Simon Phillips

Goalkeeper - Everton U18
2 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Simon Phillips

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The Everton Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Konstantin Tyukavin

Everton and Dinamo Moscow have settled on $21.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets

Everton rebuffed over Marc Guéhi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Manchester City have kept their man, and Everton go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Everton bid $34.4M for Youri Baas

The offer went to Ajax this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

RB Leipzig 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.

Market

Everton get their man

The chase for Samuel Edozie ended with $4.3M changing hands and Southampton out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market

Everton sell Harrison Armstrong for $6.1M

Harrison Armstrong has left for West Ham United in a $6.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

A move Sonny Bradley would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sonny Bradley is living that version at Everton, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

A falling-out at Everton

Jordan Pickford and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Everton

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and James Garner was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

  • Boardroom 5 academy players handed senior numbers at Everton
  • Market One of our own: Simon Phillips joins the Everton first team
  • Looking ahead The neighbours are next for Everton