Everton are aiming to sign young, British stars as part of a new recruitment focus, sources have told Football Insider.
Speaking on the latest edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, senior correspondent Pete O’Rourke revealed that David Moyes is the driving force behind the new transfer plan after seeing success with it in the past.
I’ve long said we should do this.
Look at the best deals we’ve had previously.
Coleman Baines Jagielka Lescott Stones Braithwaite Calvert Lewin, Pickford all bought for peanuts and sold/could be/could have been sold for huge sums.
Even our other good signings Gueye Richarlison Lukaku Cahill Ndiaye all were playing/or recently playing in English football.
Quite frankly it were scouting players abroad why would they come to Everton? If there’s an about from any other club in CL football we’ve immediately lost out. It’s difficult for work permit reasons, location reasons, squad integration reasons. It’s obviously not impossible but it’s just more difficult.
You look at some of the good players round the British and Irish squads since Moyes left though. Could we not have offered Maddison football before Leicester did, might Chilwell have ended up here, or Toney, or Vardy, what if we’d offered big money for Kane when he was sat on Millwall and Leicester’s bench before Pochettino gave him a shot. Might we have taken chances on Robertson Maguire Mcginn etc.
There’ll be too players coming out of club’s academies now who can’t get in first teams of top 6 squads. There’ll be top talent coming out of the championship or lower leagues. We should be there with the right number in the offer giving them first team football and getting them here before they end up going somewhere else and exploding in value.
I’d much rather we did this than spend our time scouting Brazil Portugal Spain Argentina etc. as what has that ever resulted in for the club? A few kids who came and left without making a difference.
Get the scouts covering every blade of grass across the UK and Ireland and make sure we get the next John Stones and Branthwaite. In an era when Real Madrid are buying up teenagers like Vinicius Rodrygo Endrick before they’ve barely broken into senior teams in Brazil it shows there’s almost zero point competing over there.
