Everton manager Frank Lampard is eager to get another fresh face in as soon as possible as he looks to replace Richarlison. But while the Blues could bank up to £60million from Tottenham Hotspur for the Brazilian, they’re still yet to spend anything themselves this summer with fans left wondering how long the wait will be.
So far, James Tarkowski, a free agent after his contract at Burnley expired, is the only new arrival. But as the ECHO revealed back on June 15, his deal was agreed several weeks ago.
A truncated preparation period for the 2022/23 Premier League campaign due to a first ever winter World Cup in Qatar has made Lampard particularly keen to snap up a new recruit as he looks to reshape an Everton squad who recorded the joint lowest equivalent points total in the club’s history last season (shared with 2003/04) –despite it widely being reported that they had the largest wage bill in the top flight outside of the ‘big six.’ Spending among Premier League clubs so far this window has already topped the half a billion pound mark – the equivalent of the cost of the Blues’ new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock – but Goodison Park chiefs are yet to release the purse strings.
