Everton weigh up record-breaking bid for Ligue 1 ace

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Everton could break their club record fee to sign Lille winger Nicolas Pepe this summer, say reports.

Nicolas Pepe

The French club have set a price tag of €65 million (around £58.5m) for the Ivory Coast international, according to the Telegraph.

Such a fee would comfortably surpass the record £45m spent on Gylfi Sigurdsson from Swansea two years ago.

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Alasdair Mackenzie

Alasdair Mackenzie is a freelance journalist based in Rome, and a FourFourTwo contributor since 2015. When not pulling on the FFT shirt, he can be found at Reuters, The Times and the i. An Italophile since growing up on a diet of Football Italia on Channel 4, he now counts himself among thousands of fans sharing a passion for Ross County and Lazio.