Portugal Travel

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January 21, 2009

EVERTON are weighing up a loan move for Portugal striker Hugo Almeida in an attempt to bolster their depleted strikeforce. 

Blues boss David Moyes has drawn up a shortlist of four possible targets and the name of Werder Bremen frontman Almeida figures prominently on it.

The 24-year-old, who has been capped 14 times by his country, has been with the German side since the summer of 2006 and scored 11 goals as they finished second in Die Bundesliga last season.

However, Almeida has found regular starts hard to come by this year – he has only featured from the beginning in eight of Bremen’s 17 fixtures – and Moyes is giving strong thought to handing the former FC Porto frontman a new challenge.

Moyes has been desperate to add a striker to his squad since the transfer window opened, with Ayegbeni Yakubu and James Vaughan out for the season and Louis Saha still three weeks away from regaining fitness.