Everton target Tyler Dibling after hitting stumbling block over Takefusa Kubo price | OneFootball

Everton have added Southampton’s Tyler Dibling to their list of targets to reinforce the right wing, according to transfer journalist Paul Joyce of The Times.

The 19-year-old broke through in the Premier League last season and made a strong impression despite the Saints’ relegation from the top flight.

A deal, however, is not imminent as the asking price could be a cause of concern.

Takefusa Kubo, who had also been a major target for the club this month, is also expected to be too expensive for the Blues.

David Moyes’ side are looking to add a number of players across different positions and the budget needs to be spread accordingly after the club signed French striker Thierno Barry from Villarreal and goalkeeper Mark Travers from Bournemouth.

“There is an expectation at the club that recruitment will run right to the very end of the transfer window, which closes on September 1, with Everton having arrived in the US for the Premier League Summer Series with a number of youngsters to make up the squad size,” the report added.

The signing of a right-winger has been a priority for Everton after both Jack Harrison and Jesper Lindstrom left the club following the end of their loan spells. They have only been met with frustration in their search so far.

According to Joyce, Francisco Conceicao was the first-choice option, but Juventus signed him for £26.5million from FC Porto. Johan Bakayoko opted to move to RB Leipzig from PSV Eindhoven in a move worth €22million. Real Sociedad’s asking price for Takefusa Kubo is deemed too high.

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Robert Tressell 1 Posted 25/07/2025 at 18:13:56

At the end of last season I would have said Dibling was probably out of reach to us - with the Rich 6 all being linked.

However, with spending the way it has gone, I think Dibling is now genuine option.

From what I have seen (which isn't masses admittedly) he looks a really big talent - a proper dribbler and playmaker of very high technical standard from the RW / forward position.

I would be really impressed if we were to get him.

Ian Bennett 3 Posted 25/07/2025 at 19:41:32

For the here and now, I think there's better value & output than Dibbling.

Not against it; I just think we need a player capable of 15 to 20 goals and assists in the now.

Robert Tressell 4 Posted 25/07/2025 at 20:27:43

Ian, I'd love to think that player is out there. Not sure who he is though.

In the same position, there have been a few Premier League moves already:

Mbuemo (25) has just gone to Man Utd for €75M after hitting 20 goals and 8 assists in 38 games.

Kudus (24) has just gone to Spurs for €63M after hitting 5 goals and 3 assists in 32 games.

Elanga (23) has gone to Newcastle for €61.4M after hitting 6 goals and 11 assists in 38 games.

I don't know what Saints want or expect for him for Dibling after hitting 2 goals and 1 assist in 33 games. But given the level of performance at only 19, I would expect about £45M.

I guess Ipswich are hoping for a fee along those lines for Hutchinson (21) after he hit 3 goals and 2 assists for Ipswich.

The truth is that players are really expensive these days if you want them for the first team straightaway.

Whilst we would probably get more like 5 goals and 5 assists out of this player to start off with, there could well be much more to come. And those extra 10 goals and the additional quality would make a big difference.

Conor McCourt 5 Posted 25/07/2025 at 20:35:37

Ian who is the player you are thinking off that will get 20 goal contributions in the now? Who would want to come and we can afford in wages and transfer fees?

I would be absolutely buzzing if this story is true. This lad is like a cross between Bale and Grealish. He is exactly the type of player we should be signing.

We couldn't afford anyone with 20 goal contributions already in the Premier League and, if we're to sign someone like Kubo, who has close to those returns in the Spanish League, they most probably will need at least half a season to adapt.

I think this lad will improve hand over fist and would be the most exciting winger we will have signed since Kanchelskis.

Mike Gaynes 6 Posted 25/07/2025 at 21:25:52

Ian #3, we definitely need 15-20 more goal involvements next season, but right now I'd be delighted if we signed two young players whocombined for that many. And then hope one of them grows into the kind of star you describe.

One step at a time.

Ian Bennett 7 Posted 25/07/2025 at 21:26:14

I said 15 to 20.

Elanga 17 goal contributions for what £15m? Not exactly Andrei when he signed, and somebody a number of fans did want like McTominay. How wrong they were.

Sarr 18+ goal contributions for £14m including cup.

Minteh will be in that bracket.

Thats 3 players we could of signed last season for £15-30m, and now we are saying its not possible?

