Everton and Aston Villa in fight to sign Roma striker in summer
In more speculative transfer news Everton are apparently now in pole position to bring in Roma and ex-Chelsea forward Tammy Abraham in the summer transfer window.
We’ve heard this one doing the round for a while now, and today’s latest update claims the Blues’ and Aston Villa do battle for the Englishman’s signature.
As we all know, Everton have struggled very badly for goals this season, and it is critically important for the club to find more firepower before any long lasting progress can be made on the pitch.
Abraham has been doing pretty well in Italy since moving there from Chelsea after he saw his first-team chances at Stamford Bridge severly restricted under a number of different managers.
The former England international has scored six times this season for Roma. That’s not earth-shattering, but he has been a threat for the Serie A giants.
And, this is more than any of the current Toffees’ forwards of whom Demarai Gray with four, is the leading goalscorer.
So, after failing to bring in any other attackers in the January window, any further striking power will obviously be critical and as usual a number of different names have once again emerged on the media grapevine.
Everton have just recieved a substantial amount of money for the earlier than expected sale of Moise Kean to one of Abraham’s rival clubs, Juventus.
In addition, the sale of Anthony Gordon just days before the January window shut, means that the Blues’ should have enough resources to go out and find a quality froward or two at least, come the summer.
That’s assuming they are still in the top flight and can persuade anyone to sign for them, something that seemed beyond the club’s hierachy to acomplish in January!
As always the question is assuming there is anything to this, could Abraham be part of the solution to the Toffees’ attacking problems?
Well, he does score goals and knows the Premier League of course. However, the sort of fee being quoted for him, around £65 million, is ludicrous and would certainly surely be prohibitive.