Everton stay in ongoing negotiations to signal a younger striker who is alleged to be finest pals with FC Barcelona ahead Robert Lewandowski.
The Toffees at the moment are only a few days away from beginning their Premier League marketing campaign, and whereas the membership has been busy within the switch window, Sean Dyche will seemingly need extra additions between now and the top of the window.
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Sean Dyche has been closely backed by the Everton board on this switch window, with the Premier League facet bringing in 4 new signings to date. The most important buy has been defender Jake O’Brien from French facet Lyon, as Everton have spent correctly on excessive potential gamers by signing former Sheffield United attacker Iliman Ndiaye from Marseille and Tim Iroegbunam from Aston Villa.
The most recent arrival for the membership is winger Jesper Lindstrom from Italian facet Napoli, who has joined the membership on a season-long mortgage deal. Dyche will probably be more than happy with how the switch window has gone to date, given the arrivals and the truth that star defender Jarred Branthwaite nonetheless stays on the membership.
However the Everton boss will seemingly need extra recent faces as he tries to keep away from one other relegation battle. The membership has been linked with a transfer for Arsenal ahead Eddie Nketiah in current days, as his future on the Emirates appears unsure.
Whereas the Toffees have additionally been talked about in reference to a transfer to signal Largie Ramazani from Spanish facet Almeria, it seems they’re performing some severe purchasing in Spanish soccer this week.
Everton in negotiations to signal Vitor Roque from Barcelona
It was reported on Monday that Everton had been weighing up a transfer to signal Vitor Roque from FC Barcelona. The report acknowledged that the Blues had been pondering whether or not to make a transfer for the younger striker, with the Spanish giants prepared to mortgage or promote the 19-year-old on a everlasting foundation on this switch window.
Roque has struggled for normal minutes since becoming a member of Barcelona, and it now seems as if the La Liga facet is prepared to chop ties. Within the newest improvement from Sky Sports activities reporter Florian Plettenberg, he states that Everton at the moment are formally in discussions over a deal having seen a gap bid turned down.
He states on X that the Toffees have seen a proposal of €25 million plus €3 million in add-ons rejected by Barça, with the Catalan membership ideally on the lookout for a charge of €35 million (£30m).
The vital issue for Everton followers is that Plettenburg states that the Premier League facet stays in talks with Deco a couple of attainable deal. Roque is contracted to the Spanish facet till the summer time of 2031, however it seems as if Barcelona are prepared to let him go away, having not rejected the method outright.
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Vitor Roque’s Barcelona stats |
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Apps |
16 |
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Objectives |
2 |
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Assists |
0 |
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Stats as per Transfermarkt |
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Roque has needed to struggle it out throughout his time at Barcelona with among the finest strikers soccer has seen in Robert Lewandowski. The 2 have competed towards one another to be the quantity 9 for the membership, however regardless of that, former Barcelona boss Xavi acknowledged final season that the pair “get alongside very nicely” and referred to as the teen and skilled head “tight bros”.
So, Roque’s potential departure from Barca could not go down nicely with Lewandowski, however it appears just like the teen’s solely likelihood of seeing some severe taking part in time.