The Everton Sentinel
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Iliman N'Diaye goes
Union Berlin paid $66.6M and Everton took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market31 Aug 2026
James Garner asks to leave Everton
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everton rebuffed over Dominic Calvert-Lewin
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Leeds United have kept their man, and Everton go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Everton get their man
The chase for Richard Hurtado ended with $7.1M changing hands and Valledupar out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
A $66.6M sale, and a town that did not want it
Iliman N'Diaye has gone, the accounts have $66.6M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Oscar Fraulo rejects the move
Everton had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Derby County, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Real improvement from Braiden Graham at Everton
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Braiden Graham is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market31 Aug 2026
Omari Benjamin moves on
Ajax Cape Town pay $440.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Match29 Aug 2026
James Garner sends Everton past Fulham
It finished 1‑0, and it was James Garner’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Everton.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Everton
- Player ratings James Garner was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Squad 4 Everton players away with their countries