Everton’s core of young players ready for rebuild

A look at the impressive younger players this season.

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00:00The young players throughout Everton are not a side full of young talent, but if you look

00:10at the more in-depth, Jake O'Brien is learning a lot off Seamus Coleman, Jared Brantwaite

00:18alongside the experience of Tarkovsky and Keane, etc, and then James Garner will be

00:23learning well off Idrissa Garmage. These are top players with so much experience as well.

00:29Do you feel that could really help them in terms of progression of their career and making

00:33that big next step with this sort of upgraded Everton that we're hoping to see come past

00:39the summer?

00:40Yes, I think you've got to learn off your senior pros, haven't you, and that's at any

00:46level of football. As you say, Jake O'Brien, these aren't young, young players like you

00:52said, but they're still players who are very much in the infancy, not the infancy, but

01:01they're nowhere near hitting the peak yet. Jared Brantwaite, I think this season he's

01:07shown a couple of green signs that he didn't last season, and that always happens with

01:11young players. Jake O'Brien obviously has to be patient and now he's got his chance,

01:16not in his favourite position at right back, but he's doing really well. James Garner has

01:21his injury issues. During his time at Everton, he was highly rated at Man Utd and he's doing

01:29really well, to be honest. A lot of fans feared that when Aaron Mangala suffers his ACL injury

01:35that Everton's midfield would be vulnerable. James Garner's been absolutely superb. Carlos

01:42Alcazar has arrived in January, he's still only 22, looks really, really sharp, and you've

01:49got players like Nathan Patterson, what's the future hold for him? Because David Moyes

01:53says recently it's time for him to step up, he's been at the club for three years, but

01:57he's had injuries. That's something that Jonas, in his statement Kevin Falwell said, there

02:03are some younger players at the club, Yusef Chimiti, another one. Timmy Raboon was brought

02:10in from Aston Villa and that's a really good start to the season. Harrison Armstrong, who's

02:16only just turned 18, has broken to the Derby County team on loan, started their past two

02:21games and to be starting championship games at 18, that's no mean feat whatsoever. So

02:27there is a real good cluster of young players, as you say, complemented by the older players

02:33that are around there. If Everton can keep holding the majority of the years, maybe someone

02:41like Bram Fleet might move on, I don't know. Position Everton are in for a couple of years

02:46at least, they might have to sell the better players, they still might have to. If a Real

02:51Madrid came knocking etc, sometimes it's difficult to, even when Everton were challenging for

02:55Europe regularly, they lost some of the better players, Arteta, Fellaini, Lukaku. When clubs

03:02come knocking and they can offer wages that Everton can't, then that's just the football

03:08ecosystem. But as you said, there's a real good core of young players there at Everton

03:15who got a chance for a few years under a savvy, canny manager, a David Moyes, to learn

03:20and put something together.