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Everton will continue to push for the signing of Gylfi Sigurdsson despite fears a deal with Swansea City is close to collapse.

Ronald Koeman has made the Iceland international a priority signing this summer and the Blues are willing to smash their club record fee to land him.

Talks have been ongoing for a number of weeks but a deal is still yet to be struck and Koeman issuing a thinly-coded message to the board on Sunday, urging them to complete the 27-year-old's signing.

The Everton manager had said the transfer was "close" but the two clubs remain locked in negotiations.

It has been claimed that the Blues and Swansea are less than £5m apart in their valuations of Sigurdsson while reports this evening say a tentative agreement of £45m was agreed at once stage in negotiations before the picture changed.

Deal insiders remain confident that the transfer will still go ahead and do not see Swansea walking away from a transfer that would represent a club-record windfall for them.

But it appears Everton and their Swans counterparts have reached a stalemate.