It’s quite clearly nonsense but what delicious nonsense from The Sun, who claim that ‘ANDY CARROLL is a shock contender to solve the striker crisis at Tottenham’. Just lovely. Carroll is of course out of contract with West Ham this summer so The Sun have guessed – ‘could go for £2million’ indicates that guesswork – at a price. And it’s a low price.
Fernando Llorente was pretty rotten on Sunday as Tottenham found a way to do more with less once again, so why not replace him with a striker who last scored a Premier League goal in April? Because it’s mental, that’s why.
Idrissa Gueye is rather good. So good, in fact, that he has made more successful tackles per 90 minutes than any other player in the Premier League this season; he made nine on Saturday against Southampton. So Everton really do not want to sell him to PSG for pennies. And it seems pennies are all PSG have as Telefoot report that they have only around £30m to spend in this January window on a defensive midfielder.
And so to Telefoot and a presumably dodgy translation: ‘According to our information, the PSG wants to offer 25 million euros to Everton, but the Toffees are very greedy and hope to get more money. The Senegalese hopes to join the capital.’
‘Very greedy’ for wanting more than £22m for their best midfielder? Perhaps ‘the PSG’ need to set their sights a little lower. They might get Lee Cattermole for that price.