Everton’s Director of Football Marcel Brands has provided an update on the club’s pursuit of a permanent deal for midfielder André Gomes.
The Blues haven’t hidden their desire to see Gomes join the club permanently, with the Portugal international having already proven how influential he can as part of Marco Silva’s team since signing on a season-long loan from Barcelona in the summer.
While the club are very keen to engage in conversation with the Catalans over a new long-term solution for the player, Brands was keen to express to the Liverpool Echo that talks depend on how the player feels, and that steps will be taken toward the end of the season.
Talking about how the club would approach permanently signing the 25-year old midfielder, Brands said the deal would hinge on what Gomes wanted to do, saying:
It is more depending on the player.
After the January [transfer window], we will talk, first, with the player and the key is with him.
If he likes to stay at Everton, which is what I hope, then that helps us a lot so it is important that we do everything to make him feel comfortable so that he is happy to stay here – and then I will try to do my job.
We are happy with him but you never know what is going to happen. The most important thing is that he wants to stay.
We have a loan for the whole season without clauses for Barcelona to get him back, so we are covered.
But the most important thing, if you look at the future, is that the player is happy and if the player is happy to stay at Everton then we proceed side by side because we need the player to move on.
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