Sandro Ramirez transfer stories use to get full pages in Spain, more than once in December he took the front cover of Valencia newspaper Super Deporte.
Since then, as a string of semi-interested clubs have come and gone for the Everton player, the stories have got smaller and smaller, and most of the time Sandro is only mentioned as a footnote in an article about a target considered more exciting.
Tuesday’s edition of AS has a little snippet, and it’s very little, which shows how the situation now is for the potential Everton transfer.
This is it, in its entirety: ‘Sandro, another option – Sevilla does not lose sight of the option of signing Sandro in the winter market. The striker already interested in summer and his departure from Everton before the end of the month is given as more than safe.’
If Everton seriously want to sell Sandro over the next week, or even loan him out, then the cockiness about a move isn’t helpful. Should Sevilla believe Everton are so keen, and the player is too, that a transfer is a given then they’ll offer a paltry loan deal with an option weighted to them for the summer.
Sevilla’s record on behaving well on loans is by far from the best, and their general transfer behaviour took another blow in the summer with the Jordan Amavi medical farce.
Everton don’t want to be going into the last few days of the market struggling to get rid of Sandro and only having Sevilla as an option.
A bit of player marketing may be needed here, and a distinct encouragement of any Newcastle United interest.
