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Bernard appears to be close to signing for Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. A year after a switch to Nasar fell through, an agreement to transfer the Brazilian has been reached according to Greg O'Keeffe of The Athletic. Bernard was signed on a free transfer from Shakhtar Donetsk but struggled to hold down a first-team place under Marco Silva and Carlo Ancelotti. His move to the Middle East is expected to garner Everton a nominal fee as well as freeing up between £120,000 and £150,000 a week in reported wages.

Photo by IAN KINGTON/AFP via Getty Images While it’s hard to top Tottenham’s hilariously inept managerial search this summer, Everton’s appointment of Liverpool fan-favorite Rafa Benítez certainly takes the cake for amusement factor. The (We’re-Just-Not-That-)Interim One is just the second person ever to manage both teams, and the first in 125 years. In terms of potential backlash, his appointment at Chelsea in 2012 is small potatoes compared to crossing the red-blue divide on Merseyside, but as the Athletic’s exhaustive account of the process reveals, Everton decision-maker Farha...

This night belongs to the Evertonians Lyndon Lloyd Sunday, 21 February, 2021 "It's been a place for humiliation, dismay, regret and exasperation. A place for last-minute errors, downright capitulations, systematic failures. "Everton haven't won there this century. They've lost in a myriad of agonising ways; thrashed and robbed, all their own fault when opportunity knocked, or simply outplayed. "All until a windy Saturday night in the middle of an era when so much is just the same day in, day out. A night when, ...

‘When we asked the question’: Journalist shares Everton’s plan for key man’s future Nathan Stirk/Getty Images Speaking on the Gwlad Tidings podcast, Greg O’Keeffe has provided an insight into Everton’s plan with Marcel Brands. The Toffees’ Director of Football is out of contract in the summer, and as you can imagine, that has led to speculation about whether or not he will be staying at the club beyond this season. We don’t know whether or not he will be staying, but O’Keeffe says that Everton plan to get this resolved sooner rather than later.