Premier League giants Everton were linked with a shock switch for Bristol City’s Bobby Reid last summer – but he has torn up the Championship since.
Everton’s interest in Bobby Reid in last summer’s transfer window raised a few eyebrows.
The Liverpool Echo claimed in august that the diminutive Bristol City attacker had emerged as a surprise transfer target for The Toffees. Reid was impressive for The Robins in 2016/17 but scored just three Championship goals in 36 games and, in truth, had done little to suggest he was ready to step up to the Premier League.
But maybe Everton saw something in Reid that few others did.
The 25-year-old has taken England’s second tier by storm with a remarkable individual campaign that no one really saw coming. As it stands, Reid is the Championship’s joint top scorer with a stunning 17 goals – 14 more than he had ever managed in a league campaign before.
And, to make this statistic even more impressive, the Bristol-born academy ace is not even a natural striker. He is more a floating false nine, drifting into positions and finding a pocket of space inside the box like Tim Cahill in his poaching prime.
If Everton were to make a new move for Reid this summer, surely there would be far fewer questions asked of a player who could conceivably end this season with a Golden Boot award in his grasp.
The Toffees have lacked a real goalscoring threat for much of this season – so signing a player who has developed a real knack for sniffing out even the most unlikely of chances would not be a bad way to solve the problem.
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