The former Hull City player Dean Windass was talking This is Futbol, and suggested that the Real Madrid star could be tempted to move up to Liverpool and join his old boss Carlo Ancelotti at Everton.

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“If you said to me Everton were signing him without Ancelotti, I would have probably said no,” the former Hull City forward said.

“But Ancelotti is a big pull, he’s been around football for a long time and managed some of the biggest clubs in the world.

“So if he comes calling, it’s up to Gareth, footballers hold all the cards, managers don’t. So, if that conversation has come around.”