Raul Jimenez already looks uncomfortable viewing for Everton after transfer links

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Everton didn’t sign Raul Jimenez this summer, and the striker’s exploits at the World Cup could make some in the club’s hierarchy uncomfortable.

Everton are in the market for a new centre-forward in this window, following criticism for Beto and Thierno Barry.

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Both players lacked cutting edge last season, with Barry probably coming in for the most stick out of the two.

They did score 17 Premier League goals between them, but the feeling is that Everton need to strengthen this summer up top if they are to improve.

Raul Jimenez may not have been the elite striker solution for Everton, but his contributions at the World Cup have been plentiful so far.

Raul Jimenez looks like a missed opportunity for Everton as striker scores again for Mexico

Earlier this year, it was reported that Everton had been keeping an eye on Raul Jimenez’s contract situation at Fulham.

There was talk that he could leave at the end of the 2025/26 campaign when his deal expired, and sure enough, he did depart Craven Cottage.

And very quickly, he made a move back to Wolves, who are playing in the Championship in 2026/27.

The move raised eyebrows, because Jimenez has shown at Fulham he is still a great striker with a lot to offer.

But seemingly the love he had for his old club was decisive, and Everton appeared not to make any kind of push to sign him in the end.

But watching him at the World Cup, it’s difficult to conclude that Jimenez isn’t a bit of a missed opportunity for the Toffees.

So far for Mexico, he has scored two goals and both were really well taken. His latest against Ecuador to help his country reach the last 16 was fired into the top corner with aplomb.

That goal puts him five behind Chicharito in the all-time scoring chart for Mexico.

Jimenez has been around in English football for many years now and is proven in the Premier League, having also impressively come back from a serious head injury he sustained in 2021.

For Fulham, he scored 31 goals and made six assists in 115 games, which is not a bad return.

He would perhaps not have been a man to lead Everton’s line regularly from next season.

But he would certainly have been a great squad option, and someone with plenty of pearls of wisdom to pass on to the other two, or another striker if one came in.