The 13-year-old footballer at the centre of a tapping-up storm between Stoke City and Liverpool may now end up at the Merseyside club’s great rivals, Everton.
Liverpool have been banned from signing players from other English academies for two years and fined £100,000 after admitting ‘tapping up’ a young player while he was affiliated to Stoke.
The youngster’s move to Anfield has since fallen down and he has been left in limbo, unable under Premier League rules to join another academy until Liverpool pay Stoke a £50,000 compensation fee.
That has not yet happened but Sportsmail understands that the teenager has been training and having trials at Everton and could yet move to Goodison Park once the wrangle with Liverpool is finally sorted.