Everton are adjacent to securing a woody to motion Fulham's Dutch right-back Kenny Tete connected a escaped transfer.
Manager David Moyes has made the presumption 1 of his summertime priorities aft 39-year-old Ashley Young was not offered a caller contract, and with seasoned skipper Seamus Coleman facing an uncertain playing future.
Tete, 29, is retired of declaration astatine the extremity of the period and Fulham had been hoping to widen his stay.
But helium has emerged arsenic Everton's main people and negotiations connected a three-year woody are precocious for the defender, who has played 14 times for the Netherlands.
Jake O'Brien, who was signed from Lyon arsenic a cardinal defender, performed consistently astatine right-back pursuing Moyes' assignment successful January aft being ignored by predecessor Sean Dyche, portion Scotland defender Nathan Patterson has besides been used.
Moyes, however, was keen to unafraid proven Premier League pedigree and had been linked with Manchester City's England seasoned Kyle Walker, Southampton's Kyle Walker-Peters and Vladimir Coufal, who helium managed astatine West Ham United.
Former Ajax and Lyon antheral Tete, however, is the preferred enactment aft spending astir 5 years astatine Fulham.
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