Hutton and Bentley to Toffees

Express story linking Bentley and full-back and Vladimir Putin lookalike Alan Hutton with a joint £12m move to Everton






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Everton boss David Moyes is making a £12 million double raid for Tottenham bad boy David Bentley and Scottish international team-mate Alan Hutton.

The Goodison club have opened talks with Spurs for the available pair and could get their men if they increase the offer before the window shuts at the end of the month.

Moyes's surprise double move also suggests he is now planning for spending money - with Joleon Lescott's sale to Manchester City giving him the cash to bring in more bodies in a hurry.

Everton are willing to pay around £8million for Bentley, a player Moyes admired last summer when he left Blackburn Rovers for more than double that sum.

Despite Bentley's off-the-field troubles and his late-night car prang Moyes is interested in giving him the stage to show his talents and possibly get back into England's World Cup plans.

Bentley has had a disastrous year at White Hart Lane and is available for the right price - with Spurs supremo Daniel Levy still hopeful of recouping more than Everton have offered so far.

However as Spurs have ruled out the possibility of Bentley going anywhere on loan it could be that Everton's hard cash is the best money on the table for the troubled star.

Moyes is also keen to land Hutton, whose first-team chances at Tottenham are limited by their glut of right backs and the signing of Sheffield United's Kyle Naughton - with Kyle Walker to come.

Hutton has had an injury-hit spell at White Hart Lane since he joined from Rangers which is why Moyes rates him in the £4 million category, which is also much less than Tottenham paid Rangers for him.

Moyes would happily take the Tottenham two immediately and hopes to drive through a deal quickly, but if theprice goes up much higher it will stretch his current budget beyond breaking point.

But the feeling at Everton is that transfer-seeking Lescott will have to go to City because he is not worth the £20 million-plus they could receive from City for him - with the only last stumbling block being how they handle the sale.

Moyes has been defiant on the issue, but common sense may prevail as time runs out - and Everton look to turn the cash into three or four new faces for a wafer-thin squad.

 

Spurs might spend the whole 12 million on Scott Brown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

£12m is a good bit of business for Everton, both players are top players when on their game. Bentley is possibly a bit over rated but he never really got a good go at Spurs.

 

Hutton was very good against Hull tonight.

 

It's a decent price but I dont think either of them are that good. Hutton isn't a top end Premiership player and neither is Bentley.

Their level is that of Bolton, Blackburn or Fulham. Think Everton, Spurs, Villa and them need better players than that.