After Toure blow another teenager now alledged to be Everton target

With the confirmation that El Bilal Toure is to join Atalanta, Everton have been forced to once again revise their summer transfer targets.

This has become a theme of this transfer window as it was in the previous one, with the Toffees striving in vain to secure their first-choice signings and then those players end up somewhere else.

Now, having missed out on Toure, it is being reported that Everton will turn their attention to another teenager, Club Bruges forward Antonio Nusa.

The 18-year-old is apparently now under serious consideration by Sean Dyche as the Blues boss has to scour the market ever-more urgently to try and add firepower to his attack.

Everton really are in an increasingly desperate situation and with just two weeks until the new Premier League season begins they need more signings through the door asap.

This issue is only brought into sharper focus by the injury yesterday to Dwight McNeil who was Everton’s top scorer last season, in yesterday’s game at Stoke. Once more this team’s bad luck with injury strikes again.

So far only one forward has been brought in, Arnaut Danjuma, who made his first start in that 1-0 win over Stoke City.

Although the Toffees did score very late on, once again there was a severe lack of goal threat during the match as the team laboured to break down a stubborn and physical Stoke side.

It was simply the latest confirmation of what we all know, that this Everton team simply has to find a way to score more goals or relegation will surely come eventually.

Perhaps as I have argued, the Blues need to seriously re-think how they are approaching the business of trying to find forwards and attacking players who could solve this problem.

As well as looking at different targets and perhaps going for players from the lower leagues in England,  I have also advocated in the recent past for some creative tactical changes to try and overcome the lack of goals in the squad.

One of those included pushing Abdoulaye Doucoure further forward and this is indeed what Dyche did during the second half of the season.

It worked, as Doucoure stepped up and scored some crucial goals in the run-in, especially away from home, which contributed substantially to keeping Everton up.

With Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s fitness such a constant doubt, it looks increasingly likely something similar might well be required next season too.

As for Nusa there isn’t much information on him as he has hardly played any senior football. He is obviously young and inexperienced so signing him would be a punt of course.

Given all that I don’t know whether he can offer anything substantial in terms of creativity and goals were he to join the Toffees. It really is getting worrying again.