Everton’s ability to fund an overhaul of its squad may have been boosted by the sale of two academy products.
Ellis Simms and Ishe Samuels-Smith have each left the club in multi-million pound deals in recent days.
Their exits are the first pieces of business completed by Everton this summer despite the first team squad being in desperate need of strengthening. They come against the backdrop of wider uncertainty about the extent of the club’s ability to operate in the transfer market after several years of huge losses and amid a major boardroom shake-up.
