Everton manager Sean Dyche has revealed that Nathan Patterson is still not training alongside his team-mates while admitting that contracts for players whose current deals are up in the summer like captain Seamus Coleman have not yet been discussed.
Patterson has been sidelined since picking up a menial ligament injury in Everton’s 4-1 home defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion on January 3. The prognosis at the time was a six-week lay-off for the 21-year-old, who also missed most of October with an ankle injury picked up playing for Scotland, while he also underwent surgery on his ankle last April.
Everton put out pictures this week of Patterson back training at Finch Farm, both sprinting and doing on the ball work, but Dyche explained that the player had not yet joined his team-mates.
