Moyes facing a month of ins and OUTS

BLUES CONTRACT ISSUES MOVE INTO THE FINAL STRETCH

- By JOE THOMAS

FOUR senior Everton first team players have entered the final month of their Blues contracts with their futures unresolved.

Idrissa Gueye, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Michael Keane and Seamus Coleman are on deals that will expire at the end of June. Talks remain ongoing and clear hints have been dropped on what manager David Moyes hopes to do with several of them.

But the club is in the unusual position of entering the summer transfer window which has opened weeks earlier than typical due to the upcoming Club World Cup without having confirmed who will stay and who will go from the existing squad.

Here is what we know so far.

Seamus Coleman

The question over the club captain has, for months, been whether he will accept the opportunity he has to remain at Everton and, if so, in what capacity.

There was little surprise when Moyes confirmed three months ago that he wanted to retain Coleman's influence beyond the summer.

His pronouncements at the time meant Moyes was willing to express hope over the Republic of Ireland international's situation before he was happy to concede he had led Everton to safety with the form he inspired across late January and February.

Speaking in early March, Moyes said: "You don't just keep people for the sake of keeping them because if you did every club would have hundreds of old players there, but if we had our way we would try and keep Seamus around definitely."

At the time, Moyes highlighted all options for Coleman to remain in the playing squad, become an academy coach or play a hybrid player/coach role.

Last month, Moyes went a step further over the defender he so famously signed for just £60,000 in his first stint back in 2009, acknowledging it was his hope Coleman would remain in the playing squad.