The Everton Sentinel
Squad23 Aug 2038
Timothy Martin breaks a bone — 45 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Aug 2038
Jonathan Murphy keeps Everton in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings23 Aug 2038
Age has not caught Iliman N'Diaye yet — 8.25
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.25 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad23 Aug 2038
Tempers go at Everton
Iliman N'Diaye 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.
Squad23 Aug 2038
Words at Everton training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Camilo Santos is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom23 Aug 2038
9 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2038
Ninety minutes of Tyler Dibling at his very best
Marked 9.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Everton.
Market23 Aug 2038
One of our own: James Morris joins the Everton first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. James Morris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2038
One of our own: Jonathan King joins the Everton first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jonathan King is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Mark Murphy steps up from the Everton academy
- Market Everton promote Jonathan White from within
- Boardroom A promise the Everton board did not keep