Could there be a Rom return?

BLUES NEED A STRIKER - AND FORMER GOALSCORER COULD FIT THE BILL

- By CHRIS BEESLEY ECHO Reporter

EVERTON loves a second coming - out of the current crop, manager David Moyes and midfielder Idrissa Gueye both came back - but what about Romelu Lukaku?

Alan Ball once observed: “Once Everton has touched you, nothing is ever the same,’ but while the 1966 World Cup winner never returned after being sold by Harry Catterick aged 26, there are plenty who have. Wayne Rooney (13 years on); Steven Pienaar; James McFadden; Thomas Gravesen; Alan Stubbs; Francis Jeffers; Duncan Ferguson and David Unsworth all did so in the Premier League era along with Landon Donovan and Manuel Fernandes who each had a brace of loan spells.

Prior to that, there was the likes of Alan Harper, Andy King, David Johnson and even the great Dave Hickson. Then of course there was Howard Kendall who had three separate tenures as Blues boss in addition to his time at Goodison Park as a player.

So, with Everton looking for additional firepower as Moyes looks to go “full throttle” on a push for Europe in the second half of their historic first season at Hill Dickinson Stadium, perhaps it comes as no surprise that Blues old boy Lukaku is being linked with a move back to Merseyside. Both Italian newspaper Il Mattino and Spanish outlet Fichajes report that Everton are considering a move for the Belgium international.