
  • Francisco Conceicao, winger at Porto
  • Neil El Aynaoui, midfielder at RC Lens 
  • Salvatore Esposito, midfielder at Spezia.
  • John Victor, goalkeeper at Botafogo
  • Georgios Vagiannidis, right-back at Panathinaikos
  • Tomas Souček, midfielder at West Ham Utd
  • Joao Palhinha, midfielder at Bayern Munich
  • Douglas Luiz, midfielder at Juventus
  • Hayden Hackney, midfielder at Middlesbrough
  • John McGinn, midfielder at Aston Villa
  • Takefusa Kubo, winger at Real Sociedad
  • Jack Harrison, winger at Leeds Utd
  • Conor Gallagher, midfielder at Atletico Madrid
  • Nicolás Tagliafico, left-back formerly at Lyon
  • Jaydee Canvot, centre-back at Toulouse 
  • Gustavo Hamer, midfielder at Sheffield United 
  • Morten Frendrup, midfielder at Genoa
  • Omari Hutchinson, winger at Ipswich Town
  • Raphael Onyedika, midfielder at Club Brugge 
  • Mihailo Ivanovic, striker at Millwall 
  • Timothy Weah, striker at Juventus
  • Tom Fellows, winger at West Bromwich Albion
  • Fred, midfielder at Fenerbahçe 
  • Ben Doak, forward at Liverpool
  • Aleksandar Mitrovic, striker at Al Hilal 
  • Hamza Igamane, striker at Glasgow Rangers
  • James McAtee, midfielder at Manchester City

These players who were heavily linked with a move to Everton have gone elsewhere:

  • Wilfred Ndidi has joined Besiktas
  • Evan Ferguson, joined AS Roma on loan
  • Wesley Franca, has gone to AS Roma
  • Richard Rios, has joined Benfica
  • Johan Bakayoko, has joined RB Leipzig
  • Kyle Walker-Peters, has joined West Ham Utd
  • Walter Benitez, joined Crystal Palace on a free transfer
  • Jarrel Quansah left Liverpool for Bayer Leverkusen
  • Habib Diarra joined Sunderland from Strasbourg
  • Kenny Tete, accepted a new contract at Fulham
  • Kyle Walker, heading to Burnley from Manchester City
  • Liam Delap, chose Chelsea over Everton and others

Everton Under-21s have agreed new 2-year contract extensions with: 

  • Fraser Barnsley, goalkeeper
  • Issac Heath, attacking midfielder 
  • Jack Patterson, midfielder
  • Coby Ebere, winger
  • Eli Campbell, defender 

Everton Under-18s have agreed 2-year professional contracts with: 

  • George Finney
  • Josh van Schoor 
  • Harvey Foster
  • Aled Thomas 
  • Cieran Loney
  • Luca Davis

And these Everton players may be moving elsewhere:

  • Tim Iroegbanum may leave (on loan?) to Sheffield Utd
  • Harrison Armstrong could go on loan to Sunderland or Burnley
  • Beto is claimed to be the subject of a bid from Fenerbahçe
  • Beto has also been linked with Leeds Utd and Atalanta 
  • Youssef Chermiti may go on loan to Sheffield Utd or Stoke City 
  • Harry Tryer, young keeper may return to Blackpool

While these departures from the club have now been confirmed:

  • Dominic Calvert-Lewin rejected a new contract, may join Celtic, or Man Utd, or Aston Villa, or AC Milan
  • Jack Harrison returns to Leeds Utd as his loan ends this month
  • Jesper Lindstrom returns to Napoli as his loan ends this month
  • Orel Mangala returned to Olympique Lyonnais when injury ended his loan
  • Armando Broja returns to Chelsea as his loan ends this month
  • Žan-Luk Leban, contract expiring after 6 years in the Academy
  • Abdoulaye Doucoure, whose 1-year contract extension was rejected
  • Ashley Young, who will celebrate his 40th birthday in July 
  • Asmir Begovic, may join Southampton after his contract ends
  • João Virginia, his contract expires at the end of June
  • Mason Holgate, released, is now joining Al Gharafa in Doha 
  • Neal Maupay will join Marseille for £10M when his loan ends

