The Everton Sentinel
Market9 Aug 2027
Hayden Hackney says no to Gillingham
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Hayden Hackney had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market9 Aug 2027
Burton Albion come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Everton did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market9 Aug 2027
James Tarkowski attracts admirers
The name of James Tarkowski has come up in conversations Everton were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
Still nobody in the Everton dugout
8 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Tottenham tell Everton: Exequiel Palacios is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market9 Aug 2027
Joseph Clark steps up from the Everton academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joseph Clark has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Everton
Michael Keane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Aled Thomas pulls a muscle — 16 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
A clean slate for Jordan Pickford
A new manager did not pick last season’s side and does not care what it looked like. Jordan Pickford has taken that personally, in the best sense, and Everton are seeing a version of him the last regime had stopped seeing.
In brief
- Squad Tyler Dibling has had enough of the bench
- Squad Merlin Röhl still has not settled
- The dugout Hayden Hackney has been promised minutes