Bristol City’s Bobby Reid scored yet again versus Wolves on Tuesday as he continues to justify links with Everton.
If the Championship Player of the Year award was to be given out today, Nathaniel Mendez-Laing and Samu Saiz should be looking over their shoulder at Bristol City’s Bobby Reid.
Always a player with exciting potential, the 24-year-old Robins’ midfielder has added consistency to his game in a hugely productive start to the season.
Reid has six goals in nine games to his name already in 2017/18, already more than he managed in 35 games across the whole of the previous campaign. Little wonder, then, that he has caught the eye of both Everton and Leicester City, per the Liverpool Echo.
In fact, the Bristol-born midfielder’s handy ability to pop up at the right time inside the penalty area is somewhat reminiscent of the last goalscoring midfielder Everton plucked from the second tier – one Tim Cahill.
Realistically, a big-money summer move to Goodison Park would probably have come too soon for a player who is yet to prove his quality across an entire league campaign.
But Everton could do worse than to keep tabs on Reid as his form in a more advanced role is showing no signs of slowing down. He scored his fifth league goal of the season already in Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Wolves, putting away a short-range opportunist strike that his quickly becoming his forte
Everton have no shortage of goalscoring midfielders after a summer in which Davy Klaassen and Gylfi Sigurdsson arrived but, if Reid can maintain his form at Ashton Gate, there is no reason why The Toffees shouldn’t come calling next season.
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