{"id":657583,"date":"2025-07-31T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=657583"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:57:52","slug":"everton-tyler-dibling-second-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/31\/everton-tyler-dibling-second-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton &#8216;Considering Improved Bid&#8217; in Four-Way Premier League Race for &#8216;Wonderkid&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everton fans are feeling quite confident going into the new Premier League season, with their form towards the back end of last year very strong. David Moyes&#8217; return has brought a lot more hope than there had been at the end of Sean Dyche&#8217;s tenure. After already completing four transfers, Everton are now considering a second bid for Tyler Dibling, amidst other English interest.<\/p>\n<h2>Everton Consider Second Bid for &#8216;Wonderkid&#8217; in Premier League Race for Signature<\/h2>\n<h3>Initial Bid of \u00a327 Million Rejected<\/h3>\n<p>Paul Joyce has <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_pauljoyce\/status\/1950990104551387136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed<\/a> that Everton have had an initial \u00a327 million bid rejected by Southampton for Dibling. However, they are now &#8220;considering an improved bid&#8221;, with a fee of \u00a335 million expected to be enough for the Saints to accept, despite his valuation being set at \u00a3100 million not long ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/31\/spanish-side-have-agreed-deal-vitor-reis-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Spanish Side Have \u2018Agreed Deal in Principle\u2019 for \u2018Clever, Intelligent\u2019 Manchester City Defender<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11096\/13230166\/tyler-dibling-why-southamptons-teenage-wonderkid-a-light-in-the-dark-for-russell-martins-struggling-side\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#8220;wonderkid&#8221;<\/a> is &#8220;keen&#8221; on a move to the Toffees, with the opportunity to play regularly in the Premier League valued. However, Aston Villa, West Ham United, and Fulham all hold interest in the 19-year-old, making this a four-way race in the top flight. The Merseyside outfit will be hoping to get this one across the line after losing &#8220;first-choice target&#8221; Francisco Concei\u00e7\u00e3o to Juventus. Meanwhile, Johan Bakayoko has joined RB Leipzig, and moves for Takefusa Kubo and Malick Fofana both look unlikely for respective reasons.<\/p>\n<h3>Tyler Dibling Completes Dream Everton Frontline<\/h3>\n<p>Scoring goals was Everton&#8217;s problem last campaign: they conceded the fourth fewest in the league. Iliman Ndiaye was the only bright spark for large portions of the season. However, it seems that this summer they are attempting to fix that.<\/p>\n<p>Their biggest issue for some time was the striker position, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin failing to net double digits in all competitions since 2021, whilst Beto has had a mediocre impact since joining. The signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/01\/everton-close-transfer-thierno-barry\/\" target=\"_self\">Thierno Barry<\/a> for almost \u00a330 million promises to change this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/31\/tottenham-hotspur-randal-kolo-muani-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur Battle Man Utd With Serious \u2018Talks Underway\u2019 for \u2018World\u2019s Most Improved Striker\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Dibling were to join on the right-wing, combining with the incredibly creative Ndiaye on the left, Barry would have the service that previous Everton centre-forwards had been crying out for. This signing would complete the dream frontline, and with the defence intact from last season (thanks to a<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/27\/everton-jarrad-branthwaite-new-contract\/\" target=\"_self\"> Jarrad Branthwaite<\/a> new contract), Moyes is set up for a strong season at the new Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium (officially named the Hill Dickinson Stadium).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everton fans are feeling quite confident going into the new Premier League season, with their form towards the back end of last year very strong. David Moyes&#8217; return has brought a lot more hope than there had been at the end of Sean Dyche&#8217;s tenure. After already completing four transfers, Everton are now considering a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"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":[30,13,3,7188,20],"tags":[45,235,32151],"class_list":["post-657583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-everton","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-southampton","tag-everton","tag-southampton","tag-tyler-dibling"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657583","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\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657594,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657583\/revisions\/657594"}],"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=657583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}