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Everton will not be selling Oumar Niasse this month.

Blues boss Sam Allardyce has confirmed he wants to keep the Senegal striker until at least the end of the season.

Niasse came off the bench to rescue a point for Everton against West Brom on Saturday and Big Sam says he needs the 27-year-old as part of his attacking options.

Crystal Palace, as well as clubs in Turkey, have been credited with showing interest in Niasse but Allardyce is adamant he's going nowhere as new signing Cenk Tosun beds in.

“No I can't let Niasse go, there's no danger of that," he said.

“The hardest thing to come here in January is to come and play upfront.

“And there is no way we can let Oumar go. We've given Dominic (Calvert-Lewin) the weekend off because of the huge amount of games he's played the fatigue he's suffered so we said go and chill, rest and recharge your batteries and come back.

“We need those three between now and the end of the season. We haven't had a lot of goals, we're trying to increase our goal-scoring capacity but my problem was the goal we gave away, not just the performance, but the goal.

“That goal we gave away could easily have been avoided, came from our goal-kick and if you want to calm your own nerves and play better you can't give away goals like that in the first few minutes of a game because the pressure is going to come on you then and the pressure is going to get greater and you need a big heart to cope with that and I don't think we coped with that very well.”