A new, exciting dawn is slowly on the horizon on Merseyside as David Moyes’ Everton prepare to walk away from their beloved home of Goodison Park at the end of the season for a bumper new home on Bramley-Moor Dock.
There were fears under Sean Dyche that Bramley-Moore’s first campaign with supporters inside the new modern stadium would have Championship football disastrously on the menu, but the return of Moyes has thankfully boosted the once downtrodden troops who now no longer hold those worries.
Yet, ahead of this change in scenery, the Scotsman could ditch a number of underperformers who are still struggling, even as his team continue to pull further and further away from the Premier League relegation mire.
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Of course, for every Beto that has breathed fresh life back into their playing days at Goodison, there are a whole host of other figures in Moyes’ camp that continue to look out-of-sorts.
Jesper Lindstrøm falls into that latter category for sure, with the Napoli loanee unlikely to be kept around in England past his current stint based on his lacklustre numbers pulling on Everton blue.
Indeed, from 23 Premier League outings this season, the largely forgettable number 29 has failed to pick up a single goal or assist, with his showing last time out in the league away at Brentford resulting in Lindstrøm failing to register a single accurate cross, shot or dribble.
Away from loanees who will likely not be retained, more senior faces such as Michael Keane will also be concerned for their short-term futures at the club.
With the ex-Burnley man’s contract up this approaching June, alongside the continued emergence of Jarrad Branthwaite and Jake O’Brien as first-team regulars at the back, now might well be the best time for the Blues and Keane to part ways.
Moving back to loanees, however, there is one presence that definitely shouldn’t be kept around ahead of the Bramley-Moor relocation, having unimpressed for the most part on Merseyside.
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The Toffees very much struggled to be a free-flowing side when Dyche was still at the helm but Moyes has fixed that somewhat, with the likes of Beto now up to six top-flight strikes. Put it simply, he’s one of the most in-form attackers in the country right now.
But, even as the ex-Udinese man comes into his own, others around him in the forward areas continue to recede into their shell, which is very much the case with the often below-par Everton number 11 Jack Harrison.
Whilst he has conjured up moments of magic like his superb strike last season versus AFC Bournemouth, Harrison has looked regularly shot of confidence back at Goodison during his second loan switch.
Despite gaining more game-time owing to Iliman N’Diaye being injured down the left, much like Lindstrom, the Manchester City youth product has no goals or assists to show for his efforts across 2024/25 to date.
As a result, it feels uncertain that the £90k-per-week loanee will be kept around for the club’s clean slate at Bramley-Moore, with the powers that be at Everton perhaps wanting a different presence in the summer over the goal-shy 28-year-old.
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Whilst he still possesses some credit in the bank back at parent employers Leeds United, it now looks as if Harrison has run out of steam as a consistent top performer in the Premier League, with football writer Ell Bretland even lambasting his decision-making as “abysmal” earlier this season.
With reports emerging in recent days about Harrison returning to America after a successful New York City spell, it looks unlikely that the club’s ownership group, TFG, will be keeping the hot-and-cold winger around, with new signings aplenty on the agenda ahead of this big move.
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