And these former Everton players are moving to newer climes:

  • Callum Wright joins Wigan Athletic from Plymouth Argyle
  • Salomón Rondón has joined Real Oviedo from Pachuca
  • Jonjoe Kenny has moved from Hertha Berlin to PAOK
  • Adam Forshaw has joined Blackburn Rovers from Plymouth Argyle
  • Gethin Jones is leaving Bolton Wanderers to join Milton Keynes Dons
  • Seb Quirk, who left Everton Academy 18 months ago, will join Sligo Rovers from Accrington Stanley

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Jay Harris
1 Posted 14/08/2025 at 16:27:17
I watched Norwich the other day and that right back, Kellen Fisher looked quite good.

I agree Maitland-Niles would be a good squad player in the mould of Alan Harper.

I also agree that Michael Keane gives me palpitations every time a ball comes towards our defense.

Christy Ring
2 Posted 14/08/2025 at 16:33:30
There's rumours we're interested in Zinchenko.

Hopefully not because whatever about going forward, he definitely can't defend. He plays in midfield for Ukraine, his best and only position.

Jake FitzGerald
3 Posted 14/08/2025 at 16:33:49
I swear Kellen Fisher would slot right in. He’s got the build and tacking ability of Hibbert.

I saw him lose possession, sprint back half the length of the pitch and time his slide to perfection as the other guy was primed to cross. That would have us all on our feet. He even looks like a scouser.

Ian Bennett
4 Posted 14/08/2025 at 16:39:11
Anyone remember the sell-on fee for Nathan Broadhead?

Signing for Wrexham for £10M.

Jack Convery
5 Posted 14/08/2025 at 16:53:30
Ainsley Maitland-Niles :

Last season for Lyon, he played 44 games, completing the 90 minutes on 29 occasions. Did not miss any game due to injury. Played RB 29 times, with 7 assists. Also played RM 3 times, with 1 assist. Played DM and LB, each on one occasion.

The previous season, he played 29 games in multiple positions, including RB 9 times and LB twice. Other positions played were RM, CM, AM and LW.

One goal and 2 assists as a RB. No injuries recorded. In fact the last time he missed a game due to injury was December 2023, when he missed 2 games.

Colin Glassar
6 Posted 14/08/2025 at 19:29:40
Have we bought anyone yet?

It’s all gone worryingly quiet lately…

Ryan Holroyd
7 Posted 14/08/2025 at 20:03:07
Omari Hutchinson going to Forest so cross him your lists.
Ryan Holroyd
8 Posted 14/08/2025 at 20:32:42
We’re about to sign a 3rd choice goalkeeper from Wolves - Tom King
Paul Smith
9 Posted 14/08/2025 at 20:33:55
Tom King from Wolves, 30 year old back up keeper.
Robert Tressell
10 Posted 14/08/2025 at 20:38:18
Andrea, he seems to be joining Stockport County.

Shame about Hutchinson, Ryan, if that does go through. He and Dibling look the stand out options for our RW position - so maybe we will get Dibling after all.

Andrea Jacobs
11 Posted 14/08/2025 at 20:47:31
Well, that explains that. On loan?

Fair enough.

It feels like the Dibling thing has gone too far now for us not to get him.

It’ll be such a pointlessly depressing waste of time if we don’t. Yeh, we need pace…blah blah blah.

Did Zidane have much pace? Or that many goals or assists?

Dibling will improve our team, please get this donee, and don’t keep him on the bench, Davie.

Conor McCourt
12 Posted 14/08/2025 at 20:52:29
Great news on Hutchinson. A highly touted player who flatters to deceive. May improve for having better players around him but for £35Mn I'm glad we aren't taking that chance.

Dibling looks to me like he's different class so I hope and believe we will get it done.

Ryan Holroyd
13 Posted 14/08/2025 at 20:58:59
This window us getting more bizarre for Everton.

Apparently there's no right wingers available in world football we're prepared to pay the asking price for.

