Jarrad Branthwaite sent Everton transfer advice amid Manchester United interest

Former Everton centre-back Conor Coady has urged Jarrad Branthwaite to stay with the Blues next season.

The uncapped 21-year-old has today been called up into Gareth Southgate’s provisional squad for Euro 2024 and despite his terrific form across a stellar breakthrough season attracting admiring glances from some of the biggest clubs in football, Coady reckons Branthwaite shouldn’t be looking for a transfer at this stage of his career.

The 31-year-old Merseysider, who is now at Leicester City and who was part of the Three Lions squad at the last World Cup finals while on loan at Goodison Park, told the BBC: “I look at someone now like Jarrad Branthwaite, who has been outstanding at Everton. He is another one now who, looking at it, everyone has seen him linked with Manchester United and all these sorts of things.

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“I do, a little bit inside me, thinks, I don’t think it’s a waste if you do another year, I don’t if I am being completely honest. Everton fans absolutely love you, they adore you, you are going to play every minute of every game, Sean Dyche loves you.”

Branthwaite joined Everton from his home city club Carlisle United as a 17-year-old in January 2020 after just nine League Two appearances for the Cumbrians when he became the first signing of the Carlo Ancelotti era. After loan spells with Blackburn Rovers and PSV Eindhoven, he returned to Merseyside last summer and played 41 matches in all competitions for Sean Dyche’s side this term, scoring three goals, including the opener in the 2-0 win over Liverpool last month, Everton’s first Merseyside Derby victory at Goodison Park since Branthwaite was eight.