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Neal Maupay has headed back to his native France with Olympique de Marseille agreeing a deal to sign the striker on a season-long loan with an obligation to buy him next summer for around €6m.

According to reports, that initial payment includes a €500,000 loan fee and the transfer could be worth as much as €10m once all appearance-related add-ons are factored in. Everton have also negotiated a small sell-on clause for the 28-year-old.

Marseille were after attacking reinforcements after Faris Moumbagna suffered an ACL injury and initially tried to acquire Maupay solely for this season.

However, Everton were insistent on selling the former Brentford and Brighton man on a permanent basis and rejected the offer of loan deal with a mere option to buy. Now, an arrangement that involves a €500,000 loan fee and could eventually be worth more than €8m has been reached.

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Maupay's transfer from the Seagulls has simply not worked out as hoped, with the 28-year-old scoring just once in 32 appearances but the Blues could recoup a sizeable chunk of the £12m they paid Brighton for him two years ago and won't now lose him for nothing next year.

Maupay was in the final year of his contract at Goodison Park but the Blues will exercise a club option to extend that by a year to provide the means to demand that initial fee at the end of this season.

 

 

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Denis Richardson
1 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:26:35
Excellent - thought we'd get nothing back for him.

All the best. Wrong player at the wrong time. Classic deadline day panic buy.

Dan Parker
2 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:28:15
Good stuff.
Pat Kelly
3 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:33:50
Nice touch by Everton to give him the ball he scored his only PL goal with for the Club.
Peter Hodgson
4 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:36:24
Good riddance. Sounds like a trouble maker to me.

Off the payroll for good even though the fee we will eventually get would hardly buy a round and some frites in Paris well done everyone.

Not long to ship DCL out left now.

Minik Hansen
5 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:36:37
The three-four year long squad clean up continues.
Ed Prytherch
6 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:50:56
He scored 43 goals for Brentford and 26 for Brighton but only 1 for us. No wonder he is leaving.
Craig Walker
7 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:55:02
I'll give it 2 weeks and he'll be slagging off our club and fans.

Good riddance.

Just need to get rid of Holgate and Keane now, as well.

Ian Bennett
8 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:56:50
Maupay & Beto have proven to be duds.

With the wages, agent fees and transfer fees, we've essentially squandered the Gordon or Richarlison money. Piss poor recruitment the club could ill afford after the previous garbage.

Bill Fairfield
9 Posted 29/08/2024 at 14:58:44
Good riddance frenchy, and no thanks for nothing.
Jay Hughes
10 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:07:36
I don't normally comment on here but I had to say something about Monsieur Mopey.

When he spoke about “when is it normalised to get treated like that in a job”, my first thought was …. when did it become normalised to get 50 grand a week for a job you can't do or can't be arsed doing? (although those “fans” were a couple of knobs). He could not have made it clearer that he didn't want to be here even long before his shawshank twitter message today.

He reminds me a of a certain French chap looking over a wall shouting “I fart in your general direction…..”

Good riddance Mopey!

Paul Kossoff
11 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:10:14
Another Thelwell bum. Well done, NEXT!!!
Pete Neilson
12 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:19:05
He made his views on our club crystal clear last year when he went out on loan. A terrible signing by Thelwell.
Kev Wood
13 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:21:32
Please add me to the, undoubtedly long, list of people willing to drive him to the departure point of his choice. I'll even help him pack if that gets him away a bit quicker.
Rob Dolby
14 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:24:49
I still can't believe we signed him in the first place what was Lampard thinking?
Mark Ryan
15 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:25:04
Au revoir Pepe Le Pew, you stunk the place out. A terrible signing for us. Desperate.
Mark Ryan
16 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:25:04
Au revoir Pepe Le Pew, you stunk the place out. A terrible signing for us. Desperate.
Duncan McDine
17 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:29:38
Is there another profession where you can earn that much by being so poor?
Les Moorcroft
18 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:36:24
I reckon we give them 5 million to take him. Waiting for someone to come and say we never give him a chance poor lad. Fk off.
Soren Moyer
19 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:39:55
Thank you Mr. De Zerbi!

