Christopher Phillips

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Everton U18
22 Apr 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Christopher Phillips

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The Everton Sentinel

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Matias Siltanen: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Everton have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Only the photograph left for Hugo Magallanes

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Hugo Magallanes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Everton the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout

Jordan Pickford gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Lamine Cissé’s exile

14 goals in 37 games at Grimsby Town — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Everton updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Market

Everton promote Daniel Hawkins from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Hawkins has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Christopher Phillips steps up from the Everton academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Christopher Phillips 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.

Market

Everton promote Oliver Williams from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oliver Williams has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Player ratings

One of those days for Brennan Johnson

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Words exchanged at Everton

Sidiki Chérif and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief