With more than half the season in the rear view window, Everton are running out of games to put some distance between themselves and their fellow strugglers down at the unfashionable end of the Premier League table.

Arsenal's wish to sign Isak is to end in failure with three reasons blocking a move and with the Magpies set to pull out all the stops to prevent him falling into their clutches

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