{"id":104723,"date":"2025-10-26T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104723\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:47:07","slug":"everton-v-tottenham-160m-and-counting-toffees-search-for-their-dream-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/104723\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton v Tottenham: \u00a3160m and counting &#8211; Toffees&#8217; search for their dream striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Everton&#8217;s merry-go-round of managers, with nine permanent bosses in 12 years, has made it harder for strikers to become established at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Cenk Tosun joined for \u00a327m in 2017, Sam Allardyce described him as &#8220;the best in Europe&#8221; for his price but a managerial change to Marco Silva, and injuries, resulted in an eventual return to Besiktas after just nine top-flight goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moise Kean arrived to fanfare in 2019 following a breakout season at Juventus but netted just two Premier League goals before returning to Italy two years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Short-term moves for Salomon Rondon, Joshua King, Enner Valencia and Armando Broja didn&#8217;t pay off, while Barcelona academy graduate Sandro Ramirez, signed on the cheap from Malaga, made three Premier League starts in four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And then there was Neal Maupay. He scored on his second appearance after moving from Brighton for an initial \u00a312m but that was his only goal in 29 Premier League appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everton&#8217;s merry-go-round of managers, with nine permanent bosses in 12 years, has made it harder for strikers to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-104723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}