Jack Grealish could play in several positions, hints David Moyes

Steve Stanway

1 Posted
15/08/2025 at
15:38:47

They will not see much action in Leeds on Sunday 😃 Just hope WE turn up on Monday Evening and win the game 👍

Eddie Palin

2 Posted
15/08/2025 at
15:48:33

Is he any good at right back?

Kieran Kinsella

3 Posted
15/08/2025 at
15:49:06

DCL really screwed up didn’t he? Held Everton to ransom, thought he could do even better and ends up at Leeds earning less.

Kevin Molloy

4 Posted
15/08/2025 at
15:53:32

and I reckon those wages’ll get cut in half when they get relegated.

Benjamin Dyke

5 Posted
15/08/2025 at
16:28:25

Moyes was very sour at the presser due to the media already knowing about things that he thought should never have come out publically – particularly the news of Branthwaite’s training ground injury which rules him out.

Paul Kossoff

6 Posted
15/08/2025 at
16:28:42

Bournemouth have opened talks to sign Scotland winger Ben Doak from Liverpool.
The Reds want £25m for the 19-year-old.
Could he do a job for us? Yes he’s better than, um, well,better than um, whoever we can rope in and play out of position, so yes he can do a job for us, but our great recruitment team will probably haggle, and try to reduce the fee and he’ll go elsewhere.

James Marshall

7 Posted
15/08/2025 at
16:33:19

We have a right back in O’Brien. I think he’s been decent at right back – when he’s played centre half he’s looked awful. His positional sense is horrific in the middle.

Robert Tressell

8 Posted
15/08/2025 at
16:41:51

To be fair, James, O’Brien really was decent as a RB when Moyes played him there.

As a CB he seems to be anything between (a) Champions League quality and (b) your assessment of him as being awful. Personally, I think he’s neither (yet).

As a long term RB though, he is a weird solution. I heard some commentators say he provided an unorthodox attacking outlet because we could hit a big diagonal to him and he’d obviously win the header against a winger / conventional full-back.

With the ball he’s not bad either. But like I say, a weird solution as a “proper” RB.

Jay Harris

9 Posted
15/08/2025 at
16:47:28

James I agree to an extent.

He is certainly no Tark’s nor Jarred yet at CB but he does a solid job at RB in the Kyle Walker mould i.e. quick and aggressive and gets up and down the pitch.

Having said that I really like the look of the Norwich RB who I watched for 90 minutes the other day and his passing and movement was top class.

I think the RB and RW choices need to be complimentary in the Baines-Pienaar way although right now I would settle for a body for the RW slot.

Danny O’Neill

10 Posted
15/08/2025 at
17:20:38

James,

Jake has performed very well at right back. He also did well at centre back.

A few wobbles occasionally in both positions, but name me a player who doesn’t have them.

I think describing his positional sense as horrific, although a personal view, is a bit harsh from what I’ve watched.

Barry Williams

11 Posted
15/08/2025 at
17:22:42

I actually like O’Brien as a right back at the moment. He can defend very well, because he is a cb by trade he can help the shape of the team morph somewhat when either in or out of possession, and he’s a massive physical presence and is decent in the opposition box too. Plus, being much bigger than the traditional right back, he adds more height to what is already a big team when conceding a corner.

I don’t feel right back is the priority several are making it out to be.

Just an opinion!

Stuart Sharp

12 Posted
15/08/2025 at
17:26:44

For Moyes to say there are higher priorities than RB worries me. O’Brien did look good there, but is that really a sustainable plan? Our recognised RBs are Seamus and Patto… Plus O’Brien is surely a better option for covering Branthwaite (or Tark) than Keane? I agree O’Brien didn’t look wonderful at CB in those friendlies, but Keane’s lack of pace makes it very easy to hurt us. And that’s before you factor in how often he drops a clanger.