Gareth bale Mbeumo 28 goal contributions.

Semenyo 16 goal contributions.

Other teams seem to sign players that can get 15-20 goal involvements without the need to sign from a Premier league rival for £50m. The players you quote Robert prove the rule.

There are players out there for £25-35m that you can get that if you play attacking football. Sure they won't do that if they don't get over the halfway line under Dyche. But I think we can play a bit more football with Barry, Alcaraz, Ndiaye and Beto to go with a right winger or two.

Ndiaye should be targeting 15-20 goal involvements, and he cost what £20m?

Jeff Armstrong 10 Posted 25/07/2025 at 22:32:06

Brendan, he could've kept Thelwell and worked with him this summer, but chose not to.

Moyes was in a massively strong position in May, he could have what he wanted, especially people who were already positioned.

Paul Kossoff 11 Posted 25/07/2025 at 22:46:33

Emerson Palmieri is available. West Ham have told him he can leave and he's been left out of the squad for the USA tour.

The 30-year-old Italy left-back made 31 Premier League appearances for the Hammers last season and has been a regular since his arrival from Chelsea in 2022.

Palmieri played 113 times for the Hammers and was a key figure in their historic Europa Conference League victory in 2023.

We have no cover at left-back, so a no-brainer. But I've no idea what the fee is West Ham are asking for.

Paul Kossoff 13 Posted 25/07/2025 at 23:09:01

Tyler Dibbling… will he improve our stats? 2024-25 — 33 matches, goals 2, assists 0, yellow cards 6… probably not.

We need ready-to-go signings. As the squad is now, we will struggle to stay away from the relegation zone. This saving money on cheap signings, and trying to lower fees will get us in a whole load of trouble.

All the clubs in the Premier League are strengthening their squads; we have to spend and spend quickly. A brand new stadium won't keep us up. Pull your finger out, Moyes, it's you who will take the bullet if things go wrong.

Bob Parrington 15 Posted 26/07/2025 at 01:12:22

What's missing on this subject is information, such as how much is too much?

If we're looking at a difference of £5M or more, that's one thing… but if we're missing out for just a couple of million, perhaps we should just "shorter pockets".

Or maybe we're not truly interested?? Or their clubs just don't want to lose them???

Phil Malone 16 Posted 26/07/2025 at 02:15:52

Everton have dilly-dallied and cocked it up again.

Might as well get Calvert-Lewin on loan from Sheffield Utd… and there's a lad at Wigan called Layton Baines…

Eric Myles 17 Posted 26/07/2025 at 02:16:59

If this 19-year-old, playing for a Championship side, is £45M, then surely better to go with Fellows for £15M, who's also at a Championship side but has contributed more?

Stu Darlington 18 Posted 26/07/2025 at 08:33:48

Fair point, Eric.

Robert Tressell 19 Posted 26/07/2025 at 08:45:41

Ian, I totally agree that we should hunt out lower cost players and value where we can. I'd have been more than happy with the likes of Hudson-Odoi, Elanga and Sarr in the past.

However, I'm not sure who their equivalents are this summer. Certainly there aren't many Premier League cast-offs in that league who play right-wing. Possibly Ben Doak (Liverpool) and Amad Diallo (Man Utd), Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) and Oscar Bobb (Man City).

I'd be happy with all of those except Nelson who seems now completely off the boil. But Diallo could easily cost £45M (if he's available at all), Doak £25M and Bobb probably is only available as a loan.

Overseas, there aren't bags of options of the quality of Hutchinson and Dibling. Burnley have bought Tchaouna (£13M) who looks promising, and Sunderland have bought Talbi (£17M). I'd have been pleased with both of those, but probably more as quality cover or development players rather than straight into the first team.

And that is our key issue this summer. We are desperate for first-team quality players on our atrocious right flank. But happily we also have the money to match – and £40M is really not a big fee at all these days. It's no more than the equivalent of Moyes paying €10M for Bilyaletdinov in 2009.

Mbeumo and lots of others prove that, if you buy young talent at relatively low cost and take years to develop it, you can get a really good player.

But if you want someone who can play 38 Premier League games straight away, has real talent, and can be our right-winger for the next 5 to 10 years, then Hutchinson and Dibling start to look good value.

Having done that, we can then start to pick up cheaper players to develop from there — the next Olise, the next Mbuemo, etc.

