Former Everton striker Moise Kean is being linked with a potential transfer to Manchester United but struggled on and off the pitch during his time with the Blues
Moise Kean during an Italy training session at Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano on June 1, 2025
Moise Kean during an Italy training session at Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano on June 1, 2025
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Manchester United are being linked with a move for Everton flop Moise Kean but the Italian has already admitted that he wasn’t a big fan of the weather in the North West of England from his time at the Blues. La Gazzetta dello Sport reports that the Red Devils are showing interest in the 24-year-old striker who has a €52million (£44.5m) release clause valid in his Fiorentina contract between July 1-15.
However, a move back to the region he has previously struggled in, on and off the pitch, and not even by the coast like his time on Merseyside, but rather the notoriously rainy city of Manchester, may not appeal to the Vercelli-born player who has already outlined an uncontrollable factor that could potentially scupper a transfer to Old Trafford. Speaking to the Athletic in an interview last season, Kean said: “They were so used to not seeing the sun, they were barbecuing on the beach in winter (The same beach in Crosby that manager and fellow Italian Carlo Ancelotti used to love to stroll down).
They were in short sleeves in winter. I said to myself: ‘These people are out of their minds’. But England made me learn a lot about myself. I matured a lot. When I got there I didn’t play much. I used to think, ‘How am I not getting into this team, at Everton?’
“Mentally, it made me evolve. I wasn’t playing and it was in dark times that I knew I had to grit my teeth and train even more. “Then the chance to go to PSG (on loan) came along, I moved there and got everything out of myself that I could. I wasn’t playing at Everton and I knew I had to give triple, that’s how it went.”
Although Kean, who enjoyed his most prolific season of his career to date in 2024/25, netting on 25 occasions in all competitions, admitted in the same interview that he looks back on his spell with the Blues as one of his “dark times,” he insists he tries to find positives from all his football experiences.
Snapped up from Juventus, he struck just twice in 32 Premier League matches and after Kean posted a video of a party he hosted in his Cheshire apartment during the height of lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, the club released a statement to say they were “appalled” by his “unacceptable actions.”
Kean said: “Out of all the experiences I’ve had, you won’t ever hear me say I had a bad one. I find positives in all of them.
“If I hadn’t spent that year at Everton, I wouldn’t have learned the things I did there. I was a bit unlucky.
“I went there expecting to play a bit more. I was 19. I joined from Juve and thought I was going to smash it.
“Unfortunately, it didn’t go like that. We went through three coaches that year and mentally… it was all new for me. I was in England, it was a new environment.”