Robert Tressell

13 Posted
15/08/2025 at
17:31:19

I think Moyes just means they will sort out a RW as top priority and RB after that

Tony Abrahams

14 Posted
15/08/2025 at
17:38:20

I’ve just come back from Turkey, Paul K, and one of the things I found most depressing, was that with most people now using plastic, even the Turks, don’t really want to haggle anymore.

I also spoke to a few who had complete disdain for what they referred to as a very dangerous refugee problem, but I was more worried for the bored shopkeepers, who just don’t seem to have the same energy anymore.

They reminded me of myself with regards the football, because since the introduction of VAR, amongst other things, I just can’t seem to get as excited anymore.

It’s the same everywhere apparently because according to the Turks, it was only invented to help Galatasary, win the league!

Mark Tanton

15 Posted
15/08/2025 at
17:45:41

DCL has found his level. Thought he’d have the pick of top six teams it seems. Also seems to have been primarily about wages and greed too. Good riddance.

Ian Bennett

16 Posted
15/08/2025 at
17:53:46

5 players were mentioned.

Keeper
Right back
Centre midfielder
Two righy wingers

He said bids have been made. There is money to spend, they’ll push in the last 2 weeks. If not they’ll be looking at the Christmas window for what they can’t get now (assume right back).

Christy Ring

17 Posted
15/08/2025 at
18:53:30

Kieran, Dom should have sacked his agent months ago, got into his head that the big teams in the Premiership and Italy were going to snap him up. Listening to Moyes today, he was looking for massive wages, and I agree he’s definitely on less money than we offered, and Leeds were never in his plans, beggars can’t be choosers sadly.

Martin Berry

18 Posted
15/08/2025 at
18:59:39

The Manager playing his cards close to his chest and someone will be in trouble for the Branthewaite leak.
He certainly put them on the table over DCL, despite his kind eulogy he wanted to bleed the club, I wish him well but glad he has gone. Good luck with Leeds ? ?
Beto got a huge defensive thumbs up and support from the Manager, who respects his hard work and wiling to learn. Beto will score alot of goals this will really be his breakout season.
I don’t think it will be long before that right side is sorted, plus a number 6 brought in.

George Cumiskey

19 Posted
15/08/2025 at
19:03:36

I agree with Paul Kossof we should be going for Ben Doakes at 25million would be a steal in my opinion.

Tony Abrahams

20 Posted
15/08/2025 at
20:00:48

McAtee for £20 million, and yet Liverpool want £25 million for Douk?

They are absolutely brilliant at getting top money for young players our neighbours, especially when compared with Everton.

Davies – free transfer, Kenny – free transfer and DCL – free transfer.

Liverpool sold Nico Williams who was comparable to Jonjoe for about £20 million, and are now looking to get another £25 for a kid who has played a few games in senior football?

The kid might be special, he might even be worth a punt, but my only hope is that Everton, can become as ultra-professional, and ruthless as our neighbours..

Steve Shave

21 Posted
15/08/2025 at
20:05:30

I definitely wouldn’t compare Doak with Kenny Tony! Doak is different gravy.

Jon Sellick

22 Posted
15/08/2025 at
20:07:23

If Mykolenko plays, then keep O’Brien at right back and play Keane.

If Mykolenko is out too, would you go three at the back with Garner and McNeil on the sides?

Notice Liverpool have their first choice eleven out tonight – not a calf strain amongst them. Got to be sheer luck hasn’t it? Must be great – and as we know, they know no other reality.
Bucket of shit = roses.

Danny O’Neill

23 Posted
15/08/2025 at
20:23:28

Steve @21, if you look at the underlying point Tony makes, Liverpool command high prices for their young players.

A combination of using their name and clubs thinking “he played for Liverpool, he must be good”.

Tony Abrahams

24 Posted
15/08/2025 at
20:26:20

Fair enough Steve, but I don’t know how you could read what I posted and then come to that conclusion, if I’m being honest, mate!

