Premier League outfit Everton need a new centre-forward and PSV Eindhoven’s Eredivisie ace could be the answer
This time last year, Luuk De Jong’s future at PSV Eindhoven appeared to be up in the air. The Dutchman looked a shadow of the striker who fired the Dutch giants to the Eredivisie giants in 2015 and 2016, after all.
So that makes his remarkable start to the current campaign all the sweeter. De Jong has rediscovered that golden touch in the last few months and, with 14 goals in 19 games in all competitions this season, he seems to be in the form of his life.
As a result, could this one-time Newcastle United loanee be a potential left-field option for Everton heading into the January transfer window?
It is no secret that The Toffees are after a striker with Emiliano Sala, valued at £25 million after 11 goals in 10 Ligue 1 starts for Nantes, a target (The Mail). De Jong, however, is a striker cut from the same cloth, a powerful target man equally adept at linking play and hitting the net himself.
De Jong, however, has the added advantage of being well known by Everton’s director of football Marcel Brands. It was Brands, after all, who brought the former Twente and Borussia Monchengladbach man to the Philips Stadium in 2014.
Earlier in the year, De Jong joked to Voetbal Primeur about reuniting with Brands at Goodison Park; “Maybe [Brands] can get me to Everton.”
Perhaps The Toffees should now look to take this seriously.
Now, majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri indicated on talkSPORT (9 November, 11am) that Everton may not look to bring in any new players during the transfer window. But with Oumar Niasse out of favour and seemingly set to leave, and doubts around the future of Cenk Tosun too, there may be room for a new centre-forward on Merseyside.
Richarlison cannot do it all himself.
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