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Everton transfer news: Kevin Mirallas agrees season-long loan move to Fiorentina

The move, which is subject to a medical, comes after the Belgian spent the second half of last season on loan at Olympiakos

Saturday 04 August 2018 14:32 BST

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Everton 2018/19 Premier League profile

Everton winger Kevin Mirallas has joined Fiorentina on a season-long loan.

The move, which is subject to a medical, comes after the Belgian spent the second half of last season on loan at Olympiakos in Greece having fallen down the pecking order at Goodison Park.

Mirallas joined Everton six years ago from Olympiakos and has made nearly 200 appearances but is not part of new manager Marco Silva's current plans.

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Who has the best kit in the 2018/19 Premier League? We take an incredibly serious look and provide some incredibly serious answers.

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50. Liverpool away

Absolutely hideous. Possibly the most disturbing thing revealed on the internet since the time Ian Botham accidentally flashed his member to all 433k of his Twitter followers.

New Balance

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49. Tottenham home

Tottenham have been so busy not buying any players this summer they completely forgot to tell Nike they wear all white in Europe. Which will make that grim gradient look even worse. Vom.

Tottenham Hotspur FC

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48. Brighton home

You, an idiot: Oh, this looks a perfectly reasonable home kit. Great job Nike.

Me, a football team wear intellectual: Oh dear, what a stale design with only a semi-bespoke Nike template, with an outdated version of the Aeroswift and an absence of the revolutionary knit pattern rolled out for other teams on their roster.

Nike

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47. Tottenham away

This is EXACTLY the same as the new Barcelona training shirt which, incidentally, is a full £27 cheaper on the Nike website. That’s an awful lot of money for the small outline of a cock.

Nike

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46. Arsenal away

The shirt isn't bad. The shorts look like the kind of pyjamas your visually-impaired granny might pick out for you at the Edinburgh Woollen Mill for Christmas. Bore off, Nanna!

Puma

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45. Liverpool third

Just look at poor Sadio Mané plotting his course to the nearest branch of Next so that he can get himself out of this muck pronto. The red is too bright, the stripe on the sleeves is too phat and the less said about those weird grey blotches the better.

New Balance

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44. Huddersfield third

‘Oh great, a fluorescent third shirt!’ said nobody, ever. A colour that every club gets foisted with every four years or so, for no discernible reason whatsoever.

Umbro

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43. Arsenal home

Back on your feet, Héctor Bellerín. There’s nothing to celebrate here with this bizarrely boxy effort. Into the sea, get into.

Puma

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42. Manchester United home

Gradients just never look good do they? Also considering Adidas flog these for £120 a pop this looks strangely cheap: switch the Chevrolet sponsor for a FOX AND HOUND stamp in peeling lettering and it could quite easily double up as an old Prostar Sunday League kit.

Adidas

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41. Chelsea home

Eden Hazard, Willian and Thibaut Courtois all took one look at this stripy s***fest and decided they’d be far better off playing their football elsewhere. Yuck.

Nike

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40. Southampton third

Hang on a moment — it’s just the home shirt with two sets of red stripes instead of one! Nice try, Under Armour. Nice try.

Under Armour

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39. Bournemouth third

Ugly collar. Even uglier sponsor. Even uglier set of shadow stripes. It’s a firm no from us, Clive.

Umbro

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38. Arsenal third

Infinitesimally better than that Bournemouth effort, but still a massive disappointment. Looks much better with that big ol’ collar buttoned up, mind.

Puma

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37. Everton away

Whoah! If the lads from Miami Voice put their pistols down for five minutes and decided to form a football team, this is probably what their kit would look like. That’s not a good thing. Also ANGRY BIRDS.

Umbro

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36. Manchester City home

The year is 4564. The human race has spread out far beyond the confines of Planet Earth, colonising distant stars and stellar systems. Aliens walk harmoniously among us. Breathtaking advancements in medicine mean sickness is a thing of the past. And at their swish Oregon headquarters in the United States of America, Nike design Yet. Another. Borderline. Identical. Manchester. City. Kit.

