Donovan price just not right for Everton

Everton manager David Moyes admitted on Sunday that US star Landon Donovan would probably prove too expensive to bring back for a second spell on loan at Goodison Park.

Donovan spent three months with the Premier League club at the beginning of the year and the 28-year-old hinted recently he would welcome a return.

But the Merseysiders’ tight financial circumstances look certain to doom any move.

“We’d love to have Landon but he looks too expensive for us and we just don’t have it,” Moyes told www.evertonfc.com.

“We don’t have the finances. The price the MLS want for him is very big and it’s an additional problem because of his age.

“All we’ve done is spend one million pounds on Magaye Gueye so far. Jermaine Beckford and Jan Mucha were free, so we’ve spent no money by Premier League standards and will probably be the ones who spend the least this season.”