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Everton manager Ronald Koeman has confirmed he is targeting Charlton striker Ademola Lookman as the Addicks look to make January reinforcements of their own.
Having rejected a £4million bid from Crystal Palace during the final days of the summer window, Charlton could claim a reported £10m from Everton for their 19-year-old forward, who has scored seven goal this season.
“There is interest for the boy,” Koeman said at his press conference.
“Will it be done early? I don't know.
“Of course we are working on the January window, we have certain interest in some players but we have to keep that inside the club.”
Lookman has long been a target for Premier League sides but Charlton will now have to prove they can make the most of the windfall that comes with his departure.
Manager Karl Robinson travelled to Belgium yesterday for talks with owner Roland Duchatelet, and would hope to receive a significant proportion of the money gained from Lookman’s sale as he targets additions of his own in the form of two midfielders and a winger.
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Robinson celebrated his first win at the Valley on Boxing Day, a 1-0 win at his former side MK Dons, but admitted after the game that he had been forced to put “round pegs in square holes” since his arrival last month.
However the Lookman dividend may only make it harder for Charlton, six points off the League One playoffs, to find value during next month’s transfer value with Robinson having already bemoaned the premium his team are being told to pay.
“What I am finding difficult is the rudeness of some people that think we’re going to spend millions when we are a League One club – they inflate prices when Charlton come calling,” Robinson said earlier in December.
“This is not from the top of our football club, it is what I have found hard. There is one price and then because it is Charlton it becomes another – that’s not right.
"We are used as a benchmark, the same as Sheffield United… we have earmarked players and now it is consolidating whether it is right or not.”