Everton lose £80m worth of talent for nothing with Jonjoe Kenny among exit list

The Toffees are under pressure to reduce their wage bill and as a result they've offloaded a number of first-team players following the end of their contracts.

Among those are Gylfi Sigurdsson, Fabian Delph and Cenk Tosun.

Sigurdsson arrived at Everton for a fee of £44.5million from Swansea City in the summer of 2018 - still a club record - but has not featured since May 2021.

Tosun signed from Besiktas for £27m in January 2018, and Delph from Manchester City in 2019 for £8.5m.

The Turkish striker spent time out on loan at Crystal Palace and back at Besiktas during his time at Goodison Park, and played just 11 minutes of first team football this term.

Homegrown ace Jonjoe Kenny is also leaving the club after turning down the offer of a new contract.

The 25-year-old Liverpool-born full-back has made 50 appearances for the club in the Premier League, but will seek pastures new in order to play more regular first-team football.

Seeing such expensive talent leave the club for nothing is bound to frustrate supporters.

And following on from Farhad Moshiri's apology to fans in an open letter, talkSPORT pundit Simon Jordan insisted the owner must be clearer with fans in order to regain their support.

Speaking to talkSPORT, Jordan said: "Why has he got to apologise?

"Maybe some of the players and managers that he's put in place who haven't done their jobs have to apologise for their mentality of coming in and sweeping a big bag of his cash before slinging their hooks, proverbially.

"He needs to explain the vision because this is a public domain business.

"He needs to qualify his thinking in the mind of the fans. Whether you think you should or you shouldn't, these fans have an emotional attachment to the club that supersedes his financial ownership.

"I don't think he should be apologising or saying 'I'm sorry for losing £500million of my own money', what he should be saying are 'these are the areas we got wrong, we aren't going to keep making the same mistakes and here's what the future looks like'.

"Bring the fans with you. He hasn't brought them with him because he's made ridiculous decisions."