Were it not for the fact he’s become wealthy beyond his wildest dreams, Nathan Patterson might feel like the guy who found a fiver in the street and lost a tenner out his pocket while bending down to pick it up.
Starved of first-team football as a rising star at Rangers for too long, Patterson grabbed the bull by the horns and made a life-changing £16million move to Everton in January in the belief it would catapult his career to a whole new stratosphere.
Instead, he’s spent these last three months parked on a bench at Goodison and being dragged into a survival fight, without being trusted to do a thing about it by a new manager who is beginning to resemble a rabbit caught in the headlights of onrushing relegation from the Premier League.
