The Rebuild

[TheRam]

Majority of the money needs to be spent on players under 25.

This is a complete reset from eight years of going backwards and near on collapsing completely.

We need to something sustainable to build on and you only do that by adding younger, talented players to the squad.

Soucek, Richarlison, are just the same mistakes from the past.

Ndiaye, obrien, Alcaraz, young and raw but with a lot of potential. This should be the mantra for the summer.

[Bluebridge]

Ooh Soucek and Richarlison... Exciting times

They combine for assist and first goal at BMD

[Goaljira]

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Ndiaye, obrien, Alcaraz, young and raw but with a lot of potential. This should be the mantra for the summer.

Not going to lie, it took my brain a second longer than I'd have liked to realise young wasn't capitalised.

[Silas]

Majority of the money needs to be spent on players under 25.

This is a complete reset from eight years of going backwards and near on collapsing completely.

We need to something sustainable to build on and you only do that by adding younger, talented players to the squad.

Soucek, Richarlison, are just the same mistakes from the past.

Ndiaye, obrien, Alcaraz, young and raw but with a lot of potential. This should be the mantra for the summer.

If those two were the only two and then we added players in the quantity and ilk of an Ndiaye, O'Brien etc then that would make sense. We do need to make youth the priority wherever we can and experience should only be a replacement for outgoing experience.

[Bluedylan1]

We've got the oldest or 2nd oldest squad in the Prem, as we have for the last 2/3 years.

The absolute last thing we need is experience. We have loads of experienced players who are pretty shit at football. We need good younger players.

[Trowel]

Would love Moyes to take a chance on a few Championship players like the old days. Someone like Borja Sainz is worth a punt with that potential.

[Shogun]

Would love Moyes to take a chance on a few Championship players like the old days. Someone like Borja Sainz is worth a punt with that potential.

We have been linked with Chris Rigg.

Wouldn't mind Bellingham either. Still loads of talent in lower leagues, they just cost £20m minimum these days.

[Cozzie]

Would love Moyes to take a chance on a few Championship players like the old days. Someone like Borja Sainz is worth a punt with that potential.

Heavily linked with that Tom Fellows at West Brom too.

Ivanovic as a back up striker at Milwall looks decent in all.

[Shogun]

Wonder if they'd go for Branthwaite as a replacement

[Silas]

Yeah lower leagues or abroad makes a lot of sense transfer wise for value. No issue with the right players from the prem but it shouldn't be our go to transfer strategy

[Cozzie]

[Cozzie]

Forget how to get past the pay wall, sorry.

[Cozzie]

Everton’s head of recruitment Dan Purdy is set to become the latest high-profile figure to leave the club.

Purdy had initially been earmarked for the new role of head of player identification as part of a revamped recruitment structure put together by incoming CEO Angus Kinnear. However, the 31-year-old is instead expected to pursue an opportunity elsewhere.

It is now anticipated that Purdy will join outgoing director of football Kevin Thelwell in leaving the Merseyside club in the coming weeks. Thelwell’s contract was not renewed by Everton’s owners The Friedkin Group (TFG), and it was confirmed last week he will take on an equivalent role at Scottish Premiership side Rangers.

A former manager of scouting and operations for director of football Marcel Brands, Purdy left Everton in December 2021 during Rafa Benitez’s turbulent spell as manager. He returned to his old role when Thelwell replaced Brands in March 2022, and was promoted under the former Wolves director of football’s watch to head of recruitment at the start of the following season.

Purdy has been an increasingly influential figure behind the scenes at Everton in recent years. He played a key role in the additions of Amadou Onana from Lille, James Garner from Manchester United and, last summer, Iliman Ndiaye from French side Marseille. He and Thelwell had also tracked winter addition Carlos Alcaraz, a deadline-day loan signing from Flamengo in Brazil, for a number of years.

With Everton operating on tight budgets, most deals were structured in a way as to avoid an up front fee.

The club’s perilous financial predicament prior to TFG’s takeover meant they often resorted to solutions from the loan market. This season, Everton have signed five players — Jack Harrison, Jesper Lindstrom, Orel Mangala, Armando Broja and Alcaraz — on temporary deals.

Despite those challenges, Purdy remained well regarded at the club and further afield.

The expectation had been that, unlike Thelwell, he would play a part in Everton’s summer squad overhaul. Kinnear and TFG will now have to quickly source a replacement before a key transfer window in which 15 Everton players are set to see their deals expire.

As previously reported by The Athletic, former Leeds consultant Nick Hammond is primed to take on the role of head of trading in Kinnear’s new structure. Manager David Moyes will be another influential voice in the new-look transfer committee.

Some of Thelwell’s duties will be taken on by a new director of football operations. Recruitment for that position is still in process and being handled by executive search firm Nolan Partners.

Everton are 15th in the Premier League table, having secured their top-flight status before their summer move to a new stadium on Liverpool’s waterfront

[Gash]

All clearing the path for David Weir to come in.

[Cods]

Mangala, Lindstrøm, Harrison, Alcaraz and Broja are all loans and will just be replaced by similar (or, hopefully, better loans).

Gueye is hopefully going to re-sign. Keepers don't count and I'd expect one or both of Virginia or Begovic to re-sign/be replaced for actual peanuts.

The point I'm making is that we need to strike deals for a dozen players, which we absolutely do. A dozen that are either new to the club, or sign up again. Whether they are loans or permanents is largely irrelevant, we have alot of scope to take on numerous players to fill gaps and to satisfy quality deficiencies. Mentally stronger players with leadership traits should form some of this, and I think Moyes will look to do this with adding one or more experienced prem ready players.

Kinnear and TFG will now have to quickly source a replacement before a key transfer window in which 15 Everton players are set to see their deals expire.

EDIT: 15 actually, hope we've got our skates on.