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Serving Liverpool per se has never been a bar for coming to Everton but many Blues struggled to overcome memories of Benitez’s branding of them as a “small club” after Moyes' men followed up a 3-0 thrashing at Goodison the previous September with a goalless draw at Anfield on February 3, 2007.

On joining Everton on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers for the 2022/23 season, Conor Coady became the latest former Liverpool player to turn out for the Blues, while Moyes himself brought in Sander Westerveld – once sent off in a Merseyside Derby for trading blows with Francis Jeffers – on loan from Portsmouth to solve a Goodison goalkeeping crisis in 2006 with the Dutchman turning out twice (both away games) while Nigel Martyn, Richard Wright and Iain Turner were all unavailable.

He has said: ‘I want to play for Liverpool’.”

We have to go back to just before the Premier League era – almost 14 years before Doak was even born – for the last direct transfer from Liverpool to Everton.

Everton fans unfurl a banner featuring an image of former player Gary Ablett before the game against Brighton & Hove Albion at Goodison Park on January 2, 2022.

Writing in Everton Player by Player, Ivan Ponting remarked that the move caused tumult in the Reds camp and “the transfer was sanctioned by the Liverpool board without the agreement of their manager, one Bill Shankly, who made it clear that any further transactions without his blessing would result in his departure.”

Shankly had good reason to be upset as the Scotland Road muscle man would go on to net 50 goals in 315 games for the Blues, while lifting a brace of league championships

When reflecting on his move last year on his episode of Goodison Park: My Home, Sheedy told the ECHO: “I realised Everton supporters would be thinking: ‘Well, if he’s not good enough for Liverpool, why should he be good enough for Everton’, so I knew I had to hit the ground running
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