TRANSFER DEADLINE: EVERTON UNWILLING TO PAY CHELSEA £35M FOR BATSHUAYI
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Everton are not willing to pay Chelsea’s £35 million ($46m) asking price for Michy Batshuayi, despite holding an interest in signing the striker.
Chelsea are hoping to make back their initial investment after signing the 25-year-old from Marseille for around £33m ($43m) in 2016, as first revealed two weeks ago.
The Toffees initially valued Batshuayi at around £18m ($24m) and, due to their lack of hope in securing a deal for the Belgium international, they are thought to also be denying Cenk Tosun an exit from Goodison Park.
Batshuayi is understood to be desperate to find an escape route from his Valencia loan deal where he has only managed three goals in 10 starts.
Monaco had agreed a deal to take over Valencia’s remaining six months of their loan deal for Batshuayi, but Chelsea held off allowing him to leave as they preferred to sell one of their 42-strong loan group.
Batshuayi has been training in Valencia but the Liga club were also hoping to get the striker’s high salary off their wage bill.
Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri is also understood to not be interested in bringing back Batshuayi, with Gonzalo Higuain and Olivier Giroud to be his two strikers for the remainder of the season.
Giroud had offers to leave Chelsea on a permanent deal in January but he prefers to stay with the club until the end of the season, snubbing moves to the Chinese Super League in the process.
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