Meet the £25m Premier League star who’d cause chaos with Ndiaye at Everton

Everton are not at full strength as the 2026/27 Premier League season draws close. Recruitment has proved a sticking point for the Blues this summer, with a number of areas lacking.

David Moyes and his side frustrated a hungry fanbase toward the end of the 2025/26 season, going seven games without a win to close out the term. It was a sobering reminder that there is plenty of work to be done at the Hill Dickinson, with a thumping 3-0 win over Chelsea in March raising hopes that Everton could secure passage into European competition.

If they are to achieve their lofty goals this season, the Toffees will need to bring over a few more exciting additions before the window slams shut.

Moreover, they must keep onto their superstars, with Iliman Ndiaye‘s future crucial to the outfit’s immediate success.

Why Everton are confident they will keep Iliman Ndiaye

Everton are growing in confidence that Ndiaye will play his football on Merseyside over the coming campaign. The Senegalse forward, Everton’s talisman, has rejected a £70m transfer to Al-Hilal in the Saudi Pro League.

Though he would be keen on exploring a move to a Premier League rival – Arsenal and Manchester United have both registered their interest – there’s a sense that such suitors harbour reservations over the potential cost of a deal.

Ndiaye, while curious, is not agitating to leave, and supporters will now expect Moyes and co to dig deep and fight off advances for so mercurial an attacker. Ndiaye is magic, and he has been hailed as as “one of the best players to watch in the Premier League” by sports writer James Nalton.

With Everton working on a deal that would see Jack Grealish return from Manchester City on loan for a second successive season, there’s every chance that Ndiaye could reprise his role down the right flank, and if that is going to be the case, he will need a more dynamic right-sider in support.

Everton could see bid accepted for Ndiaye partner

In fairness to Ndiaye, he was thrown over to the alternate flank last season and inadequately supported from behind. Jake O’Brien is not a proper right-back, but that is where he has played for the lion’s share of Moyes’ second tenure on Merseyside.

According to Football Insider, Everton have learned that they will need to stump up £25m if they are to sign Crystal Palace’s Daniel Munoz this summer. One of the Eagles’ most impressive players under Oliver Glasner, new boss Pierre Sage is wrapping up deals for new right siders at Selhurst Park.

The 30-year-old still has two years on his contract, but Palace would indeed consider his sale for around £25m. Munoz might be more naturally disposed to perform in a wing-back role than as a member of a back four, but he has been a mainstay for a Crystal Palace side who have skyrocketed to prominence over the past few years, winning the FA Cup and Community Shield and Conference League across two recent terms.

Munoz is no spring chicken, but his combative and progressive performances down the right for Glasner’s Palace have seen him fashioned into one of the most dynamic widemen out there, and there’s no question that he would provide Ndiaye with more support than the likes of O’Brien, whose mobility is not his strongest suit.

Ndiaye, even out of position and unsupplied with the playmaking support he would have hoped for last season, caught the eye as one of the division’s most stylish attackers. He only scored six goals and supplied three assists, but he completed 2.3 dribbles and won six duels on average each game.

Munoz is a wideman characterised by his relentless work-rate, tenacity both in attack and defence and willingness to overlap and create patterns with the winger in front of him.

At Everton, that would be Ndiaye, and it’s a partnership which could add a dimension that was lacking for the Merseysiders last season. It could be a game-changing signing that may even tempt Ndiaye to continue his journey as Everton’s talisman.