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The World Cup is potentially delaying Everton's transfer recruitment this summer with players focusing on their international commitments while the tournament is in progress before considering moves.

However, as teams are eliminated from the competition, they move back on to the market.

We're now getting towards the business end of the first round – the Blues record signing Gylfi Sigurdsson has already bowed out – but are there any possible targets out there for Marco Silva from the teams already heading home?

Here's are some names for Everton to conjure with.

Miguel Trauco (Peru)

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Everton desperately need to provide some competition for Leighton Baines and Trauco, a forward-thinking left-back fits the mould for an alternative option to the Blues legend.

The 25-year-old played all 270 minutes of the South American nation's first World Cup finals since 1982 and helped them keep a clean sheet in their final match against Australia, a 2-0 win.

Trauco, like Baines, is 5ft 7in and has spent the last 18 months playing his club football in Brazil for Rio de Janeiro giants, Flamengo.

Hakim Ziyech (Morocco)

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The Dutch League's Player of the Year, Ziyech is a considerable talent who has already been linked with a potential move to Everton.

Despite his silky skills – he's been the Eredivisie's top assist provider for three of the last four seasons (2014/15; 2016/17 & 2017/18), he continues to divide opinion though with question marks about his consistency.

Now 25 years old, he seems poised to leave Ajax with Roma also mentioned among interested parties and he can operate in any of the three attacking midfield roles, either as a winger or centrally as a number 10.

Aaron Mooy (Australia)

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The combative midfielder, helped Huddersfield Town upset the odds and retain their top flight status in their first ever Premier League season and he certainly is a terrier in the centre of the park.

Hailing from Sydney, the same city as Goodison Park icon Tim Cahill, Mooy played in 36 of the Yorkshire club's Premier League matches and netted four goals but could he add some bite and energy in the centre of the park for Marco Silva?

Turning 28 in September, he's experienced something of an up and down career both in the UK and Down Under.

Starting out at Bolton Wanderers, he moved to Scottish side St Mirren while still a teenager in search of first team football.

After spells back home with West Sydney Wanderers and Melbourne City, he joined the latter's parent club Manchester City in 2016 but less than a week later he was loaned to Huddersfield Town whom he was sign for permanently a year later for £8million plus add-ons and a buy-back clause which would have to be overcome before any possible switch to the Blues.