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Samuel Luckhurst & Tyrone Marshall

Manchester United set to sell James Garner to Everton

James Garner is set to move to Everton after Manchester United accepted a bid for the midfielder.

The 21-year-old was put up for the sale earlier this month after failing to make the breakthrough into Erik ten Hag's first-team plans this summer and it's the Toffees who have won the race for his signature.

Garner will complete his move to Goodison Park before the transfer window closes on Thursday, with United understood to have accepted a bid that will rise to a maximum of £15million.

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Everton are understood to have paid £8m up front and United have also inserted a sell-on clause for the England Under-21 international.

The academy graduate impressed on loan at Nottingham Forest last season, helping them to promotion to the play-offs and a return to the Premier League after a 23-year absence.

Ten Hag took Garner on United's pre-season tour but the midfielder picked up an injury in the first training session and managed just 23 minutes in the last of four friendlies in Thailand and Australia.

He was told he could leave the club in mid-August and the £60million signing of Casemiro has only added to the competition in United's midfield.

Garner has played just seven first-team games for United, with two Premier League appearances off the bench, amounting to nine minutes.

He played 41 times in helping steer Forest out of the Championship last term, but another loan spell at the City Ground became impossible when they opted to sign Dean Henderson on a temporary basis for United.

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