Nathan Broadhead subject to £1m Ipswich transfer to seal permanent Everton exit
Nathan Broadhead is considering a permanent move to Ipswich after Everton received a £1m offer, according to journalist Darren Witcoop.
Broadhead has spent the first half of the season on loan at Wigan in the Championship, netting five goals in 11 starts for the Latics so far.
That form has seen him grab the attention of League One high-flyers Ipswich, who have made a seven-figure offer to take him away from his loan mid-season, although Wigan are keen to keep him for the rest of the campaign.
“Nathan Broadhead is weighing up a £1m move to Ipswich,” The Mirror journalist wrote on his personal Twitter account (5 January).
“Wigan don’t want to lose the Everton striker and still hope to strike a new deal to keep the Welshman, who is currently on loan until the end of the season.”
Time to go
Broadhead is an academy talent who came through at Everton, but he’s now 24-years-old and the ship has surely sailed on him making it at first-team level.
The loan away in the summer was for him to get regular football and put himself in the shop window, and it certainly seems to have worked now.
The club need to raise funds to help aid their own January business, and a £1m sale may seem like peanuts at Premier League level but every little helps at this stage.
He will have just one year remaining on his contract in the summer, and there is very little chance of him getting a renewal so he should make the best decision for him. As it stands, Wigan are getting relegated and Ipswich will be in the race to go up.
That would give him a great platform in the Championship, and he’ll have his future secure. He may not get an offer this good in the summer, and we may not either, so we should be pushing him towards getting this done.