Replacing Calvert-Lewin with the Brighton striker amid six moves for an excellent January

After an absence of almost 12 years, David Moyes has returned to Goodison Park as much of a hero as he left, somewhat remarkably adjacent to his predecessor’s tiki-taka.

The future may look bright with the Friedkin Group taking over the club and a new stadium ready to go next season, but things look incredibly bleak at the moment with Moyes in a knee-jerk battle with his beloved Toffees. have reached

The sacking of Sean Dyche This reportedly means he will have nothing to spend in January, but he is in desperate need of fresh faces to bolster a weak and ailing squad.

They will have to sell to buy, which won’t be easy when you consider their salable assets, or rely on short-term deals to ensure their safety this season. We’ve come up with six moves – three departures and three arrivals – because anything more than that would be ridiculously optimistic, which is what we think Moyes can hope for when he’s back at the helm in his first transfer window. .

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Beto out
On the surface it seems incredible that after signing Beto for £21m 18 months ago Everton have the nerve to reject all offers below £16.6m for a striker who has scored eight goals for them.

But digging a little deeper it’s actually far more incredible that they didn’t use him more in their desperate pursuit of goals, with him coming at a half-decent rate – certainly by the standards of an Everton striker. – One every 220 minutes.

If you spread it over the season, that’s more than 15 Premier League goals. Only three players in their Premier League history – Tony Cottee (16 in 1993/94), Romelu Lukaku (18 in 2015/16; 25 in 2016/17) and Dominic Calvert-Leon (16 in 2020/21) have bettered it. .

That sounds like a reason to keep him but as the only player on their books they would be willing to sell that they can get any money from, he has to go.

Idrisa Goy Out
He’s 35 and out of contract in the summer so it might be easiest to see this deal through and let him go on his merry way, but the lad is Everton’s third highest earner at £ 120,000-a-week, only Jordan Pickford (£125,000-a-week) and Abdoulaye Doukour (£130,000-a-week), and on the wage bill It would be great to go six months without it.

Doucoure is also out of contract in the summer and if Everton can attract bidders for him and Gueye in January – let’s face it, probably from Saudi Arabia – they will accept any offer. Should, because they are both complete garbage.

Dominic Calvert Leave Out
On the subject of out-of-contract arrangements. Calvert-Lewin’s scoring record since that 16-goal season in 2020/2021 has been nothing short of disgraceful. He has scored 17 Premier League goals – fewer than Mohamed Salah so far this season – in 85 games, at a rate of one goal every 360 minutes. Shocking.

And yet after calling him up at least last year, for no other reason than his contract expiring at the end of the season at the time, teams continue to stick with him. It was Arsenal and Chelsea in the summer And now Bournemouth.

Don’t try to fix it. He is done. Send him packing.

In Ivan Ferguson
Just when we thought Everton couldn’t be more in need of a striker, after scoring a paltry 15 goals in 20 Premier League games, embarrassingly conceding four of their last five, poor old Armando. Bruja – had just returned from one match. Achilles trouble has meant he has started just two games for Everton on loan from Chelsea – receiving oxygen amid screams. Cramps after going down late in Thursday’s win over Peterborough.

It looked as if he would be out for a significant period, and with other strikers not scoring goals as they looked towards the inevitable exit, quite simply, they would go down if Everton didn’t sign a striker. are

No-one would have thought Everton would have the nerve to sign Ferguson, who was at one stage tipped for a £100m move to Chelsea or Manchester United, but two years after his debut for Brighton Is he at a point in his career where he needs to play football?

Moise’s old side West Ham should also be keen. And Graham Potter could provide an extra draw as he did. Ferguson His start, with Everton’s hopes likely to rest on the 20-year-old, with the idea that it’s impossible to be worse than the current crop of so-called goalscorers.

James Ward Prowse Inn
We have no idea why West Ham let him go on loan because their central midfielders are crap, or why Nuno Espirito Santo wanted him at Nottingham Forest because he barely played. It’s a bit strange that a guy who was playing in midfield for England two years ago can’t get a game at Forest now, but not so strange when you consider that Forest have thrown out guides, rule books and whatever. Yes, he is in third place. The original Premier League.

He will certainly get a game at Everton and has been at his best under Moyes at West Ham, scoring goals and providing some comfort in a midfield that the Toffees lacked, here’s hoping he gives West Ham that boost. but can convince them to call it back from their forest loan. Give them a hand.

In Miguel Almiron
It may feel a little disappointing but Everton are disappointed and it’s also a little unfair. Almiron is not playing for Newcastle but that is due to the wonderful and completely unexpected form of Jacob Murphy.

He wants out and Toon’s bosses are hoping they can get a reasonable fee through a permanent transfer in January, but failing that they may want to let him off the wage bill, at that point. A loan offer from Everton – who could really do with the right. With Iliman Ndiaye to balance the team the winger would be the only positive for them on the other side – attractive.

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