Tony Abrahams

25 Posted
15/08/2025 at
20:42:43

The obvious difference between the two clubs, Jon, is that even if they had four or five injuries, Liverpool have got enough quality in their squad to cope

Hopefully this comment is enough to jinx the bastards tonight 🤞

Liam Mogan

26 Posted
15/08/2025 at
20:55:34

The RS got £15m from Bournemouth for Jordan Ibe in 2016. Which was daylight robbery.

They then got £23.5m from Sheff Utd for Rhian Brewster in 2020. Which was grand larceny.

They just keep doing it and for that reason alone I would swerve Ben Doak. They rarely sell good players nowadays. Sheedy, Morrisey, Beardsley etc were decades ago.

Robert Tressell

27 Posted
15/08/2025 at
20:55:52

Tony, Neco Williams is miles better than JJK and their careers seem to confirm that. The RS do trade off the name etc but these young players have performed on loan at high standards and in international football. That’s generally why they command bigger fees. They do also sell or release low standard players for peanuts

David West

28 Posted
15/08/2025 at
21:00:16

DcL been badly advised.
Wouldn’t you just have extended your existing contract for 1 year ?

Will be a tough game there Monday. If we had our full defence I’d be relaxed.
The thought of Keane in a bouncing Elland Rd scares me.

Is myko fit ?
Are we looking at 3 cbs ?
Mcneil & Garner at wingback?

Get 100m player for next to nothing and still we are looking at Crisis mode before a ball been kicked.
Wouldn’t be Everton if we weren’t fighting something or someone.
2-0 still.

Tony Abrahams

29 Posted
15/08/2025 at
21:25:53

Jonjoe Kenny, was capped at every level except the senior’s for England, Robert (under twenty World Cup winner) and if he was welsh, I’m certain he would have a lot of senior caps as well.

I don’t think there is much between him and Nico Williams, maté and definitely not £20 million.

Kenny has had a decent career in Germany, since he left Everton, for nothing, (Everton had him sold for around £5/6 million at one stage, until Brands allegedly wanted a little bit more money) and has now moved to Greece.

Maybe Williams, would get a better move if he left Forest now, but I genuinely thought Kenny, was a better player than Williams, (subjective) and we should have definitely received a decent fee for him, instead of letting him run down his contract and walking out the door on a free.

Don Alexander

30 Posted
15/08/2025 at
21:52:33

Tony (#20 and since) you’re 100% correct and the canker still engulfing us goes back decades, is more noxious than Japanese knot-weed, and even harder to remove.

The reality I describe has meant that the world-wide top-range football clubs, players and agents have decades ago seen us as on a par with the likes of Espanyol in Spain, but much better able to pay top-dollar for dross on the field, and they’ve taken full advantage of our self-serving-only leadership throughout nigh on the entire Premiership.

Friedkin needs to realise this and I’m sure he already realises how pernicious the PSR system is to any club now with a mind to spend like the chosen few who still dominate as trophy winners.

What he can do about it is anyone’s guess but his task dwarfs Moyes’s.

Hope springs eternal they say……. unless it’s in a bed of JKW I say.

Si Cooper

31 Posted
15/08/2025 at
22:44:21

You need to contextualise Jake O’Brien’s performances at centre back. Either he has had a lesser right-back to play with or a lesser centre-back partner.
A steady run with a decent / proper right-back and I think he would have less compensating to do and so will be fine.

Steve Shave

32 Posted
15/08/2025 at
22:46:32

Fair enough Danny and Tony, I think I just mean I actually think Doak is a player they are prepared to let go who could actually turn out to be really good.

Ernie Baywood

33 Posted
15/08/2025 at
22:48:39

David 28 – no-one seems willing to contemplate that Calvert-Lewin might have actually wanted to leave us. And by ‘us’ I mean a very collective us.

Whether you agree or not, he might believe he was played up front in some dreadfully defensive teams, mismanaged by the medical team, rushed back into the side repeatedly, taunted by fans for his fashion choices, had his mental health publicly questioned by his manager, and had his wife abused by online trolls.

