The first casualty of the Premier League Summer Series is Jarrad Brathwaite, who misses out completely through a minor quad injury. He will remain behind at Finch Farm in the hope that it clears up before the start of the season, which is now less than 4 weeks away.
Thierno Barry has finally joined up with his new club and has flown out to the States with the rest of David Moyes’s already threadbare squad after just 2 days of training at Finch Farm.
New signing Mark Travers is also on the plane, the only other new signing so far in a torturous and frustrating transfer window that has seen Everton supposedly linked with a plethora of possible new signings, none of which have materialised.
As a result, it is understood that a significant number of players from last season’s U21 squad has also travelled across the Atlantic today.