With 15 first-team players, including loanees, set to be out of contract at the end of this season, the task before manager David Moyes and new chief executive Angus Kinnear, who will join the club from the same job at Leeds United of the Championship in June, is considerable. Daunting, even, if you look at the scale of what needs to be done.
But Everton will look at the 2025 off-season as an opportunity to fashion their squad in a new image. For the first time in a while — perhaps since the early days of Farhad Moshiri’s tenure — they will be in a position to invest under the new ownership of The Friedkin Group.
This is a much-needed chance to capitalise and push on. But to do so, Everton will need to be smart.
There is one obvious point to make: even with a much bigger budget, it would be impossible to replace all 15 of those players who could leave in the looming summer window. As such, it would be prudent to at least retain some of those whose deals are due to expire.
Here is The Athletic’s go at mapping out the state of play and what should come next.
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2 Posted 19/03/2025 at 11:14:43
Eh? I'll believe it when they've spent it!
3 Posted 21/03/2025 at 08:47:11
We have been working with much less than that each window since 2021.
However, that does obviously pose a problem when you need to sign about 5 players just to scrape together a squad of about 18 players or so.
Keeping a vague tally on this predictions for this summer's net spend are:
Robert Tressell £30m
Sam Hoare £50m
Colin Glasser £100m
Any advance on this? Most accurate prediction wins an all expenses paid trip to the Maldives.
4 Posted 21/03/2025 at 09:05:44
Rome wasn't built in a day and the same applies to our team but as a clever guy once said, "A society (football club) grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."
Over to you Davey.
5 Posted 21/03/2025 at 09:25:14
Let's hope we don't ever find ourselves in this position again as this will need some sorting. I think its obvious that Gana Gueye gets an extension and rightly so he has been our best player since Moyes came in, not sure what will happen with Broja, Seemed absolutely madness that we signed a player on loan who we knew wouldn't be fit to play till late October or early November, maybe Moyes will wait and see if he can stay fit before considering extending his loan spell.
I would hope that we never get in a position were a saleable asset like Calvert-Lewin is allowed to walk away for nothing, should have been sold when he refused to sign a new contract.
I would also hope they tie Branthwaite to a long contract with no get out clauses, as he appears to want to extend beyond his present contract.
6 Posted 21/03/2025 at 09:29:04
7 Posted 21/03/2025 at 10:01:55
Q. Why are so many players out of contract?
A. No money and may have been unable to sanction contract extensions (additional liabilities for new owners) during the saga of takeover talks.
Q. Why did we sign Broja when he was injured?
A. No money and he was available at very low cost after failing medical at Ipswich. We didn't need him to be fit immediately because Calvert-Lewin and Beto were fit. Good player too but a gamble that didn't pay off (or at least yet).
When wondering why things haven't been so good for a while the answer always starts with no money.
8 Posted 21/03/2025 at 10:07:22
They are now looking at an NHL Team, Houston.
9 Posted 21/03/2025 at 10:50:59
I'm in Robert #3 - £35M.
But can I have an all-expenses paid trip to Liverpool as my winnings. I lived in The Maldives for a year I am not in a hurry to go back.
10 Posted 21/03/2025 at 11:06:08
Do we have any bidders going higher than the £100M net spend?
11 Posted 22/03/2025 at 22:15:07
Just looking at the updated premier league squad list, which I assume is correct, does indeed show 5 registered 'loan' players with Mangala still shown. So there does appear to be a quirk on overseas loans somehow.
25 Squad players (*Home grown)
1 Alcaraz Durán, Carlos Jonas
2 Begovic, Asmir*
3 Branthwaite, Jarrad Paul*
4 Broja, Armando*
5 Calvert-Lewin, Dominic*
6 Coleman, Seamus
7 Doucoure, Abdoulaye
8 Garner, James David*
9 Gomes Betuncal, Norberto Bercique
10 Gueye, Idrissa Gana
11 Harrison, Jack David*
12 Keane, Michael Vincent*
13 Leban, Zan Luk
14 Lindstrøm, Jesper Grænge
15 Mangala, Orel Johnson
16 McNeil, Dwight James Matthew*
17 Mykolenko, Vitalii
18 Ndiaye, Iliman-Cheikh Baroy
19 Neves Virginia, Joao Manuel*
20 O'Brien, Jake Patrick
21 Patterson, Nathan Kenneth
22 Pickford, Jordan Lee*
23 Tarkowski, James Alan*
24 Young, Ashley Simon*
12 Posted 22/03/2025 at 23:17:09
However, I would always guess too many sweets in the jar when I went to fetes.
13 Posted 23/03/2025 at 00:28:09
Everton will make Genoa's 22-year-old Belgium centre-back Koni de Winter a top target if England defender Jarrad Branthwaite, 22, leaves this summer. (Teamtalk)
Gossip, I know… but who knows?
14 Posted 23/03/2025 at 00:30:32
15 Posted 23/03/2025 at 00:44:20
16 Posted 23/03/2025 at 01:14:15
17 Posted 23/03/2025 at 01:19:42
If there is a trip to The Maldives up for offer, then I'm playing; £28.75 million net spend over summer.
18 Posted 24/03/2025 at 09:38:34
Further to this we will get another £50 mill in the January window.
Maldives, here I come.⛱️
19 Posted 24/03/2025 at 10:23:00
20 Posted 25/03/2025 at 14:45:22
21 Posted 25/03/2025 at 14:49:46
I would hope that we never get in a position were a saleable asset like Calvert-Lewin is allowed to walk away for nothing, should have been sold when he refused to sign a new contract.
Hmmm, not that easy. Take a look across the park.
22 Posted 25/03/2025 at 15:11:18
23 Posted 25/03/2025 at 15:20:28
Wages would be covered by the outflux of overpaid out-of-contract players.
Looking good?
24 Posted 04/04/2025 at 23:56:40
A big clear-out is what's needed, but, no more silly signings, with over-the-top wages for cast-offs.
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1 Posted 19/03/2025 at 10:48:58
I know many don't have access to this story at The Athletic but I'd rather promote intelligent writing like this than the utter garbage spouted by the likes of Everton News and Goodison News.