Everton want to sign Olivier Giroud from Arsenal to bolster their attack in the expectation that Romelu Lukaku will leave Goodison Park, with Chelsea and Manchester United leading the chase for the Belgium striker.

Arsenal are finalising a club-record deal of up to £43.3 million for Lyons’ Alexandre Lacazette, which would limit Giroud’s prospects of a regular starting role. Everton face competition for Giroud from West Ham United and Ligue 1 side, Marseilles.

Lacazette is expected to travel to London for a medical and become Arsenal’s record signing, just eclipsing the fee that they paid for Mesut Özil in 2013. The France striker scored 28 goals and finished second top-scorer to Edinson Cavani last season, when he became the first player since Jean-Pierre Papin, in