Everton reportedly face Premier League competition for Chelsea’s Fikayo Tomori

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Chelsea defender Fiyako Tomori will leave Stamford Bridge before the transfer window shuts, with a host of sides chasing his signature.

According to the Evening Standard, Everton are among the clubs keen on a loan deal for the Blues defender, but they face competition from other Premier League clubs, as well as Germany and Portugal.

Chelsea apparently want the Englishman to get experience of top-tier football after an impressive loan spell with Derby County last season, under his new Blues boss Frank Lampard.

Lampard is a huge fan and said of Tomori back in April, to Derby’s official website: “It’s scary to think how good he can be. He can go to the top. Watch the way Tomori celebrates every goal; he sprints up the field and celebrates with everyone and he feels it. That is what the fans want to see.”

A loan deal for a centre-half from Chelsea worked out fantastically for Everton last season with Kurt Zouma and Tomori has the quality to be just as good this season.

Zouma would be a bonus because he’s settled and knows the club but Tomori would have plenty of hunger to prove himself at Goodison Park.

There’s a shortage of English centre-backs of the right age playing in the top flight and a good season at Everton could get Tomori into Gareth Southgate’s England plans – if Marco Silva can beat the competition to land him.