Season › 2024-25 › News Finance expert reveals Everton transfer budget Harry Diamond 03/06/2025 20comments | Jump to last Everton’s summer transfer budget has been revealed and the Toffees will need to be smart in the window. David Moyes’s side will move into the Hill Dickinson Stadium next season ahead of an exciting new era. However, hopes of an expensive recruitment drive appear to have been squashed after the extent of the club’s summer resources was revealed. Football finance expert Kieran Maguire has told the BBC that Everton have the funds for perhaps ‘one marquee signing’ but cast doubt on the chances of multiple expensive arrivals. "One marquee signing is certainly possible, especially with some players out of contract, but the chances of a series of big names are less likely," Maguire said. "A spend of £50-£100m is the ballpark unless there are exits.” In a transfer market of inflated price tags, Everton will need to be savvy with new arrivals. Ashley Young, Asmir Begovic, Joao Virginia and Abdoulaye Doucoure are all confirmed departures when their contracts expire, while Idrissa Gueye, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Michael Keane and Seamus Coleman are also out of contract. Loanees Jack Harrison, Orel Mangala, Armando Broja and Jesper Lindstrom will return to their parent clubs, though Everton have triggered the permanent option to sign Charly Alcaraz. Those exits leave Everton with just 13 senior players from Moyes’s 2024-25 squad ahead of the new campaign. Reader Comments (20) 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 () Mike Hayes 1 Posted 03/06/2025 at 17:11:14 Let's hope we don't have to sell to buy because we know who'll be the target.We need to build on what we have – not sell our best assets and struggle again. Paul Hewitt 2 Posted 03/06/2025 at 17:23:36 This guy hasn't a clue how much we have to spend. Total nonsense. Joe McMahon 3 Posted 03/06/2025 at 17:27:07 It's rot isn't it? Man Utd in debt, laying off stewards and cleaners, finish 15th, no European football, and can sign 2 players topping £100M, never mind Rashford's and Fernandes's salaries. Sky and the selected few global darings have ruined so much. It's going to be difficult for us finding the "holy grail" of a proven goalscoring striker. Les Callan 4 Posted 03/06/2025 at 17:29:15 I'm with you, Paul. What does this guy know? Keith Birmingham 5 Posted 03/06/2025 at 17:29:37 I can't see it being that low, surely. If so, it increases the interest in Jarrad Branthwaite, a marquee player we need to keep at all costs. Eric Myles 6 Posted 03/06/2025 at 18:03:13 Shouldn't the headline be "Some bloke takes a wild guess at Everton's transfer budget"??Robert Tressell did better, even naming players we could possibly get for the money. Tony Abrahams 7 Posted 03/06/2025 at 18:18:36 The rotting state of football and those extremely wonky PSR rules deserve a thread of their own, Joe. Ian Bennett 8 Posted 03/06/2025 at 18:35:29 Chelsea told Man Utd you can have £5M and Sancho back. Fernandes turned down Saudi. UmThat club is in trouble. Kevin Molloy 9 Posted 03/06/2025 at 18:38:10 Sir Jim needs to bite the bullet and raise prices across the board. Let him cook. Ian Bennett 10 Posted 03/06/2025 at 18:38:48 Jim didnt fix it... Steve Dowdeswell 11 Posted 03/06/2025 at 18:59:19 Do we wait for the Esk to chip in and really panic when we find out apparently we only have a fiver in the kitty...??? Micky Norman 12 Posted 03/06/2025 at 19:40:14 Tomorrows weather:Temperature between 10 and 20 degreesChance of Rain: between 10 and 90%Cloud cover: between 20 and 80%Wind speed between 5 and 50mphDirection: between North and South.Just call me a Weather Expert. Ian Bennett 13 Posted 03/06/2025 at 19:46:57 Elsewhere, Palace are struggling to get into Europe because of Textor's ownership of Lyon.How Everton would it be that we miss out on Champions League because of AS Roma... Robert Tressell 14 Posted 03/06/2025 at 21:55:34 An astute post Micky # 12. Derek Thomas 15 Posted 03/06/2025 at 22:22:05 And the 'Koeman Moshiri Transfer Splurge Trophy' for stating the bleedin obvious goes to... Joshua Steadman 16 Posted 03/06/2025 at 22:48:09 Didn't we already know it was around this amount of money? Stating the obvious. Not like the new ground has started to increase revenues just yet. A couple of decent signings and 2-3 loans and we will be fine. Kunal Desai 17 Posted 03/06/2025 at 23:33:30 Transfer fees are amortised over the length of a players contract. Yes there are wages to take into account but for him to suggest it's 'one marquee' is dubious, especially if that's the ballmark figure for our budget on recruitment.He doesn't quantify what amount constitutes a marquee signing. Lord Hughes 19 Posted 04/06/2025 at 14:24:56 Micky Norman 12 … bang on 😂😂😂 Kev Johnson 20 Posted 04/06/2025 at 14:43:44 "A spend of £50-£100m is the ballpark unless there are exits.” Sounds about right to me, got to say. Reckon that would probably suit Moyes. He's not really a "marquee signing" kind of guy, is he? More of a slowly-slowly-catchy-monkey manager. Like, build it up.Kunal - amortisation is more of a thing when it's a long-term contract, as far as I understand it (which is not all that far, to be honest). Chelsea have gone down the long-term contract road, big time, but Alcaraz signed for two years and it looks like Gana will do the same (with Moyes himself being on a 2.5 year contract). If I've got that wrong, I'm happy to be readvised... Tony Cunningham 21 Posted 04/06/2025 at 19:52:46 £50-£100 mill... so basically he doesn't have a clue!As for selling our prized asset, I seriously hope not, we need to build our team from the back upwards...However if we sold Branthwaite for £80M, we could buy a decent new centre-back for £40M and have another excellent player for £40M.I don't expect us to sell but the outcome wouldn't be too bad. 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. How to get rid of these ads and support TW © ToffeeWeb