Mark Travers

Goalkeeper - Everton
27 Dec 2026
Sunday
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20 Edition

The Everton Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Everton out of the cup

Ipswich Town ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

Danny Ward breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Mark Travers wins the shoot-out

1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Player ratings

Nicolás Montiel, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96

A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Words exchanged at Everton

Jack Grealish and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

The run is over for Everton

8 matches without defeat, and then Tottenham. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jack Grealish

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jack Grealish, and the manager let it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Everton against Tottenham

1‑2 to Tottenham, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Loan watch

George Pickford wants to come home

“I did not go to Accrington Stanley to sit and watch. I want to come back to Everton and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Everton Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Danny Ward out for 73 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Everton will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at Everton

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

Market

Jarrad Branthwaite raises the bar for Everton

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Everton heard it as anything else.

Squad

A row about effort at Everton

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

Squad

Mark Travers signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mark Travers commits to Everton for another 5 years.

Player ratings

Brennan Johnson was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of James Tarkowski

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 92 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Everton had all but put away. Bournemouth will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Loan watch

Braiden Graham has seen enough of Exeter City

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Everton, and 10 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

  • Match Everton share the spoils with Bournemouth
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Looking ahead Everton take on the side everybody is chasing
14 Edition

The Everton Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Braian Martínez sends Everton through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Braian Martínez obliged against Lincoln City. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Everton.

Squad

Danny Ward breaks a bone — 82 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Heitor keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Everton may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall wants more than Everton are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Jack Grealish 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.

Squad

A move Peter Thomas 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. Peter Thomas is living that version at Everton, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces

Everton supporters have found a favourite in Stefanos Tzimas

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Stefanos Tzimas has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

Mark Travers wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

A row about effort at Everton

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

In brief