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title: "‘Nobody wants Ross Barkley’ – Everton fans react on Twitter to pre-season development"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/nobody-wants-ross-barkley-everton-fans-react-on-twitter-to-pre-season-development/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Jonny Gorrie"
section: "Everton"
published: "2017-07-18T12:10:16Z"
modified: "2017-07-18T12:10:16Z"
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# ‘Nobody wants Ross Barkley’ – Everton fans react on Twitter to pre-season development

**With the Everton fans in the Transfer Tavern absolutely delighted as to how their summer has panned out thus far, many of them aren’t even thinking about a certain Ross Barkley.**

The England international has strongly been [linked](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4703740/Tottenham-cool-Everton-midfielder-Ross-Barkley.html) with a move to Tottenham Hotspur, after snubbing a new deal at Goodison Park. Indeed, following the Toffees’ own recent overhaul, many of our punters are wondering if he’d even get into Ronald Koeman’s team these days!

So, the recent [news](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jul/17/everton-ross-barkley-pre-season-trip-sign-cuco-martina) that he’d been left out of the club’s pre-season tour to Holland obviously added fuel to the fire. While he is [said](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jul/17/everton-ross-barkley-pre-season-trip-sign-cuco-martina) to struggling with a groin injury, fans online have taken to Twitter to speculate about the 23-year-old’s future on Merseyside.

Having already bid farewell to Romelu Lukaku, the Toffees in the Tavern aren’t overly bothered about whether Barkley sticks around or not, it seems.

With that in mind, here’s a look at how Twitter reacted to Barkley’s omission.

> [@RBarkley20](https://twitter.com/RBarkley20?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) what you playing at lad? Give your head a wobble.
>
> — #KendallsArmy (@st\_domingos) [July 18, 2017](https://twitter.com/st_domingos/status/887190676936568833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://twitter.com/AJ\_1878/status/886961740419915776

> Eternal optimist that I am (cough) is there any chance that Ross Barkley is simply injured and that's why he's not with [#EFC](https://twitter.com/hashtag/EFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) squad?
>
> — Sean Lunt (@Sean\_Lunt) [July 17, 2017](https://twitter.com/Sean_Lunt/status/886990586062008321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Barkley haven't travelled with Everton. I can see a swap deal with Sigurdsson happening… [#EFC](https://twitter.com/hashtag/EFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#SCFC](https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
>
> — Lewis Murphy (@LMurphyy) [July 17, 2017](https://twitter.com/LMurphyy/status/886990734490038273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> nobody wants Ross Barkley. Lmao.
>
> — treize khushrenada (@projectksl) [July 17, 2017](https://twitter.com/projectksl/status/887001818995281922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://twitter.com/iamtomrogan/status/887024672491044865

https://twitter.com/J\_Wade21/status/887021095978762240

> time is running… [#barkley](https://twitter.com/hashtag/barkley?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#efc](https://twitter.com/hashtag/efc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [https://t.co/Rl6MaKvyKy](https://t.co/Rl6MaKvyKy)
>
> — Huagoong23th (@huagoong23th) [July 18, 2017](https://twitter.com/huagoong23th/status/887136819048988673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)