Everton boss Marco Silva admits he wants to buy Barcelona midfielder Andre Gomes.

Everton paid Catalan giants Barcelona £2m to sign Gomes on loan but the Toffees do not have an option to make the deal permanent.

Silva told the Liverpool Echo: "It is a very, very good opportunity for us.

"Let's see what the position is of his own club, we know our position and we know Andre's position also, so let's see what we can do.

"But what we have inside our squad, even if he is a loan player, a player with high quality, high quality as a football player, high quality as a professional, a fantastic team-mate for all his colleagues and he is everything we expect coming from a player of his quality.

"Let's see if we can have Andre permanently in our club."