“No way” Davies will be allowed to leave on loan

He will improve if backed by the manager and fans.

Trouble is, with Gueye carrying a knock, if we let Davies go out on loan, the only alternative is Schneiderlin, and we don't want him back in the team!

So Davies will have to stay...

The problem is that, when he came into the squad and first team, the expectations were sky high.< It was not helped by he being highlighted by the press, as the young player called to join the senior English squad for training. Plus how he had scored that iconic goal against City.

He might not develop into a world beater, but he has shown promise to possibly contend as a first-team player.

Morgan however, seems to have gone off the boil. At his age, he is unlikely to improve.

It would be interesting to see how McCarthy might be able to still contribute to the midfield.

Anybody know the present situation regarding James McCarthy??

Schneiderlin should be binned as soon as the window opens. No loan just get what we can for him and get him a taxi.

People were on about rotation a few weeks ago. I think the ideal time – on paper – would have been Newcastle and Watford. Just shows how wrong that would have been !

We need to play our best team every week to get any sort of result. This means we will unfortunately get injuries and later on tiredness. Enter young Tom.

Everton have loaned many young players out over the last few seasons and they have come back no better than when they left. Half the time we loaned them out and they didn't get many games with the club we loaned them to or got sent back early because they weren't good enough.

We loaned Lookman out and he doesn't look any better but just more resentful that we insisted he come back when the loan was up. Loaning improved Pennington so much we brought in Zouma and Mina to replace him. Not.

Loaning has just become a ploy big clubs use to manage overly large squads and keep young players on the books while their transfer value hopefully goes up.

If we keep Gomes that will effectively kill any chance Davies has of becoming a first team regular whether we loan him out or not. Davies knows this. He had his chance and he failed to live up to his promise. Something a lot of young players do.

Unfortunately football is a business and big Premier League clubs have neither the time nor the inclination to wait for young players to get better. They need ready made players now.

If a player is good enough we would know it. If he's not we can loan him out till the cows come home but he won't get any better at all.

Good debate on whether the youngsters, Calvert-Lewin, Davies, Dowell, Baningime and Kenny will ever make it, the consensus was Calvert-Lewin needs to be given a run, given we need a centre-forward at present who's got a presence, whilst the rest have a fight in their hands to even get a game.

I think Davies and Calvert-Lewin will make it, but they will have to get a chance and actually take it within a game or two, they won't be given half a dozen games to see if they are good enough.

Dowell won't ever cut it; Kenny is too small unfortunately and Baningime has to be far more dynamic a player – he can't just come in and sit in front of the back four, he needs far more creativity.

So, as I see it, we have 3 midfielders who are all creative but no workhorse. Will it work, we'll know in 2 hours or so!!!

Davies is 20 years old. Perhaps give the lad a bit more time eh? In my opinion, at 25 he will be playing for England. Gamble responsibly.

Davies still second fiddle. Maybe he will be brought on later? He should have played before this,

If he turns out to be a really good player in five years then we could always try and buy him back.

There's no point in him sitting on the bench here but he's not good enough right now to have any impact at this level.

Good enough to start ahead of Gomes or Gueye – unlikely.

Good enough to fill their positions when they are indisposed – probably.

Good enough to develop under Silva into a regular – hopefully.

Why am I not surprised you don't have the patience to give him time? Honestly, why do these kids even bother.

The kid (yes, kid) is one of the brightest young players in the game, he's English and furthermore, he's a Blue.

He's got in excess of 70-odd games behind him, and anyone who wants to talk him down in a reply to my comment, can you please name 2 or 3 better English centre mids around his age group.

Just like Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Jonjoe Kenny, Tom Davies is the future of our club. That doesn't mean they have to be our best players, they just have to know what being an Evertonian means.