Royal Blue: The Everton FC Podcast

Everton have a week before the Premier League transfer window shuts. And as the Royal Blue panel sat down to record this latest podcast there were still five signings to be ticked off the club's wish-list. Host Phil Kirkbride asks Dave Prentice, Sam Carroll and Gav Buckland if they were confident the Blues would complete all the business they want in just seven days. Everton are hoping to add a ne...

It’s been somewhat of surreal few days for Everton fans. The release of the proposed stadium designs for the Bramley-Moore site. The bizarre 72 hour pursuit of Wilfried Zaha which seemingly ended on Monday night. The departure of crowd favourite, Idrissa Gueye. The accepted bid for Juventus star Moise Kean. To put it bluntly, there has been plenty going on. In this week’s View from the Gwladys Str...

Transfer talk dominates the latest Royal Blue podcast, hosted by Phil Kirkbride and featuring Adam Jones and Dave Prentice, who spell out Everton's interest in Wilfried Zaha and Moise Kean and wonder whether the club has the time to get through all the business it needs to do in the final 10 days of the transfer window. Our panel also look into the Blues' pre-season performances so far, and questi...

When the designs arrived, they certainly didn't disappoint. So who better to talk about Everton's proposed new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock than the man who has designed it, architect Dan Meis. In this exclusive interview with our Blues correspondent Phil Kirkbride, Meis discusses his designs, capacity, costs, being the face of the project and his role in the future, the influence of Bill Kenwrig...

Welcome to the seventh entry into our Everton FC correspondent Phil Kirkbride's pre-season tour diary. Whereas our last podcast was positively upbeat after the club unveiled designs for their new ground at Bramley-Moore Dock, the back-to-back defeats to Sevilla and Mainz in the Opel Cup, combined with a lack of activity in the transfer market, means this, our latest offering on the Royal Blue podc...

It is a significant day in the history of Everton FC - the day when the club, and world-renowned architect Dan Meis, reveal the designs for its iconic new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock. No doubt you will be reading all about it on the Liverpool ECHO website, and looking over and over again at the images of the magnificent waterfront stadium, but we also have a special Royal Blue podcast for you li...

He made his Everton debut in Wednesday night's 0-0 draw at Wigan Athletic, but on the eve of the friendly, Fabian Delph sat down in front of the media at Finch Farm for the first time after the midfielder completed his move from Manchester City. The England international came across very well indeed - and you can listen to exactly what he had to say here. For information regarding your data privac...

Welcome to the sixth serving of the superb Alan Myers podcast on all things Everton FC. We kick things off with Alan talking to Gavin Buckland and Paul Wheelock about Kurt Zouma, Ademola Lookman and pre-seasons past and present, which includes a brilliant story about the time Fabrizio Ravanelli turned down the chance to join the Blues despite Howard Kendall bringing out the finest China. One man w...

The Blues will round their stay in Switzerland with a friendly against Monaco on Friday. But before that we have the latest pre-season tour diary from our Everton FC correspondent Phil Kirkbride, who gets us underway with a word of warning for any supporters planning to travel to the picturesque Alpine village of Verbier for the match... the beer is pricey. Now Phil assures us he's not been handin...

Fabian Delph may not be the star studded signing many Everton fans crave this Summer, but you won’t hear anyone moaning about the £9million purchase on this podcast. Marco Silva and Marcel Brands have gone against the grain with this transfer. The model of buying up and coming young, hungry, ambitious players, on low wages completely thrown out of the window with this one. Is that necessarily a ba...

Fresh from producing his latest pre-season audio diary, we've got our Everton FC correspondent Phil Kirkbride on the line from the sun-kissed Alps for the week's first Royal Blue podcast, hosted by Dave Prentice and also featuring Adam Jones and Gavin Buckland back at the ECHO studio. Understandably, Prenno kick things off by getting Phil's verdict on the Blues' latest summer signing, Fabian Delph...

After a short stay back at home, our Everton FC correspondent Phil Kirkbride has jetted out to the picturesque setting of Verbier in Switzerland, where he watched Marco Silva's side continue their pre-season preparations with a 0-0 draw with FC Sion on Sunday afternoon. Phil looks back at what he viewed as an improved performance from a Blues team with a more familiar look to it, explains the deci...

Welcome to the fourth entry into the pre-season audio tour diary of our Everton FC correspondent Phil Kirkbride, who is providing the inside track on the Blues' preparations for the 2019-20 campaign, from Kenya to Germany and many other places in between. Speaking of Kenya, Phil kicks things off by looking back on Everton's stay in Nairobi and their opening pre-season friendly in which, he reveals...

