With Sean Dyche understood to be prioritising fresh attacking talent this summer, Iliman Ndiaye is the latest name linked with a potential move to Everton but just what might he offer the Blues?
Everton netted just 34 goals in 38 Premier League games during the 2022/23 season, narrowly avoiding a first relegation in 72 years after Abdoulaye Doucoure’s goal against Bournemouth gave them the victory they required in their final game to stay up despite posting the lowest equivalent points total in the club’s 135-year history in the Football League/Premier League.
With Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s fitness remaining an issue – the Blues' first choice striker played in just 17 of their 38 Premier League matches and scored just once from open play – and the 5ft 8in Neal Maupay unable to be anything resembling a like-for-like replacement, bagging a solitary strike in 29 outings in all competitions after a £15million move from Brighton & Hove Albion last August, Dyche was forced to use out-of-favour winger Demarai Gray as a ‘false’ number nine in their survival showdown at home to the Cherries despite no goals from open play from him either this calendar year.
