Jarrad Branthwaite ‘definitely’ staying at Everton as PSV Eindhoven withdraw from talks
Everton are set to keep Jarrad Branthwaite at the club beyond the transfer deadline despite interest from PSV Eindhoven, reports Rik Elfrink.
Writing on his personal Twitter account (1 September), the Dutch journalist reports that the youngster will “definitely” be staying at Goodison Park with PSV stepping away from talks.
Branthwaite spent last season on loan with the Eredivise club but has since returned and started the 1-0 defeat to Wolves in the Premier League.
“Jarrad Branthwaite will definitely stay at Everton,” he wrote.
“He will not make another step to PSV.”
Excellent
Everton don’t exactly have a bunch of central defensive options right now and there are no signs that anyone else is coming in.
So letting Branthwaite leave at this late stage would have been an absolute disaster anyway, meaning the club have made the right decision.
Branthwaite is an academy product which means any sale would go down as pure profit with FFP, which would no doubt help our financial situation. But we need him on the pitch more, and the club have done the right thing here.
He is now competing with James Tarkowski, Michael Keane and Ben Godfrey for a starting spot in Sean Dyche’s defence and currently seems to be winning the battle to partner Tarkowski.
It’s what he wanted and Dyche is rewarding him, so there was no reason to leave unless we got a huge offer. We didn’t and so he stayed. Now we need him to sign that new contract he was offered.
In other Everton news, £38.5m deadline-busting deal “all done”.