Football transfer rumours: West Ham's Andy Carroll to Everton for £20m?

Today’s fluff is dusty

Perhaps because he’s a thrill-seeker who gets a buzz out of flirting with the sack, Ronald Koeman will turn to Andy Carroll to transform Everton from a sorry stodgy mess into a high-energy total-footballing pressing machine. Because if one man personifies the words high-energy total-footballing pressing machine more than any other, it’s the 28-year-old hirsute Geordie with Darren Anderton legs. He’ll cost the Goodison club £20m in January if Koeman’s not been replaced by David Unsworth or David Wagner by then. Another Everton employee who may be gone by 2018 is Ademola Lookman. It says here that Tottenham are sniffing around the teenage striker and wouldn’t mind bringing him home to his city of birth as extra cover in case Harry Kane injures himself in the process of scoring his 127th perfect hat-trick.

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