Everton in advanced Neal Maupay talks

Everton are lastly set to unravel their centre-forward disaster, if reviews are to be believed…

What’s the phrase?

In line with revered journalist Alan Myers, the Toffees are pushing arduous to signal Brighton and Hove Albion striker Neal Maupay.

He issued the next update on Twitter: “Neal Maupay is near becoming a member of Everton from Brighton. Nonetheless work to do to finish the deal however talks at a sophisticated stage”.

A morning update has advised that the deal has accelerated and the French striker is now finishing his medical on Merseyside.

Frank Lampard has been looking for an answer for his toothless group, who’ve scored simply one league goal for themselves up to now this time period; and with reports earlier this month stating that he needed a striker with Premier League expertise, this deal is sensible because the 26-year-old is offered for a reported £14m.

He’s the Richarlison inheritor

Everton misplaced 2021/22 top scorer Richarlison earlier in the summertime, and the Brazil star supplied rather more than objectives to a struggling Toffees facet.

His infectious character and knack to frustrate the opposition made him a favourite amongst many Evertonians and despised by different fan bases. The “maverick” Maupay – himself no stranger to winding up opposition supporters – might shortly fill this position at Goodison Park.

Will Neal Maupay be successful at Everton?

Additionally, with eight league objectives final season, the French ahead was solely a pair shy of Richarlison’s ten-goal return.

The Brazilian needed to deputise up front within the absence of the injured Dominic Calvert-Lewin, having chiefly played out wide in earlier campaigns. To deliver Maupay to Goodison Park for this position will lastly see a pure and dependable beginning quantity 9 on the membership, once more introduced in to fill the void left by the injured England worldwide.

The 26-year-old would seemingly be an enormous hit on Merseyside, and his intelligence up entrance would serve Lampard’s new regime properly. He ranked within the prime 10% for pressures per 90, suggesting that he might additionally assist get his group additional up the pitch along with his relentless work fee.

Not solely would Maupay seemingly deliver loads of objectives, having scored not less than not less than eight in every of his last three seasons, he can carry the ball and create probabilities for his facet as properly. He’s profitable in 51% of his dribbles, and averaged 0.7 key passes per 90 final season.

It could additionally finish the current experiment of deploying both a winger in Anthony Gordon or an unreliable striker in Salomon Rondon at centre-forward for Everton.

Maupay would simply change the allure and cheekiness of Richarlison, and the figures recommend that his objective output could be just like the Brazilian.

He seems to be the pure inheritor to Spurs’ summer season signing in character and ability, and signing him will lastly see Lampard discover his coveted centre-forward resolution.