Gary Gowers is a sports journalist and the editor of Read Everton, where he leads daily coverage of Everton news, transfers and analysis. He also writes about Manchester City for Read Man City and motorsport for Read Motorsport. A former accountant, he became a freelance writer in 2011 and has written for BBC Sport and Metro.
It hasn’t been a quiet day at Everton, even with the transfer window now firmly closed. The fallout from Deadline Day continued on Thursday, but attention also began to turn towards what comes next for Everton – both on the pitch and behind the scenes. From fresh questions over The Friedkin Group’s search for investment […]
The timing is difficult to ignore. Less than two years after The Friedkin Group completed its takeover of Everton, the owners are reportedly looking for new investors. The Financial Times reports that TFG are working with advisers on a process which could result in a significant stake in the club being sold. The process is […]
Jack Grealish is back at Everton – and Sunday’s meeting with Manchester United could give him an immediate chance to get going again. Grealish has returned to Everton on a second successive season-long loan from City after making 22 appearances during his first spell before a foot injury brought it to an early end. Now […]
Everton’s transfer window ended with plenty of criticism over the shape of David Moyes’ squad. Financially, though, the summer tells a rather different story. The Everton squad changed substantially before the deadline. Hayden Hackney, Tyrique George, Merlin Röhl, Christian Nørgaard and Ainsley Maitland-Niles arrived permanently, Brennan Johnson came in as part of the deal that […]
Everton’s summer transfer window may be closed, but the consequences of a chaotic final few days are only just beginning to become clear. For some members of David Moyes’ squad, the landscape has changed considerably. The departures of Iliman Ndiaye, Beto, Tim Iroegbunam and Nathan Patterson have removed competition in some areas, while the arrivals […]
As more details emerge around Everton‘s chaotic and ultimately unsuccessful Deadline Day, it has been revealed that the Blues had a huge late bid rejected for Real Betis winger Abde Ezzalzouli. According to Spanish outlet Mundo Deportivo, Everton offered €43m – around £37million – for the Morocco international. The proposal was reportedly worth €35m up […]
Everton finished a chaotic summer transfer window with a £25.35m net profit on transfer business, according to BBC Sport – a figure that will do little to quieten the questions being asked about the club’s recruitment. The number is striking given what chief executive Angus Kinnear said just two weeks before the deadline. Speaking to […]
Everton are reportedly not planning to move into the free-agent market for another striker, despite David Moyes being left desperately short of options following a chaotic end to the transfer window. According to The Telegraph, the Blues are not currently considering unattached players as a solution to their problems up front. That stance is particularly […]
It hasn’t been a quiet day. The transfer window may have closed on Monday night, but the fallout from it has dominated the Everton conversation ever since. There have been questions for Angus Kinnear, more detail on deals that did and didn’t happen, a welcome positive involving James Garner and, increasingly, signs that supporters want […]
Evertonians have had plenty to say since the transfer window closed. Understandably so. Now it would be good to hear from the club. Not a statement attempting to explain every twist and turn of the Folarin Balogun saga. Transfers go wrong. Medicals throw up problems. Players change their minds. That happens. And Balogun ultimately decided […]
The fallout from Everton‘s disastrous end to the transfer window has continued, with influential supporter group The 1878s announcing it is standing down “for the foreseeable future”. The group has become a familiar part of matchdays at Hill Dickinson Stadium, producing the flags, banners and tifos that have helped create the atmosphere at Everton’s new […]
His eventual arrival was neither unexpected nor greeted with universal approval by Evertonians, but a few things are not in doubt. Jack Grealish loves Everton, Evertonians and everything to do with this football club. If the barometer of a good signing is the player wanting to be here – desperate to be here, even – […]
