Brands confirms mass Everton clear out in the summer transfer window

Everton Director of Football Marcel Brands is looking for a mass clear out of players in the summer as the club prepare for another big window of transfer dealings.

Brands is looking to move on possibly up to fourteen players to substantially reduce the club’s huge wage bill and prepare for Everton bringing in better players to help the team push on again.

Reducing the Toffees wage bill and freeing up resources to finance the signing of new players has been an ambition of the Dutchman ever since he first joined the Blues in the summer of 2018.

Last summer Carlo Ancelotti got the players he wanted in Allan, Abdoulaye Doucoure and James Rodriguez and then on deadline day he also got Ben Godfrey in.

But while Everton secured some excellent additions, they weren’t as successful in offloading other squad players. This is something they must try again to do this coming summer.

The most significant long-term exits were Theo Walcott who returned to his first club Southampton for a season-long loan and Moise Kean who went to PSG.

That looks as though it will become a permanent transfer as Walcott’s contract at Goodison Park ends this summer and Saints boss Ralph Hassenhutl is negotiating for him to stay.

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Then at the end of the January window Cenk Tosun left for Besiktas where he had been signed from originally, Jonjo Kenny had gone to Celtic and it seemed there was a deal in place for Bernard to leave for a Middle Eastern club but that deal fell through at the last minute.

That deal might be revived though in the summer as the diminutive Brazilian doesn’t look as though he has a future at Goddison Park.

It’s a difficult task to get shot of so many players even in a normal transfer market but even more so after the last year or so, which has damaged so many clubs finances.

And this is also made harder when many of these players have struggled so much with injury and for any kind of form and so aren’t likely to be at the top of many club’s wish lists.

Those are players such as Fabian Delph, Bernard and Tosun while others such as the almost forgotten Muhamed Besic and Yanick Bolasie who are both incredibly still on Everton’s books but are both finally out of contract this summer.

Then there is the status of Kean who has been on loan at PSG and up until recently had been in good form for the French club. He might stay there or perhaps return to Juventus. So lot’s of difficult negotiations and work to do to shift all these players and possibly others out of the door.

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