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Connor O'Neill

Michael Keane 'could join Serie A club' in surprise Everton transfer

Salernitana are reportedly eyeing a summer move for Everton defender Michael Keane.

That’s according to TV Oggi Salerno, who are reporting that Salernitana sporting director Morgan de Sanctis has ‘thought about’ a move for the centre-back in recent months. The report goes on to claim that the Serie A club have the former England international on their list of possible targets for the summer.

Keane joined Everton from Burnley for £25million in the club’s record-breaking summer of spending in 2017. The defender’s contract at Goodison Park runs until the summer of 2025.

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The centre-back made 30 or more Premier League games in each of his first five seasons at Everton but had been restricted to a mere 22 minutes of action off the bench at Brentford in August this term under Frank Lampard, and had been braced for a potential loan exit in the January transfer window.

However, the appointment of Sean Dyche, under whose management at Burnley he earned his move to Goodison, has given the England international a fresh start and he has been picked alongside his former Clarets centre-back partner James Tarkowski for the past three matches.

Asked if he had to rebuild Keane’s confidence last month, the Blues boss said: “No. Not at all. I just came in and said I don’t think you’re as fit as you need to be, as sharp as you need to be and he agreed. He said: ‘I haven’t played a lot of football.’

“That was that. I said: ‘That’s what we’ll work on then.’ You can over-egg everything. You can share too much sometimes.

“It was a simple situation for him. The past is not relevant, it’s not relevant to me. What’s more relevant to the players is what comes next."

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