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BBC News
2 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Would Walker-Peters be a smart signing?
Everton fan Mike Richards has identified Southampton right-back Kyle Walker-Peters as a player the Toffees should look to sign this 28-year-old is yet to sign a new deal with the Saints and could be available on a free transfer."There has got to be a mixture of deals [this summer] - using cash, the loan market and free transfers," Richards told BBC Radio Merseyside."Someone like Walker-Peters is on a free. We need these kind of players who know the Premier League. He's a good standard and can play left-back and right-back."We are losing Ashley Young, who has done a decent job at left-back and right-back. It is a shame he is gone, but Walker-Peters [would be a good replacement]."He wouldn't be on huge wages and would be helpful at the back."Listen to the full discussion on the summer transfer window on BBC Sounds
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
'An evolution from Doucore'
Everton fan Mike Richards spoke to BBC Radio Merseyside about the importance of signing Carlos Alcaraz on a permanent transfer following his loan spell from Flamengo: "[David] Moyes has been careful with him and he hasn't just invoked the clause automatically. "Moyes puts a lot on the character of the players. He has turned players down before because he has met them and not liked them. Advertisement "It is not big money, I think it is a bargain. If we let that deal slip, other Premier League sides will have watched him since January and get him for themselves for that kind of money. "I've been really impressed by him. I see him as an evolution in that number 10 role - going from Doucoure, who is a hard worker but not technically the best, to Alcaraz, who carries the ball really well and scores and assists. He impacts the play further up the pitch a lot more than Doucore. "For me, it was the most obvious deal of the summer to get done." Listen to the full discussion on the summer transfer window on BBC Sounds
BBC News
3 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
'An evolution from Doucore'
Everton fan Mike Richards spoke to BBC Radio Merseyside about the importance of signing Carlos Alcaraz on a permanent transfer following his loan spell from Flamengo: "[David] Moyes has been careful with him and he hasn't just invoked the clause automatically."Moyes puts a lot on the character of the players. He has turned players down before because he has met them and not liked them."It is not big money, I think it is a bargain. If we let that deal slip, other Premier League sides will have watched him since January and get him for themselves for that kind of money."I've been really impressed by him. I see him as an evolution in that number 10 role - going from Doucoure, who is a hard worker but not technically the best, to Alcaraz, who carries the ball really well and scores and assists. He impacts the play further up the pitch a lot more than Doucore."For me, it was the most obvious deal of the summer to get done."Listen to the full discussion on the summer transfer window on BBC Sounds
BBC News
4 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
'A breath of new blue air'
We asked for your views on our fan contributor Mike Richards' end of season scorecard (27 May, 12:43 BST).Here are some of your comments:Jack: Totally agree with everything Mike said. I am now looking forward to a new season with optimism instead of nervousness. Well done Moyesy for turning our team I agree with Mike. We need to look at this as a three-year project. As we need to develop a new team with a mix of current and new players. Our target next season should be 10th or higher. Join the classy "B" teams and progress from I totally agree the second half of the season has been nothing more than remarkable. All of the players have rolled their sleeves up and really got stuck in since the new owners have come in, in such a short space of time. Things are really on the A breath of new blue air when David Moyes returned, a great second half of the season, cannot wait to visit and watch at the new stadium and the transition to better times. COYBAdam: My overriding emotion from our season is is always a worrying sensation for us Evertonians! But we should be optimistic for once. We've got a manager who just gets our club perfectly and who will only bring in players who are willing and able to be taught about our club. We've got our shiny new stadium to make our own and build the atmosphere and rituals from scratch. We've got our finances and behind-the-scenes back in order. And we've got owners who are seemingly very keen to align themselves with what our club stands for and who have now got some good experience of owning a big, historical, passionate club through Roma. Everything, literally everything, for once is aligning and coming together and pointing to a much better future from Everton Football Club.
BBC News
5 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Your Everton player of the season
We asked you to select your Everton player of the season from the four candidates chosen by our fan with the poll now closed, we can reveal the winner is... Jordan Pickford!Here's what Mike Richards at Unholy Trinity, external said about him:The biggest compliment I can pay England's number one is that his consistency has become his the usual apparent agenda against him from many who don't watch him every week, his importance for Everton has once again come the final poll breakdown