Steve Shave
14 Posted 14/08/2025 at 21:25:11
It is weird Ryan you are right, and right backs too. Fucking get it done Blues! With those two positions filled I’ll start to relax more. It would be very exciting if one of them was Dibling.
Robert Tressell
15 Posted 14/08/2025 at 21:29:25
Ritsu Doan and Ben Doak rumours now picking up. Dibling still seems quite likely to me. He seems to want to come and Saints look resigned to the sale.

Andrea, Zidane may not have been fast but many of the players around him were. And those who weren't were exceptional. Since we're not at that sort of level we're crying out for pace.

Conor, I think £35m is a pretty fair unremarkable price for Hutchinson - who I'd have been pleased to get. Prices seem to have shot up this summer. Anything below £20m seems to be bargain bin with very few players of Prem quality in this price bracket. £20m to £40m is a fairly routine price for likely bottom 10 teams.

Ryan Holroyd
16 Posted 14/08/2025 at 21:39:25
Ritsu Doan … who?

We're not getting Dibling.

Ritsu Doan has gone to Frankfurt.

Robert Tressell
17 Posted 14/08/2025 at 21:45:34
You're right about Doan, Ryan. Not spotted that. Just shows how much rubbish circulates in the gossip pages.

Why so defeatist about Dibling? Don't tell me he's gone to Frankfurt too?

Ryan Holroyd
18 Posted 14/08/2025 at 21:58:52
There’s a gap of at least 10m so can’t see that being done. And he was back in training today with Southampton.

We will get Tom felllows after everyone else turns us down

Robert Williams
19 Posted 14/08/2025 at 21:58:53
JF3 'He even looks like a scouser.' Ha ha good un.
Paul Kossoff
20 Posted 14/08/2025 at 22:16:57
£30m for Manchester City's James McAtee to Forest who also signed Ipswich Town winger Omari Hutchinson for £37.5m. World's gone crazy as reserves are going for these prices. Forest are also signing a striker, Arnaud Kalimuendo from Rennes for round £20 million, all while we are fkg about in trying to reduce fees for any player we are after. I can see McNeil on right wing this season and Garner at right back. We will be royally fkd if that's the case.Watch out! Jack Harrison is being let go by Leeds, fits right in with Moyes plans of left wingers on the right and right wingers on the left. I fkg dispair, I really do.
Josh Horne
21 Posted 14/08/2025 at 22:18:47
Tottenham always used to end up buying players we were interested in, now it's Forest! McAtee at £30M looks like a real world valuation of a player, they've done well. Should Southampton join the real world we can at least now be confident that Forest won't swoop.
Kieran Kinsella
22 Posted 14/08/2025 at 22:29:26
Is McAtee that good? He seems like one of those bit part players that looks good around good players. Like when Liverpool
Flogged Brewster and Ibe for a combined 40 million or Mark Robins, Jonathan Greening etc at Man Utd
Andrea Jacobs
23 Posted 14/08/2025 at 22:40:34
Robert, who were these fast players around Zidane?
Name them.
Anyway, Dibling isn’t exactly slow.
It’s more about acceleration. Ndaiye isn’t slow.
Barry looks like he has some pace, he’s no slouch. And he can run the channel or drift wide.
Same with Beto.
If we ever sign a right back, I’d hope he’d be quick and looking to go beyond, as Roberto Carlos did for Zidane, there you go, named him for you.
Raul wasn’t fast, or Morientes, nor Figo or Beckham.
But I suppose Brazilian Ronaldo was, and Henry for France did compliment Zidane nicely.
We can accommodate Dibling is my point, and if average players are going for £35+m, then £47m plus whatever is more than reasonable.
Get it done.
Mike Allison
24 Posted 14/08/2025 at 22:51:20
Tantrum of the day for Paul Kossoff, congratulations.

Hutchinson at £35m is a lot. McAtee was out of contract next summer so it’s a bit desperate to pay £30m. Both these lads look decent but have a hell of a lot to prove.

The same is true for Dibling, we’re right to try to reduce the price. We need to get the right players for the right price eventually rather than the wrong player or the wrong price just because we “WANT IT RIGHT NOW DADDY!”

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