EVERTON WANTED TO SIGN £32M LIVERPOOL MAN ON TRANSFER DEADLINE DAY

According to UOL, Everton wanted to sign Arthur on transfer deadline day before he joined Liverpool on a season-long loan deal.

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Well, Jürgen Klopp moved to ease his side’s midfield crisis with a move for the Brazil international, who will be spending the 2022/23 campaign on loan from Juventus. The Italian giants have confirmed that Liverpool have an option to buy Arthur for €37.5m (£32m) in 2023. However, the South American could have been playing for a different club on Merseyside if Frank Lampard got his way. Read More

BAINES CELEBRATES EVERTON SURVIVAL WITH COLEMAN

Everton legend Leighton Baines celebrated with club skipper Seamus Coleman on the Goodison Park last week Thursday after survival from the Premier League was confirmed. Ex-Everton left-back Leighton Baines joined the coaching staff at the club shortly after he retired from football a few years back. Baines and Coleman shared a warm embrace on the Goodison Park pitch to celebrate Everton and their survival after a really tough season.


Apart from Leighton Baines, another former Everton player Tim Cahill celebrated the Toffees escaping relegation from the Premier League via his Twitter account as he paid tribute to the fans for standing by the team after a poor season by the club’s standards. Read More

EVERTON: COLE SPEAKS ON BAINES RELATIONSHIP

New Everton coach Ashley Cole has spoken about his relationship with compatriot Leighton Baines dating back to their time together in the England senior  national team when they were both fighting for the left-back berth in the team. Cole talked about his relationship with Baines in an interview with the official TV station of Merseyside giants Everton known as Everton TV.


During the interview, Cole also described how it has been like to work with Leighton Baines. Former Chelsea and Arsenal left-back Cole joined the Everton backroom staff shortly after Frank Lampard was named the club’s new manager. He would be hoping to pass his wealth of experience to the current Everton squad as they battle to win the points that would make them stay in the Premier League. They are currently one place and one point ahead of the relegation zone. Read More

EVERTON: DEFENDER TALKS UP BAINES INFLUENCE

Young Everton defender Jack Tierney has credited club legend Leighton Baines for making him fall in love with the round leather game. He talked up the influence of Leighton Baines on his career in an interview with the official website of Everton as expressed his gratitude for the impact that the former Toffees left-back has made on his young football career.

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Tierney, 16, is an Everton Under-18 defender and he has been a season ticket holder at Goodison Park since the age of five. The defender has been in good form for the Under-18 team under the managerial reign of Paul Tait this season. Everton legend Leighton Baines joined the coaching staff at the Under-18 team earlier in this campaign.
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BAINES REVEALS UNITED TRIED TO SIGN HIM YEARS AGO

If a list was created containing the players that Manchester United came close to signing, it would house a lot of players. The English Premier League giants may be one of the biggest clubs in the world that have big pulling power but there are still some players they have courted in the past that either refused to join them or were blocked by their clubs to seal the transfer. One of those players is Leighton Baines and the former Everton left-back has revealed that there was truly a time when the Old Trafford giants tried to acquire his services, but the move did not go on due to some reasons.

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Baines is highly regarded as one of the best left-backs in the history of the Premier League and it comes as no surprise that a club like Manchester United wanted to sign him. Aside from the fact that he had a very brilliant output in attack as well as his impressive defensive abilities, Baines was a great set-piece taker and did justice to the free-kicks, penalties, and corner-kicks he took.
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CONTRACT TALKS YET TO BEGIN – ANCELOTTI

Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed that the club is yet to open contract talks with young midfielder Tom Davies who has two years left on the new deal that he signed in April 2019. Ancelotti talked about Davies and his contractual situation at Goodison Park earlier this month in one of his recent press conferences.

Ancelotti is not afraid of losing a young and vibrant midfielder like Davies with the Everton manager confident that his future lies on Merseyside as he challenged the player to build a solid Everton career just like it was obtainable with club legends Leighton Baines and Seamus Coleman.
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IN SEARCH FOR LEIGHTON BAINES’ REPLACEMENT

At every football club, there comes a time when some players would have to either hang their boots and call time on their football career or have to consider moving to another club for the purpose of having an entirely different adventure. For Everton Football Club, a player of such caliber is Leighton Baines; one of the best left-backs in the history of the English Premier League.

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Baines’ reputation as an Everton and a Premier League great is a well-earned and well-deserved one, given how the former defender was always putting in performances that would eventually prove to be vital and essential for his team. Also a former captain of the Everton squad, Baines had every necessary ingredient to becoming a truly colossal leader and player, and he did not fail to prove that anytime he stepped onto the pitch.
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EVERTON CHIEF EXPLAINS BAINES DECISION

Everton chairman Bill Kenwright has explained the decision taken by club legend Leighton Baines to retire at the end of last season. Leighton Baines is undoubtedly one of the best left-sided players in the rich history of Everton and the ex-England national team player decided to hang his boots professionally at the end of the last campaign. Leighton Baines ended his lengthy career as an Everton player last summer. He had spent 12 hugely successful years with the Toffees following his move from Wigan Athletic.

His last appearance for Everton came during the 3-1 loss at home to Bournemouth on the final day of last season in the Premier League. The result was not enough to save visitors Bournemouth from suffering relegation. Leighton Baines has become a coach at Everton on the back of his decision to end his playing career at the age of 35. Leighton Baines is now the performance development coach at Everton. Read More

BAINES RETURNS TO EVERTON AS COACH

 

Everton legend Leighton Baines has returned to the club in a coaching capacity having retired as a player in the summer. The 35-year-old had announced his retirement from football to club officials shortly before the last game of last season. Leighton Baines took the decision as he was unselfish despite the request from Everton manager, Carlo Ancelotti, for him to stay on as the left-back back-up to first choice Lucas Digne.


His last game as an Everton player was the 3-1 loss to Bournemouth on the final day of last season in the Premier League. The England international played the final 20 minutes of that game.He played 420 games for the Toffees during a 13-year playing career at Goodison Park.Leighton Baines signed for Everton in 2007 as he left WiganAthletic to join the club. In addition to his playing career at both WiganAthletic and Everton, Leighton Baines was capped 30 times by the England national team. Read More