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title: "Benfica lower Jimenez price for Everton and West Ham"
canonical: "https://readeverton.com/benfica-lower-jimenez-price-everton-west-ham/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Joshua Hardy"
section: "Feature Writers"
published: "2017-08-24T12:17:29Z"
modified: "2017-08-24T12:17:29Z"
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# Benfica lower Jimenez price for Everton and West Ham

Benfica are set to lower their asking price for Raul Jimenez to €30 million in an attempt to spark some interest from Everton and West Ham who have both been heavily linked with the Mexican.

Record, as cited on [Sport Witness](https://sportwitness.co.uk/e10m-discount-everton-west-ham-make-e20m-maybe-theres-deal/) claim that Jimenez is angling for a move away from Benfica as he wants more regular game time with the Premier League his desired destination.

The asking price for Jimenez started at around €50 million then the Portuguese club said they lowered their demands to €40 million but it appears to be continuing to drop.

Having sold Romelu Lukaku to Manchester United earlier in the window, Everton are still in the market for a centre-forward as they seek a replacement for the Belgian.

West Ham are also interested in the player to provide competition for Jimenez’s Mexican teammate and new West Ham signing, Javier Hernandez.![Julian Finney/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readeverton.com/readeverton/2017/08/835515932.jpg)

Jimenez, who was linked with West Ham last summer but reportedly over slept and missed a medical, he went on to complete his move to the Portuguese side.