Now only a few hours left to get rid of Holgate and Keane.

David Bromwell
20 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:55:24
Not my favourite player, but never played for us in his favoured position.

Like so many of the players we have brought in it turned out badly. Let's hope the current crop turn out better.

Kevin Prytherch
21 Posted 29/08/2024 at 15:56:26
Apparently he's posted a video from the Shawshank Redmeption about breaking free from prison….

Imagine earning £80k a week, being immune to being disciplined for poor performance, not having to perform the main duty of your job because of poor performance and then liking it to being in prison….

Sam Hoare
22 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:01:48
Apparently we're getting €6M fixed fee with potentially another €3M in add-ons and a 20% sell on. Given that we bought him for €11.5M that means we've probably only lost a million or two quid or transfer fees.

That means that Maupay, whilst no success, is probably not even in our top 20 worst signings over last 4 years (at least from a financial point of view).

Goodbye and good luck, a decent player who was a bad fit. Let's hope he smashes it at Marseille and earns a big move that earns us more money from him!

Dan Nulty
23 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:43:48
What a cretin of an individual, good riddance.

Probably one of the worst signings in our history.

Mihir Ambardekar
24 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:46:52
Maupay is total shithouse. Being paid more than £50k / week for not playing and known for being an indisciplined shithouse and posting a video from Shawshank Redemption.

Good fucking riddance.

Liam Mogan
25 Posted 29/08/2024 at 16:51:35
The Shawshank Redemption video is quite humorous tbf.

See you later, you snidey little fucker. Pity you were shit.

James Newcombe
26 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:22:27
If you ever feel like you are bad at your job; just remember that someone scouted Maupay and decided that he was perfectly suited to play as a lone striker in a side that is built around having a target man up top.
Dermot O'Brien
27 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:23:52
Another Schneiderlin.
Dermot O'Brien
28 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:23:52
He missed a sitter vs the shite a couple of years ago, the game where Coady's goal was disallowed.

Could have been an Everton hero. Instead he's a prick. Good business to get him out the door, getting a fee is great stuff.

Mark Taylor
29 Posted 29/08/2024 at 17:34:44
Glad to see the back of him.

Not that opposition defenders saw much of his back. They could give him a 10-yard start and still get to see the front of him after about 30 m.

Nicholas Ryan
30 Posted 29/08/2024 at 18:02:50
As I pointed out on another thread; he has scored the same number of Premier League goals for us, as Tim Howard did!
Craig Walker
31 Posted 29/08/2024 at 18:37:18
“How could you be so obtuse?” - Andy Dufresne
Ray Jacques
32 Posted 29/08/2024 at 19:03:47
We signed the only player from Brighton who can't play football. Quelle surprise, Everton.

Good riddance, don't come back again.

Joe McMahon
33 Posted 29/08/2024 at 19:15:49
I hope Chermiti comes back soon and Dyche plays him, we really do need goals.

Nicholas @30, he has scored a few for Brighton, but he won't be the first striker to fail at Everton. He's too small to play the lone isolated striker. I have no problem with him leaving, it's just we have so few goal-scorers.

Edward Rogers
34 Posted 29/08/2024 at 20:01:53
Peter Hodgson@4,

If we sell Calvert-Lewin, you do realise that leaves us with just Beto?

Think about it, Beto upfront, on his own, all season!!!!!

Mike Connolly
35 Posted 29/08/2024 at 20:30:22
Can we get Keane and Holgate off to Atalanta?
Iakovos Iasonidis
36 Posted 29/08/2024 at 20:41:00
No class at all this guy...Good riddance...
Kunal Desai
37 Posted 29/08/2024 at 20:55:34
He can now go and wind up the Marseille fans all he wants.
Peter Collins
38 Posted 29/08/2024 at 21:11:12
He scored 1 goal in 32 games. Exactly the same amount as Tim Howard.