It's a very special edition of the Royal Blue podcast. Everton turns to "Evernton!" as the talent behind the viral success "Farmer Michael and Kathleen", Stevo Timothy and Sinead McGrath, join Adam Jones and David Prentice to discuss a wide range of topics. The pair are on usually hilarious form as they discuss their experiences coming through the comedic ranks and how they first discovered the lo...

This week sees the return of the View from the Gwladys Street Everton fan podcast after a short pre-season break. With a month to go before the big kick-off, Blues fans are waiting in anticipation for new signings. With the likes of prime target Andre Gomes already in the bag, the discussion this week on the show is very much centred around who will follow him through the Goodison Park door. The l...

The wait is over – the fifth episode of the brilliant Alan Myers Everton Podcast is in! And, once again, there is a lot to get stuck into before episode six follows in a fortnight’s time. Alan is firstly joined in the studio by our Everton FC reporter Adam Jones and Liverpool ECHO colleague Paul Wheelock to look back on the opening friendly of the summer against Kariobangi Sharks and some of the p...

The Blues players arrived in Nairobi on Saturday morning - and that made a busy day for Marco Silva's squad and for our Everton FC correspondent Phil Kirkbride, who also found time to fit in this, his latest entry into his pre-season audio diary. It's a good one, as Phil gives us an insight into the interviews he has conducted with director Sasha Ryazantsev - as well as Silva after the Blues boss...

Our Everton FC reporter Phil Kirkbride may be in Kenya preparing for the Blues' first pre-season friendly, while Adam Jones is deservedly putting his feet-up on holiday, but that hasn't stopped us from recording a Royal Blue podcast to kick-start your weekend in style. Sam Carroll - on his day off, no less - takes over the host's seat while Dave Prentice and Gavin Buckland are the guests, who get...

The second entry into Phil Kirkbride's pre-season audio tour diary is a cracker as our Everton FC correspondent catches up with ex-Blues favourite Leon Osman for a special podcast in Kenya. Everton will kick off their summer friendlies on Sunday when they take on Kariobangi Sharks at the Kasarani Stadium. But Ossie, along with former Blues team-mate Steven Pienaar, are already out in Nairobi, and...

Andre Gomes was paraded in front on the media on Thursday afternoon after completing his £22m move from Barcelona to the Blues, where he had performed so impressively on loan last season. And after being asked to give his verdict on Everton's smart new kit, which he was wearing at the press conference, the classy Portuguese midfielder explained why he has chosen to make a permanent switch to Goodi...

The Royal Blue podcast is officially on tour! And to celebrate the fact, our host, and Everton FC correspondent, Phil Kirkbride will be recording pre-season audio entries from a summer that will take Marco Silva's side to Kenya, Switzerland, Germany and to Wigan, too. Episode one is effectively a scene-setter after Phil landed in Nairobi. He explains why the first team do not fly out to the Kenyan...

There's an unsurprising theme in this week's special midweek Royal Blue podcast. Everton completed the signing of Portuguese midfield maestro Andre Gomes late Tuesday and host Sam Carroll acted swiftly to pull together a crack team of pundits to discuss the transfer. The ECHO's Head of Sport Dave Prentice is joined by Everton reporter Adam Jones and Paul Wheelock as the guests wax lyrical about Go...

Alan Myers is back with the fourth episode of his brilliant Everton podcast - and it's a bumper one to say the least! Little wonder, then, that the usual chat that kicks off the podcast, which also features Liverpool ECHO duo Sam Carroll and Paul Wheelock, is trimmed back a bit. But the trio still fit in discussion over Leighton Baines' new deal, the departure of Nikola Vlasic, the imminent arriva...

The Royal Blue Podcast returns after a busy week for Everton in the transfer market. On the same day that CSKA Moscow announced a £14m move for Nikola Vlasic, who spent last season on loan in Russia, Marcel Brands struck a £22m deal with Barcelona to sign Andre Gomes on a permanent deal. With talks ongoing with the Portuguese international, guests Dave Prentice, Adam Jones and Gavin Buckland discu...

With Phil Kirkbride, Adam Jones and Dave Prentice on holiday – not together, we think – there is a new-look line-up for our latest Royal Blue podcast, which is hosted by Sam Carroll and features Chris Beesley and Paul Wheelock. The trio start by looking at Everton’s Premier League fixtures, which were released 24 hours earlier. All three are confident the Blues can get off to a flying start – prov...