Here are your Everton FC evening headlines for Sunday, October 23.
Calvert-Lewin opens up on difficult period
Dominic Calvert-Lewin has opened up on the 'most difficult 12 months' of his career and hit back at claims he isn’t interested in football.
The Everton forward bagged his first goal of the season in Saturday's 3-0 win against Crystal Palace, bulldozing through Marc Guehi before rifling into the bottom corner. The goal - his first since the dramatic late winner in the 3-2 win against the same opponent last season - provided a rare high in an otherwise turbulent year for the 25-year-old, with a litany of injury problems contributing to the most difficult period of his career.
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“It has been very tough, the most difficult 12 months of my career so far, because I am a football player and all I want to do is play football so when you get that taken away from you, I appreciate there are much worse things going on in the world, but that is my experience of what I do,” he replied when asked about his spell on the sidelines.
“The key has been to keep believing in myself and keep remembering those good moments of when I am going to be stepping out at Goodison Park and scoring goals. Today was a massive bonus and relief you could say. I pat myself on the back because if I ever stopped believing I might not have been able to do that today.”
Jonjoe Kenny explains Everton departure
Jonjoe Kenny believes he 'had to leave' Everton and England over the summer to continue his development.
The full-back called time on a nine-year spell at Goodison Park when his contract ended over the summer after 69 appearances for the Toffees. Unable to oust the ever-dependable Seamus Coleman on the right hand side, Kenny enjoyed several loan spells including, most recently as Schalke and Celtic.
But Everton's £12million signing of Nathan Patterson in January pushed the boyhood Blue further down the pecking order at Goodison Park, and when his contract ran down through the latter stages of last season, he made the decision to move on, signing for Hertha Berlin.
“I loved the 16 years I spent at Everton since I was a youngster,” he told BZ-Berlin. “And I loved my time under Frank Lampard. But I felt I was ready for a change. Ready to become a man and a personality in my own right.
“To do that, I had to leave England and my comfort zone. Coming here was a great choice."
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