Maybe he just wanted to get out. I wouldn’t have believed it because he never said anything but good things about Everton and Evertonians, but leaving without a deal agreed elsewhere does smack of a guy being prepared to take his chances rather than stay.

The glee from some fans in him struggling for a team and then turning up at a newly promoted team isn’t a good look, in my opinion. And shows a lack of any kind of collective self reflection.

He’s made the decision to move on and show some class in his words, and a portion of our fans would be well advised to do the same.

Scott Hamilton

34 Posted
15/08/2025 at
23:00:13

So, let’s have a reality check.

I’ll happily take a draw at Elland Road. That’s not defeatist, I’m just being realistic. A newly promoted team, pressing hard, against an Everton team that, at that point, won’t have gelled.

Come 24th at The Hill Dick though, I expect 3-1 to The Mighty Blues™ and the real start of our 2025-26 PL campaign to begin.

UTFT! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

David West

35 Posted
15/08/2025 at
23:01:21

Wo wo wo.
Ernie I didn’t say DCL shouldn’t have left, souldnt have run his contract down, shouldn’t have carried s handbag or worn a skirt.
I said he had been badly advised.
In my opinion, he’s gone from us an established PL club( one fighting relagation year on year)
To Leeds ( one yo yoing year on year )
Fair enough if you feel your time is done and move on.
To be without a Club at his stage of his career was a bit strange.
Everton, by Moyes statement wanted him to stay.

I always liked him, tried hid best, put his body on the line, gsve his all, in some terrible teams and times.
But he was no isakk, he was no haaland.

He could potentially have had his best season here with the signings we’ve made.
Good luck to the lad. Just not Monday!

Stuart Sharp

36 Posted
15/08/2025 at
23:02:07

Well said Ernie. Have never understood the stick he got. I mean, stick for his finishing, maybe, but personal stuff? The guy has been a positive character, scored some immense goals, and generally conducted himself with class. I wish him nothing but the best except against us.

Andy Crooks

37 Posted
15/08/2025 at
23:07:47

Great post, Ernie.

Ernie Baywood

38 Posted
15/08/2025 at
23:08:13

Sorry David, that wasn’t intended as an attack on you personally. Just a counter to the idea that he was badly advised or that it would have made sense to sign a one year contract. He might actually be relieved to be out.

We don’t necessarily know the full story – hence the glee from some isn’t a good look. And there is another thread on here that is full of glee.

Mike Gaynes

39 Posted
15/08/2025 at
23:29:54

Ernie, evidently Dom himself believes he was badly advised. Firing one’s agent in the middle of a transfer window is highly unusual.

Kieran Kinsella

40 Posted
15/08/2025 at
23:32:40

Robert/Tony

To Tony’s point look at Jordan Ibe and Brewster sold for 10s of millions between them based on “potential” one nos still in his 20s is playing for 400 a week in that 6 a side baller league, the other just released in a free transfer. Not a fan of his by any means but Tom Davies accomplished much more than either as did Kieran Dowell and JJK

Ernie Baywood

41 Posted
15/08/2025 at
23:38:05

Mike, maybe badly advised or represented at some point.

I think some blues would love to believe he sacked his agent while saying through tears… you made me leave the club I loved, we should have taken the lower wage, you said I was too good for Everton.

It could be true, but it’s probably just a bit comfortable for Evertonians to believe. Big life decisions tend to be a bit more nuanced.

Kevin Molloy

42 Posted
16/08/2025 at
00:14:16

he wasn’t exactly a charity case though was he Ernie. What was it, over a hundred thousand pounds a week for five years? He did very well out of Everton, and then ran his contract down cos he wanted to maximise his financial position even more. As was his right. But if he left a slightly sour taste in the mouth that’s not surprising given what’s gone on. We put him on a monster contract, didn’t get much back, and he then made the decision to put the transfer fee in his back pocket at a time when we were fending off 777. Must admit I’m glad to see the back of him.

