David Moyes tips Seamus Coleman to join Everton’s coaching staff – with injuries having restricted club legend to just four appearances this season
23:45 GMT 07 Mar 2025, updated 23:46 GMT 07 Mar 2025
Coleman, 36, has made 426 appearances for Everton since joining in 2009
The full back served as joint caretaker boss for an FA Cup tie back in January
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David Moyes wants Seamus Coleman to be part of Everton’s future and has raised the prospect of adding him to his coaching staff.
Coleman has become part of Everton’s fabric since his arrival at Goodison Park in 2009, the £60,000 fee paid to Sligo Rovers rightly regarded as one of the best value deals in the club’s history. He has made 426 appearances, putting him 13th in the all-time list.
This has been a challenging campaign, however, for the 36-year-old, who has struggled to get into a rhythm because of a succession of niggling injuries. He has only played four times, the last of which was in a 1-1 draw with Manchester City on Boxing Day.
But a lack of minutes on the pitch has not stopped him having an influence; Coleman, who started taking his coaching badges six years ago, was joint caretaker manager for the FA Cup tie with Peterborough in January and Moyes holds him in the highest regard.
It is going to be a summer of significant change for the club, with Angus Kinnear coming in as the new Chief Executive and Director of Football Kevin Thelwell leaving once his contract expires. But Moyes wants good characters around and Coleman most certainly fits the bill in that respect.
‘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,’ said Moyes. ‘But if we had our way, we would try and keep Seamus around – definitely. Or give him the opportunity to be around but he may have something else on.
Seamus Coleman has been restricted to just four appearances for Everton this season
Everton boss David Moyes believes the club legend could join the club’s coaching staff
Coleman, right, had served as joint caretaker manager for an FA Cup tie back in January
‘We have to see what he wants and we have not made a decision on what we are going to do. Seamus might be a great person to have around as an extra who, if he wasn’t playing all the games, might be able to play in the Under-21s.
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‘There are a lot of teams who have gone with that sort of thing. He could also maybe be a coach with the younger boys if that is what he chooses to do. We might still decide to keep him on anyway, but for me Seamus picking up the injuries is the problem.’
The next few months will be emotional for Everton, with only a handful of games remaining at Goodison Park before the club moves to a new waterfront stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock. Moyes isn’t someone who indulges in sentiment but he recognises the symbolism of Coleman and how fitting it would be if he could lead the team out on the final day or at their new home.
‘Sometimes you have to do the right things,’ said Moyes, who has done a superb job since returning to Everton, effectively banishing the spectre of relegation in two months. ‘Seamus might be required to do that job and he might still be one of the best at it.
‘I don’t think age in football is quite as important as it was years ago in football. Look at Luka Modric for example and I know we are talking about a star. Ryan Giggs, Ashley [Young]. I think it is when you are injured, it breaks you down as an individual and it takes too long to get back and missi
ng training and not keeping up.’
