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Everton boss Martinez admits regrets over bid for Villa signing Cleverley

Everton boss Roberto Martinez has some regrets over a failed bid for Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley.

Cleverley eventually signed for Aston Villa on-loan.

Martinez remains philosophical about it though.

"On the last day of the window there are always opportunities that arise and we looked into a couple of those," he said.

"I felt it was an opportunity for us to maybe to add a player that could bring something different but at the end it wasn't right, it didn't work out and I was very pleased this time around we had all the business done well ahead of the transfer deadline.

"We tried to look into a couple of opportunities but they never came off and in reality they probably weren't the right ones for us."

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