David Moyes has the final say on recruitment at Everton and believes the side needs “players more than ever” after a bad patch of form in recent weeks.
The Toffees are dealing with a severely depleted squad at the moment and have won just one of their last seven matches. They got knocked out of the FA Cup by Sunderland at home last weekend.
Everton are believed to be in the hunt for a striker after both their existing options – Thierno Barry and Beto – have come up short this season. The two players have six goals between them, prompting the club to look for a new Number 9.
There’s business to be done in the January transfer window, provided that the club can identify the right targets. The final decision on recruitment, however, rests with Moyes.
“I’ve got the final say if we want to buy a player or we don’t want to buy a player. But I get told by my superiors how much we’ve got to spend and what we’ve got available and I have to work off those thoughts,” he said in the pre-match press conference before facing Aston Villa.
“I think Angus (Kinnear) came out in the programme a few weeks ago and probably came and gave you all a pretty good answer from the CEO. I think we’re in there trying but it doesn’t mean we’re just going to take any player for the sake of it.
“The reality hasn’t changed. We’ve said all along, we’re looking, we’re trying.
“It’s not like we’ve shut ourselves off from the transfer window. We need players more than ever and we probably need them as soon as possible if we could make that happen.
“But more than likely, this month is never done particularly quickly, so we’re still looking. I’m not sure we will get anything but we’re trying.”
There have also been rumours and speculation in recent weeks, linking star forward Iliman Ndiaye with a move away from the club. Ndiaye, who is currently preparing for the Afcon Final against Morocco on Sunday, has been a revelation for the Blues since signing from Marseille in the summer of 2024.
Asked whether the club had received any offers for the forward, the Everton boss said, “There’s absolutely zero truth in that. If there is, I don’t know anything about it, that’s for sure.
“As far as I’m concerned, I’ve never even heard of it, to be honest. It sounds like someone has made that up somewhere, you know what I mean.
“We’ve no intention of letting Ili go, none whatsoever. I’m sure there’s a price for every player on the planet if you look around but if you ask me, we have no intention of selling Ili – we need him back.
“We need him back to give us some creativity and make and score goals. So, we’re missing him for all those good reasons.”
However, he admits he’s “thrilled” that both his players have made it to the Afcon Final, jokingly adding, “I hope if they win, they don’t celebrate too long because I need them back!”
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Posted
16/01/2026 at
19:00:58
Signed off on a player who is a serious disappointment but who suffers from the lack of any quality service from the team that Moyes selects and organises.
Double disappointment?
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16/01/2026 at
20:19:38
I’m not writing Barry off after 6 months of his first season in the Premier League.
Beto is different, he’s a seasoned player, who’s probably peaked well before we bought bought him.
Barry will improve I think when we get Ndiaye and Dewsbury-Hall back.
Posted
16/01/2026 at
20:47:59
The rest usual filler.
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16/01/2026 at
21:08:50
We’ve been told repeatedly till we’re blue in the face that there is no way on god’s green earth David Moyes could possibly have sanctioned the purchase of a raft of dismal failures that he has hardly used since they were signed.
People like Adam Aznou, a full-back with decent playing experience in the Bundesliga, brought to Everton from the mighty Bayern Munich. But not ready, we are told, for the vim and rigour of the Premier League. Although he did seem up for it in the FA Cup when finally unleashed for his first outing in the Royal Blue er… navy black and pink of Everton’s first team.
People like Merlin Rohl, who comes on and runs around a lot, chasing the ball and looking busy, but sadly not achieving very much.
And of course the highly mysterious case of teenage protege Tyler Dibling, who can’t be unleashed on Premier League teams he’s faced already for Southampton, apparently because he lacks defensive discipline that must be learnt and exhibited at the expense of any overt extemporising skill and creativity that is obviously his natural penchant, but which Moyes is in the advanced stages of brow-beating out him, such that he has become a pathetic shadow of the dynamic young star Moyes signed.
Yea, I think we clearly have to ignore this story as AI-generated bullshit and return to the commonly held wisdom that repeatedly asserts they were all thrust upon him by the ‘recruitment team’ and Moyes had nothing to do with hiring these duffers.
Although I do think a rather strong case can be made for Moyes not using them properly. Perhaps that will be the next presser scoop: Moyes admits abject failure at integrating new players into his squad.
Posted
16/01/2026 at
21:26:24
He wanted total control of all signings and sales. So why would he agree to join Everton unless he was given the control he deems suitable?
Posted
16/01/2026 at
21:51:01
We are 15 points from the relegation places. Compare our position in January ’26 to January ’23,’ 24 or ’25 and tell me Moyes hasn’t done a good job!
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16/01/2026 at
22:00:57
Having said that, if we’re going to move forward from here, we will need a clean break with the past. No more former managers. No more former players as coaches. And no more players outstaying their usefulness.
At the end of Moyes’s current contract, we should look elsewhere. In Moyes, we have found the medicine required to get us back on a stable footing. Longer term, there are no answers to be found by looking backwards.
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