Everton to sign defensive prospect from Denmark

The club will pay a fine of £500,000 and will be banned for two years from registering any academy player who has been registered with another Premier League or EFL club in the preceding 18 months. The club will also pay additional compensation payments to the former clubs of two academy players.”

So as not from an English team we're okay according to this I think

Still, there's not much to be gained from writing off a 16 year old before he's even joined is there? Perhaps a cowardly protection from eventual disappointment. As he's 16 he might actually be scouring the comments sections of fan websites, I probably would, so here's to him becoming the next Franz Beckenbauer/ Franco Baresi/ Paolo Maldini. Good luck kid.

God know the amount of money we wasted on Sandro, Klassen, Bolasie etc so £500K punts on youngsters has to be worthwhile

If we didn't do this and other clubs tried this approach instead and succeeded we'd deride the club

Sometimes we can't do right for doing wrong

Good luck Sebastian lad

Mike - well said. In case he is reading (I would too), add Kevin Ratcliffe, Dave Watson, Alan Stubbs, Richard Gough.. to that list (biased towards those players the lad might actually be able to find footage of on YouTube).

Welcome to paradise lad. Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same..

I'm only joking lads but, of course, the vast majority of these youngsters don't end up making the grade. That shouldn't cause us to give up, obviously.

He's a 16 year old coming to a foreign country he has no cultural experience with. How frightening would you think that is?

He's taking a gamble as we are, be the next big thing and he's minted, as we are for trophies/ transfer fees.

Good luck to the lad, may both dreams come true.

Exciting times ahead!

Surely this kid has to have more potential than Per, for Brands to have spotted him or been recommended o him from his Scouting Contacts. Hopefully he'll be a Danish Toffee and not another Danish Cookie!

‘On his very first day of training, the gaffer took him to one side and started doing heading practice with him, like you would with a seven-year-old. It was a case of holding the ball, saying: “Are you ready? One, two, three – jump.”

‘Honestly, it was incredible. I don't know what happened, but he had obviously realised that heading wasn't Per's strong point. £5m for a centre-half who can't head the ball..!

‘You can be as talented as you like but in the Premier League you've got to be able to head it. Per came from Udinese in Serie A where the defenders were comfortable on the ball, good at positioning but not overly physical.

‘Per didn't seem to want to head it, which was incredible for a centre-half. He went on to spend six years with Fiorentina, so he's obviously a good player but he wasn't set up for the Premier League. Per started one game, away to Villa on Boxing Day, and we lost 4-0. He was up against big John Carew, who just annihilated him.

‘I reckon if Per came back now he'd be a lot better. It can take people a while to adapt to the physicality of the Premier League and he simply wasn't ready.

For every Calvert-Lewin there are 20 Guillaume Plessis's.

Seriously I think we fans should not expect to hear about this kid again until maybe a couple of years pass and he potentially makes waves at U23. But for the kid himself, welcome to the club, hope it works out for him, he enjoys himself and learns a lot.

Suffice it to say that Phil's scenario at #4 would represent spectacular success for the young man.

For every Calvert-Lewin there are 20 Guillame Plessis. Yeah, sure, like Calvert-Lewin is the envy of every club below us in the Premier League Workrate isn't in doubt but he'll never be a top player because – put simply – his goal return is ordinary. Very ordinary.

An Evertonian friend of mine works with a relative of Ademola Lookman. He says all Ademola wants is to play, and that his lack of playing any proper football ( it seems they won't even give him or other first team squad players a game in the under 23's) is what is frustrating the life out of him.

When you look at how little football he and others have played this season, it's easy to see why they are looking at the overtures of clubs like Leipzig who are offering not just money, but game time.

It would be interesting to see how many minutes Lookman has spent on the pitch this season. I bet it can't be much more than 15 hours, which is sod all in 12 months.

Faced with just training, wouldn't you feel like your career was stalling, regardless of whether you were earning millions?

It's a problem the Club and English football needs to address quickly or else our best youngsters will be going abroad rapids!

Marco was under pressure most of the season so played his more experianced players...

Maybe Lookman will play more games next season but I have a feeling he will be sold...

He also has three Cup appearances, two of them starts. So figure around 13 hours total.

The fact that he has been recommended by Marcel Brands, does give me some genuine hope, as he has up to now done okay with his tasks of importing/exporting players.

Pity it's not producing better players.

Let's hope and hope the lad does well, but as always patience with all matters EFC, is needed.

Time will tell.

Calvert Lewin lacks quality to be a top player imo but has earned his place and is improving can the same be said of the other 3 mentioned?

If we have youngsters good enough there will be little need for them to be going out on loan.