Everton have reportedly made an audacious approach to bring Leicester City's head of recruitment Steve Walsh to Goodison Park as their new director of football.

The 51-year-old played a key behind-the-scenes role in the Foxes' unlikely charge to the Premier League title last season, leading to talk of a move elsewhere.

Walsh was offered a new contract at the King Power Stadium at the end of the season which he duly accepted to seemingly put an end to talk over a summer departure.

According to The Telegraph talks between Everton and Walsh have already begun, however, and the Leicester talent spotter has not travelled to Austria to be a part of City's training camp and has not been seen around the club in recent days.

Walsh, who was behind the signings of Riyad Mahrez, Jamie Vardy and N'Golo Kante, returned to the East Midlands in 2011 under then-manager Nigel Pearson and helped to develop the squad that would go on to stun the footballing world by winning the English top flight.