No wonder we fight relegation every year.

Paul Birmingham
39 Posted 29/08/2024 at 21:24:54
For me, he's a bad egg, anywhere, at any club and at any time.

His lack of respect for Everton and for himself says a lot about his lack of class. There's many words but I'll save my breath.

Hopefully this is the end... and good riddance.

Things at Everton can and will get better, soon.


Tommy Carter
40 Posted 29/08/2024 at 21:46:20
This is a man who rarely conducts himself with much class.

I actually think he's not a bad player and he's never been afforded the opportunity to show his qualities playing with another forward in a side that creates chances.

He can be a menacing player and I thought he could be an asset in our team. When he is at his best he has qualities that I think our fanbase would've enjoyed. However, it is clearly a move that never worked out and we won't miss him and he us and we simply move on. Hopefully to bigger and better things

Derek Knox
41 Posted 29/08/2024 at 21:54:32
No Xenophobic comments from me, but good riddance to the little French Twat! :-)
Bill Gienapp
42 Posted 29/08/2024 at 23:49:07
Seems best for all parties at this point. We never really utilized him properly, but his signing was a reflection of our complete lack of imagination when it comes to recruitment.
Si Cooper
43 Posted 30/08/2024 at 00:15:44
Hadn't worked out and that wasn't going to change so best outcome.
Sadly Mason Holgate wouldn't be missed at all but if, as people are wishing, Michael Keane departs in this window we'd be down to 3 centre backs wouldn't we?
Keane has his faults but I think he's done enough for the club to be acceptable as a squad player and make it debatable about whether he would be easily replaced in that regard.
Matt Traynor
44 Posted 30/08/2024 at 01:34:40
Many years ago I worked in Brighton, and got to know a few of their fans, so went to a few games when I wasn't watching Everton

Long story short, I kept in touch with a fair few, and they thought he was a decent player but as others have said he needs to play off a main striker - hence why he stunk Goodison out.

He never wanted to leave Brighton, and given our "style" of football I've no idea why a) we signed him and b) he signed, but his attitude has also been poor.

In terms of damage limitation, a good outcome for all parties.

Ant Sorvoja
45 Posted 30/08/2024 at 10:27:43
No more pay for Maupay at Everton as he is off the payroll. He was always a wrong guy in a wrong place. One goal in 32 matches says it all.

We have had some dud strikers but he must be the worst value in recent memory.

James Marshall
46 Posted 30/08/2024 at 11:11:50
This is joyous from the club OS. A total lack of anything which comes across as a big dig at Kneel MorePay:

Maupay leaves Everton

Jack Convery
47 Posted 30/08/2024 at 11:35:58
I'm really upset Maupay has left… Not!!!!
John Hall
48 Posted 30/08/2024 at 11:49:31
Maupay the poisoned dwarf has left the building - good riddance!
Ed Prytherch
49 Posted 30/08/2024 at 13:25:17
I still can't believe that Maupay is giving up Dyche and North West England for De Zerbi and the South of France.
Allen Rodgers
50 Posted 30/08/2024 at 13:38:27
So Maupay has finally gone.

Nothing in his Everton career became him like the leaving of it. (With apologies to Shakespeare.)

John Keating
51 Posted 30/08/2024 at 13:42:56
Maupay knew his time was up when he never made the French Paralympic team.

Gobshite of the first order. Well rid.

Ian Bennett
53 Posted 30/08/2024 at 18:43:14
Sky reporting Maupay is obligation loan — £6M initial rising to £10M with add-ons.

With a year left on his contract and turning 29 soon, that's not bad.

Tony Mace
54 Posted 31/08/2024 at 00:03:41
Weasel
Peter Gorman
55 Posted 01/09/2024 at 20:35:29
That Shawshank tweet was unbelievably rank.

Maupay - you weren't Andy Dufrense emerging from the sewer, you were the raw sewage!


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