Everton boss Marco Silva comments on Kurt Zouma

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Kurt Zouma is on loan at Everton from Chelsea.

Everton manager Marco Silva has suggested to The Times that Chelsea-owned central defender Kurt Zouma wants to be at Goodison Park next season.

Zouma joined Everton on a season-long loan deal from Premier League rivals Chelsea in the summer of 2018.

The 24-year-old central defender has established himself as an important player for the Toffees, and Silva has suggested that he wants the France international to be at the club next season.

Silva has also suggested that Zouma – as well as Barcelona-owned central midfielder Andre Gomes – wants to be at the Merseyside outfit beyond the summer transfer window.

Silva told The Times about Zouma and Gomes: “With both it is really good and really honest, until now I didn’t have one sign coming from them they don’t want to be here.

“I am not saying they won’t change their mind tomorrow, three days or a week, but since we started to plan something their opinion has been really important.”

Everton stay or Chelsea return?

With Chelsea’s transfer ban, it does complicate things for Everton in regarding to signing Zouma on a permanent contract in the summer transfer window.

The London club could do with the talented central defender in their team next season, and the 24-year-old could himself decide in the coming weeks and months that his career will be better served playing at Stamford Bridge than at Goodison Park.