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Everton are monitoring Joe Hart’s situation at Manchester City.

The England goalkeeper’s City future has been plunged into doubt after he was left out of their opening two matches of the season by new boss Pep Guardiola.

City have started the campaign with Willy Caballero in goal and Guardiola is reported to have set his sights on Barcelona’s Claudio Bravo.

Hart is now open to the idea of leaving the Etihad Stadium in this transfer window but with only two weeks left before it shuts, the 29-year-old only wants to leave on loan.

And so with a fortnight of the window to go, maybe a loan would suit Everton as well.

Blues boss Ronald Koeman signed Maarten Stekelenburg in July but still wants to add a new goalkeeper to his squad - although his search has, so far, proved fruitless.

Yet Hart, even in the middle of a troubling period of his career, could be the solution.

Even if it is only temporary.

Everton have not found the market to be awash with keepers of the right quality, at the right price, and Hart, with 63 England caps and six years as City’s No1, would not come cheap if put up for sale so a loan would surely be attractive to the Blues.

A fee and Hart’s reported £110,000 a week wages would have to be factored in but such a deal would be a relatively prudent way of acquiring an international class keeper.

Everton may have Moshiri’s millions but they are not about to spend it with careless abandon.

There are nagging doubts over Hart.

Not only will Guardiola’s brutal treatment of the England man force most to reassess but his performance at Euro 2016 also remain fresh in the mind of every fan.

Still, consider this.

Less than 12 months ago Gianluigi Buffon described Hart as “one of the top three goalkeepers in the world” and a look at his CV reveals two title wins, an FA Cup winners’ medal and a pair of League Cup victories.

If Everton came out of the window with Hart, Stekelenburg and Joel Robles as their three senior goalkeepers then that has to be considered a significant improvement on their options from last season.

Stekelenburg has started confidently and for an area of the team that has been a problem, that’s not a bad solution for this season at least.