Everton endured a miserable summer transfer window, with the collapsed £40million move on deadline day for Monaco striker Folarin Balogun leaving David Moyes with a headache08:58, 05 Sep 2026Updated 12:18, 05 Sep 2026David Moyes has admitted that he has never spoken to Dan Friedkin, the chief executive of Everton owners the Friedkin Group, following a shambolic end to the summer transfer window.‌Everton have been left with a threadbare squad after failing to sign a striker on transfer deadline day. The Toffees sold Beto to Fiorentina and then saw Folarin Balogun reject a move to become his replacement, while late bids for Manchester United's Joshua Zirkzee and Aston Villa's Tammy Abraham also failed. It leaves Thierno Barry as Everton's only senior striker.‌While Everton did get some cheer, with Jack Grealish returning on loan from Manchester City, the sale of Iliman Ndiaye to City for £65million further weakened their squad.‌The farcical end to the window, in which Balogun U-turned on a move from Monaco after arriving at the Everton training ground, has put the club under scrutiny. Moyes' admission that he has no contact with Friedkin only adds weight to those criticisms.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK! Latest news, analysis and much more on Mirror Football's Facebook page“My real contact is Angus [Kinnear, Everton CEO]. Angus is the one who I would go to see," Moyes said ahead of Sunday's game against Manchester United. "Rishi [Majithia, TFG representative] is the next one and then the head of the Friedkin family in America. I don’t really get any direct conversations with them, but I do through Rishi, he is the one I would speak to.”‌Speaking in a press conference, as reported by the Liverpool Echo, Moyes was diplomatic when assessing the wreckage of the window, saying the collapse of the £40m deal for Balogun "wasn't anyone's fault".“It was a difficult transfer window generally," he added. "I know how it culminated in the end but it was a difficult window all the way through for us. The last couple of days were difficult because we were pushing hard, we had made bids for several players on bank holiday Monday and it would be hard to believe the outcome got to where it was."Lots of things just didn’t fall in line but we probably shouldn’t have been as late as that, we should probably have tried to get the work done a lot earlier than that.”‌Asked if his job had been made harder by the transfer window, he said: “Look, I think the Everton job is always a hard job and it’s a club that is used to having some difficult times. I can understand how difficult it must have been for Dychey [former manager, Sean Dyche] and many of the managers in front of him, through different periods.“It is going to be difficult. We don’t have a huge squad of players, it is not a number we would ideally want, but sometimes you need to do something special in football and we will attempt to do something special. I’ve never wanted a huge squad, I’ve always preferred it when the squad is tighter, but maybe not as tight as this.”‌Moyes has a huge amount of experience and is ready to fight on with reduced numbers. “My aim is just to be as good as we've tried to be in the recent seasons," he said. "I think some things will hinder it. There'll be days we don't get it right. But I'll tell you what there won’t be, I'll do my best not to make any excuses for what's happened. And the players are fully aware of that."There are no excuses from the players on what we've got, what we need, and there's two or three players who probably get mentioned quite a lot - they are going to have to come with the fore, they're all going to have to be the ones who see if they can really deal with this football club.“And for me personally, it's a great job, I love Everton and always have done. It's actually invigorated me over the last year, getting back at it again because I was probably going to say I wasn't going to do it again, or I might have taken an international job or I might have done something else.Article continues below"I actually think we've had a good year and a half together, I really do. I think if you looked over the year and a half you'd have to say there'd been a lot more positives and negatives. So now, there’s a little bit of a bump in the road. I need to try and get over the bump quickly and start looking how I can make it go smoothly.”Content cannot be displayed without consent