Everton enquired about Tottenham Hotspur defender Japhet Tanganga two weeks ago
Everton made an approach for Tottenham defender Japhet Tanganga two weeks ago but haven’t returned since, according to agent Paul O Keefe.
Writing on his personal Twitter account (22 August), the football agent was responding to a fan who asked if there was any truth in the rumour that the Toffees were interested in the 24-year-old.
And he responded by revealing that the clubs were in contact about a deal earlier this month but it hasn’t progressed at all since that point.
“They enquired two weeks ago and as of yet have not returned,” he wrote.
Strange
It’s a bit of a strange deal anyway in reality because we are desperate for reinforcements in defence but they need to be better than our current options.
Tanganga is capable of playing across the back four but at full-back our options are already strong with Seamus Coleman, Nathan Patterson, Vitalii Mykloenko and Ashley Young.
Central defence isn’t the strongest with James Tarkowski, Michael Keane and Jarrad Branthwaite but Tanganga would surely only be looking to leave Spurs for more regular football and he wouldn’t even get that here.
Dyche is known to like physical defenders so he fits the bill in that sense, but Tottenham are likely to be asking for big money and it just doesn’t fit.
Our priorities are clearly in attack right now so going back in for talks for a defender who barely improves us and would probably too expensive wouldn’t make sense anyway, so this line of thinking makes sense.
In other Everton news, new bid expected ‘in days’ for international attacker says Fabrizio Romano.