Jeff #8,

I agree, Thewell is a real loss, but he had been allowed to build a structure around him which had to be dismantled after the TFG 100-day review, so that a new structure was put in place. He had to go, and I think that it was outside Moyes's remit to do anything about it.

It looks like TFG and the new transfer team are concentrating on buying youth. More experienced players will be brought in on free short-term contracts and loans.

I'm still looking at the team that won brilliantly at Newcastle last game, only loss is oucoure, which is a concern as no replacement signed yet.

But, with Barry coming in and Branthwaite signed up on a long-term contract, I'm optimistic... I think Patterson played down the right in that game, replaced by Young?

We do need a real new right-back. Am I mistaken in thinking Ndiaye can play right wing? I think he did v England for Senegal...

McNeil on the left, Alcaraz at No 10 I guess… he's very talented but lacks physical presence. Very little cover for any of those forward players.

Will Armstrong be used? Exciting times!

Ged Simpson 23 Posted 26/07/2025 at 10:05:09

I have such mixed feelings about close season.

On the positive.

As I have said elsewhere, I have insane optimism every year. 64 now and nothing changes. For most of those years the optimism is based on my grandfather's influence. The Upper Bullens season ticket holder who instilled in me the sense that being a Blue is a privilege, especially if you are from birth. Still there in my ageing head!

The flashes of great moments from previous season, our history and our "specialness" get me through the period of cricket, athletics and repeated junk TV.

This year, I tell my Kopite partner, you will see.."insert here"

New stadium is great but I support a team not an architect.

Negative?

Well all goes down to 5 year old, barely qualified Gen Z "journalists" ( I am NCTJ qualified) who peddle insane stories about transfers that will never happen to keep us interested.

There is a league of expenditure that truly reflects the modern game. Stadium? Transfer? Money rules and spending. Agent quotes?

Very rare to see anything about playing of the game or tactics

"Blues Linked to signing God says agent. Wife may put block in."

With a feeling of pride, young Ashley turn off his laptop coz Mummy shouts up that tea is ready.

Meanwhile we debate ad nauseum about God's pros and cons and ask how the RS managed to sign Satan.

Josh Horne 24 Posted 26/07/2025 at 10:20:02

I look at Crystal Palace signing a 19 year old Adam Wharton for £18M 2 years ago as an example of what we should be trying to do. I don't have Sam & Robert's encyclopedic player knowledge to be able to suggest names but good scouts unearth them. Olise, Eze, Guehi all emerging at Palace whilst their scouts also identify excellent value in the likes of Mateta, and Munoz (£8M!!).

We've already got the best young centre half in the country wrapped up, can we add another 1 or 2 as regular starters next year?

I wonder whether Dibling will be over priced? Liverpool and United must need to shed players, would that be reflected in the asking price for the likes of Diallo or Doak?

Robert Tressell 26 Posted 26/07/2025 at 10:44:25

Josh, # 24, yes - we are no longer priced out of buying the best from the Championship so can return to that market. Wharton is exactly the sort of player we should target going forwards.

Aside from the more familiar names who have just been relegated, the up and coming players include:

Peck (M) - Sheff UtdIvanovic (Str) - MillwallBae (W) - StokeSidibe (M) - StokeKolli (W / F) - QPR

Some of these may fade but a few more will emerge over the course of the season - and there will be (as usual) about 5 to 10 Premier League loanees who look like they could kick on and be really good Premier League players too.

Ian, Elanga got 14 goal contributions in his first season but like Dibling hadn't had a record of doing so previously in the PL though was at United and never really got a proper chance.

Sarr was one I wanted us to sign before Marseille as he had looked a standout at Watford and it was no surprise that he hit 15 in his first season to me.

Minteh cost 40 odd million and got 10 in his first season. Personally I believe Dibling would surpass that yet he would bring so much more to the team than Minteh.

The problem with assessing players just on stats is that they don't always tell the full picture. Dibling played in one of the worst teams in PL history. Under Martin he excelled. When Juric came in he played negative defensive football akin to Dyche and so Dibling suffered as he hasn't the pace of a Minteh or Elanga and was dropped in favour of more disciplined experienced players. If we had Elanga or Minteh under Dyche I would imagine their output would have dropped dramatically like the rest of our attacking players did.

Dibling's record of goal contributions in every other competition he has played in are superb, U18PL, reserve PL, Fa Cup, etc. He is not just a brilliant footballer but has end product as well. Because of his second half of the season he will probably go for around the same as Minteh did.

