As things stand, this is interest in its earliest form rather than a deal in motion. Everton are among several clubs keeping an eye on Raoul Bellanova, the 26-year-old Italy midfielder who is comfortably settled at Atalanta with a contract running until June 2029. The fee under discussion sits somewhere between £14.8m and £20.9m, but there is no bid, no agreement and no sign of advanced talks. For now it is a watching brief, nothing firmer. The sourcing is thin and consistent in its caution. Nicolo Schira, a reliable voice, reports multiple clubs have made enquiries — concrete interest, but explicitly no advanced talks. Gianluigi Longari frames Everton's involvement as scouting only, a speculative link with no bid mentioned. Two solid mid-ranking reporters, then, both pumping the brakes rather than building momentum. Nobody credible is calling this close. The engine's 10% reading marks this as a genuine longshot, and rightly so. For it to climb, enquiries would need to harden into an actual offer that tempts Atalanta to sell a player they tied down until 2029. Right now Everton are one name on a list, not the front-runner, and a player valued around £13m with a fee being floated above £20m makes the economics awkward. Early interest simply does not move the needle far. For precedent on the money, Bellanova joined Atalanta from Torino for £21m in 2024, so any sale near the top of this range would broadly recoup that. Everton themselves paid £19m to sign from Besiktas in 2018, showing this kind of outlay is within their habits. Watch for the first concrete bid, or a rival club firming up — until then, treat this as smoke.