Sean Dyche shares if Everton will terminate Arnaut Danjuma loan deal in January
Sean Dyche has shared if Everton are planning to terminate the loan of winger Arnaut Danjuma in January following limited appearances this season.
The Toffees signed Danjuma on a season-long loan in the summer but he has managed just 12 appearances this season, with only three being starts to go with one goal.
Danjuma has been an unused substitute in five of the last six Everton games and youngster Lewis Dobbin came on ahead of him in the win over Chelsea, and Dyche refused to rule out the fact the Dutchman could see his deal terminated when asked directly by Liverpool World (14 December).
“We’ll see about all that. As you know, we’re carrying a pretty light squad,” he said.
“These are judgment calls. The idea of subs, people talk about it a lot these days; when, why don’t you make more, why don’t you make less and all the rest of it.
“You’re going on a moment in time when you and your staff are looking at a game and thinking: ‘What does this game need?’
“Every footballer has a slightly different style, some radically so and we just felt on this occasion to get Lewis on. That doesn’t mean the next time it’s not Arnie. These are judgment calls, they come very fast. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don’t.”
Mistake
Jack Harrison and Dwight McNeil have established themselves as the first-choice wingers for Dyche this season, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin as the first-choice striker and Beto as his understudy.
But while that’s working really well right now, the season is a long one and both McNeil and Harrison have got a history of suffering with injury problems.
With the team hoping for a potential FA Cup run to add onto our Carabao Cup successes so far this season and with a long Premier League season ahead, we have to ensure we don’t leave ourselves short.
Right now the team is winning more often than not and with one game a week for the most part the manager would be silly to change a winning team, but Danjuma should just get his head down and work hard to be ready when he eventually gets a chance.
He has the quality to really help us at some point this season and terminating his loan early would be a big mistake.
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