{"id":672876,"date":"2026-09-04T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/672876\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T21:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:15:17","slug":"moyes-confirms-everton-are-looking-at-the-free-agents-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/672876\/","title":{"rendered":"Moyes confirms Everton &#8216;are looking at the free agents market&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788532587-everton-v-nottingham-forest-premier-league (6)-sm.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo by Naomi Baker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Moyes has confirmed that Everton are looking at the free agents market to add depth to the squad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everton are in need of additions across several positions following the late-window exits of Iliman Ndiaye, Beto, Tim Iroegbunam, Adam Aznou, and Nathan Patterson.<\/p>\n<p>Both full-back positions and centre-forward are particular areas of focus, with only one senior option in each role.<\/p>\n<p>Players who remain free agents after the closure of the transfer deadline can be signed at any point. However, free-agent signings would need to be registered before an unspecified deadline, understood to be around a week after the window closes.\t\t   <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evertonfc.com\/news\/2026\/september\/04\/Watch-Moyes--Press-Conference-From-1-30pm--BST-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">press conference<\/a> ahead of facing Manchester United on Sunday, Moyes confirmed the club are assessing the free agent market.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking at the free agents market. I am trying to get a team that is going to be at the top end and challenge. I want the players to believe that we are moving forward \u2013\u00a0for me, that is really important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moyes also reflected on a disappointing end to the transfer window. However, he said the collapse of Folarin Balogun&#8217;s deadline-day move wasn&#8217;t &#8216;anybody&#8217;s fault&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disappointed we didn\u2019t do more business and disappointed things didn\u2019t go our way in the end. Sometimes in football you have to live with disappointment and we will move on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn\u2019t anybody\u2019s fault [The failed Balogun deal]. It happens in football a lot. The player had a problem in his medical and that was simply it. There\u2019s no other story behind it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toffeeweb.com\/season\/26-27\/news\/47971.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Free agents Everton could still target after deadline day disaster<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallprint\">Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. <a href=\"#disclaimer\">Disclaimer<\/a> ()<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1565833\" id=\"1565833\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Posted<br \/>\n        04\/09\/2026        at<br \/>\n        15:57:30        <\/p>\n<p>        Jamie Vardy &#8211; Striker<br \/>\nAnthony Martial &#8211; Striker<br \/>\nDani Carvajal &#8211; Right Back<br \/>\nRaphael Guerreiro &#8211; Left Back<\/p>\n<p>All free, all available, go get em Davey boy!!!    <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1565836\" id=\"1565836\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Posted<br \/>\n        04\/09\/2026        at<br \/>\n        15:59:18        <\/p>\n<p>        I remember we got a defender named Lucas Neill from Australia back in around 2009-10.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they find a good one, they need to pull a rabbit out the hat.    <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1565841\" id=\"1565841\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Posted<br \/>\n        04\/09\/2026        at<br \/>\n        16:16:17        <\/p>\n<p>        Harry, I know he mentioned the free agents market&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Then he said, &#8220;but I want players from the top end of the market to move us forward and make a challenge&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>So he more or less dismissed it.    <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1565854\" id=\"1565854\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Posted<br \/>\n        04\/09\/2026        at<br \/>\n        17:10:46        <\/p>\n<p>        He said we were looking, and then, in the next breath, downplayed it like it would be a step backwards. I can&#8217;t see us bringing anyone in. <\/p>\n<p>I think Johnson will be used more as a striker and Graham will take his place coming off the bench as a wing option.    <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1565855\" id=\"1565855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Posted<br \/>\n        04\/09\/2026        at<br \/>\n        17:11:39        <\/p>\n<p>        You&#8217;re right, Christy, but that isn&#8217;t going to happen, even in January. Our reputation is ruined again and players aren&#8217;t going to want to come anywhere near us.<\/p>\n<p>We all want high-end players but even Moyes knows that isn&#8217;t going to happen so we need numbers through the door as back-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Martial<br \/>Vardy<br \/>Carvahal<\/p>\n<p>Why not? Go and get them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d even look at Sancho, pay as you play and earn a contract in January.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate times call for desperate measures.    <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1565871\" id=\"1565871\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Posted<br \/>\n        04\/09\/2026        at<br \/>\n        18:40:55        <\/p>\n<p>        Krepin Diatta is an out of contract player we should definitely be trying to sign. Mostly plays as a winger but can also play right-back if needed. Still only 27. A no-brainer as far as I&#8217;m concerned. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe Vardy would be ok for a season. He did reasonably well in Italy last season. <\/p>\n<p>I actually think Brennan Johnson could do quite well for us as a striker. He has good movement, pace, and a knack of getting into goal scoring positions. Also a good finisher.    <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"contribute\"\/> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"midemphasis\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toffeeweb.com\/members\/patrons.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How to get rid of these ads and support TW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 ToffeeWeb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by Naomi Baker\/Getty Images) David Moyes has confirmed that Everton are looking at the free agents market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-672876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117214846856221593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}