⚽ The KickAbout 🔵 @therobvera.bsky.social & @lesroberts.bsky.social on the preseason so far, transfer rumours, and what profile of player #Everton need to be in for. There’s also more on The Blue Room’s trip to Chicago next week 📺 youtu.be/HFZI9JEMito 🔊 pod.fo/e/303635

While you wait on Everton to make more signings, remember that it is TFG’s responsibility to validate your optimism in the form of tangible improvement to the squad. It is NOT your job to carry water for them by telling everyone that slow business is a sign of their acumen. #EFC

🇺🇸 See you in Chicago, Toffees! 🎙️ @mattjfootball.bsky.social and @paddyboyland.bsky.social will be hosting a live Byline podcast with @therobvera.bsky.social and Mark Mosey ahead of the friendly with West Ham next week. All the details you need below👇 #EFC

It’s only a mostly meaningless preseason friendly, but O’Brien on the bench in favor of Keane already is triggering, no lie. #EFC

I podcast for my fans, first and foremost. #EFC

Thunder title secured. Title parade finished. Now I can give my full, undivided attention to Love Island USA. 🇺🇸

And so it begins! Transfer Show available NOW in all the usual places. Gonna be a weird and wacky summer at Everton… #EFC

🗣️ TRANSFER SHOW 🎙️ @mattjfootball.bsky.social @therobvera.bsky.social 🔵 Grealish rumours unpacked 🔵 Do Everton *need* a statement signing? 🔵 Plugging gaps in the squad 🔵 Summer predictions Full 👉 tinyurl.com/3uyjxzth Preview 👇 pod.fo/e/2e1a97

The new Mission Impossible was so intense and so over the top and self aware and fun and and silly and badass and full of the best stunt work you can imagine by a huge movie star and thus, I didn’t care if it was a bit too long. Popcorn pleasure escapism, yall. Go enjoy!

New ownership, new stadium, no fresh PSR concerns! TWO summer windows?! Damn right, the return of @theblueroomefcpod.bsky.social Transfer Podcast is nigh! #EFC

The exceedingly obvious first domino of the summer window(s) has fallen for Everton. From the fit to the performances to the fee, it always felt like a bizarre rhetorical exercise to explain why Alcaraz somehow wouldn’t end up moving to Everton permanently. Great start. #EFC

The Thunder making 27 shots outside the paint, out of 53 attempts, is ridiculous. I don't think people understand how crazy that number of makes on jump shots is. OKC averaged 19.0 made field goals per game outside of the paint during the regular season; NBA teams averaged 17.2

FT: Newcastle 0-1 Everton. The Blues finish the season off strong w/3 straight victories—this one being easily the biggest surprise. Great performances all around, but particularly Alcaraz and Pickford who simply wouldn’t be denied today. A genuinely exciting summer ahead! #EFC

CHARLY F’ING ALCARAZ! #EFC

📰 The Weekly - The Goodison Festival Warren, @peterjmacca.bsky.social and @therobvera.bsky.social have more reaction and a very different perspective on the final day at #Goodison. 🔊 pod.fo/e/2d8ec3 📺 youtu.be/VjlGCkxLQaw

10/10 track. open.spotify.com/track/3HbKDf...

When it comes to Coleman, I am Ben Wyatt when it comes to Lil’ Sebastian. #EFC

Welp, that was annoying. Let’s get to the summer already. #EFC

It’s a golazo factory at Goodison at the moment! #EFC

If you haven’t seen enough from Charly Alcaraz at this point to think we ought to pay the very reasonable fee to make his loan permanent, then we clearly don’t see football the same. It’s an easy decision and one less thing that needs doing this summer. Get it done. #EFC

Alcaraz for Doucoure? McNeil for Harrison? Yes and yes, please. #EFC

They said it couldn’t be done, but Mark Mosey and I recorded a 2+ hour mega pod chock full of hard core Everton talk including big deep dives on DCL, Moyes, and squad building ahead of next season. Your weekend mountain to climb is here, kids! Out NOW in the usual places! #EFC

Honored to be one of those interviewed for this lovely piece on making one final trip to Goodison. For the record, I was speaking (mostly) tongue-in-cheek when I classified my harrowing journey home as a worthy price to pay for Moyes’ first post-return Everton victory. 😆 #EFC

