o Everton move for Henrik Larsson

11 December 2008 12:37
According to Larsson's agent Pavel Pogrebnyak, Moyes had been keeping tabs on the Swede for some time, but has now resigned himself to that fact that at 37, a salary of £80,000-a-week is not something the club can justify. [LNB]Moyes also indicated that unless they can find the right deal to sign a striker in January, they are more likely to look for loan deals. [LNB]Everton's strikers have all suffered this season. Louis Saha is out with hamstring trouble, Yakubu Aiyegbeni will struggle to be fit even for next season having recently had surgery on a ruptured Achilles and James Vaughan is currently in America having surgery on his knee. [LNB]Zenit St Petersburg striker Pavel Pogrebnyak, Wigan's Emile Heskey and Portsmouth's David Nugent are all said to be being considered. [LNB]With Everton standing down, Larsson, who the Independent [LNB]reports is a free agent come the start of his winter break, is running out of options. [LNB]There were suggestions last week that Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill was preparing to go head-to-head with Moyes, but this rumour has since been denied. [LNB]"There's not a scrap of truth about it," O'Neill told Sky Sports. "Henrik Larsson has been a fantastic footballer at Celtic, a world-class footballer, absolutely magnificent. I had a great time working with him. [LNB]"Those times have gone and it's really as simple as that. I think I'd like to keep those times for memory."[LNB]

Source: Telegraph