Here are your Everton evening headlines for Wednesday, March 30.
Bill Kenwright makes new promise as Everton slam 'greed' of Super League clubs
Everton will fight any revised plans for a breakaway European Super League.
The club condemned the initial proposals when they were revealed last year, slamming those involved for their "preposterous arrogance". Chairman Bill Kenwright has now re-iterated the club’s opposition to any future move , accusing those involved of "greed and self-interest".
In his foreword to Everton’s accounts, released on Tuesday evening, he expressed pride at the club’s role in speaking out against the project. And he added that, should the club need to "step up" again, it would.
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A dozen clubs were part of plans to launch the European Super League last April. Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea were the Premier League outfits to be involved. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, AC Milan and Inter Milan were also included in the plans, which were scrapped within 48 hours after a backlash from supporters and the wider football community.
Among the clubs to speak out at the time was Everton . A statement from the board, referring to the Premier League contingent, said: "The self-proclaimed Super Six appear intent on disenfranchising supporters across the game - including their own - by putting the very structure that underpins the game we love under threat. The backlash is understandable and deserved – and has to be listened to.
"This preposterous arrogance is not wanted anywhere in football outside of the clubs that have drafted this plan. On behalf of everyone associated with Everton, we respectfully ask that the proposals are immediately withdrawn and that the private meetings and subversive practices that have brought our beautiful game to possibly its lowest ever position in terms of trust end now."
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Vitalii Mykolenko shares heartwarming Donny van de Beek gesture
Vitalii Mykolenko has opened up on the kind gestures Donny van de Beek and members of Everton’s coaching staff have made to him amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The Blues kicked off their winter transfer window business on January 1st by announcing the arrival of the Ukraine international from Dynamo Kyiv. Mykolenko has won 21 caps for his country and was a key part of the team which reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2020.
He featured regularly in Dynamo’s past two Champions League campaigns and was instrumental in his side’s domestic league title triumph in 2020/21. He has also won two Ukrainian Cups with Dynamo.
Mykolenko made his Blues debut in the FA Cup win over Hull City. Then, a week later, he made his first Premier League start against Norwich City at Carrow Road.
After weeks of speculation, Russian president Vladimir Putin started military action on Ukraine at the end of last month. Air raid sirens have since been heard going off in the Kyiv after Putin launched what he called a 'special military operation', which has seen a large-scale invasion of the country and backlash from across the international community.
However, Russia indicated yesterday that it will significantly cut back its military activity in northern Ukraine after 'meaningful' progress at peace talks in Istanbul. Russia’s deputy defence minister, Alexander Fomin, said Moscow would 'radically reduce military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernihiv'.
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