Moyes pushing for dream Everton signing in £10m CF

Everton have been defeated at Goodison Park on Wednesday night, David Moyes‘ return spoiled by poor ending and an absence of management.

Aston Villa claimed a 1-0 victory via Ollie Watkins’ strike, condemning Everton to a 3rd straight Premier League defeat. The Blues have additionally blanked throughout 5 of the previous six top-flight matches.

Moyes will after all know that he has a large process in entrance of him; he will probably be beneath no illusions about Everton’s points and the significance of fixing the attacking issues which have blunted the Merseysiders’ blade.

However the insecurity and real inventive high quality are obtrusive issues. It goes with out saying that the brand new house owners, The Friedkin Group, must authorise a first-team signing earlier than January is up.

Extra Everton distress up entrance

Away from the on-field points, Everton’s depth has been cruelly broken via Armando Broja’s prognosis after the on-loan Chelsea ahead injured his ankle within the FA Cup towards Peterborough, resulting in an expected three-month layoff.

It heightens the necessity for a brand new striker, particularly since Dominic Calvert-Lewin continues to be producing such abject outcomes as Everton’s chief centre-forward.

If the match towards Villa served as an audition, Calvert-Lewin failed miserably. That is now 16 Premier League matches in succession and not using a objective or an help for an outfit struggling towards the tractor pull of the relegation zone.

Moyes’ saving grace will centre round his facet’s aggression and need, creating three huge probabilities to Villa’s 4, as per Sofascore.

Calvert-Lewin squandered two of these probabilities. Out of contract at the end of the season, he is bought to get replaced.

Everton Calvert-Lewin substitute

As per The Each day Mail’s Sami Mokbel, Everton are within the race for Leicester Metropolis striker Tom Cannon, who earned his stripes with the Finch Farm academy earlier than leaving in September 2023.

With a reported £10m price ticket, Everton would want to swallow some pleasure in bringing Cannon again to the fold, however actually that is an inexpensive determine for a rising star on the season’s midpoint.

The Foxes lately recalled Cannon from his profitable mortgage spell with Stoke Metropolis within the Championship as they give the impression of being to revenue from his upsurged performances. On condition that the majority of the competitors stems from the second tier, Everton would possibly really feel they’ll triumph in engineering a reunion.

Why Everton ought to signal Tom Cannon

Cannon solely made three first-team appearances for Everton earlier than being bought to Leicester in a deal worth roughly £7.5m. He’d beforehand impressed throughout a mortgage stint with Preston North Finish however Sean Dyche did not view the younger star as the answer up entrance. If solely he did.

The aptly-named quantity 9 has hit a wealthy vein of goalscoring kind with Stoke this season, bagging nine goals from 22 matches, together with an unbelievable four-goal haul towards Portsmouth firstly of October, main Potters correspondent Pete Smith to hail the “insane” effort.

An energetic and clever participant, Cannon’s ball-striking potential permits him to rifle photographs previous goalkeepers, utilizing his motion and tempo to shimmy into openings, into gaps between the traces.

A loping gait and charged confidence from his performances on the Guess 365 Stadium may very well be precisely what Moyes must entrance his system, for Cannon has solely missed 9 huge probabilities – the identical as his objective tally – throughout the 2024/25 Championship marketing campaign, as per Sofascore, additionally averaging 0.5 key passes and 4.4 profitable duels per sport.

Calvert-Lewin, conversely, has missed 11 big chances within the Premier League this time period, although the 27-year-old, after all, has solely scored two targets.

What to do? One factor’s for sure: Everton can’t afford to emerge from the January switch market with out recent high quality at quantity 9.

Lest we neglect that Seventeenth-placed Ipswich City host Brighton & Hove Albion tonight and a victory would knock Everton nearer towards the precipice, dangerously so.

There are mitigating circumstances (there at all times are). Dwight McNeil has missed the past six matches with a knee harm and his playmaking high quality has been sorely missed. He is created nine big chances from 13 top-flight fixtures this 12 months, averaging a powerful 2.5 key passes per sport. Nonetheless, ‘DCL’ has toiled to no avail.

A youthful and extra dynamic striker in Cannon may very well be the answer – and one who is aware of the membership at that. The 5 foot 11 ace ranks among the many prime 19% of centre-forwards competing within the Championship this season for clearances and the highest 14% for aerial duels received per 90, as per FBref.

That latter metric seemingly makes for essentially the most compelling studying. Calvert-Lewin, for all his faults, is a monstrous point of interest within the air, with former teammate Richarlison as soon as even claiming “he has an unbelievable leap on him, Like Cristiano Ronaldo.”

It is greater than a bit meals for thought, proper? Everton have a powerful defensive base and an industrious unit working beneath an industrious supervisor who will hopefully increase the outfit’s horizons over the approaching months.

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However Calvert-Lewin can’t be allowed to proceed to fester within the closing third, and with Broja dominated out and doubtlessly known as again to Stamford Bridge, Cannon may very well be the one to fireplace Everton again into the limelight.

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