A very Happy New Year to each and every one of you and I wish you all nothing but positivity, perseverance and the best of luck for the coming year. Let’s face it, from a footballing perspective we’re going to need it.
Anyway, without further ado here’s the transfer gossip for 1st Jan 2023!
Juventus are interested in 29-year-old Everton and Mali midfielder
Abdoulaye Doucoure.
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According to
Sky Sports, Fulham are interested in striking a January deal which would see Doucoure swap Goodison Park for Craven Cottage. Negotiations over a move to west London are
understood to be in the early stages, while Nottingham Forest have also
joined the race for Doucoure’s signature.
Unai Emery’s Aston Villa are interested in signing
Jordan Pickford from Frank Lampard’s Everton and so are Graham Potter’s Chelsea, this is according to the unmentionable via [Publication is blacklisted due to spam] online
Everton could look at potential deals to add one of Coventry City and Sweden’s
Viktor Gyökeres or Blackburn Rovers and Chile’s
Ben Brereton Díaz to Frank Lampard’s squad at Goodison Park in January, transfer insider
Dean Jones has told GiveMeSport.
West Ham United are now reportedly the “favourites” to land Everton outcast
Michael Keane in the January transfer window as David Moyes looks to bolster his defensive roster. That’s according to journalist
Paul Brown (via
Give Me Sport), who claims Hammers’ boss David Moyes managed the centre-back briefly during his stint as manager of Manchester United, and the Scotsman is now keen on a reunion at the London Stadium.
According to a report from the
Daily Mail earlier in December the toffees are interested in
Stoke City‘s
Harry Souttar
No money?
Sky Sports pundit Clinton Morrison has spoken of his surprise at Everton’s decision to recall ex-Blackpool and Hearts loanee,
Ellis Simms, from Sunderland.
“That’s the big call: Championship to the Prem,” Morrison said on Sky Sports News. “Let me tell you something, you see League One to the Championship, it’s not a big gap. [The] Championship to the Premier League is a big gap, especially for centre-forwards.
“I think Simms has been outstanding. When I saw that news, I just went ‘I can’t believe it’ because he was flying for Sunderland. I thought Sunderland would maybe have an opportunity to finish in the top six [of the Championship] with him and Ross Stewart.
“I think [Lampard] had to do it. And that just goes to show that come January, there’s no money there for him to spend. I thought Everton would go out and buy a centre-forward. It hasn’t worked out with Neal Maupay as yet and Calvert-Lewin, he just can’t get fit.”
Everton are looking to complete four “important pieces of business” within the coming weeks, as reported by
Sky Sports journalist, Vinny O’Connor.
Frank Lampard is looking to convert
Conor Coady’s loan move from Wolves into a permanent one, and it could happen in the January window.
The Merseyside outfit are also looking to agree new contracts with
Jordan Pickford, Alex Iwobi, and Anthony Gordon, and talks have been progressing really well.
Mason Holgate could be allowed to leave Everton in January with Southampton now in the hunt to sign the Englishman, according to Neil Moxley [
Sunday People, 1 January, Page 50].
The 26-year-old has fallen considerably down the pecking order at Goodison Park and the financial issues afoot mean that the Toffees could look to cash in on Holgate while they still can.
Everton manager Frank Lampard will be looking to bring in a ‘goalscoring winger’ as a ‘priority’ in the January transfer window, according to journalist
Paul Brown.
As per the Daily Mail, Everton are
looking to bring Manchester United winger
Anthony Elanga to Goodison in January, with the 20-year-old frustrated with the lack of minutes he has been getting this season.
According to The Athletic, the Toffees have continued to track the progress of
Mykhaylo Mudryk, who they targeted in the summer, while the same report also credits them with an interest in Watford’s
Ismaila Sarr.
Coventry City striker
Viktor Gyokeres is also named as an accessible option for Lampard in January, and he may be considered, given his
versatility in being able to play across the front three, as per Transfermarkt.