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Everton have discussed Ben Gibson and Alfie Mawson as potential alternatives to their top centre-half target this summer.

The Blues are working on a deal to bring Barcelona's Yerry Mina to Goodison after it was made clear the Spanish giants will look to offload the Colombian defender.

Everton are understood to have made contact with Barca over the 23-year-old and the possibility of taking the former Palmeiras player on loan has been talked about.

But the Blues have needed to draw up a shortlist of other targets should a deal for Mina not materialise with Middlesbrough's Gibson and Mawson of Swansea both understood to have been talked about.

Marcel Brands and new manager Marco Silva are trying to refresh Everton's defence and have already sold Ramiro Funes Mori to Villarreal.

The club will listen to offers for Ashley Williams, who has just one year left on his deal, and are actively looking to sign a defender who can play on the left-hand side with Mina top of their list.

But Gibson, 25, and 24-year-old Mawson have also been talked about as potential targets.