Premier League sides Everton and Crystal Palace have completed a rare player swap deal between wide midfielders Brennan Johnson and Dwight McNeil.

Johnson leaves Selhurst Park for Merseyside after only signing this calendar year, whilst McNeil finally joins the Conference League holders after seeing a loan-to-buy move fall through in the dying hours of the same transfer window.

McNeil joined Everton under Frank Lampard from Burnley in 2022, and scored 15 times in 128 games.

Welsh international Johnson joined Crystal Palace as the club’s record signing just seven months ago, and won the UEFA Europa Conference League a year with them, one year after scoring the winner in the Europa League final for Tottenham Hotspur.

He becomes David Moyes’ fifth signing of the summer, after Merlin Roll, Hayden Hackney, Tyrique George and Christian Norgaard.

Whilst McNeil is new Crystal Palace boss Pierre Sage’s third signing, after Oscar Mingueza and Takehiro Tomiyasu, with the South London club yet to sign a player for a fee this window.

Both sides start their Premier League campaigns against each other at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on August 22nd with both players in line to make their debuts.