Everton will attempt to complete the signing of the Besiktas striker Cenk Tosun on Wednesday at a meeting with the Turkish club’s president, Fikret Orman.
A delegation club will meet Orman in London following his return from a holiday in South Africa. Everton had hoped to complete the £25m deal over the weekend with the director of football, Steve Walsh, travelling to Istanbul on Friday to that end, only for Besiktas to increase the asking price by £2m because of the rising cost of Tosun’s potential replacement.
Sam Allardyce said after the 2-0 defeat by Manchester United on Monday, when Everton failed to register a shot on target for the second home game in succession, that the club had done all they could to sign Tosun as he again lamented a lack of quality up front.
Tosun is understood to be confident the deal will go through and will soon sign a four-and-a-half-year contract at Goodison Park.
