West Brom will reward Jonny Evans with a new contract after their captain failed to secure a summer move to Manchester City, reports The Daily Telegraph.
Evans was heavily linked with a £25m move to City towards the end of the transfer window but Pep Guardiola’s side to agree with a fee with the Baggies.
Tony Pulis’ side are now looking to secure Evans’ long term future and are poised to offer their captain a new deal worth £80,000-a-week, making him the best-paid player at the club.
“I think everybody at the football club would like to see him tied down,” The Daily Telegraph quote Pulis as saying. “It will be interesting to see what Jonny wants to do. It’s all about the three parties, as it always is in a transfer, the buying, the selling and the person in the middle.
“The bottom line with Jonny is Arsenal were interested and Man City were interested. They just never met the value the football club wanted. If they had met the value it might have been a different situation.
“So I am pleased obviously Jonny stayed and he has to knuckle down now and get back in the team and start showing everybody what a good player he is again.”
A hamstring injury kept the 29-year-old out of West Brom’s first three league games of the season but Evans is due to return to the side for their trip to Brighton this weekend after playing for Northern Ireland in the international break.
Since the start of last season, only two players have won possession in the defensive third more times than Evans in the Premier League (150).
