Ben Godfrey has featured simply thrice this season.
The versatile defender has discovered himself out of favour below supervisor Sean Dyche with the previous Burnley boss preferring a backline of James Tarkowski, Jarrad Branthwaite, Vitaliy Mykolenko and veteran Seamus Coleman.
Consequently, struggling for minutes, the 26-year-old, who’s out of contract in 18 months, is dealing with an unsure future.
And anticipated to depart Goodison Park earlier than the top of this month’s switch window, Godfrey is believed to have his choose of not less than three golf equipment — Leeds United, Sheffield United and Serie A giants AC Milan.
Nonetheless, regardless of AC Milan’s identify being thrown into the combo, journalist Luke Edwards thinks the race to safe the 26-year-old’s signature will come all the way down to a ‘straight shootout’ between Daniel Farke’s Leeds and Chris Wilder’s Blades.
“So there are three choices there. I’d select AC Milan all day day-after-day. However I’ve a sense this can come to a straight shootout between Sheffield United and Leeds United,” he mentioned on the ‘Switch Gossip Each day‘ podcast.
“It’s a kind of debates which you’ll put your self into as a soccer fan. These are three very totally different golf equipment, very totally different parameters, expectations and conditions. I feel it’s an excellent three-way selection.”
Throughout his 4 years in Merseyside, Godfrey, who joined from Norwich Metropolis in 2020 and is now valued at simply £7 million (TM), has straight contributed to a few objectives in 80 video games in all competitions.