For fans of @theblueroomefcpod.bsky.social Kick About 2.0, my old running buddy Mark Mosey will be joining me to record a little reunion episode later tonight! We’ll talk end of season, Moyes: The Sequel, and players that Everton just can’t seem to quit. Should drop Friday! #EFC

Given the age, trajectory, injury history and overall lack of production in recent years, what is the logical argument for giving Calvert-Lewin a new contract at Everton? (And no, we shouldn’t be spending considerable money to bring back a diminished Richarlison, either). #EFC

FT: Chelsea 1-0 Everton. Another classic “I can’t believe I woke up at 6 AM for this horseshit” TV viewing experience to add to the collection. #EFC

One consistent feature of my two decades supporting this club? No side makes mediocre keepers look suddenly godlike quite like Everton. #EFC

It appears that you can only play so many ultimately meaningless Premier League games at this stage of the season before it starts to really, REALLY look like it. #EFC

Significant injuries are always bad, but there is unquestionably an opportunity for something positive to come out of this for Everton. Give Jake O’Brien his shot with Branthwaite. See what you’ve got. Learn what needs doing in the summer. #EFC

As you all start learning about Kidd, prepare to be annoyed by some of his personal baggage. But given he’s just a “name” due to being a current NBA coach and not someone who will own any significant amount of the club, I wouldn’t waste too much time thinking about him. #EFC

Sinners is one of the most kickass, ultra satisfying movies I’ve seen in ages. Can’t wait to watch it again.

Maybe Everton are in the market for a CB because of departures we’re not yet aware of. But a Branthwaite-O’Brien partnership next season is, at the very least, a distinct possibility. So why not give them minutes together starting right now? Critical to know what we’ve got. #EFC

Had the ball for a fair bit here. Half an hour end and it feels like maybe a shot on target would be a good next step. #EFC

Can you imagine the Herculean task it would’ve been to keep AD’s body intact against the Thunder defense?

Ja and Memphis are so perfectly matched and I hope they stay together forever.

A win that is equal parts totally awesome and totally meaningless. Hilarious result. Damn, I love you, Everton. #EFC

If you can’t see I used my patented Michael Keane inception trick here for that goal, then you clearly don’t know me. 😂 #EFC

Never ceases to amaze me how many of Everton’s best chances end at the feet of Jack Harrison. Truly incredible. #EFC

Is the Alcaraz clause also tied to minutes? Because every second of Doucoure out there for Everton at this stage of the season is a gigantic waste of everyone’s time. (See also: Jack Harrison) #EFC

You know that thing where you're texting through A Minecraft Movie with your beloved and she reads you for filth?

No one frames an aggressive brand of mediocrity into a supposed virtue quite like Sean Dyche. #EFC

Quite possibly my favorite UK band of the 21st century, The Horrors, are out with their first album in eight years and it’s absolutely sublime. It’s early 90s Depeche Mode mixed up in a bowl with late 90s Nine Inch Nails and a bunch of other dark magic. Go listen. open.spotify.com/album/3L09yc...

⚽ The Kick About ⚽ @therobvera.bsky.social & @lesroberts.bsky.social on Moyes trying new systems and players, 3 out-of-contract players who should go, Jake O'Brien & two more classic album picks from Hole and The Supernaturals 🔊 pod.fo/e/2bc6f1 📺 youtu.be/Sdj_mDGHzoc

Your international break edition of The Kick About with me and @lesroberts.bsky.social is out now in all the usual @theblueroomefcpod.bsky.social places! #EFC

For your weekend listening pleasure: @lesroberts.bsky.social joins me for a special international break edition of @theblueroomefcpod.bsky.social Kick About w/lots on next season’s Everton, young talent and departures. And we round it out diving into these two 90s rock gems! Pod drops Saturday! #EFC

Tarkowski’s general decision making this season and the demeanor that accompanies it is getting tired. #EFC

I’m a relatively steadfast Everton homer, but that’s not a pen for me. #EFC

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Need something to listen to on a lovely spring Sunday? Here’s the playlist from the last episode of The Kick About. open.spotify.com/playlist/3TL...

Alcaraz is a genuine difference maker. Regardless of whether he starts enough matches to auto-trigger the buy clause, he’s easily shown enough to persuade me he deserves a permanent move to Everton. #EFC