Moise Kean is up for sale amid Everton absence v Manchester United on Saturday
Everton striker Moise Kean is on the market this summer, according to journalist Greg O’Keeffe in The Athletic.
The 21-year-old Italy international spent the majority of the 2020/21 campaign on loan at French giants PSG, scoring 17 goals in 41 appearances alongside the likes of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.
He appeared set on returning to Paris this summer, with transfer expert Fabrizio Romano claiming in a July edition of the Here We Go podcast that “the player will push to try and join PSG”.
Speaking via his Twitch account earlier this week [03/08/21], Romano said that there is “still no agreement with PSG and Everton, at the moment Rafa Benitez is not giving up”, intimating that the new Blues boss wants to keep hold of Kean.
However, O’Keeffe appears to have poured cold water on suggestions that Kean is wanted at Everton, writing that he is “up for sale” while he missed out on the 4-0 friendly defeat to Manchester United on Saturday [07/08/21] for “unspecified reasons”.
Reinforcements required
Surely, if Kean is being allowed to leave Everton this summer, there must be attacking signings on the way?
Benitez has added Demarai Gray and Andros Townsend to his squad this summer, but both are wingers who are not even guaranteed a starting spot.
Burnley star Dwight McNeil is being pursued by Everton, as per O’Keeffe’s report, but again, he is not someone who will be playing centrally most of the time.
An exit for Kean would leave just Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Cenk Tosun as the only senior strikers contracted to the club, and the injured Tosun’s future at Goodison Park has been made very clear – he doesn’t have one.
Richarlison can play centrally but he is not an out and out centre-forward, and with him and Calvert-Lewin potentially absent for the Premier League clash with Southampton next week, Benitez could find himself in a striking predicament with minimal firepower.
In other Everton news, the Blues want to sign this 2020/21 European title winner who was at Real Madrid under Rafa Benitez.
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