Report: Everton’s Ross Barkley hopes to secure January Tottenham move

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Ross Barkley looked set to leave Everton for Chelsea during the summer, but he now wants to join Tottenham Hotspur in January.

According to a report from the Daily Mirror, Ross Barkley is now hoping that he can secure a move to Tottenham during the January transfer window, despite nearly leaving Everton for Chelsea in the final hours of the summer.

Barkley’s days at Goodison Park appear to be numbered with the playmaker now into the final year of his contract with the Toffees, and the Premier League champions attempted to bring the curtain down on his Everton career much sooner after agreeing a £35 million deal as the deadline swiftly approached last month, the Mirror reports.

However, the England international never completed a move to Stamford Bridge, with the Mirror suggesting that initial reports claimed that he had changed his mind midway through a medical – before Barkley clarified that he never began the medical and decided to turn down the move while he is recovering from a hamstring injury.

And the Mirror has now hinted that Barkley’s decision to reject Chelsea in August may have been motivated by another factor – rather than just the fact that he is currently set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines due to injury.

The Mirror suggests that Barkley is hoping to secure a move to Tottenham in January, and it appears that Spurs are also still keen on bringing the 23-year-old to the club after a summer of speculation.

However, Spurs may decide against moving for Barkley in the winter window, according to the Mirror, if Everton’s price for the midfielder remains too high, and may instead decide to wait until the summer when a compensation fee will prove the only stumbling block to a deal.

With Barkley set to spend the next few months on the sidelines with injury, it will be interesting to see what Everton will set his asking price as in January, having demanded a reasonably high fee – although, admittedly, one that Chelsea were clearly willing to pay – in the summer.

While they will surely want as much money for Barkley as possible, they would surely prefer to sell him in January when his value will be higher than it would be at the end of his contract and thus, bring an end to the saga – and that may perhaps, help Tottenham find a way to agree a deal.