{"id":655873,"date":"2025-06-18T15:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=655873"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:25:55","slug":"everton-eye-thierno-barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/18\/everton-eye-thierno-barry\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton Eye In-Demand Attacker Amid Premier League, European Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The summer transfer window has been slow going for Everton thus far, with only Carlos Alcaraz joining the club on a permanent deal following his successful loan spell at Goodison Park. Everton had flirted with relegation for a considerable time before David Moyes returned to the club and steadied the ship, leading them to 13th in the league. It appears Moyes is looking to strengthen this summer with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/transfer-centre\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports<\/a> reporting that the Merseyside club now targeting Villarreal forward <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Thierno Barry<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Everton Step Up Interest in 22-year-old Attacker<\/h2>\n<h3>Premier League Rivals and Also Track Thierno Barry<\/h3>\n<p>The update from lan Myers and Rob Dorsett confirms reports from various other outlets regarding Everton&#8217;s interest in Thierno Barry. Dominic Calvert-Lewin&#8217;s contract is due to expire on June 30, and it remains to be seen if he will commit his future or seek a move elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/04\/11\/12-players-everton-squad\/\" target=\"_self\">12 Players Out Of Contract: Who Should Everton Keep In The Squad For Next Season<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barry impressed last season in La Liga for Villarreal, scoring 11 goals and providing four assists in a good breakthrough season. At 22-years-old, the upside to the Frenchman is considerable.<\/p>\n<h3>Thierno Barry to Everton<\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">An earlier report from Matteo Moretto confirmed: <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;Everton is chasing Villarreal striker Thierno Barry. The English club is reportedly willing to pay the \u20ac40 million buyout clause. Evaluations are ongoing <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> no final decision has yet <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">been made<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The French striker began his professional career with Sochaux B, where he <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">showed<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> a keen eye for goal, attracting interest from the Premier League and across <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the rest of<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/04\/02\/five-greatest-everton-goalkeepers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Top Five Greatest Everton Goalkeepers of All Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Moyes has done an admirable job steadying the ship at Goodison Park, but the squad <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">clearly<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> needs reinforcements. With Dominic Calvert-Lewin&#8217;s departure looking increasingly likely, there&#8217;s a sizeable gap to fill up front.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer transfer window has been slow going for Everton thus far, with only Carlos Alcaraz joining the club on a permanent deal following his successful loan spell at Goodison Park. Everton had flirted with relegation for a considerable time before David Moyes returned to the club and steadied the ship, leading them to 13th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":641839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,30,7188],"tags":[9277,32372],"class_list":["post-655873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-everton","category-news","category-rumours","tag-everton-transfer-rumours","tag-thierno-barry"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655877,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655873\/revisions\/655877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}