Everton’s young core could be the foundation for the club’s rebuild as they look to move past recent struggles and establish a more stable future. With financial challenges and squad changes shaping their trajectory, the emergence of talented prospects offers hope for long-term success. Developing these players and integrating them into a competitive squad will be key to Everton’s resurgence.
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00:00Now, Everton's young core could be the foundation for the club's rebuild as they look to move
00:09past recent struggles and establish a more stable future.
00:13With financial challenges and squad changes shaping their trajectory, the emergence of
00:18talented prospects offer hope for long-term success.
00:22Developing these players and integrating them into a competitive squad will be key to Everton's
00:27resurgence.
00:29To get a clearer picture on how this young core fits into the club's plans, I spoke to
00:34Will Rooney for the latest on the toffees.
00:38Yeah, just to finish off, look at the young players throughout Everton's side.
00:43Now, it's not a side, obviously, completely full of young talent, but if you look at the
00:48more specifically, more in-depth, Jake O'Brien, you know, he's learning a lot off Seamus Coleman.
00:54You know, Jarrod Brantwaite alongside the experience of Tarkovsky and Keane, etc.
01:00And then James Garner will be learning well off, you know, Idrissa Garnaghey.
01:03These are top players with so much experience as well.
01:06Do you feel that could really help them in terms of progression of their career and,
01:10you know, making that big next step with this sort of upgraded Everton that we're hoping
01:16to see, you know, come past the summer?
01:18Yeah, I think you've got to learn off your senior pros, haven't you?
01:23I think that's at any level of football, as you say, Jake O'Brien, you know, these aren't
01:28young, young players, like you said, but they're still players who are very much in the infancy,
01:38not the infancy, but they're nowhere near hitting the peak yet.
01:41And Jarrod Brantwaite, I think this season he's shown a couple of green signs that he
01:46didn't last season, and that always happens with young players.
01:49Jake O'Brien obviously had to be patient, and now he's got his chance, not in his favourite
01:54position at right back, but he's doing really well.
01:57And James Garner has his injury issues.
02:01During his time at Everton, he was highly rated at Man United, and he's doing really well.
02:08To be honest, you know, a lot of fans feared that when Aaron Mangala suffers his ACL injury
02:13that Everton's midfield would be vulnerable.
02:15James Garner's been absolutely superb.
02:19Carlos Alcazar, who's arrived in January, he's still only 22, looks really, really sharp.
02:26And you've got players like Nathan Paterson, what's the future hold for him?
02:29Because David Moyes says recently it's time for him to step up.
02:33He's been at the club for three years, albeit he's had injuries.
02:37That's something that Jonas, in his statement, Kevin Fellwell said, there are some younger
02:42players at the club.
02:44Yousef Chimiti, another one, and Timmy Raboon was brought in from Aston Villa and had a
02:50really good start to the season.
02:52Harrison Armstrong, who's only just turned 18, has broken into the Derby County team
02:57on loan, started their past two games, and to be starting challenging games at 18, that's
03:02no mean feat whatsoever.
03:04So there is a real good cluster of young players, as you say, complemented by the older players
03:10that are around there.
03:14If Everton can keep hold of the majority of these, maybe someone like Bram Flick might
03:19move on.
03:20I don't know.
03:21The position Everton are in, for a couple of years at least, they might have to sell
03:25the better players.
03:26They still might have to.
03:27If Real Madrid came knocking, etc., sometimes it's difficult to, even when Everton were
03:33challenging for Europe regularly, they lost some of the better players, Arteta, Fellaini,
03:38Lukaku, when clubs come knocking and they can offer wages that Everton can't, then that's
03:44just the football ecosystem.
03:47But as you said, there's a real good core of young players there at Everton who got
03:53a chance for a few years under a savvy county manager, David Moyes, to learn and put something
03:59together.
04:00David Moyes has instantly said that that needs to improve.
04:03He's not being scared to later go on the down, because, look, at the end of the day, Jack
04:08Addison's going into the summit.
04:11Maybe he's burnt his bridges at Leeds.
04:13I don't think that he's very popular there among supporters, and he might not want to
04:18go back.
04:19They're not really close to coming back and being fit, so Jack Addison has a chance to
04:25prove himself.
04:26If he puts a little run together, then Everton might look at him and think, well, yeah, let's
04:30maybe make a deal there.
04:31But it's been a loan, a second loan, that's been a little bit disappointing, but with
04:37a new manager in charge, David Moyes has got a chance to rejuvenate himself like a few
04:41of the Everton players have.