Everton are reluctant to offload on-loan striker Moise Kean for a profit in this transfer window as they seek to raise the Italian’s value, according to the Daily Mail.
On loan with French champions Paris Saint-Germain, previous reports claimed that Kean was expected to make his switch a permanent one. A permanent swich would have made Kean the first signing of Mauricio Pochettino’s embryonic reign in the French capital.
Kean joined the Toffees for £27.5m from Serie A champions Juventus in 2019 but he failed to justify his price tag at Goodison Park, netting just four times in 37 matches. He was duly loaned to PSG in the hope that he would rediscover a rich vein of goalscoring form – inflating his value in the process.
Kean appears to have done as such, with no sign of slowing down. He has scored nine goals in 12 league appearances for PSG, and twice more in the Champions League [Transfermarkt].
The 20-year-old even kick-started Pochettino’s reign at the Parc des Prices with their solitary goal in a 1-1 draw with Saint-Etienne last night.
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Any move to retain Kean and increase his value is a shrewd one from Marcel Brands and the transfer team at Everton.
He is clearly enjoying a resurgence in France, and there is little point in cutting short his rise in valuation when Everton are under no pressure to sell.
Whilst things hadn’t worked out for Kean on Merseyside, Everton may well have made the best of a bad situation by enabling him to find a new lease of life in France while not cutting him loose entirely.
