Over the weekend, we looked in detail at Ishak Belfodil’s alleged transfer from Standard Liège to Everton, and the latest was ‘Everton holding the deal up, not entirely sure they want the player’.
Expecting to be announced last Thursday, the Algerian’s transfer to Goodison Park still hasn’t taken place, and L’Avenir in Belgium on Monday have another theory.
The website report we’re ‘some way off’ from seeing the ‘white smoke’ on this transfer, mostly because they believe Everton are ‘waiting until the end of the window in order to diminish the amount the price of the transfer’.
As for the player himself, Belfodil didn’t return with Standard Liège back to Belgium, given a day off to go to Paris for ‘family reasons’, but the striker is expected to return to training with the Jupiler Pro League side on Tuesday as he waits for his transfer.
There have been conflicting reports regarding the amount Ronald Koeman and Everton have agreed to pay for the Algerian striker, with most claiming a fee between €10-12m, while RTL believe the fee could be as little as €4m.
If that was actually the case, though, there wouldn’t be much point in trying to lower the fee, would there?
