Walsh having his say on Everton transfer targets

Everton director of football Steve Walsh has admitted that he sometimes has to convince manager Ronald Koeman to sign certain players for the club.

Walsh was appointed at the Blues last July and has so far helped lure Morgan Schneiderlin, Ademola Lookman, Yannick Bolasie, Ashley Williams and Idrissa Gueye to Goodison Park.

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Koeman revealed last month that transfer meetings at the club have been going on for months, and Walsh echoed those statements, saying that a lot of work has already been done behind the scenes.

“Planning never stops, from the day the window closes until the day it opens again, you are always looking at your possibilities, we are no different,” said Walsh.

“We’ve done a lot of work behind the scenes to get the correct information about the players, I have sat down with Ronald and gone through those.

“Obviously we discuss it all the time and we want to improve things, build on what we have got. That’s the key message.

“We’ve got a large team of people working with me and I collate a lot of information from them.

“My department is very well run, very organised and we make sure we get as much information about the player as we possibly can.

“If we like the player, I’ve got to try to convince Ronald that he’s the player for us. It could well be that Ronald has seen the player as well, so it’s a collective decision at the end of the day.”