Everton are paying the price for Farhad Moshiri's transfer recklessness - but there are exceptions
Everton’s Jarrad Branthwaite has received his first England call-up and could make his international debut against Brazil this evening.
The 21-year-old’s inclusion in Gareth Southgate’s squad marks a spectacular rise for a player who arrived at Goodison Park as a teenager in January 2020 after just nine games in League Two for his home city club Carlisle United.
E verton owner Farhad Moshiri made the admission of “we have not always spent large amounts of money wisely” when he apologised to Blues fans in 2022, while the club is now preparing for the hearing of a second PSR charge this season next week.
However, among all of the profligate outlays, which Everton signing of the current regime represents the best value for money? Members of the ECHO sportsdesk have their say…
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Dominic Calvert-Lewin could do with a timely pick-me-up but I’m not being charitable to give him this title. His current 22-game goalless streak must be immensely frustrating for Everton’s number nine. But while chances have been hard to come by during the drought, it’s still only a technicality that he hasn’t been credited with a strike during the period after his effort away at Tottenham Hotspur was chalked off due to Andre Gomes applying the kind of force on Emerson Royal that a maitre d would use when showing you to your table in a restaurant. While the goal at home to Spurs was retrospectively taken off him and awarded to team-mate Jack Harrison instead.
Before that, Calvert-Lewin’s winner at West Ham United on October 29 saw him become only the fourth Everton player to net 50 Premier League goals for the club. One of the previous trio, Tim Cahill, was another bargain
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