Are Everton front-runners for Steven Bergwijn thanks to Marcel Brands?

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Everton are one of a number of Premier League sides who have been linked with PSV’s Eredivisie winner Steven Bergwijn.

Steven Bergwijn is looking like the latest fresh-faced Eredivisie prodigy who will attempt to try his hand in the Premier League.

De Telegraaf believe that Liverpool, Arsenal, West Ham, Tottenham and Bournemouth are all interested in the 20-year-old PSV winger, who is understood to be valued at a hefty yet not obscene £23 million.

But there is one Premier League club who surely have a clear advantage in the chase for a player who looks like PSV’s brightest prospect since a certain Memphis Depay was tearing apart defences at the Philipps Stadium.

ESPN reported in February that Everton were also hot on the tail of Bergwijn and a move to Goodison Park would now make more sense than ever, and not just because the Mirror believes that Yannick Bolasie could be sold this summer.

Everton’s new director of football Marcel Brands knows the Dutch U21 star well, having watched him blossom into one of the league’s most exciting talents over the last few years, during which PSV have won three trophies in four seasons.

Bergwijn netted eight goals and scored seven more in his breakthrough season in 2017/18. And, with Brands looking for young, hungry talents who would fit the club’s idea of exciting attacking football, he should turn to a player he knows inside out.