Everton need a productive summer after the way they finished the 2025/26 season – but it’s difficult to embrace reported plans to move for Timothy Weah.
The Toffees angered fans by going seven games without a win to finish the 2025/26 season, and many have questioned David Moyes.
The manager did not rotate the team as much as he should have, and Everton threw away a glorious chance to secure European football.
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It’s now about responding in the transfer window, and Everton are after a new wide player.
It seems Tyrique George may not be signed permanently, and there are also question marks over Jack Grealish and Dwight McNeil at this stage.
It has been claimed by journalist Rudy Galetti that Timothy Weah is a target for Everton, but the Toffees could do a lot better.
Everton should avoid making a move for Timothy Weah
Timothy Weah is a player Everton were actually linked with a year ago.
Seemingly, there is a long-standing interest, and it was perhaps inevitable that links would resurface at some point following the takeover by The Friedkin Group.
Everton are no strangers to signing an American, and maybe TFG would like to see another in the current squad.
But the reality is that Weah doesn’t have the most exciting attacking numbers.
In his loan spell with Marseille, he scored three goals and made four assists in 41 appearances. For Juventus, he has seven and seven in 78.
And previously at Lille, he only managed eight and eight in 107 appearances.
In total, he has scored just 24 goals and made 20 assists in 249 appearances, which is just really average output for a winger with his kind of pace.
Granted, Weah has had quite a few games playing as a wing-back in recent times, and playing such a role obviously means more defensive responsibility and therefore skews the attacking numbers.
But if Everton were to bring him in, he would surely play as a winger, since Moyes tends not to go with wing-backs.
The Scot has done it a few times, but by and large he’s been pretty faithful to a flat back four – and he surely wouldn’t sign Weah to play him at right-back in a four. That would certainly not go down well with a fanbase that has been clamouring to get Jack O’Brien – a natural centre-back – out of the position.
| Timothy Weah goals by club |
| Lille – 8 |
| Juventus – 7 |
| Celtic – 4 |
| Marseille – 3 |
| PSG – 2 |
There is also another issue with signing Weah.
The 26-year-old’s injury record is not the best. Transfermarkt data indicates he has missed 87 games for club and country so far in his career. However, he only missed three in the season just gone.
There are pros to signing Weah. He would provide the kind of blistering speed that Everton don’t really have at the moment. That, combined with his athleticism, makes him a handful.
But the underwhelming numbers might just give this potential signing too much risk, with Everton crying out for consistent final third output
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