Sean Dyche makes new Everton transfer claim and addresses striker delay

Everton manager Sean Dyche has revealed “there might be things getting closer” when it comes to more transfers coming through the door before the summer window slams shut - but has reiterated it is difficult for the club to do business with their current financial constraints.

For the second home game in succession, the Blues spurned a number of chances only to fall to a 1-0 defeat, with Wolverhampton Wanderers triumphing at Goodison Park after Fulham’s victory at the ground a fortnight ago.

Dyche said: “We’ve spoken about concern and that word before, it’s a reality. I’ve just seen it two out of three games, it’s been there for a long while I think, everyone knows that.

“We’re trying to correct it in the group, we’re trying to do it with the players we’ve signed and if we can get others in. There seems to be an underlying thing were people are still surprised when they say ‘why haven’t we signed two strikers?’ but I’ve tried to make it clear we haven’t got pots of gold.

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“So we are trying to construct deals, there might be things getting closer but they’re only maybes, you don’t know until they’re actually done. To add it in, we’ve also got the injuries we’ve got: you look at Alex Iwobi, you look at Dwight McNeil and then Dominic Calvert-Lewin, trying to get him fit, they’re high performing players in my opinion.

“That being said, it was a chance for younger players today, I thought Lewis (Dobbin) worked really hard today; Jarrad, who had a couple of weeks missing in pre-season and has been catching up, I thought he did really well.

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