The move in full
Everton have sold defensive midfielder Tim Iroegbunam to newly promoted Hull City in a deal worth up to £22m, completed on transfer deadline day.
Hull City have completed the signing of midfielder Tim Iroegbunam from Everton on transfer deadline day, in a deal worth up to £22 million. The package is understood to be a £13 million fixed fee with a further £9 million available in add-ons, and the 23-year-old has signed a five-year contract that ties him to the Tigers until 2031. Aston Villa, who sold Iroegbunam to Everton for around £9 million in 2024, are due a sell-on percentage from the move.
The move had been in the works for weeks. Hull identified Iroegbunam as a priority target over the summer and had a formal bid on the table before an injury picked up in a pre-season friendly against Stuttgart initially threatened to end their interest. Turkish side Trabzonspor also registered interest, but Hull returned with an improved offer and got the deal done before the deadline. Manager Sergej Jakirović, who led Hull back to the Premier League via the play-offs after a nine-year absence, said he liked how Iroegbunam played and wanted his experience and physical profile in central midfield, adding that the player being in the final year of his Everton contract worked in Hull's favour.
For Everton, it is the end of a two-year spell in which Iroegbunam made 53 appearances after his move from Aston Villa. He had operated as a rotation option in the middle of the park under successive managers, but his path narrowed this summer once the club brought in Hayden Hackney and Christian Nørgaard, leaving him further down the pecking order. Everton's own statement thanked him for his service and wished him well, with the club recovering a fee comfortably above what they paid for him.
Iroegbunam's final season at Goodison Park was a mixed one. He made 29 Premier League appearances in 2025-26 but picked up nine yellow cards in that time, a reflection of the combative, front-foot style that has always been central to his game. He offers a strong aerial presence and is comfortable breaking up play, though his tackling has at times strayed into rash territory and drawn unwanted attention from referees.
At Hull, he should slot straight into a midfield short on Premier League experience. Iroegbunam said he was excited to get started after a move he described as long in the making, crediting conversations with the club's owner and his relationship with defender Ryan Giles for persuading him to join. He said he likes to get on the ball and drive the team forward, and to get involved with big tackles and be aggressive and on the front foot. That profile fits a Hull side that will need durability and physicality in the middle of the pitch as they adjust to the step up from the Championship.
What it does to the model
Bawler's team ratings are built from what actually happens on the pitch — goals, chances created, chances conceded and who's in the starting XI — so a Premier League midfielder switching clubs feeds into both sides' numbers as the season unfolds. Iroegbunam's minutes, ball-winning and discipline record at Hull will start moving the Tigers' midfield picture once he's featured, while Everton's numbers now reflect a middle three built around Hackney and Nørgaard instead.
FPL angle
Iroegbunam · MID · £5.0m0.0 pts/GW projected
Bawler's FPL model projects Iroegbunam at 0.0 points a gameweek at 0% ownership, with a 40% chance of starting. It does not publish a before-and-after for a transfer, so the figure is his projection at Hull City, not a delta.
