{"id":309319,"date":"2025-08-01T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309319\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:12:14","slug":"everton-and-david-moyes-encounter-major-issue-ahead-of-leeds-united-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309319\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton and David Moyes encounter major issue ahead of Leeds United opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United play Everton at Elland Road in the Premier League\u2019s first Monday Night Football game of the 2025\/26 season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening day against Everton is just over two weeks away, with Leeds United\u2019s opening Premier League games showing a mixed bag<\/a> in recent seasons.<\/p>\n

Leeds\u2019 first XI vs Everton<\/a> will hopefully take shape in the coming weeks, with more additions still needed before Daniel Farke feels they are ready to attack the division.<\/p>\n

There is already a blow in their preparations, with Jaka Bijol missing the Everton game<\/a> as we first revealed. It means Bijol\u2019s first game will be against Arsenal<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

\"EvertonPhoto by Carl Recine\/Getty ImagesDavid Moyes\u2019 major transfer concerns in time for Leeds playing Everton<\/p>\n

Leeds fans are fuming over Everton ticket prices<\/a> but the picture in West Yorkshire is far more positive than it is on Merseyside currently, given the recent comments from David Moyes.<\/p>\n

Speaking prior to playing West Ham United in pre-season, Moyes reiterated that Everton were \u201choping to have done more business\u201d by now and said \u201cwe\u2019re just stalling a little bit in some departments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Via The Athletic<\/a>, he said: \u201cThe truth is, we are not getting them over the line at the moment, so that\u2019s a fact. We\u2019re not getting a lot of the deals done that we were hoping to do. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re continually reassessing and moving on if things are not coming to fruition. We want to challenge ourselves to get good players if that is possible, and we\u2019re trying to do that but we\u2019re finding it quite difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe fact of the matter is we\u2019ve got to rebuild trust in people who should come to Everton and show that the club is going in the right direction. Let\u2019s hope we can pull it together for them (the supporters) and get them a team to be proud of by the start of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m telling them straight at the moment. We are having a bit of a struggle getting ones in quickly enough, but we\u2019re trying to do players who could give us a chance of challenging to be one of those teams in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that time\u2019s running out. We\u2019ve probably had five weeks, six weeks certainly, probably more since the end of last season. We got to start getting moving on because it will not be long till the window starts to get a bit closer to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully things will start to fall into place. We are just beginning (to think) \u2018my goodness we are just not getting enough over the line.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are actively working on it. It\u2019s not like we are a club waiting to sell a player in order to bring ones in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, Everton have signed four new players. However, the Toffees only have a first-team squad size of 21 and only seven of those are aged between 23 and 30 and in the \u2018peak-age\u2019 bracket.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most damning of all comes via Toffee Web<\/a> post-match, he added: \u201cWe\u2019re not ready to perform well enough in this tournament. We\u2019re not ready to start the Premier League season.\u201d Moyes claims they need \u201cat least five or six more players.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DanielPhoto by Catherine Ivill \u2013 AMA\/Getty ImagesLeeds United\u2019s hardest run of the season after Everton<\/p>\n

Leeds\u2019 start to the campaign is far from their hardest run of the campaign, even if Everton should not be underestimated. Leeds have difficult games starting in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following West Ham United at Elland Road at the end of October, Leeds then face Brighton away and it doesn\u2019t get much easier after that for some time.<\/p>\n