Your Everton evening headlines for Thursday, February 2.
Sean Dyche shares quadruple Everton injury update and 'key' to Dominic Calvert-Lewin fitness
New Everton manager Sean Dyche has highlighted “the key” to solving Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s fitness issues while offering injury updates on three other players. Calvert-Lewin headed in the winner in Carlo Ancelotti’s first game as Everton manager on Boxing Day 2019 against Dyche’s Burnley side, one of 15 goals he scored that season and he’d go on to net 21 times the following season but his past two campaigns have been stop-start affairs due to a series of ailments.
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The Blues number nine missed four months of the 2021/22 campaign with an adductor problem while he went into the World Cup break this term nursing no fewer than three separate injuries (shoulder, knee and hamstring) and like fellow striker Neal Maupay he has just one goal to his name so far in 2022/23. Asked about Calvert-Lewin’s condition, Dyche said: “He’s had his ups and downs with fitness, I’m aware of that. Getting him truly fit and his body strong enough is going to be the key.
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Sean Dyche already has perfect Everton role ready for Isco amid surprise transfer links
With Everton forced to consider free agents after the January transfer window closed without them signing a single player, Isco has emerged as what is, on face value, the most unlikely of potential targets.
A report in the Times states that after “plates which had been spinning crashed to the floor” ahead of the deadline passing, “now the attention will turn to free agents, with Andre Ayew and Isco, who saw a move to Union Berlin collapse, under consideration.”
While nine seasons in Real Madrid’s first team with 12 goals in 38 games for Spain indicates that Isco is clearly a highly-gifted individual, he certainly does not scream of being an obvious Sean Dyche player. After departing the Bernabeu last summer, he joined La Liga rivals Sevilla on a two-year contract but his deal was terminated by mutual consent on December 21 with coach Jorge Sampaoli stating that Isco: “Did not meet the club’s expectations.”
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