The 23-year-old has attracted interest from Germany and France, but is set to complete a switch to Merseyside after the Toffees increased their offer
Everton are on the verge of signing Yerry Mina from Barcelona after making a £27 million ($35m) offer.
The 23-year-old arrived at Barca from Palmeiras in January, but the Camp Nou side have already decided to listen to offers for the Colombian defender despite his bright World Cup campaign and insistence that he wants to stay.
Everton emerged as the main candidates to sign Mina and made an initial offer of £15m ($20m) which was soon increased to £21m ($28m).
The Premier League side were told to return with a better bid amid further offers from West Ham, Borussia Dortmund and Lyon, whose president claimed Mina preferred a move to France over one to Merseyside.
But just a day after seeing Barca beat them to the signing of Malcom from Bordeaux, the Toffees are confident of wrapping up the signing of the defender after submitting an offer worth £27m, which the Catalan outfit are ready to accept.
The Blaugrana will make almost three times the figure they paid to bring Mina to Camp Nou, but are not willing to cut ties with him completely as they will insert a buy-back option in the deal.
Mina is a top target for new Everton boss Marco Silva, who has already held talks with his uncle and representative, Jair Mina, over the centre-back's role in the team.
Mina signed a five-and-a-half-year deal with Barca in January, but made just six appearances for Ernesto Valverde’s side as they went on to win the Spanish league title.
However, the arrival of Arthur Melo from Gremio this summer forced Barca to consider letting him go due to having too many foreign players.
Mina has 15 caps for Colombia to his name and took his goal record for the national team up to six with his key role in their World Cup campaign.
After missing the opening game against Japan, Mina scored against Poland, Senegal and England as the South Americans made it to the last-16 of the competition.
He will be Everton's second big signing of the summer, after the Goodison Park outfit snapped up Richarlison from Watford for £40m ($53m).
Barca_West
89
Buy lenglet keep vermalen then sell Mina? Our board to need VAR to check if they are mentally ok
senatorprincezev
88
Man Utd and mourinho can't see this that worth £27m or £30m but they want to waste £65m for Harry Maguire.. nonsense
Barcelona-Arsenal
82
why not just a €3m loan deal + all wage cost for 2 years (3m/yr) with an option to buy for €33.5m? and buyback of €38m
sunnysayus
74
Yerri Mina will be a good deal for everton .His outstanding performances in the world cup showed that he is capable of doing well for any team.He scored two important goals and defended very well.Everton will not regret buying him.
Ashman
68
this is stupidity bcz he was perfect for our club and 2nd the selling price is too low he should be at least 50 + million euros
kopaeimpy
59
Mina 27 million and maguire is 65 million... WTF?
prakashcr7
54
Now, Everton will play in cool mood because Yary mina will score header in last minutes.
Shegofams
19
Everyone blaming Barca for keeping Varmelean and selling Mina needs to think things through, Lenglet is an established defender in La liga and needs little or no time to adapt, But Mina needs to grow and staying in Barca means sitting on the bench, Varmelean on the order hand is comfortable playing few games. Let Mina go to Everton with a buy back clause and get experience. In two years time Both Pique and Varmelean will be out of Barcelona, then we can have an experienced Mina, Lenglet and Umtiti