The Everton Sentinel
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Dejan Joveljić 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. Dejan Joveljić is living that version at Everton, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market17 Aug 2026
Luther Erasmus arrives at Everton as the heir apparent
Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Luther Erasmus is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Everton
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
Dejan Joveljić joins Everton to strengthen the squad
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Everton have gone and got theirs early.
Market17 Aug 2026
Nicholas Shaw steps up from the Everton academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicholas Shaw 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: James Bell joins the Everton first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. James Bell is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A season on the outside for Nicolas Höfler
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Everton has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Beto has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Beto keeps the shirt for now, at Everton's convenience rather than his own.
In brief
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Dejan Joveljić
- Boardroom Everton spend it where nobody looks