PSG target long-term Nyarko loan

Everton's Ghanaian international Alex Nyarko is set to spend next season on loan at Paris Saint-Germain after failing to settle at Goodison Park.

Nyarko arrived at Everton after being recommended to then-boss Walter Smith by Olivier Dacourt.

His £4.5 million move quickly turned sour after he failing to establish a place in the first team

He threatened to quit the game in April 2001 after a fan ran onto the pitch in a 4-1 defeat at Arsenal offering to swap places with him.

Nyarko spent last season on loan at Monaco, and looks set to agree a similar arrangement with PSG.

However David Moyes is eager to get something in return from the Paris club and has earmarked Bernard Mendy as the player he would like to move in the opposite direction.

Nyarko, who first caught people's attention as a member of the 1992 Ghana Olympic team, was signed by Everton from French side Lens to provide steel and hard graft in midfield after Don Hutchison's £2.5 million transfer to Sunderland.

The Ghanaian joined Lens in 1998 for £600,000 from Karlsruhe, a surprise at the time given that he was injured for much of the two years he was in Germany.