Niasse to Lukaku via Maupay, Onana: Ranking all 30 £10m+ Everton signings since Moyes left
Everton have utilised the transfer market like rookies since David Moyes left, spending well over half a billion since his switch to Manchester United in 2013.
They’ve gone so crazy we’ve had to narrow down our rankings to only include players the Toffees have spent over £10m on. Otherwise, it would have been a list consisting of 100 people. This means that some shrewd signings such as Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Demarai Gray have been left out.
All prices are taken via Transfermarkt. The numbers in brackets are their original ranking when this was first written back in April 2022. Or where they placed when added later.
Everton: Ranking all 30 £10m+ signings since David Moyes left
30) Oumar Niasse (£16m) (24)
Niasse did not have the best of times at Everton. His clubs since permanently leaving the Toffees in 2015: Huddersfield, Burton Albion, Morecambe, Macclesfield.
29) Jean-Philippe Gbamin (£22.5m) (23)
Gbamin had more injuries than appearances for Everton.
28) Cenk Tosun (£20m) (22)
Proper flop, this.
27) Davy Klaassen (£24m) (21)
Just one of many mind-boggling deals to be seen here.
26) Yannick Bolasie (£26m) (20)
Bolasie was a baller for Crystal Palace. He played the game with flair and confidence and would mock defenders (especially Dejan Lovren) regularly. As the cool kids say: the streets shall never forget.
But that was Palace and this is Everton. His spell at Goodison Park was forgettable at best. He scored twice in 32 and left for free in August 2021 after loan spells with Middlesbrough, Sporting, Anderlecht and Aston Villa. He now plays in Brazil.
25) Moise Kean (£24.75m) (19)
24-year-old Kean feels like he has been around for bloody ages. Everton spent a fair whack on him but will somehow made a profit when Juventus permanently signed him last July. He now plays for Fiorentina after completing a 13 million euro transfer in July.
24) Neal Maupay (£10.4m) (13)
You know what get with Maupay: a good work rate, a goal every six games, and a bit of s**thousery. His Everton spell was the worst of his career. His loan at Brentford last season brought us some brilliant moments though.
23) Morgan Schneiderlin (£20.7m) (18)
Another player who was great for a Premier League rival, only to flop at Goodison Park.
Schneiderlin swapped Southampton for Manchester United and was a bitter disappointment, perhaps showing that the grass is not always greener. Everton – and only Everton would do this – decided to splash out over £20m on the French defensive midfielder, who continued to regress before leaving for a measly £2m following three years on Merseyside.
22) Theo Walcott (£20m) (17)
Walcott is a very underrated Premier League player. It is fair to say that he didn’t live up to his early hype, but he still had a bloody good career. Before Everton came calling, anyway.
21) Gylfi Sigurdsson (£44m) (16)
20) Michael Keane (£25.65m) (15)
For a while, Gareth Southgate loved starting Keane for England. He is now nowhere near the Three Lions squad and it is safe to assume his international career is over.
Keane has not justified his price tag but the signing was far from a bad one at the time. He was great for Burnley.
19) Ashley Williams (£12.6m) (14)
It was about time that Williams got a move after eight productive years with Swansea. He was linked with numerous teams and it was Everton who bit the bullet and purchased the Welsh centre-half. Williams was never close to his influential best at Goodison and is one of many on this list to leave for nothing after coming in for over £10m.
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18) Beto (£21.5m) (NE)
Not convincing in his first year at Everton, Beto has a lot to do if he wants to justify his price tag.
17) Chermiti (£13m) (NE)
Time is on the side of young Chermiti but zero goal contributions in 20 appearances last term is an abysmal start to life on Merseyside.
The signing raised eyebrows at the time given his lack of experience and Everton’s need for a consistent goalscorer. Like Beto, he’s got a lot to prove.
16) Ramiro Funes Mori (£11.6m) (13)
Funes Mori’s most amusing moment in an Everton shirt came in a Merseyside derby when he grabbed the badge after being sent off. This isn’t really relevant, but it’s funny.
