West Ham hoping to land Everton winger McNeil for relegation rebuild

Does he need a lift?

Thanks for some cracking goals, Dwight and good luck for the future.

Perhaps Dibling will be given a run now, and we are gradually replacing zero pace with pace and talent. Tarks and Keane next, Hammers? Take your old boss too if you like.

Maybe part of a deal that Everton, hope will bring Bowen, the other way, but with only twelve months left on his contract then the ball is definitely in Dwight McNeil’s court.

If Everton use there common sense we could use Mcneil + cash for Bowen & wan Bissaka/Mallick Diouf which would reduce the cost of any deal

Patterson + McNeil + £30 million for Bowen and Wan Bissaka.

Good luck Dwight, decent guy, deserves more playing time with the right team, this make sense if he wants it too.
Bowen would be interesting short term for the right money.
But right back right back please.

I don't think it will happen, he's one year left on his contract he also wont want to drop down to the championship. We have paid £40m for Dibling to play in Bowens position. it will depend finely on Moyes if McNeil does want to leave.
I do think Alcaraz will be sold.

When you look at what Spurs are spending and what we are proposing to spend it just shows the different ambitions of the 2 clubs. Despite winning the Europa league Spurs have spent the last couple of seasons fighting relegation. So far Spurs have bought Van Hecke from Brighton for £52m, Fernandes from West Ham for £85m and Tonali from Newcastle for £100m and rumours are that the spending hasnt stopped yet. While TFG are bringing in more money from non footballing events and improved sponsorship deals which is to be welcomed so far it hasnt seen us spend what Spurs are spending.
These days you have to spend big to get into the elite group that are dominating the Premier league and those clubs will again invest huge sums to keep themselves in that elite group.
Buying young potential will only get you so far and if we are to restore this club to the elite group then spending £100 to £150m isn't going to do that. It may keep you away from relegation but it wont get us anywhere near the vast sums that regular Champions league clubs get. Last season Newcastle over acheived and got Champions league football but as happens often 1 season in Champions league often means no European football at all the following season, probably the reason they have had to sell Tonali.

I agree Brian but we have to obey those blasted financial rules. I think the owner would love to spend a lot more but can't.
Problem for us fans is we don't know what their plans are, do they want to aim for the top or just muddle along mid tablish, I think just now it's the later.

I think we all feel that Dwight will leave its just a matter of where and when, obviously if we can use him as a makeweight with any player that we want from West Ham then that will help the finances.
As for Spurs and their ambition, well you cant always spend your way out of trouble and have spent crazy money and have they got value ? I would say no but time will tell.

What I like about Everton is that we have been so savvy with the Hackney fee, it looks the same with George. It appears that our backroom team that are now in place are starting showing their worth.

I cant wait to see who we "eventually" get at right back and the same with the striker position, I think theres a few deals on the verge due to progress behind the scenes prior to the window being open.

The next two weeks are going to be exciting, this doesnt normally fit with Everton does it ?

Raymond 9

I realize we have to stay within PSR rules but so far I don't see TFG showing the ambition we need. TFG have also had a massive boost from Liverpool City Council ( which in itself is a rarity) as they have told LFC that they cant have any concerts during the month of July in order to give the residents in the area a break. Well seeing that doesn't apply to us TFG can have a field day in having a free run at attracting any possible concerts wanting to come to the City.

McNeil plus £25m for Summerville?

I wish Dwight McNeil the best of luck and good health with his future career and thank him for his time at Everton,.

Dwight had his struggles on and off the field, he’s only 26, so wishing him a fresh start, and I’d love to see a straight swap for Wan Bissaka, a natural right back, and play O’Brien and Branthwaite together.

Brian, a Spurs season ticket average is £1300 (£850 - £2350), ours is £800 (£640 - £1200). I'm not sure it's purely about ambition, revenue and profit are a big contributor. Looking forward to our first financial report at Hill Dickinson to see how far we've closed the gap to Spurs.

Back to Dwight, he played his part in keeping us in the PL with some very important performances both on and off the ball. But his consistency was poor, he could dominate a game (Brighton away), but it was far too infrequent. Best of luck to him if he does leave, I think we all felt it would have been better if he joined Palace in January.

Spurs turnover 2024/2025 was £565 million Evertons was £197 million.

Spurs can spend £480m a year on their squad.

More than Double our entire turnover.

It’s nothing about ambition.
* the gap will have closed due to Hill Dickinson

McNeil with respect, will be a great signing for the Championship.

He's been a good signing for us but we have to move on and hopefully upwards.

. its hard to be patient when your hearts on your sleeve.

Dave #13 - we also wish the best of health to his partner Megan who "lost an organ or two" back in 2024.

I am sure the impact of Megan's health had a detrimental affect on Dwight's performances.

Dwight McNeil is a good footballer.He had quite a few purples patches for Everton and scored some vital goals.His problem was the purple patches did not come often enough to make him a regular starter.
He is also very one footed and lacks pace,something we desperately need at the club.
He would make a good acquisition for an ambitious Championship club or one trying to establish themselves in the PL.
Never a problem player or one playing with a gob on,I wish him well wherever he goes.

It seems very strange to me that so many people on this thread want us to bring in, and in some cases spend fortunes. On players who got their team relegated. Does anyone have an answer to this very odd train of thought?

Eddie
Jordan Pickford - signed after Sunderland were relegated.
Phil Jagielka - signed after Sheffied United got relegated.
James Tarkowski - signed after Burnley got relegated.

Picking up the best player who was unable to carry the other 10 seems like a good idea. Doesn't always work - but then Antolin Alcaraz and Arouna Kone prove it does not always work.

Phil, you are dead right. I had forgotten about all the trophies we have won with those players.