Nike

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35. Bournemouth home

Okay. Yeah, okay. No really it’s okay. Completely okay. Yeah it’s okay. Just okay. Okay.

Umbro

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34. Huddersfield away

Hang on one moment, that looks familiar… Beats it’s Bournemouth rival on account of its cleaner collar and that lovely tranquil backdrop.

Umbro

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33. Southampton home

Practical, inoffensive, more than a little bit boring — the Ed Sheeran of 2018/19 Premier League football kits.

Under Armour

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32. Newcastle United third

Very similar to the Arsenal away kit, sans the PE teacher collar and with a different coloured set of stripes on the sleeves. It’s alright, if rather ruined by that eyesore sponsor.

Puma

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31. Southampton away

Genuinely struggling to muster up the enthusiasm to write a sentence on this strict 5/10 effort, so here’s the first 100 words of The Da Vinci Code instead:

“Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum’s Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Carvaggio. Grabbing the gilded frame, the seventy-six-year-old man heaved the seventieth-century masterpiece from the wall and collapsed backwards in a heap beneath the canvas.

As he had anticipated, a thundering iron gate fell nearby, barricading the entrance to the suite. The parquet floor shook. Far off, an alarm bell began to ring.

 The curator lay for a moment, gasping for breath, taking stock. I am still alive. He crawled out from under the canvas and scanned the cavernous space for somewhere to hide."

Under Armour

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30. Burnley home

No you haven’t imagined it, Burnley’s home strip — for some inexplicable reason — really does feature the Batman logo hidden away under the sponsor on the front of the shirt. We don’t know why. But we like it.

Puma

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29. Brighton away

It’s green. It has a nice collar. The sponsor isn’t annoying. Good, fine, yup. Now be on your way, Brighton away.

Nike

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28. Cardiff away

It’s not going to get any Cardiff fans doing cartwheels around their club shop, but equally it’s hardly likely to get any soiling their underwear in anger, either.

Adidas

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27. Cardiff home

See past image. But blue.

Adidas

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26. Fulham home

And it is at this point that we take our first tentative steps into the realm of 'nice kits'. Does everything you would want from a Fulham kit. Will look smashing with a beard, pair of deck shoes and whatever else nice middle class people enjoy wearing.

Adidas

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25. Everton third

Oooooooo. Nice. Kind of looks like a Tesco carrier bag on after half a gram. And that’s no bad thing. Also ANGRY BIRDS.

Umbro

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24. Bournemouth away

Okay, so the white shadow stipe gives us nightmarish flashbacks to P.E. (no, Mr Johnson, not another lap around the field, OH GOD NO PLEASE) but the pop of colour on the sleeves is lovely and the shorts are a really nice, rich blue. Woof.

Umbro

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23. Watford away

Green Brighton kit + home and away Cardiff kits = slightly nicer Watford kit. Quick maths.

Adidas

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22. Wolves away

Why hello there, Wolves away. Don’t you look serious with your subtle stripes, no nonsense trim and sensible looking sponsor. Please come in. Make yourself at home. Help yourself to a whisky.

Adidas

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21. Fulham away

More Adidas sexiness. Really nice colour. Classy bit of gold. Will look smashing under the floodlights.

Adidas

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20. Leicester away

Right, so the last few Adidas kits have been borderline identical, but it is a really smart design. And this colour combo is right up there: industrial Netherlands chic.

Adidas

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19. West Ham away

This shouldn’t really work … and yet it does. It’s the yellow piping which really elevates this from mediocre to mmmmmmm.

Umbro

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18. Wolves home

This literally could not be anymore Wolverhampton Wanderers, could it? Strong.

Adidas

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17. Newcastle United home

Newcastle have had some absolutely shocking home kits in recent years, when you consider the design is about as simple as they come. And so this ranks nice and high on account of not being absolutely awful.

