Everton have been linked with a move for Jesper Lindstrom but what could the player potentially bring to the side? The 24-year-old is a Danish international winger who joined Napoli from Eintracht Frankfurt for €30million last summer.
On Saturday, reported that have opened talks with Napoli to sign Lindstrom and the winger is their next top target. He added that negotiations are underway with the Serie A side open to selling the wide man if they receive a good proposal, although there had been no talks with the Blues for right-back Jackson Tchatchoua from Verona despite recent links.
Born in Taastrup, a railway town which is a suburb of Copenhagen, situated some 11 miles out from the centre of the Danish capital, on February 29, 2000 – giving him a Leap Year Day birthday – Lindstrom played 65 games and scored 15 goals for Brondby in his homeland before his switch to the Bundesliga in July 2021. He made 80 appearances and netted 14 times for Eintracht but has struggled in Italy, failing to register in 29 outings for Napoli last season.
When it comes to looking at what sort of winger Lindstrom is, we can Virtual Transfer tool to correlate his statistics from last season against players already turning out in the in his position. While there was an absence of goals in his play, the Dane would be ranked fifth among his English top flight peers on the AI Defensive Index with a score of 30.66 behind leader Mohammed Kudus of West Ham United (40.91) plus Everton’s in fourth on 33.01.
Although he drew a blank, Lindstrom did have some encouraging attacking elements to his play though and his 3.56 shot assists per 90 minutes was considerably higher than anyone in the Premier League where Manchester City’s Jeremy Doku led the way on 2.12 followed by Heung-min Son of Tottenham Hotspur (2) and then McNeil (1.91). He’d also be second for expected assists on 0.3 behind Son (0.35) and ahead of McNeil (0.29) while his 6.76 dribbles would put him ninth in a category topped by Doku on 14.9.
like all of his team to work hard – including the wingers who are also expected to put in a shift – so the Blues boss could be encouraged to see Lindstrom scoring high in several defensive areas. His 5.34 ball recoveries per 90 minutes outstrips McNeil’s 4.74 and would be second only to Kudus’ 5.63.
He’d be fourth for interceptions on 2.85, an area topped by McNeil on 3.04; eighth for picking-ups (of loose possession) on 2.85 behind leader Lucas Paqueta of West Ham United on 4.15; and ninth for successful defensive actions with a 56% success rate, although McNeil is again first on 60%.
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