Sean Dyche has played down the prospect of using Amadou Onana as an emergency centre-forward to solve Everton’s striker crisis.
The Blues’ two main frontmen Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Neal Maupay have just one goal apiece all season and the former remains a major injury doubt for Monday’s Merseyside derby against Liverpool with a hamstring problem and, speaking in his pre-match press conference on Friday, Dyche described his number nine’s chances of playing as being “touch and go at best”.
The ECHO understands that director of football Kevin Thelwell’s intention was to bring in two attacking reinforcements during January but after missing out on the likes of Arnaut Danjuma, after Tottenham Hotspur hijacked their deal, and Kamaldeen Sulemana, who chose to join survival rivals Southampton on deadline day, Everton were the only club involved in the Premier League relegation battle not to have strengthened their squad in the winter window and actually came out of the month weaker after Anthony Gordon’s £45m sale to Newcastle United.
