Manchester United raise transfer offer for Everton's Fellaini and Baines to £38m
Manchester United raise transfer offer for Everton's Fellaini and Baines to £38m
New bid adds £8m to joint valuation of the midfielder and
left-back as rival interest in Wigan's McCarthy puts pressure on
Martinez
Higher and higher: Moyes has tried again for his reunion with Baines and Fellaini
Everton are seething after their former manager David Moyes made an
improved £38million double bid to take Marouane Fellaini and Leighton
Baines to Manchester United.
Moyes increased his previous package for the pair - which was condemned as "insulting and derisory" by the Toffees - by £8million. The Goodison club
have yet to reject this fresh move for midfielder Fellaini and England
left-back Baines - and insiders have predicted they WILL sell Fellaini
before the weekend.
Everton, who insist Baines is not for sale and deny he's asked to go, want champions United to specify the value they are placing on Fellaini alone.
That's
because Robert Martinez, Moyes' successor, is willing to sell him for
£25m, either guaranteed or including 'makeable' extras.
Martinez needs to agree a Fellaini fee fast, as Tottenham and Newcastle have now contacted Wigan about James McCarthy - Everton's top choice as a replacement for the Belgian.
The Everton boss wants to pay his previous employers just
£12m plus extras for McCarthy, who he signed and brought through the
ranks.
But Latics want £15m, in a deal potentially rising in value to £20m.
Wigan
need to ask for such a big fee as Martinez agreed to pass a whacking 20
per cent of the profit from his sale to Hamilton Academical, the
Scottish club he bought the Glasgow-born Ireland international from four
years ago.
Hamilton have already received £3m from Wigan for the
22-year-old, and would be due a further £2m-plus from McCarthy's
departure.
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