The Everton Sentinel
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Everton
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Everton
Jordan Pickford was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Braiden Graham is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match10 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Everton against Newcastle United
0‑1 to Newcastle United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Vladislav Blănuţă falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Carlos Alcaraz
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad Tim Iroegbunam gets it from the manager
- Market Tom King leaves for nothing