Michael Keane has opened up on being frozen out by Frank Lampard and revealed the blunt response he was given when asked about getting back in the team.
The centre-back made 30 or more Premier League games in each of his first five seasons at Everton. Yet under Lampard this season, Keane was restricted to a mere 22 minutes of action off the bench at Brentford in August.
However, the appointment of Sean Dyche, under whose management at Burnley Keane earned his move to Goodison Park, the England international has been handed a fresh start and picked alongside his former Clarets centre-back partner James Tarkowski for his side’s past four matches.