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A big day of Kinnear fallout, one new signing profile, and the transfer tracker refreshed as the right-back search rumbles on. Here’s everything from today in one place. New arrival Christian Nørgaard says Everton can be a set-piece force, drawing on his Brentford grounding to make a bold claim about Everton’s height and size in the box, while giving an update on the minor injury that’s kept him out of pre-season. Beyond confirming Everton went into the Palace opener without a right-back, Kinnear’s round of interviews also touched on revenue, recruitment and transfer strategy — the headlines that got buried under the right-back story are covered. Elsewhere in the same interview, Kinnear had his fullest say yet on Jack Grealish, including one specific line worth a closer look: [“he was definitely loved here”](internal link placeholder — Grealish “loved here” update). That’s prompted an opinion piece questioning whether Everton’s ambition matches Kinnear’s bullish talk, using Grealish’s stalled return as the clearest example of the gap between rhetoric and action. The Everton transfer tracker has been refreshed to reflect Wan-Bissaka’s move to Villa, fresh complications in the Fort pursuit, and Strasbourg’s Guela Doué emerging as a new name in the right-back search. On that note, since Kinnear won’t say who Everton’s mystery right-back target actually is, we ranked the five most likely names based on where each deal currently stands. And for the full picture on Grealish with no speculation attached, here’s a dispassionate timeline of the loan, the injury, City’s midfield rebuild and every word Kinnear has said. It’s been a day dominated by one man’s opinions and one position still unfilled. Right-back remains the story to watch as the window enters its final fortnight.