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Everton have named their price for reported Paris Saint-Germain target Idrissa Gana Gueye, and it’s an eye-watering £40million according to the Mirror – significantly higher than the player’s market value of just £18million, per Transfermarkt.
Gueye had been identified as a possible PSG target as the Ligue 1 giants search for replacements for the out-bound Adrien Rabiot, who will leave the Parisian club for free in the summer when his contract expires.
Losing the Senegalese international could ruin the Toffees’ season which is why the ‘too good to refuse’ offer must be placed before Marcel Brands would consider sanctioning the transfer. Let Football FanCast run you through the potential consequences if he does…
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Points will be dropped
There will be no clearer impact on Everton than points being dropped. The 29-year-old is pivotal to the side’s success as he gives them the defensive nous in midfield no one else currently on the books can. He leads the Toffees for tackles and interceptions per 90 minutes and total passes.
Whenever Gueye is not on the field, his absence is notable and results are always affected – so far this season, Everton have won just two of the six games the defensive midfielder hasn’t been involved in.
Marco Silva faces the sack
Questions can already be raised over whether or not the club is making progress since appointing Silva in the summer, with Everton currently in tenth place after 22 games and offering no clear indication that they will challenge the top six anytime soon.
Take away Gueye, and the attacking play the former Watford boss wants to utilise at Goodison Park will collapse into a stale mess with a flimsy core allowing the opposition a free-run at the backline – which itself has been ropey this season.
It would then be more likely that Silva faces the sack rather than results being turned around. The club were happy to pull the trigger back in 2017 and fire Ronald Koeman after the Dutchman oversaw six wins in 17 games at the start of a highly anticipated campaign.
Fruitless spending cannot strike again
When Manchester United stumped an initial £75million to land Romelu Lukaku, the Everton board went cash-mad and fluttered the payday away with a hoard of players that failed to fill the Belgian’s void.
Without Gueye, the board will have to do a better job at replacing a key figure in the dressing room and focus their spending on improving that one position rather than spreading the budget over the pitch.
Names already being linked to replace the Senegalese star would easily eat the money recouped from selling the 62-cap international, anyway, with Lyon demanding £75million for Tanguy Ndombele, Watford asking for £30m for Abdoulaye Doucoure, Lille’s Thiago Mendes holding a £27million valuation and Wilmar Barrios’ Boca Juniors release clause set at £23m.
