Anjishnu Roy 07/11/2025 comments  |  Jump to last

Tyler Dibling was the most expensive signing for Everton this summer, arriving from Southampton for £35 million. 

One of English football’s most highly rated prospects, the teenager has struggled for game time and has played just 62 minutes of Premier League football all season. In contrast, he made 33 top-flight appearances for the Saints last season before they got relegated.

David Moyes believes that Dibling is finding it difficult to break into the first team given the form of Jack Grealish and Iliman Ndiaye ahead of him.

“At the moment, he’s got Ili Ndiaye and Jack Grealish in front of him, so that’s probably the reason why he’s finding it difficult to break into the first team,” Moyes said in the pre-match press conference before facing Fulham.

“We want him to up his levels, up his training.

“When I first came here, Leighton Baines, John Stones, Joleon Lescott, you could go on... they all had to sit and wait for their time and the right moments to find their way into the team, that’s the way it is.

“For Tyler at the...