Danish football writer Toke Theilade believes Everton target Jesper Lindstrom, who currently plays for Serie A side Napoli, will be a “very versatile” player in Sean Dyche’s squad.

Danish football writer Toke Theilade believes Everton target Jesper Lindstrom, who currently plays for Serie A side Napoli, will be a “very versatile” player in Sean Dyche’s squad.

bidding war erupts.

‌These are high stakes games and many are impressed by those who gamble and go early.

Manchester City have always been good enough, and let’s be honest wealthy enough, to be able to do this well.

The problem is that some clubs are trying to do the same thing and are ending up paying top dollar for less able players, because they haven’t done their due diligence in the market.

This is another area where the use of data, or maybe over-reliance on pure data, comes into play – feed all of the numbers in, let the technology do the crunching, and out comes the answer.

The problem is that everyone else has got the same or similar data.

What is needed, of course, is good human knowledge and the vision to aid the use of the information they have got. This is why these departments should be busy just now, they shouldn’t just be doing deals which are admittedly very complex legal and financial documents these days.

Even more time should be spent

have haters” and people “criticising” him in order to prove them wrong – and admits he struggled to adjust during his first season in the Premier League.

The 26-year-old joined the club from Udinese for £25m last summer, having scored 10 goals for the Serie A side the previous season.

The Portuguese frontman enjoyed a dream Toffees debut by scoring against Doncaster in the Carabao Cup in August but netted only four further goals last season.

When asked whether the criticism he receives on social media is a source of motivation for him, Beto told BBC Sport: “We need to understand one thing: football is simple.

“We play football in our lives. They are working like eight or 12-hour shifts and they come [to watch].

“Not everybody in this life is going to love you and not everybody in this life is going to hate you. In this sports life, for me, it’s OK.

“Sometimes I like to read my comments when I played badly or missed chances. They will say: ‘Beto is [expletive] with missing chances’, but I like it because I say: ‘OK, I will make this guy shut his mouth’.

“I take it personal too. When I’m in training the next week or the next day, I remember it and I say: ‘No, this guy is not going to say this about me anymore’ and I keep going.”

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Onana move one that suits all partiespublished at 16:05 22 July
16:05 22 July
Shamoon Hafez
BBC Sport football news reporter

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Amadou Onana’s £50m move from Everton to Aston Villa has been completed and it is one that suits all parties.

The 22-year-old did not fulfil his potential on Merseyside after joining from Lille in 2022, and he will have jumped at the chance of testing himself in the Champions League next season.

Unai Emery has worked wonders since being appointed as Villa boss and he will be excited at the opportunity of working with a player of Onana’s talent.

The deep-lying midfielder represented Belgium at Euro 2024 but was not an automatic starter in his final few months under Sean Dyche at Goodison Park.

Many Toffees supporters will be unperturbed by his departure, having not taken to his languid demeanour and feeling like he often went missing in games.