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On Saturday, Italy’s TuttoMercatoWeb have an article claiming Everton are considering signing Shinji Kagawa from Borussia Dortmund.

The Japan international wasn’t able to convince at Manchester United and returned to his previous club, where he hasn’t consistently hit the heights he once did for Dortmund.

TuttoMercatoWeb say they’ve got the information from Bild. So off to Bild we went, but they have no such claims over the past week.

SportBild, a magazine with a different website to Bild, do have a Kagawa to Everton rumour, but they credit TransferMarrketWeb, the English spin off for TuttoMercatoWeb.

TransferMarketWeb have covered it, but they credit ‘the latest rumours from England’.

But the latest rumours from England are the ones which have travelled around Europe for a reason we’re struggling to fathom.

There doesn’t appear to be anything in this one. The transfer wouldn’t make a great deal of sense, and despite the number of reports building they all seem to be based on each other with nobody wanting to take credit for dreaming it up first.