EXCL: Everton face a fight to keep hold of Iliman Ndiaye this summer. New contract(s) has been on table for months but remains unsigned
Forward has 3 years remaining on current deal, so #EFC in strong position. Desire to keep key man
@TheAthleticFC
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Hackney links are interesting - considering the positions we need to strengthen, I didn’t think we’d be signing a CM first. What does this mean for the likes of Armstrong, Rohl, Tim?
@SteveCarlile1 Yeah think I agree with you! Shame, I think with the right work he could become a really good player for us! Definitely see something in him - I know I’m in the minority with that!
Havertz wins a throw-in at +5:12, hands it to Mosquera at +5:25, hands it to Rice for the long throw-in at +5:46.
Win a corner from the throw-in at +5:55. Saka begins to put the ball down at +6:25.
The entire first half. A set-piece clock is needed. 10s
24.7% - Arsenal’s possession average (24.7%) was the lowest by a team in a UEFA Champions League final on record (since 2003-04), as well as their lowest in any match under Mikel Arteta where they had 11 men on the pitch throughout. Reactive.
🚨🇪🇸 Andoni Iraola will make a decision on his future soon after several approaches.
Bayer Leverkusen are in direct talks, Crystal Palace proposal still on the table.
In the recent weeks Iraola has been waiting for movements in Premier League as priority.
Bayer, not giving up.
🚨🔵 EXCL | Tyrique George has been told he will not be going out on loan this summer, and the decision came directly from Alonso.
The 19-year-old attacker was expected to follow the standard Chelsea academy-to-loan pipeline. Alonso ended that conversation before it could begin. He watched George’s cup appearances from this season and told Cobham staff the winger has “an unusual understanding of space for his age.”
George will be in first-team training from day one of preseason. He won’t start Premier League matches immediately. But Alonso wants him in the environment, absorbing the system.
Another Leverkusen principle applied at Chelsea, develop from within, in-house, under direct supervision. George’s representatives are quietly thrilled. #CFC
Everton had more Everton players sent off for fouling Everton players this season than opposition players dismissed for fouling Everton players…You’ll never sing that
🚨 James Maddison CALLS OUT the #THFC medical team: 😳
“Our situation with the injuries has been worse than any other club”
“We need to look at why that is!”
“The big names we’ve missed, it does effect you and you can’t just deny that”
“If we’d had myself and Kulusevski and Kudus, we wouldn’t have been in this situation”
After the resounding 3-0 win against Chelsea in late March, Everton had registered 46 points from 31 games. David Moyes’ side would have only needed eight points from their final seven matches to achieve qualification for the Europa League and possibly seven (depending on goal difference) for the Conference League.
Had they kept pace with their points-per-game total (1.48) up to that point, a place in Europe would have been theirs. But instead they took a meagre three (at 0.43 ppg), conceding a series of debilitating late goals and faltering at just the wrong moment.
There will be much focus on Moyes’ future, with the Scot heading into the final year of his deal this summer. All the indications so far suggest that The Friedkin Group admires the job the 63-year-old has done until now and believes him to be a steadying influence.
The main focus from TFG has been on incremental growth over time, with the club having budgeted for a 12th-placed finish.
@Paddy_Boyland on how Everton’s European hopes evaporated — free to read: https://t.co/owjjDj32Sg
We were so poor, they’re one of the shittest teams in the league and we made them look half decent. Tactics awful, players either knackered or not arsed, no plan! Just utter dire and absolutely criminal that we have thrown away European football!