Michael Keane

Central Defender - Everton
23 Aug 2026
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The Everton Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $43.6M for Kasper Dolberg

Everton have gone to Ajax with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kai Havertz

Everton asked and Arsenal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Business is business: Thierno Barry goes

Leeds United paid $35.1M and Everton took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Tyler Dibling has said yes to Manchester City

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Everton have lost him in all but the paperwork.

The terraces

A $35.1M sale, and a town that did not want it

Thierno Barry has gone, the accounts have $35.1M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

Everton turn down Shrewsbury Town for Braiden Graham

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom

4 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.

Market

Exeter City watching Hugo Magallanes

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Everton have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at Everton training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ainsley Maitland-Niles 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.

In brief