Davy Klaassen should have prioritised football over money, says Allardyce

• Midfielder’s loan move to Napoli collapsed over image rights
• ‘Even if I was losing money I’d be going because I’d want to play’

Sam Allardyce has said Davy Klaassen should have prioritised football over money when given the chance to kickstart his career at Napoli this week.

The Everton manager claims a deadline day loan move to the Italian title chasers collapsed due to a dispute over Klaassen’s image rights. The £23.6m summer signing has been frozen out under Allardyce, and caretaker manager David Unsworth before him, having made three Premier League starts since his arrival from Ajax. And Allardyce believes the Netherlands international missed an inviting opportunity to play: “It didn’t seem the normal sort of problem to stop a transfer going through.”

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