Beto medical underway at Everton as 2024 transfer fee twist emerges

Udinese striker Beto is currently undergoing a medical to join Everton, according to The Athletic.

The news outlet reported on Sunday (03:13pm, 27 August) that Beto, 25, flew into Merseyside earlier in the day and is now set to sign for the Blues in a deal worth £21.4million, plus £4.2million in add-ons.

The Athletic interestingly add that Everton will not have to make a payment for Beto until the next financial year. Everton’s latest set of accounts suggest this means a payment won’t be made until July 2024 as their last financial year ended on 30 June 2022.

Great business

If Everton have really managed to defer making a payment for Beto until next summer at the earliest, that’s a brilliant move by Kevin Thelwell and co.

Everton’s financial issues mean that they need to play it safe when it comes to signing players so maybe they’ve had to pay a bit over the odds for Beto to balance the fact Udinese won’t receive a penny for a number of months.

Sean Dyche’s men are without a goal in their first three Premier League games and with Dominic Calvert-Lewin failing to catch a break by suffering a fractured cheekbone, it makes sense to bring in a new striker.

Beto’s record isn’t bad.

Last season, the Portuguese striker scored 10 goals in 33 Serie A games for Udinese.

In the 2021/22 campaign, the Lisbon-born centre-forward scored 11 times in 28 top-flight matches in Italy.

He’s consistently finding the back of the net and that’s exactly what Everton need right now because the only consistencies in Dyche’s attack right now is Calvert-Lewin’s injury record and Neal Maupay’s failure to get on the scoresheet.

Everton ready move to sign Danny Ings as West Ham United transfer stance emerges

Everton are ready to make a move for West Ham striker Danny Ings after Southampton rejected a bid for Che Adams, according to the Sunday Mirror.

The newspaper reported via their print edition on Sunday (27 August, page 77) that Sean Dyche “would jump at a reunion” with the 31-year-old, who he previously worked with at Burnley.

It is understood that West Ham would consider letting Ings leave if they manage to sign a new striker before the transfer window closes at 11pm on 1 September.

Ings hasn’t exactly set the Premier League alight in the last couple of seasons.

Last term, the former England international scored three goals in 24 appearances across all competitions for West Ham after joining them in January from Aston Villa.

According to reliable Hammers news website 6Foot2, Ings signed a £125,000-a-week contract when he moved to the London Stadium midway through the campaign.

Both of his Premier League goals with West Ham came in a 4-0 hammering of Nottingham Forest while he only managed to score once in the Europa Conference League knock-outs and wasn’t even subbed onto the pitch by David Moyes in the final.

Dyche has worked with Ings before, yes. But that was a long time ago.

He’s not long turned 31, he’s had serious injury issues, he’s struggling to score goals and he could cost a lot of money due to those wages so it’s best that Dyche and Kevin Thelwell instead try to push more with Adams at Southampton.

In other Everton news, Fabrizio Romano has provided further information by suggesting another attacker has already accepted a switch to the club.