Everton Join Race For 26-Year-Old Brazilian Winger: Is He Worth £35m?

Everton Join Race For 26-Year-Old Brazilian Winger: Is He Worth £35m? David Moyes has Everton sixth in the Premier League after 10 matches, and the climb has come quickly. A 1-0 win at Newcastle on 2 November preceded Friday’s 3-1 comeback against Coventry, which stretched their winning run to three games in all competitions and for a moment lifted them above Liverpool before the derby on 29 November. Thierno Barry has driven that surge, scoring twice against Coventry and setting up Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s late clincher, yet the wider numbers show an attack leaning heavily on one man. Before this run, a 2-2 draw at Hull City preceded 2-0 defeats against Chelsea and Arsenal, and Everton failed to score in either game. By 18 October, no player had registered more than one Premier League assist. Moyes usually deploys a 4-2-3-1 and asks his wingers to create chances, so a shortage of end product from the flanks undermines the whole system, as the Arsenal defeat showed. Tyler Dibling holds those roles, but creativity from wide areas, rather than another forward, looks the clearest gap. Recruitment has looked to Brazil before. Everton paid a reported £12.6m to make Carlos Alcaraz’s loan from Flamengo permanent in 2025, a deal that gave Moyes a creative midfielder at modest cost. Flamengo hold the leverage RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – NOVEMBER 4: Samuel Lino of Flamengo celebrates after scoring the first goal of his team during the Brasileirao 2026 34th-round match between Flamengo and Gremio at Maracana Stadium on November 4, 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Wagner Meier/Getty Images) Everton have entered the race for Flamengo winger Samuel Lino, according to a report from Pedro Reinert for Sport Witness , but the asking price looks steep. Roma bid €25m (£22m) for the 26-year-old, and Flamengo rejected it. Paparazzo Rubro-Negro, the insider cited in the report, believes Everton would need to offer more than €40m, roughly £35m. His Flamengo contract runs until December 2029, so they can wait. Lino has reportedly scored 15 goals and made 13 assists under Leonardo Jardim, who moved him from the touchline into central areas. That suits a side lacking a box-arriving creator. The doubts are real with just 12 goals in 93 Atlético games, no place in Brazil’s World Cup squad and no Premier League experience. Should Everton pay £35m for Samuel Lino? Not at £35m. Everton do lack a wide creator, and Lino’s late runs would give Barry better service, but Transfermarkt valued him at roughly £17m in October. Paying double for a winger who peaked once Jardim moved him inside also clashes with Moyes’s habit of asking wingers to work back. If Flamengo won’t move near Roma’s rejected £22m, Everton should walk away. Beyond that figure, they would pay for Jardim’s system as much as for the player.