The Everton Sentinel
The terraces1 Jan 2035
Supporters organise against the Everton board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match30 Dec 2034
The wait goes on for Everton
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Boardroom1 Jan 2035
Pressure builds in the Everton boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market1 Jan 2035
Antonino De Marco has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Everton they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Jan 2035
David Tkáč asks to leave Everton
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout1 Jan 2035
Liam Moore: 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.
Boardroom1 Jan 2035
Antonino De Marco signs for Sheffield United while still at Everton
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Antonino De Marco has agreed terms with Sheffield United for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Player ratings1 Jan 2035
Ahmed Saeed runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Jan 2035
David Tkáč in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Everton this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Aribim Pepple
- Squad A step back for Aribim Pepple at Everton
- Market Everton and Reece Braithwaite are talking past each other