{"id":657462,"date":"2025-07-30T02:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=657462"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:56:11","slug":"malick-fofana-everton-transfer-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/30\/malick-fofana-everton-transfer-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton Left Hanging in Pursuit of ‘Explosive’ Attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everton endured some unstable times under Frank Lampard and Sean Dyche before David Moyes returned and led the club to a 13th-place finish in the Premier League. It has been a largely frustrating summer for Moyes in the transfer market, with <\/span>Fabrizio Romano<\/span><\/a> reporting that <\/span>the Toffees<\/span><\/a> have been left in limbo, still waiting for a final decision on the future of transfer target Malick Fofana.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everton Target Improvement for 2025\/26 Under David Moyes<\/h2>\n

Everton Await Malick Fofana Decision<\/h3>\n

So far this summer, Everton <\/span>have<\/span> signed Thierno Barry, Carlos Alcaraz, Mark Travers and most recently Adam <\/span>Aznou<\/span>.<\/span>David Moyes recently expressed his frustrations at the lack of signings ahead of the Toffees’ first season at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking to The Athletic<\/a>, Moyes said: <\/span>\u201cWe\u2019re a long way away just now. I would have hoped it would have been much further down the line than we are. I would hope by the time we get to the end of the window, we\u2019d be closer to 10 (new players). <\/span>So you can imagine the amount of work <\/span>we\u2019ve<\/span> got<\/span> to do.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe club are trying <\/span>really<\/span> hard to get the players I want <\/span>and<\/span> I\u2019ve found it <\/span>really<\/span> difficult because in my last few years (in his previous job at West Ham United), I\u2019ve been involved in European competition. It\u2019s a bit easier when you\u2019re a club in Europe. <\/span>You <\/span>get<\/span> a better chance of attracting a <\/span>lot<\/span> of players.<\/span> We\u2019ve been in for a lot of <\/span>really good<\/span> players. Unfortunately, a lot <\/span>them<\/span> have said no at the moment.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Fofana Wants Champions League Football<\/h3>\n

Fofana has been previously described as “<\/span>explosive<\/span><\/a>,” and his performances last season backed that up. The Belgian winger scored 11 goals in 41 games across all competitions. However, with Champions League football reportedly his priority, Everton may be forced to look elsewhere, with Assane Diao and Takefusa Kubo emerging as potential alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fofana would undoubtedly excite the Everton faithful. He thrives when taking on defenders, combining flair with a strong team ethic. Whether he’s cutting inside to shoot, picking out a teammate, or driving to the byline to deliver a cross, Fofana is a problem for the opposition, and exactly the kind of player that could help push Everton to the next level.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everton endured some unstable times under Frank Lampard and Sean Dyche before David Moyes returned and led the club to a 13th-place finish in the Premier League. It has been a largely frustrating summer for Moyes in the transfer market, with Fabrizio Romano reporting that the Toffees have been left in limbo, still waiting for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":649002,"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":[7,13,30,3,7188],"tags":[9277,32358],"class_list":["post-657462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ligue-1","category-everton","category-news","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-everton-transfer-rumours","tag-malick-fofana"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657462","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=657462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657465,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657462\/revisions\/657465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}