Everton have to go all in to sign Bristol City starlet Alex Scott
Clubs are queuing up to sign Bristol City midfield maestro Alex Scott in the summer and Everton are among those in pursuit of the teenager.
The Daily Mail reported of the Toffees’ interest but there is competition from fellow Premier League sides West Ham United and Leicester City.
Primarily an attacking midfielder, he has quickly become a regular at Ashton Gate this season and the Robins’ assistant manager Curtis Fleming wants him to stay.
“The reality of the football world is that if someone comes in and gives us £100million, we go ‘alright then,'” Fleming said, as quoted by the Leicester Mercury.
“If someone comes in with £400,000 you say ‘are you winding me up?’ So nothing is going to happen here, we’re not even thinking about it. We haven’t had it at the back of our mind and that’s an honest fact.
“We don’t sit there shaking thinking the phone is going to ring and someone’s going to come and take them.
“We really believe they are going to be here, the way the club is forming, the plan and pathway that the club are planning.”
£100million might be a stretch too far for the Toffees and there isn’t a club in the world who would pay that for a Championship player, no matter how talented.
But there will be a price at which Scott can be bought and Farhad Moshiri needs to dig into his extremely deep pockets and pay whatever is necessary.
His versatility in playing as a wing-back or a more orthodox central midfielder is another crucial arrow in his quiver that is so hard to find in young players these days.
Frank Lampard would love a young starlet like Scott in his team and the club’s owners need to make it so.
In other Everton news, the Premier League have offered an explanation over a very controversial moment in the 1-0 defeat to Manchester City on Saturday.
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