The sale of the 19-year-old Harrison Armstrong to Nottingham Forest would be a “club decision” for Everton, according to David Moyes. After his team’s 1-1 draw at Bournemouth, in which Armstrong played the full 90 minutes, Moyes said he would prefer to keep a player for whom a reported £40m offer has been made. His stance was unaltered here on Saturday.
Let’s hope we can build on it. The club dictates a lot of that and we will see how the next few days go.” Travelling Everton fans sang that the club would have a “riot on your hands” should Armstrong be sold. Moyes, when asked about the supporters’ reaction, said: “I’d say the manager’s an Evertonian.” He continued: “You always have to consider supporters.
Supporters aren’t always wrong. But then there’s also times where I’ve fortunately had people at clubs who are really powerful and make difficult decisions. Not always decisions are popular, and sometimes they have to do it for different reasons.
It’s like managers have to make decisions on players … but there’s sometimes bigger decisions to be made and the club will, I’m sure, make what they think is the right one.” On the performance of Armstrong, the teenager lining up in midfield in a game where James Tarkowski’s injury-time goal was required to rescue a point, Moyes said: “Harrison played really well, he did a lot of good work. He ran out of legs a little bit later in the game, but it’s amazing the effort he puts in and he was probably more of an influence in the first half than he was in the second half.” Daniel Muñoz, meanwhile, will have a medical in the next few days after Nottingham Forest agreed a deal worth an initial £22m with Crystal Palace for the Colombia defender. The 30-year-old moved to Selhurst Park in 2024 under Oliver Glasner, who moved to the City Ground from Palace this summer.
Muñoz sat through Friday’s 4-1 home defeat by Manchester City on the bench as talks between the clubs continued. He had played in Pierre Sage’s first game in charge of Palace, the 2-0 defeat at Everton.
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