Kevin Thelwell is ready to let £30m Everton player leave this summer after seven years at Goodison Park

Everton’s transfers this summer, both incomings and outgoings, have been brilliantly thought-out and engineered with incision.

Understanding their newfound position of relative sustainability, this allowed Kevin Thelwell to wade into the market with confidence that any fees paid would not push them towards another PSR punishment.

And, this was further aided by the sales of Ben Godfrey, Lewis Dobbin and Amadou Onana.

However, if they are to make one or two final signings to truly perfect Sean Dyche’s squad, it feels like further departures must be made.

Fortunately, according to iNews, there are two first-team players who might be next on the chopping block.

Everton willing to sell two first-team players

Having first detailed Everton’s interest in Kalvin Phillips, before suggesting that Armando Broja was keen to join Everton, this marked a bumper transfer update from the report.

However, perhaps a more understated update regards this potential double exit, as they provide an insight into the future of both Michael Keane and Mason Holgate.

It simply reads: ‘Everton are also looking to shift players out, with Mason Holgate and Michael Keane both having been made available’

The former moved to Goodison Park as a teenager and won the club’s Players’ Player of the Year award for the 2019/20 season, whilst the latter joined for £30m and has spent seven long years with the club.

Everton should have sold Michael Keane a long time ago

Whilst Holgate might be rash, reckless and wholly untrustworthy, at least this aforementioned profile details a time when he was revered by staff and players alike at Everton.

Now, he has struggled to make his mark for Sheffield United and Southampton.

There always remained hope that he might recapture that form though, with these loan spells indicative that the club had not completely given up on the 27-year-old.

Keane, however, has never really enjoyed that period of sustained success, always remaining a sluggish asset for the club who was liable to make a huge error that would let the side down.

Enjoying his best form under Carlo Ancelotti, as most of the current squad did, he convinced the club to invest in a lucrative long-term deal for the Burnley man, tying him down until 2025.