You have cherry picked players none of whom met your target even with hindsight. Elanga went 2 seasons ago, Minteh wasn't in the range bracket you said and only had decent output while Sarr only met the bottom end of your requested output.

You have deliberately avoided the question- who are the players you would suggest for the coming season that we should sign for the right side that we could get for under 30 million and get the output you want of at least 15 goal contributions? McAtee would be a certainty to achieve that output to my mind but City are again looking close to the 40 million mark.

There are practically no 19 year olds that deliver what we need for next season in goals and assists. I can think of foden, Yamal and Rashford only in recent times.

We can sign dibbling of course, blood him in, and then accept him moving on somewhere else when he starts to deliver. Sign him for £40m and sell for £60m, perhaps more. There"s a risk hes a duffer, and the £40m doesnt grow at all.

The smarter money is picking up a slightyly older player from a big club, that has the pedigree and the characteristics we are looking for. Kulushevski, Lukuku, de bryne, Elanga, were all young players at big clubs that didnt quite make it.

Kubu falls into that category, and why I thought he was interesting player. There must be others on loan from big clubs. I suspect there's loads on the fringes of barca, real, psg, etc. Not household names, but lads who have perhaps had a loan last season ready to step up.

This could be the season where they don't exist. I very much doubt it, but it might have happened.

If that's the case Estevao on loan from Chelsea, Maghnes Akliouche for big money from monaco. There are always players out there. There are two or three across the park that I can think of who would up grade us - Elliot, Soak and Chiesa.

Chiesa has had his injury problems. But in terms of class, hes a step up on fellows & Harrison for sure.

Conor why do we need to constrain ourselves at £30m. Clubs can easily construct deals if cash is constrained to make the numbers back up - bonus, sell ons, buy backs etc. Gerard Deulofeu came for what £4m?

If the going rate is £40m+, then that's what we will need to pay. Dibbling would prove that point, as you are not getting him for £30m.

A £40m player from another league, is probably on the par with paying £55m from West Ham for Kudus.

You skirted very quickly over the fact elanga got 14 goals in his first season in a side that skirted relegation.

Ian in terms of Kubo I have only seen him play a handful of games where he did nothing so don't really have an informed view of the player. Last season his stats weren't great in La liga.

We don't know how he would adapt as we seen last season with Lindsrom.

Dibling you must not have watched that closely. He won 2 penalties last season which aren't reflected in his stats with only 2 players in the league winning more despite his limited game time since Martin left. Southampton scored a tap in from when he hit the post which once again seems not being considered as an assist.

He created so many chances for his team mates that had the likes of Barry or Wood been on the end of would have resulted in an assist. The boy has already terrorised the likes of United, Liverpool and us when only 18 years of age.

You mention Lukaku, this kid I feel for us would be a similar signing. Relatively expensive for a player of his age but transformational, unbelievable value and with an enormous sell on.

You say not many 19 year olds produce the output we need. I say there aren't many 19 year olds like him.Like McAtee he ain't really a winger and will probably be a number ten in time. If we signed him I'd be staggered if he didn't get above ten goal contributions next season. But unlike the likes of Elanga and Minteh he has so much more to his game and even at Southampton managers were attempting to double and treble up on him to prevent him running the game.

I haven't seen a lot of Dibbling to be perfectly honest. There was a bit of a fan fare at the start of the season when he was linked with united and my fantasy footy team as I recall, but that seemed to die down a bit later in the season.

On the pitch for 20 games equivalent, 6 yellows and just 2 goals. It would be big money for potential. A lot of patience would be needed from the fan base.

The old sofascore had him a mixed bag in the last 12 games. Probably why we are linked with him, rather than a big 6.

Joe McMahon 35 Posted 26/07/2025 at 16:09:05

Am I the only one thinking in 13 months time best stadium in the championship? Players with pace and goals desperately needed!

Dale Self 36 Posted 26/07/2025 at 16:12:13

John Graham 37 Posted 26/07/2025 at 16:14:25

Awwww let me dream for a little bit before bringing me back down to earth.

Liam Mogan 38 Posted 26/07/2025 at 16:16:33

Might as well not say anything until you see new signings in an Everton kit signing a contract.

Otherwise its just listening to the usual Fabrizio Romana bolloxs