Mike Gaynes

43 Posted
16/08/2025 at
00:28:29

Looks like another possible right winger might slip away before we’d even heard about him. Fabrizio Romano says Nico Gonzalez of Juventus is an Everton target — no press leaks on that one — but Atlético Madrid has come in and opened their own talks with the Old Lady, and of course they can offer Champions League footy.

Nico can play a bit. Argentine international, very quick. Would be a nice get if we could.

Romano also reports Wolves will beat Everton to right back Jackson Tchatchoua from Hellas Verona with a £10 million offer.

Jay Harris

44 Posted
16/08/2025 at
01:42:22

That’s the problem Mike.

Moyes says we’re looking at lots of players but the players we are allegedly interested in are all joining other clubs.

I think it will be a travesty if we don’t sign at least a RB and RW in this window and hopefully soon.

Derek Thomas

45 Posted
16/08/2025 at
01:57:19

Everybody wants star (read big money) forwards AMs wingers. How hard can it be to fill one of the more mundane – but still important – positions, it’s not like Coleman got Injuried last week like Branthwaite, it’s been at least 2 ‘kin years if not more.

Moyes used to like his players to have a value for money ‘Utility’ mode, if a RB proves impossible…how hard can it be ffs…he’ll sign a centre half and push O’Brien out wide..

How hard?

Very, apparently.

Christine Foster

46 Posted
16/08/2025 at
02:19:48

Ernie 33# Exactly right. We don’t know what DCL demands were or for that matter what Everton were actually offering (who knows? could have been less than he was already on!) What we do know is what you reminded us on, abuse of his wife, derision of his choices outside football, and abuse on the pitch playing as a lone attacker for Sean Dyche. Let me say that again, a lone attacker for Sean Dyche. The man who was sacked because of the his inability to get the best out of the players we had. David Moyes proved that.
For years he has been the ONLY striker we have had and scored some beauts. His injury record in the past few is not great, but again, the pressure on him to return as the only forward was immense. It didn’t help, and probably contributed.
He is gone, Its the best thing for him and us, but he served us well. The stats might say one thing but they do not show the quality of the manager he was playing for, or the players around him that were supposed to provide chances. The strikers life is a game of averages, get three chances, score one. We were lucky to get single chances in most games under Dyche. Remember that?

Mike Gaynes

47 Posted
16/08/2025 at
02:52:32

Not ALL, Jay. Not all.

We are a mediocre team pursuing really good players or prospects.

On most we’ll be outbid or just not as attractive. But if we get one or two out of ten, job done. We got Grealish and KDH, and we will get help on the right.

But I doubt right away. More likely on loan at the end of the window. And we won’t fill every vacancy in one window. Because we’re going for the good ‘uns, thank you. No more desperate punts like El Ghazi and Rondon and Maupay and Lindstrom and Broja. No more bodies just to fill holes.

Let’s see what the process produces.

Steve Brown

48 Posted
16/08/2025 at
03:47:29

Interesting that the confidence is still there about doing the necessary transfer business before the deadline in 16 days.

Transfers to bring in a right winger and right back are not nice to have. They would address serious gaps in the balance and depth of the squad – and it is clear Moyes feels the same way.

I can understand that it might be challenging to sign a creative and pacey right winger – they are sought after in the market. The offer of European football is an attraction factor. But it is really poor that we have failed to sign a right back and will rely on a centre-back and a 36 year old to start the season.

My guess is that we were confident in doing the Dibling deal at our valuation and spent too long trying to get the deal done in that financial framework. Now we have pivoted away to other targets, we are finding that other clubs have progressed with deals for these players.

it is unfortunately more likely that we will need to compromise on the quality of the player to fill these positions. Or we try to manage with what we have until January.

We could of course bid more for Dibling – go big or go home given our transfer strategy for the summer seems to have been constructed around that deal.

Chris Davies

49 Posted
16/08/2025 at
04:03:56

Christine @46,
You can’t blame Dyche for the pitiful attempts one on one.
A striker being paid over £100k a week.
You can’t blame dyche for his failings. He’s shite in front of goal, sorry