Tony @ 3 & others have pointed to the logic of using Dwight in an exchange with West Ham for either and/or Bowen, Summerville or Bissaka, which has a distinct logic to it, always providing it’s true that West Ham are indeed interested in Dwight & keen enough to consider a deal, and equally important, is Dwight keen on West Ham. But even if all that falls into place, are any of those players keen on us? I would suggest that perhaps all but Bissaka would have much better options than us? Therefore, although there’s a distinct logic to a “deal”, as we all know too well, logic and football are seldom bedfellows, and as much as I’d like to see it happen, if I was a betting man I wouldn’t be putting my shirt on this one, but who knows? Although one things for sure, a parting of the ways in one form or other is in the best interest of both parties, and although he’s had his moments, they’ve been in far too short supply, and speaking purely personally, there’s little I find more frustrating than watching his totally negative body language, and that sullen demeanour, always preoccupied looking down at his feet, and what looks like a completely disinterested shuffling jog, which gives the distinct impression he wants to be anywhere but on the pitch. Like I said, Dwight’s had his moments & although I know little about him, he seems to be a thoroughly nice guy, and he and his partner seem to be a lovely young couple, who’ve had their problems, and I therefore wish them both nothing but good things for their future.

Eddie,

We didn't win any trophies with Lukaku or Arteta or Cahill or Cottee or Coleman or Rooney.

And your point is??

The last time we won a trophy the lads dubbined their own boots before a game.

A disgrace that a club of the magnitude of EFC has no silverware for over 30 years.

Thats the reason I wanted to try to win even the mickey mouse euro trophy.
Im desperate to be there when my Everton mad, ST holding grandsons see us lift a trophy.
My kids were lucky enough to see the great 80s side, at least they have seen us at our best.

I’m heading to the IK next week by ferry and car. I can pick him up and drop him off in London no charge

Yes please, McTreacle swop for Bowen, and a few spare coins ? :-)

Yes please, McTreacle swop for Bowen, and a few spare coins ? :-)

Good luck Dwight you did score some cracking goals, hopefully it's more like £15mil than £15 quid! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💙

I have said this about a few too many players who haven't given enough back to our club but, apart from a couple of games, Palace and Brighton spring to mind, he often looked disinterested to me.

When Mrs McNeil spat her dummy out because she couldn't join the jet celebrity set in London, that was the biggest laugh ever. Poor girl. Good luck though if you leave but you'll have to get in the back and in the middle cos the car's full. Already got Mykolenko and Keane in it...🤣🤣

McNeil never ever looked disinterested to me, he was a genuine professional footballer who gave his all up and down the field, wasn't a great footballer but a very good one until this season when he was hardly used by the manager until that game at Wolves when he one of seven changes and still rusty from not playing.

His partner was having a go at Palace for suddenly ending the transfer when everything was settled. I don't know McNeil or his partner but I doubt very much they want to be part of the jet set, just ordinary people who want to live an ordinary life particularly as they have endured a very bad 12 months with Dwight's partner more worried about living rather than joining any jet set.

A decent player who helped to dig us out of some of our darkest times but is probably not good enough to be part of taking us forwards.

You can add his winner away at Forest a couple of years ago to the list of memories too.

Phil Roberts, my dad knows Karate.

Not very well, but he does know him.

Ryan@16, opened my eyes up to the gap that we have got to close, then John@26, echoes thoughts I have had regarding Everton, for years and years.

We can’t win the league but we can definitely win a cup. Surely we have been getting it wrong for years, sacrificing cup competitions to try and achieve three points in the next game?

If we are going to qualify for Europe, try and do it by winning one of the cups. Make real memories for every single Evertonian, instead of sacrificing the cup competitions like we are a championship club.

Tony, we can't/won't win anything under the current managerial regime, and it is a regime.

Glasner has just gone to Forest ffs.

I wouldn't get too excited about Glasner, Dave.

If Henderson had got the red card he deserved in the Cup Final, Man City probably go on to win and Glasner becomes the lower mid-table manager who had a cup run.

I get that, Andrew... I really do.

But the man at least tries to win games.

I just think football fans get carried away with a myth sometimes Dave.

I have a feeling our nearest and dearest are going to find out the hard way this season too with a manager who has no European experience and has never manages a large squad of egos either and first season post Salah.

Other than two lower tier championships, Crystal Palace had never won a trophy in their entire existence until Glasner joined them not so long ago.

Interesting that line of thought about a large squad of egos, Andrew, because my opinion of football is that most dressing rooms have a fair percentage of players who have got big egos.

The managers who offer something different are usually the ones who get the players to leave their egos at home... and the managers who don't are usually the ones who just haven't got enough talent to get their players to buy into what they're wanting to achieve.

It usually depends on the overall ambitions of the football club.

Glasner has scouted and brought through some fine talent and turned them into top class players. This is the way we should be operating. It'll be interesting to see what he achieves at Forest.

I've just had a text from my sister-in-law who lives in Bromley and is a big Palace fan telling me we missed a great opportunity. I told her that's all we ever do... miss opportunities.

Of course Tony all of those millions creates egos but when you have the sense of entitlement you also have at that club it makes it a different game.

It's what did for Moyes at Man Utd and more recently Xabi Alonso at Real Madrid.

Interesting Andrew, I just hope you're correct mate. I don't know enough about Iraola, but one thing that does concern me is that someone was telling me about how at Bournemouth he simply never gave his players a day off.

This can backfire with egos but, if the players really believe in what the manager is trying to achieve, then I think they will buy into him.

We often say that Liverpool are a very self entitled football club, but they have also always been ultra-professional (not just 75%-85% professional) and this has created a massive desire to win because they are completely aware of the special feeling that winning creates.

This is not a Liverpool FC love-in -- it's just something that I think we should always be looking to try and achieve for ourselves.