He played 67 times for the Premier League side and wasn’t very good. Not horrendous, but he won’t be remembered for the right reasons by the club’s supporters.
15) Andre Gomes (£22.5m) (12)
Everton did an Everton and took a chance on Gomes after he flopped at Barcelona. The Portuguese playmaker eventually left as a free agent this summer. He stinks of a move to Turkey.
14) Allan (£21m) (6)
Allan joined Everton from Napoli with a big reputation. He was nowhere near his true self for the Toffees. Having said that, his 2020/21 under Carlo Ancelotti wasn’t too bad as they finished 10th. Five-time Champions League winner Ancelotti’s best achievement.
13) Nathan Patterson (£12.6m) (8)
Patterson joined from Rangers in January 2022 and has a promising career ahead of him. Not that his time at Everton has shown that.
12) James McCarthy (£13.7m) (11)
Signed from Wigan, McCarthy made 133 appearances over six years at Goodison Park. He was solid in his first few years before injuries took over.
The Ireland international played 13 times in 16/17, six times in 17/18 and once in 18/19, which was really unfortunate for a solid Premier League player.
11) Ben Godfrey (£24.75m) (7)
Utilised at right-back, left-back and centre-half, Godfrey has underwhelmed after emerging as a young talent at his previous club Norwich.
10) Ilman Ndiaye (£15m) (NE)
We think this is a good signing, so Ndiaye is guaranteed to score one and assist two in 32 Premier League appearances next season.
9) Alex Iwobi (£27m) (10)
Iwobi came on leaps and bounds under Lampard after previously struggling. He climbed up this ranking as a result but his form faded and the Nigerian ended up joining Fulham for £22m last September. Fair to play to Everton for only losing £5m.
8) Vitaliy Mykolenko (£21m) (9)
The left-back has has looked pretty solid for the Premier League side. We think he has the potential to get into the top five.
7) Dwight McNeil (£15m) (15)
Sean Dyche certainly knows how to get McNeil to play his best football and the 24-year-old has been a great signing for Everton with the ex-Burnley manager at the helm.
6) Amadou Onana (£30.8m) (5)
Onana is a Belgium regular and Andre isn’t even his name, mate.
He is strong, quick and good on the ball and could be world class one day. Not for Everton, though. He is off to Aston Villa and the Toffees are making a sweet £20m profit.
5) Abdoulaye Doucoure (£19.8m) (4)
£20m is a good deal all things considered. Doucoure is a pretty consistent player.
4) Lucas Digne (£18m) (5)
Sold after falling out with Rafael Benitez, who was sacked three days after Digne’s transfer to Aston Villa was confirmed. What a shambles. At least they made a profit, which is a bonus, right? Right?
3) Richarlison (£35m) (2)
Richarlison scored 53 times for Everton after joining from Watford in 2018. He played a crucial role in the club’s survival from the Premier League in 21/22, netting six goals in his final nine appearances of the season.
The Toffees got £50m for the Brazilian striker in the 2022 summer transfer window when he joined Tottenham. His time in north London has been extremely difficult. Spurs need him to recapture his Everton form under Ange Postecoglou.
2) Jordan Pickford (£25.65m) (3)
Everton legitimately have one of the best players in the world in their position. Pickford gets better every season for the Toffees and is England No. 1, with his international competition nowhere near his level.
Perhaps we were high on his Euro 2024 performances and low on how Richarlison has performed in recent years when we swapped the two around in our ranking.
1) Romelu Lukaku (£31.8m) (1)
Lukaku couldn’t get a sniff for Chelsea, meaning he was loaned out to West Brom and Everton before joining the Merseysiders permanently for over £31m in 2014. The Belgian became an elite striker under Roberto Martinez and the Toffees flogged him to Manchester United for a whopping £76m after he chipped in with 87 goals in 166 games.
He wasn’t great for the Red Devils, then was great for Inter Milan, then was rubbish for Chelsea before being loaned back to Inter, and then AS Roma. Who knows where he will be playing next season.
Ironically, Lukaku is bottom of our ranking of Chelsea’s 50 most recent signings, which will soon span over just two years.
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