With a contract running out at Lyon in 2023, Moussa Dembélé is facing a crossroads in his career this summer.
The striker can either choose to move to another club or renew with the Ligue 1 side, but one thing appears certain, which is he will not be going to Everton.
The Toffees, looking for a new striker to help out at Goodison Park while Dominic Calvert-Lewin recovers from injury, reportedly made an approach for the player, which he rejected.
This comes from Foot Mercato, who look at the player’s situation, revealing that Fulham, Wolverhampton, Nottingham Forest and West Ham ‘informed themselves’ about him ‘without the player favourably responding’.
Then came Everton, described as the ‘latest club to be interested’, who also ended up ‘facing the refusal of the Lyon striker’.
That’s because ‘the idea of the Frenchman has never been to leave just for the sake of leaving’, as the player ‘wants a project that suits him both financially and on the pitch’.
In the meantime, Lyon have made him a renewal offer, which Dembélé has let them know he is ‘seriously studying but that he would also give himself the needed time to see what happens after working under four managers in four years’ at the club.
Either way, Everton tried and failed, as it seems the player has bigger aspirations, if possible, than heading to Goodison Park this season to play under Frank Lampard.