Puma

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NEW ENTRY! Burnley away

Okay we'll come clean: we completely missed this off the list the first time round and it took Twitter user Simon Gibson to remind us this existed. Completely our bad, this is actually a very nice kit. Everybody loves a bit of moody black honeycomb.

Burnley

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16. West Ham third

Good old Umbro. They’ve given West Ham a pleasingly simplistic white third kit so the likes of Mark Noble and Jack Wilshere can at least close their eyes and pretend they’re playing for England.

Umbro

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15. Huddersfield home

Be honest, you stopped reading these captions after the fourth picture, didn’t you?

Umbro

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14. Burnley third

Sexy af. If the Storm Troopers from Star Wars were given every Wednesday evening off to have a kick about at the Death Star Power League, this is what their kit would look like.

Puma

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13. West Ham home

Vintage. Although by the looks of it Aaron Cresswell has had a rough summer.

Umbro

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12. Tottenham third

Pleasingly different. Just a shame it’s only going to be worn by Spurs twice, both times away from home in the Champions League. In case you’re wondering: a 3-1 loss to Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes and 2-1 win over Hoffenheim, to secure third place in their group.

FootyHeadlines

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11. Crystal Palace away

Naughty. So very naughty. A sash really does make everything better. Loses some street cred for the sponsor. Other than that: yum.

Puma

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10. Manchester City away

Yesssssss. Takes a much loved — if bloody horrible — away kit from yesteryear and revitalises it with some smooth lines and pinstripes.

Nike

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9. Leicester home

Oh my. Cleaner than Kim Woodburn’s conservatory. A kit worthy of Prince Slabhead and chums.

Adidas

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8. Everton home

Gloriously retro, smashing collar. Pity poor old Wayne, for never getting to wear this. Also ANGRY BIRDS.

Umbro

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7. Manchester United third

My, my, my. Impeccably moody, with a sponsor that enhances the overall look of the kit without detracting from it. Lovely stuff and almost makes up for that monstrosity of a home shirt.

Adidas

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6. Liverpool home

Liverpool had the best home kit of last season and return with another strong effort this time around. A sumptuous deep red. A nice retro collar. And some permissible white piping. Noice.

New Balance

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5. Newcastle United away

Two words: Hubba hubba. A classic design executed to perfection, with a simple design accommodating that bold colour palette. Georgie phwoarrrr.

Puma

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4. Crystal Palace home

Would. You. Just. Look. At. The. Way. Those. Stripes. Fade. Out. At. The. Bottom. Amazing. A gradient done right: take note, Nike and Adidas.

Puma

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3. Watford home

This could prove controversial and it’s certainly a departure from the norm, but black and yellow stripes will simply never not be cool. Sorry. Cuff me. If that’s wrong I don’t want to be right. Etc.

Adidas

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2. Chelsea away

Would you look at that. Nike proving once and for all that, when push comes to shove, a simple kit will always beat a chaotic one. And what an incredible shade of yellow — so bright sunglasses will have to be made mandatory in the Shed End.

Nike

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1. Manchester United away

And here’s what you’ve all been waiting for, ladies and gentlemen — the best kit of the 2018/19 Premier League season. Just, just look at it. It’s bold. It’s daring. It’s pink. Now somebody please take the shirt I have just ripped from my own back, I need this on my torso immediately.

Manchester United

The 30-year-old made only two Premier League starts last season and was criticised for a lack of commitment. He fared better back at Olympiakos, scoring two goals in 13 appearances.

Silva's squad is starting to take shape ahead of the Toffees' Premier League opener away at Wolves next Saturday.

He has so far only made two signings in forward Richarlison and former Barcelona full-back Lucas Digne, but will hope to add further names after shipping out Davy Klaassen, Ramiro Funes Mori, Henry Onyekuru, Joel Robles, Wayne Rooney, Luke Garbutt, Shani Tarashaj, Ashley Williams and now Mirallas.

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