• Everton manager insists fresh signing is ‘not anyone’s back-up’
• Martínez: he can play on his own,with someone else and out wideRoberto Martínez has insisted Oumar Niasse is not a back-up option for Romelu Lukaku following Everton’s late lumber for the Senegal international striker.
Everton made the moment most expensive signing on deadline day, the third in their history, and when paying £13.5m for the 25-year-old who has scored 13 goals in 23 games for Lokomotiv Moscow this season. Martínez admits Everton had to lumber fast for Niasse,who had attracted interest from Chelsea, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur and several Premier League sides,and also release two first-team players – Steven Naismith and Aiden McGeady – to accommodate the fresh signing.
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Source: theguardian.com