Brighton and Crystal Palace bosses refuse to rule out a potential move for Everton attacker Oumar Niasse.

Niasse has been strongly linked with moves to Palace and Brighton over the past few days and both Roy Hodgson and Chris Hughton have recently hinted that they are interested in the attacker.

Hodgson said: "I am not prepared to talk about names. We have various options. We have been talking about strengthening the squad since two or three weeks into my tenure. And we are hoping to fulfil our wishes in this window, which is now vitally important with our injury situation."

Hughton said: "We know of him of course. But that is just another name that is being mentioned."