Michael Keane is set to complete a decade’s service to Everton Football Club after extending his current contract by a further year. 

The 33-year-old penned a new one-year deal last summer to help ease the burden on a recruitment team that was already dealing with the departure from the club of a dozen players whose terms expired at the end of the 2024/25 campaign.

While it was anticipated that Keane would be fourth choice centre-back, he has been called upon to make 26 starts in all competitions this season following Jarrad Branthwaite’s hamstring surgery and Jake O’Brien’s regular deployment at right-back.

Indeed, Keane has enjoyed some of his best form since joining the Blues from Burnley in 2017, weighing in with three goals and ensuring that Branthwaite’s absence wasn’t as keenly felt as feared.

Everton had a club option to extend Keane’s terms for a further a year and have exercised it in a move that is timely given Branthwaite’s latest injury which he sustained in last Sunday’s Merseyside derby.

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1  David Bromwell
24/04/2026    13:27:42

Sensible move by the Club, Michael has proved to be an important player this season, I hope we see Mykolenko agreeing a new contract very soon. Both are important squad players, and easy decisions. More difficult but critical will be the requirement to find a quality right back, and a centre forward who can score goals on a regular basis.

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