Matt Townsend

Everton managers have been plagued for so long with the problem of who should succeed the team's long-standing right-back Seamus Coleman, that it seems to be becoming an almost insurmountable issue.

There have been rumours building for some time that Everton will lose their most exciting attacking talent, with the former Marseille player failing to agree to sign a contract extension offered to him, and making cryptic remarks about wanting to play at a higher level.

Everton have moved to bring in the 32-year-old ball winner because of the recent departure of long-time stalwart Idrissa Gueye.

Everton have added the Welsh international forward Brennan Johnson to their squad, directly replacing McNeil who leaves Merseyside with a year remaining on his contract.

The Toffees have failed to secure another alleged transfer target as Chelsea's Liam Delap agrees a move to Nottingham Forest this week. By

Tuesday's deadline day chaos though was quite possibly the most embarrassing and depressing example of a recurrent theme over so many past years in which Everton have made a mess of its transfer policy, particularly on deadline day.

Today the Blues managed to snatch a very late equaliser through new signing Ainsley Maitland-Niles who scored a screamer in extra-time at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.

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Nelson Peltz is making a buyout offer for fast-food chain Wendy’s, the Wall Street Journal reported.