- Everton have made contact with March after Brighton confirm his exit
- Moyes is a fan but he has barely played in two years
- Seven clubs want him — and the price is absolutely nothing
Everton have established contact with Solly March following confirmation that Brighton will let him leave this summer. Moyes wants him. The price is right. The injury record is the bit that keeps you up at night.
There is a version of this story that writes itself beautifully.
Experienced Premier League winger. Left foot. Versatile. Available on a free. A manager who has admired him for two windows running. An obvious gap in the squad where a wide player needs to go.
On paper, Solly March makes a lot of sense.
And then you look at the small print.
The injury record
October 2023 – ACL and meniscus damage at Manchester City. Fourteen months out. Returned in December 2024. Injured again in January 2025. Injured again in March 2025. Another knee operation in May 2025, sidelined until December.
He finally came back as a substitute against Nottingham Forest late last year – his first appearance in eleven months – and admitted afterwards that he had “questions and doubts” about whether he would make it back at all.
Brighton held an option to keep him for another year.
They have been his club since 2013. They know him better than anyone alive. They looked at everything – the operations, the setbacks, the carefully managed minutes – and said: no thanks.
That is not nothing. That is Brighton telling you something.
The case for
None of which makes the interest irrational, to be fair.
Moyes has always been drawn to exactly this type – technically reliable, flexible enough to play wide on either side or as a wing-back, and someone who has done it at Premier League level without any fuss for the better part of a decade.
With Grealish’s loan having run its course and the wide areas looking a bit thin, a fully fit March genuinely would help.
People close to him say he is in better shape than he has been in years, that he took extra time this time round to make sure the knee was right rather than rushing back. On a free transfer, the financial exposure is at least manageable.
The case against
But we have been here before, haven’t we.
Everton signing a player on the strength of what he was rather than what he is right now. March is not a bad footballer – far from it. At his peak under De Zerbi, he was one of the most dangerous wide players in the Premier League, with talk of an England call-up that felt justified.
The problem is that nobody really knows what he currently is, because he has barely played.
A player needing time, rhythm and careful management to rediscover his best is not obviously what Moyes needs from a window where the squad requires strengthening, not nursing.
Six other Premier League clubs are in the mix. If Everton want him, they will need to actually commit.
Whether a free transfer carrying this much uncertainty is shrewd business or wishful thinking probably depends entirely on how that knee holds up in pre-season.
