Everton transfer news: Toffees owner Farhad Moshiri to make shock £40m bid for Joe Hart
Club's new super-rich Iranian tycoon wants to show ambition with offer for the Manchester City and England stopper
EVERTON’S ambitious super-rich new owner Farhad Moshiri is making an astonishing bid to buy Joe Hart.
The Iranian tycoon is ready to offer around £40million for the England and Manchester City No 1 in the hope Pep Guardiola can be persuaded to sell.
Goodison’s supremo will back that up with a fortune for Hart, 29, who will be offered a £200,000-a-week salary.
Moshiri means business and plans a couple of major captures. Everton have let Tim Howard go and Joel Robles has been hit and miss in a disappointing season.
Hart’s Etihad future has been cast into doubt by claims Guardiola wants a keeper who is better with the ball at his feet.
If the new City coach could land German keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen from ex-club Barcelona, he may be tempted to do business.
The German stopper has a £62million buy-out clause in his current Nou Camp deal.
And the 23-year old has been labelled "the goalkeeper of the future" in Spain — meaning Guardiola's chances of snatching him from his old club are unlikely.