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.
When a football club releases a legal statement, the language is usually sanitised to within an inch of its life. Measured. Careful. Designed to say as little as possible while appearing to say something. Yesterday’s statement from Everton was different. It was angry. Deliberately, pointedly angry. Three words in particular stood out: “surprised and angered.” […]
At some point, somebody has to ask the question out loud. How many times is this Everton – this ownership, this squad, these supporters – supposed to pay for what the last lot did? The answer, apparently, is at least once more. Burnley have been awarded around £40m in compensation after successfully arguing that Everton’s […]
We have been tracking Everton’s interest in Ayase Ueda since late April, when his name first surfaced as a target. Then it went quiet. Now it’s back. According to SportsBoom, Everton have moved from admirers to pursuers. The figures doing the rounds this week are £18m–£20m from Everton’s end, and €30m–€35m from Feyenoord’s. That is […]
Let’s be honest. For some Evertonians, this is not really the week for soul-searching about next season. The World Cup is around the corner. Summer football is here. Transfer rumours are flying around social media every five minutes and, for once, Everton are not sweating over having *just* survived a relegation battle. Life could be […]
There are some footballers whose greatness is best explained by numbers. Tim Cahill was not really one of them. Yes, the statistics matter. Fifty-six Premier League goals for Everton is no small thing, especially for a player who was never a conventional striker. But Cahill’s real value was always harder to measure. It was the […]
Just when Everton supporters thought they might be allowed to enjoy a quiet five minutes, PSR has wandered back through the door. Lovely. According to reports, Everton have been ordered to pay Burnley compensation after the Clarets brought a claim linked to the club’s previous Profitability and Sustainability Rule breaches. The figure has been reported […]
As a Norwich City supporter, I should begin with a disclaimer. My transfer predictions are usually somewhere between wildly optimistic and embarrassingly wrong. Still, I’ve always had a soft spot for football’s underdogs. The clubs trying to rebuild. The clubs trying to prove people wrong. Somewhere along the way, Everton became one of those clubs […]
David Moyes said it himself – “lots of new players.” Not one or two. Lots. The question now is which ones matter most, and in what order. Here is our ranked list. Feel free to argue. 1. Right-back – not a priority, an emergency We have been here before. Several times, as it goes. Seamus […]
Carlo Ancelotti arrived at Everton in December 2019, took one look at the squad he had inherited, and got on with it. Five years on, tracing what happened to the players he left behind tells you quite a lot about the man – and about the club he briefly made feel like something more than […]
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 […]
In January 2020, Barcelona came in for Richarlison with a €100m offer and Everton told them, without a moment’s hesitation, where to go. It was one of the most Everton things that has ever happened – and somehow, also one of the most brilliant. If you read the piece we ran this week about the […]
A tweet doing the rounds this week named Ben White and Guela Doue as Everton’s two main right-back targets. One would be a smart, experienced signing. The other could be something a bit more interesting than that. Let us be straight about the right-back situation first, because it has been quietly embarrassing for long enough. […]
