Everton need more width and goal-scoring threat and the Leicester City player could be the answer.
Bookmakers Ladbrokes have made Everton the 9/4 favourites to sign Leicester City’s Demarai Gray in January, with Liverpool and Manchester City slipping down the betting in the process.
The 21-year-old has a contract with the Foxes until the summer of 2021, yet he continues to be linked with an exit despite finally becoming a first-team regular under new Leicester boss Claude Puel.
Predominantly a left winger who has been utilised effectively as a secondary striker in recent games, Gray would go down a storm at Goodison Park, with new Everton manager Sam Allardyce clearly likely to be busy when the January transfer window opens in three weeks.
Everton certainly have the money to spend big, as they proved last summer, but Leicester will be loath to lose a player who has been tipped to become a superstar for club and country in time.
Everton need more goal-threat having failed to sufficiently replace Romelu Lukaku as yet and, even with the imminent return of Yannick Bolasie, a player of Gray’s quality could be too good to refuse.
The youngster may have taken time to prove his worth in the Premier League, but on recent evidence he would be a gamble well worth taking for a Toffees side eager to continue their impressive recent surge.
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